{"id":30036,"date":"2026-06-12T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30036\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:08:35","slug":"tarneit-melbourne-private-school-plunged-into-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarneit, Melbourne: Private school plunged into lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic footage has emerged of a teenager being arrested after allegedly breaking into a home in Melbourne\u2019s outer west, plunging a nearby private school into lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Carr College in Tarneit was locked down on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police say three males entered the backyard of a home in Tenterfield Place in Tarneit about 7.20am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the males allegedly broke into the house through a bathroom window.<\/p>\n<p>The three males were then confronted by a woman and allegedly fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was not physically injured,\u201d a police statement read. <\/p>\n<p>No weapons were located, police confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old Tarneit man was arrested near the intersection of Sunset Views Boulevard and Equinox Close.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old male was tasered by police and treated by paramedics before also being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old male allegedly jumped into a rideshare vehicle, which travelled to Fifth Ave in Altona North, where he was intercepted and arrested. <\/p>\n<p>Wild Polair footage showed the moment the 15-year-old was intercepted by police. <\/p>\n<p>Several police cars surrounded the white rideshare vehicle on Friday morning, which pulled to the side of the road in Altona North. <\/p>\n<p>Police cars surrounded the vehicle and rushed to open the doors. <\/p>\n<p>Plain-clothed officers could be seen piling into the back seat as they apprehended the teen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trio are expected to be interviewed,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p>No charges have been laid and the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>As a precaution, the private school, which is only a few streets away from the aggravated burglary, was plunged into lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>NewsWire has contacted Thomas Carr College for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic footage has emerged of a teenager being arrested after allegedly breaking into a home in Melbourne\u2019s outer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27559,27563,23,133,27558,2601,1816,2602,260,379,120,27560,4593,25431,27562,12525,27561,68],"class_list":["post-30036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-aggravated-robbery","tag-altona-north","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bathroom-window","tag-facebook","tag-google-inc","tag-inc","tag-melbourne","tag-newswire-news","tag-oceania","tag-outer-west","tag-police-statement-read","tag-private-school","tag-rideshare-vejhicle","tag-tarneit","tag-thomas-carr-college","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036","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=30036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}