{"id":700461,"date":"2026-05-28T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:34:12","slug":"police-arrest-man-over-alleged-1994-armed-robbery-at-chadstone-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700461\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man over alleged 1994 armed robbery at Chadstone Shopping Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man who allegedly carried out an armed robbery and shot three men at a Melbourne shopping centre in 1994 has been arrested by police in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two Armaguard security officers and a bystander were injured on a Monday morning at Chadstone Shopping Centre in May 1994 when the man allegedly robbed and shot at the employees, who had been collecting money from the centre&#8217;s cinema, before he escaped with bags of cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Earlier this month, Victoria Police said it had reopened the cold case following new intelligence and fresh forensic testing of crime scene evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up police photograph of a leather shoe with damage from a bullet.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779989652_297_0b05b8b8f5983389ac47ba705685b063.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">After the case remained unsolved, crime scene exhibits were placed in long-term storage. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said 78-year-old Southport man Garry Sullivan was taken into custody after police from the Gold Coast Major Organised Crime Squad searched two Gold Coast addresses this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been charged with a series of offences, including armed robbery, intentionally causing serious injury, reckless conduct endangering life and carrying a gun without a certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Sullivan appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court this afternoon and is set to be released into the custody of Victoria Police tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Armaguard officers injured during the alleged armed robbery were a 61-year-old North Melbourne man and a 54-year-old Sandringham man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">According to information released previously by police, the two guards were allegedly shot after being ordered to get down by a man wearing a balaclava and allegedly carrying a handgun and a cardboard box as they exited the shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">One of the two officers was allegedly shot by the armed man, with the bullet ricocheting off the man&#8217;s lower leg and hitting the other officer&#8217;s shoe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 40-year-old Doveton man who then followed the alleged armed robber was also allegedly shot in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the accused dropped a number of items when he allegedly made his escape with bags of cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly carried out an armed robbery and shot three men at a Melbourne shopping centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[341086,321270,19444,64,63,326355,326354,12501,2485,341088,44,1158,701,81642,341087,660,2024],"class_list":["post-700461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-341086","tag-armaguard","tag-armed-robbery","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chadstone","tag-chadstone-shopping-centre","tag-cold-case","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-major-organised-crime-squad","tag-news","tag-police","tag-queensland","tag-southport-magistrates-court","tag-three-men-shot","tag-victoria","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700461","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=700461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}