It was pushing 2am on Southbank Promenade when the call came in. A pack of youths going at it in the shadows, some of them allegedly tooled up, turning the tourist strip into their own private scrap. Witnesses didn’t hang around to film it for TikTok, they rang it in. Victoria Police were already moving.
Minutes later a stolen Hyundai Getz was clocked on Stawell Avenue in Dallas. That was the trigger. General duties crews, Dog Squad, Public Order Response Team and the Critical Incident Response Team all rolled in hard. They found the three not far from the car.
