{"id":618347,"date":"2026-04-20T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618347\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:10:10","slug":"man-charged-with-stealing-seven-cars-including-unmarked-police-car-in-melbourne-and-shepparton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618347\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with stealing seven cars, including unmarked police car, in Melbourne and Shepparton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Shepparton man has been charged with offences linked to the theft of seven vehicles across Melbourne, Echuca and Shepparton, including an unmarked police car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police allege the man was on bail when he committed the string of thefts in March and April, mainly involving Kia cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police allege a Kia Stinger sedan was stolen in Warrandyte on March 22, before a second Kia Stinger sedan was stolen in Dandenong later that same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police also allege a Chevrolet ute was stolen in Kialla on April 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On April 10, it is alleged an unmarked police car, a blue Kia Sorento, was stolen from a car dealership on Benalla Road and a Holden Calais was stolen in the Melbourne suburb of Clyde.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the man also stole a Toyota HiLux during a burglary in Echuca on April 12, and then stole a Ford Falcon the next day in Orrvale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 29-year-old man will face Shepparton Magistrates Court today, charged with motor vehicle theft and several other drugs and weapons offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They include methylamphetamine trafficking, possessing GHB, using Victorian police identification and committing an indictable offence while on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Shepparton man has been charged with offences linked to the theft of seven vehicles across Melbourne, Echuca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17192,58039,48,43,33674,142052,44,1158,70510,41,39,42,40,38978],"class_list":{"0":"post-618347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bail","9":"tag-car-theft","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-kia","13":"tag-magistrates-court","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-shepparton","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-toyota-hilux"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618347","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=618347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}