By CASEY NEILL
POLICE have charged a 13-year-old girl and three other teens over burglaries and car thefts in Dandenong, Hallam, Narre Warren, Officer and Pakenham.
Southern Metropolitan Regional Crime Team investigators found and arrested the two boys and two girls at a Dandenong motel.
Upon further investigation, officers also found an allegedly-stolen SUV linked to aggravated burglary in Cranbourne.
Police charged the 13-year-old, from Hallam, with aggravated burglary and theft-related offences.
The charges related to a theft from a motor vehicle on 3 June at Dandenong, aggravated burglary and theft of scooter and handbag on 5 June at Delacour Crescent, Pakenham, and the thefts of a Mercedes, computer equipment and cash on 1 June in Flemington Rise, Officer; a Holden, handbag and credit cards on 2 June in Denver Drive, Hallam; a motor vehicle on 2 June in Narre Warren; a Nissan on 3 June outside a Mulgrave home; and a Nissan on 6 June in Ebony Street, Cranbourne.
She was remanded to appear at a children’s court at a later date.
A 16-year-old girl from Dandenong North was remanded due to breaching bail and will also appear at a children’s court at a later date.
Police charged an 18-year-old Dandenong youth with aggravated burglary, motor vehicle theft and three counts of obtaining property by deception.
He was bailed to appear in a children’s court at a later date.
A 16-year-old Cranbourne East boy will answer two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of motor vehicle theft, two counts of obtaining property by deception, criminal damage and assaulting police.
He was remanded to appear at a children’s court at a later date.
The Southern Metropolitan Regional Crime Team was formerly known as Taskforce Tense.
The taskforce was initially set up last November to investigate gang-related burglaries and car thefts in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
Investigators have made more than 120 arrests since its inception.
