{"id":591222,"date":"2026-04-07T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:37:11","slug":"police-investigating-suspected-vandalism-at-essendon-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591222\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating suspected vandalism at Essendon headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\"><a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/essendon-bombers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Essendon<\/a> have referred a case of suspected vandalism to Victoria Police after the club was targeted over the Easter long weekend with an estimated five-figure sum of damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Bombers officials returned to the club\u2019s home base in Tullamarine on Tuesday to find grass that had been burnt with petrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In writing that was hard to decipher in one pocket of the main oval, it\u2019s understood the messaging related to the club\u2019s disastrous start to the season and frustrations towards the coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The club is also currently in the midst of its own internal investigation to assess CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In a statement to 7NEWS, Victoria Police said: \u201cPolice are investigating criminal damage to the grounds of a sports oval on Watsons Drive near Melbourne Airport reported on 7 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe estimated damage is $10,000. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Bombers face Melbourne on Saturday in Gather Round.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/taylor-walker-lifts-lid-on-expletive-laden-spray-to-adelaide-teammates-during-loss-to-fremantle-c-22105500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Walker lifts lid on expletive-laden spray to teammates<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/hawthorn-coach-sam-mitchell-makes-shock-manager-switch-to-craig-hutchisons-bravo-management-c-22104485\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Sam Mitchell makes shock manager switch to media mogul<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon have referred a case of suspected vandalism to Victoria Police after the club was targeted over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[638,64,63,11231,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-essendon-bombers","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}