{"id":293112,"date":"2025-09-29T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293112"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:24:30","slug":"teens-arrested-after-machete-chase-in-stolen-suv-through-melbournes-bourke-street-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293112","title":{"rendered":"Teens Arrested After Machete Chase in Stolen SUV Through Melbourne&#8217;s Bourke Street Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victoria Police pursued a stolen white BMW X3 into Melbourne&#8217;s pedestrian-heavy Bourke Street Mall on Monday afternoon, where four youths emerged from the vehicle armed with machetes and fled into the Myer department store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers surrounded the area and arrested multiple suspects at the scene, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ndqU-n-SHT7zzJOK.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This car was stolen by a group of teens armed with machetes. They drove it down Bourke Street mall at speed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred in the same location as the deadly 2017 vehicle attack that killed six people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers surrounded the area and arrested multiple suspects at the scene, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":293113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,921],"tags":[8634,993,8],"class_list":["post-293112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293116,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293112\/revisions\/293116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}