{"id":68560,"date":"2024-06-19T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68560"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:40:36","slug":"major-police-incident-in-melbournes-cbd-leads-to-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68560","title":{"rendered":"Major police incident in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD leads to arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 33-year-old man has been arrested after a major street in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/Melbourne\">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;CBD was locked down during a police operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers in surrounding office buildings were unable to leave after police inspected a white hatchback on Collins Street just after midday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police including the bomb squad were called to the scene and a man was quickly arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-3a2ea4e2-c912-4d76-acc6-57b7528f58ec.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68561\" style=\"width:874px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-3a2ea4e2-c912-4d76-acc6-57b7528f58ec.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-3a2ea4e2-c912-4d76-acc6-57b7528f58ec-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emergency services were called to the scene just after midday.&nbsp;(Nine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The man will be \ufeffinterviewed regarding &#8220;an ongoing Arson and Explosives Squad investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeff&#8221;The matter is not terror-related and there is no immediate threat to community safety,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Bomb Response Unit has deployed to conduct a safety check on a vehicle in Collins Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A part of Collins Street was blocked off and some buildings put into lockdown shortly after midday today as a police operation unfolded in the area.<br><br>A 33-year-old-man has been arrested and police say the matter is not terror related with no immediate threat to community safety.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MCsfyiYbcQ\">pic.twitter.com\/MCsfyiYbcQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsMelb\/status\/1803275943508844596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 33-year-old man has been arrested after a major street in\u00a0Melbourne&#8217;s\u00a0CBD was locked down during a police operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68561,"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":[35,6822],"tags":[8722,993,8],"class_list":["post-68560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-melbourne-events","tag-crime","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68564,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560\/revisions\/68564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}