{"id":714207,"date":"2026-06-04T06:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714207\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:38:24","slug":"forest-hill-man-allegedly-carrying-knife-arrested-at-melbourne-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714207\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Hill: Man allegedly carrying knife arrested at Melbourne shopping centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after he was found to be allegedly carrying a knife at a shopping centre in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\/61\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\">Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> east.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to Forest Hill Chase on Canterbury Road in Forest Hill about 11.50am today following reports a man was seen with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The man was seen by shoppers appearing to carry a large knife.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b3ecf684b349c56caafdedf2f484b437ec56a4fe5a7515bf492bb955ee4ad44e.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The man was seen by shoppers appearing to carry a large knife.\u00a03AW\/Jacqui Felgate<\/p>\n<p>The man had been seen by shoppers walking around the complex, appearing to carry a large knife.<\/p>\n<p>Footage showed the man pacing back-and-forth wearing headphones near the Coles supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said panicked shoppers rushed inside stores before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>One witness told 3AW\u2019s Tony Moclair\u00a0that it appeared he was carrying a \u201cbutcher\u2019s boning knife, about eight inches long\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old man was arrested at the scene without incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital for assessment<\/p>\n<p>No threats were made and nobody was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after he was found to be allegedly carrying a knife at a shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-714207","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\/714207","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=714207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}