CORIO, VIC. — Geelong Divisional Response Unit investigators have charged three people after a series of vehicles were broken into near a bingo hall in Corio.
The owners had parked their vehicles while attending a Bingo event when they were targeted.
Offenders allegedly completed a pattern by smashing car windows to gain access to 10 vehicles parked in the Beckley Park carpark, between 8pm and 8.45pm last Thursday, October 29.
Police allege items, including handbags, personal items and registration plates, were stolen from the vehicles.
It may not have been on the Bingo card of four people when police arrested them in Corio on Saturday morning.
Two search warrants were executed in Lara and Corio, where police seized allegedly stolen items including a car, registration plates, tools and electronic equipment.
Some of the items seized are alleged to be related to a burglary at a motorcycle store in North Geelong on 28 October.
A 42-year-old man was charged with burglary, theft of a motor vehicle, theft from a motor vehicle, possession of a drug of dependence and bail offences.
He was remanded and will appear before Geelong Magistrates’ Court today.
A 32-year-old woman was charged with burglary, theft of motor vehicle and theft from motor vehicle.
A 39-year-old man was charged with possession of a drug of dependence.
The pair are bailed to appear before Geelong Magistrates’ Court on February 19, 2027.
A 43-year-old man was arrested, interviewed and released without charge.
