{"id":719936,"date":"2026-06-06T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719936\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:34:09","slug":"melbourne-news-man-charged-five-teens-arrested-after-alleged-fight-with-machetes-at-flinders-street-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719936\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne news: Man charged, five teens arrested after alleged fight with machetes at Flinders Street Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly being involved in a fight with several teenagers that involved machetes.<\/p>\n<p>The fight allegedly began in the concourse of Flinders Street Station at 10pm last night, with witnesses telling police up to 10 people were involved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People crossing a quiet Flinders Street in Melbourne.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e09ec42c85ee19369b5d2a290cbd9f0cb2f06a62.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">One boy was taken to hospital with lacerations to his arm after the alleged fight at Flinders Street Station.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>Police who arrived at the station searched for the alleged offenders and found four people on a train armed with machetes.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested, and their weapons were taken from them<\/p>\n<p>Two other people were found in other parts of the station and were subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old boy was injured in the alleged fight and was taken to hospital with a laceration to his arm.<\/p>\n<p>A man, 22, was charged with affray, recklessly causing injury, assault with a weapon and possessing a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n<p>He was bailed to appear before Melbourne Magistrates Court in November.<\/p>\n<p>The other people, aged 13, 14, 15 and two 16-year-olds, were released pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Police continue to investigate the alleged fight, and are urging anyone with information or who witnessed it to come forward to Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after allegedly being involved in a fight with several teenagers that involved machetes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-719936","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\/719936","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=719936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}