{"id":671530,"date":"2026-05-15T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:58:14","slug":"police-arrest-teens-during-alleged-arson-attempt-at-bar-bambi-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671530\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest teens during alleged arson attempt at Bar Bambi in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have arrested two teenagers who allegedly tried to set fire to a bar in Melbourne’s CBD that has already been targeted by arsonists on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Officers patrolling the area as part of Operation Eclipse spotted a white Kia wagon arrive outside Bar Bambi in ACDC Lane about 4:45am today.<\/p>\n

Police said two males ran from the car carrying a jerry can, smashed a window at the bar and tried to pour fuel into the venue.<\/p>\n

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A discarded jerry can could be seen outside the venue on Friday morning. (ABC News: Stephanie Ferrier)<\/p>\n

Officers moved in and arrested two 16-year-old boys but the driver of the vehicle fled the scene and could not be found.<\/p>\n

It is believed to be the third time the bar has been targeted and the second time police have arrested people at the venue.<\/a><\/p>\n

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ACDC Lane has been the site of repeated arson attempts. (ABC News: Patrick Rocca)<\/p>\n

‘Terrifying’ fires at suburban business<\/p>\n

Police are also investigating an arson attack on a number of trucks at a business in Melbourne’s inner-west overnight.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said two unknown offenders tried to set fire to a number of vehicles at the business in Tottenham about 1am.<\/p>\n

One truck sustained moderate damage and nobody was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n

\"Several<\/p>\n

Workers at a business in Tottenham extinguished fires that were set on a number of vehicles at a local business. (ABC News: Kate Meade)<\/p>\n

The arsonists were interrupted by workers at the business, who then extinguished fires on several trucks.<\/p>\n

One worker who did not want to be identified said the incident was “terrifying”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Luckily we saw the fire and we immediately reacted on that one, and then we used a fire extinguisher to control the fire,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think their intention was to burn all of the trucks, we have 15-20 trucks.<\/p>\n

“Luckily we were here to react as quickly as we can, and then luckily they got, I mean strange to say luckily, but they were able to burn just five trucks.”\"A<\/p>\n

Several trucks were set fire in Sunshine North on Thursday night. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Police were unable to say if the incident was linked to a suspicious truck fire at Sunshine North earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n

Two male offenders smashed the window of a truck in Cutts Street, Sunshine North, and set the vehicle alight.<\/p>\n

They also attempted to set fire to another vehicle next to it but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Police said the offenders fled the scene in a white vehicle.<\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed either incident or has information has been urged to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested two teenagers who allegedly tried to set fire to a bar in Melbourne’s CBD that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[324076,29621,64,63,324075,324077,2603,11758,7770,647,44,63082,146778,967,108234],"class_list":["post-671530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alcohol-wars","tag-arson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bar-bambi","tag-bar-wars","tag-cbd","tag-construction","tag-fire","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-nightclub","tag-nightlife","tag-tottenham","tag-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671530","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=671530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}