{"id":24179,"date":"2026-06-03T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/24179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:30:10","slug":"charges-laid-over-death-and-alleged-kidnapping-of-man-whose-body-was-found-near-melbourne-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/24179\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges laid over death and alleged kidnapping of man whose body was found near Melbourne playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have arrested six people, including four youths, over the death and <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-05-15\/tarneit-body-linked-to-south-morang-kidnapping-police-say\/106684568\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106684568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleged kidnapping of a man whose body was found near a children&#8217;s playground<\/a> in Melbourne&#8217;s west last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said a 30-year-old man was kidnapped from a house in Darius Terrace, South Morang in the early morning of May 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is alleged the man was dragged out of his house about 3am and bundled into a vehicle, which fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">His body was found near the playground in Bruny Drive, Tarneit about 4:30am that morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police believe the vehicle used in the incident was later set alight on Mt Mary Road, Eynesbury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two police officers stand near police tape that blocks off a suburban park where an SES tent stands.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/779e827f79fd5538b72c0cdebe75f8f6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The man&#8217;s body was found near a children&#8217;s playground at Tarneit. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Wednesday, police raided properties in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers arrested a 23-year-old Truganina man, an 18-year-old Point Cook man and four 17-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 23-year-old man and the four 17-year-old boys have been charged with murder, kidnapping, aggravated home invasion and criminal damage by fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 18-year-old man has been charged with assisting offenders and criminal damage by fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">All of those charged will face court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone with information has been urged to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested six people, including four youths, over the death and alleged kidnapping of a man whose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8005,2717,22505,260,1047,12525],"class_list":["post-24179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-charges","tag-death","tag-kidnap","tag-melbourne","tag-police","tag-tarneit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}