{"id":685191,"date":"2026-05-21T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685191\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-alleged-threats-to-carry-out-incident-in-melbournes-bourke-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685191\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after alleged threats to carry out incident in Melbourne’s Bourke Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who allegedly threatened to carry out an incident in Melbourne’s Bourke Street tonight has been arrested by police.<\/p>\n

Inspector Dale Huntingdon said it was alleged a man phoned Channel Nine in Sydney on Thursday afternoon to make the threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The outlet then immediately phoned Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n

Inspector Huntingdon said the alleged threat was in relation to Melbourne’s CBD.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But we’ve also had streets mentioned as well, so Bourke Street was one, but that was just one of a few,” he said.<\/p>\n

Police tracked a 31-year-old man to McDonald’s on Swanston Street, in the CBD, just after 7:30pm, when he was arrested by uniformed police and the Critical Incident Response Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inspector Huntingdon said police took all threats seriously and acted as quickly as they can.<\/p>\n

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Melbourne City Council staff were earlier warned to keep away from the area. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

Melbourne City Council staff were earlier alerted by text to avoid the Bourke Street area after 7pm tonight.<\/p>\n

The incident is still under investigation, but police said there was no danger to the public, although extra police patrolled the CBD in response to the alleged threat.<\/p>\n

“I just want that to get out to anyone that the CBD was quite safe during this period,” Inspector Huntingdon said.<\/p>\n

The man, of no fixed address, is being interviewed.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information or who witnessed the incident should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or via www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly threatened to carry out an incident in Melbourne’s Bourke Street tonight has been arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,64,63,330231,66792,44,17035,12530,2024],"class_list":["post-685191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bourke-street","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-news","tag-telephone","tag-threat","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685191","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=685191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}