{"id":810769,"date":"2026-07-19T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:45:12","slug":"melbourne-news-good-samaritan-helps-detain-man-at-st-kilda-service-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810769\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne news: Good Samaritan helps detain man at St Kilda service station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good Samaritan has helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/police-jdi\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> detain a man who allegedly threatened people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a>\u2019s south-east while armed with scissors and a shard of glass.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to St Kilda about 11am on Sunday following reports a man was chasing women through a park and assaulted patrons at a cafe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8687bf589e2f1a477215f61239e51bd1fe3158d62063e1798512fa4f90436a83.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A good Samaritan has helped police detain a man who allegedly threatened people in Melbourne\u2019s south-east while armed with scissors and a shard of glass.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic video shows the good Samaritan pushing the man to the ground at a service station just as police arrive with tasers drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to 9News, he alleged the armed man was threatening people, saying that he was going to kill them, while armed with a pair of scissors and shards of glass.<\/p>\n<p>The good Samaritan said he stepped in when the man moved towards a child in the service station.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old man was taken to hospital under police guard and remained there into the night.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been laid.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A good Samaritan has helped police detain a man who allegedly threatened people in Melbourne\u2019s south-east while armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-810769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810769","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=810769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}