{"id":874414,"date":"2026-08-31T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874414\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:30:10","slug":"croydon-victoria-man-57-arrested-after-mans-body-found-inside-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874414\/","title":{"rendered":"Croydon, Victoria: Man, 57, arrested after man\u2019s body found inside home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been found dead after an argument broke out in a home in a quiet street in Melbourne\u2019s east. <\/p>\n<p>The man, who is yet to be formally identified, was found inside a home on Penhyrn Ave in Croydon about 2.10am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene after reports of a dispute.<\/p>\n<p>A 57-year-old man was arrested at the home and taken to hospital under police guard with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is believed the parties are known to one another,\u201d a police statement read. <\/p>\n<p>No charges have been laid.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives have established a crime scene and are investigating the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been found dead after an argument broke out in a home in a quiet street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[418842,443723,443733,274331,387528,443734,443722,377657,380044,377579,443726,443730,443725,379353,443732,443729,38283,43,191,4082,4895,443728,11554,647,443724,44,187436,443735,381960,379399,443727,1158,263015,232,443731,20557,378658,392240,376817,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-874414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-s-body","tag-s-death-anyone","tag-2-10am","tag-274331","tag-a-crime-scene","tag-a-dispute","tag-a-dispute-a-57-year-old-man","tag-a-home","tag-a-house","tag-a-man","tag-a-police-statement","tag-a-quiet-melbourne-suburb","tag-a-quiet-street","tag-an-argument","tag-croydon","tag-croydon-home","tag-dispute","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-hospital","tag-incident","tag-laid-homicide-detectives","tag-man","tag-melbourne","tag-monday-police","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-no-charges","tag-non-life-threatening-injuries","tag-one-another","tag-penhyrn-ave","tag-police","tag-police-guard","tag-reports","tag-the-grim-discovery","tag-the-home","tag-the-man","tag-the-parties","tag-the-scene","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874414","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=874414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}