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Dramatic citizen’s arrest

A SCHOOL parent has come to the rescue by stopping a man in a dramatic citizen’s arrest, after the offender tried to flee police when an allegedly stolen car was detected.
Police arrived at a Bayview Road property when the stolen Hyundai was spotted and attempted to arrest three offenders just after 11am on Friday.
But when one of the offenders fled by jumping a back fence and running into a nearby school, police were aided by a school parent who helped the officers stop and detain the man.
One of the arrested offenders, released on bail, was then caught the next day in relation to another allegedly stolen car found in the same Tooradin street.
Police suspect these teens were involved in alleged armed robberies in Dromana and Rosebud last month.
Detectives today (Monday) arrested two more people in relation to the alleged armed robberies.
Frankston Embona Taskforce detectives are interviewing a 19-year-old Dandenong man, arrested in Narre Warren this morning, and a 17-year-old Maidstone boy, arrested in Keysborough this afternoon.
Police have arrested and charged four other males in relation to the incidents, alleged to have occurred on 29 July.
A 15-year-old Keysborough boy, a 17-year-old boy of no fixed address, an 18-year-old Mulgrave man and a 20-year-old Dandenong man will answer charges of armed robbery, motor vehicle theft and other offences.

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