{"id":685424,"date":"2026-05-21T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:46:14","slug":"fast-food-arrest-of-man-over-alleged-threat-of-melbourne-cbd-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685424\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast food arrest of man over alleged threat of Melbourne CBD incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested in Melbourne after an alleged threat of &#8220;an incident taking place&#8221; on Bourke Street tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Critical Incident Response Team officers and uniform police arrested a man at a fast food restaurant on Swanston Street just after 7.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Police said an unknown man had earlier called a media outlet in Sydney and made &#8220;a threat of an incident taking place in Bourke Street&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/58ca4804-fbd4-4943-b0ac-bf92ad8807c1.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>A file photograph of Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) members. (Simon Schluter)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That outlet immediately contacted Crime Stoppers,&#8221; police said, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police nominated a person of interest whilst investigating and actively patrolled the CBD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the man was located at the fast food restaurant he was arrested &#8220;without further incident&#8221;, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are still being investigated but there is no threat to the community at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old of no fixed address was being interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or anyone who witnessed the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in Melbourne after an alleged threat of &#8220;an incident taking place&#8221; on Bourke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-685424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685424","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=685424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}