{"id":910407,"date":"2026-09-30T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910407\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:56:11","slug":"victoria-crime-camera-catches-stolen-tractor-smashing-into-melbourne-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910407\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria crime: Camera catches stolen tractor smashing into Melbourne cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCTV footage has captured the moment a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stolen<\/a> tractor smashed through the front doors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> cafe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/police-6iyz\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> say a group of offenders riding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/electric-bikes-6i43\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">e-bikes<\/a> arrived at a property on Plenty Road, Bundoora, at about 12.15am on Sunday, September 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7272d7e1e947e07266d79b106257bc67888571e66aa48c6769f436885a1faa91.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A stolen tractor crashes through the front doors of a cafe in Bundoora, Melbourne.\u00a0Victoria Police<\/p>\n<p>The offenders damaged a fence and broke into several sheds to steal garden tools.<\/p>\n<p>They then stole a tractor and drove it into the front doors of a cafe on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Startled by the resulting alarm, the offenders fled, leaving the tractor still running.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe they fled on e-bikes and are urging anyone who was driving in the area just before or after the incident to check their dashcam footage.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV has also been released in the hope that somebody will provide information about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Any witnesses or anybody with vision or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">online<\/a> or on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCTV footage has captured the moment a stolen tractor smashed through the front doors of a Melbourne cafe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-910407","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\/910407","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=910407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}