Men charged
Two men are in jail on remand over an alleged car-jacking and robbery of a 63-year-old woman at Newcomb last week.
Police have alleged the 19 and 20-year-olds demanded the woman’s keys and handbag before leaving her beside the Bellarine Hwy on 27 August.
Record teachers
“Record breaking” entries will bring more than 2730 teachers to Geelong this month for a national sport event, City Hall has announced.
Entries for the 2019 Teachers Games were 15 per cent than the previous attendance record and almost triple the numbers for the inaugural event in 1996, City Hall said.
Thug free
A Queenscliff thug will stay out of jail after prosecutors decided this week against appealing his conviction and $5000 fine for bashing a policeman at a hotel in the town last year.
Glenn Main, 60, walked free after his conviction because he committed the assault two months before Victoria introduced mandatory jail sentences for assaulting emergency services workers.
Water rising
Geelong’s water storages are set to rise above 70 per cent of capacity after 10mm of rain in seven days and more on the way.
Barwon Water measured the storages at 69.4 per cent full on Wednesday despite users consuming more than a half a billion litres over the week.
Cash waiting
A “significant amount of money” is still awaiting its owner nine months after it was found on a Geelong train, according to police.
Someone who could identify the amount and “answer a few other questions” that only the owner would know could claim the cash from Constable Josh Chapman at the Geelong station, police said.
Fire win
A Geelong scientist’s “revolutionary” virtual reality tool for training firefighters has won a prestigious national start-up-of-the-year award, Deakin University has announced.
The Waurn Ponds campus-based company of Associate Professor James Mullins won the Australian Information Industry Association award for FLAIM Trainer’s ability to help training emergency workers without the risks of “real fire”, Deakin said.
Pair wanted
Geelong police have released images of two people with warrants for their arrest on separate charges related to property crimes.
Adam Moreland, 43, was wanted on charges including obtaining property by deception and 41-year-old Kelsey Przybylkiewicz had warrants for failing to answer bail and retention of stolen goods, police said.
