A street-stopping arrest in central Dandenong had unforeseen consequences for a Star Journal photographer.
He was one of a crowd of onlookers witnessing teams of police arrest of a male and female from a sedan stopped on the median strip in Lonsdale Street about 2pm on 9 May.
Police allege the vehicle displayed stolen number plates, with the arrested male taken to hospital due to being apparently “substance affected”.
The pair were arrested without issue, police say.
That unfortunately wasn’t the case for our photographer.
As he captured the drama unfolding outside Drum Theatre, a woman alleging to be the male’s sister confronted him.
She pushed him to the chest and threatened to stab him. She also snatched away his phone and flung it to ground.
The smashed phone was destroyed, making it impossible to retrieve our photographer’s shots.
However, he did take on some photographs earlier on his ‘old school’ regular camera, as shown here.
