{"id":48832,"date":"2026-07-12T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/48832\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:46:09","slug":"man-charged-with-trespass-after-filming-inside-dezi-freemans-shipping-container-hideout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/48832\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with trespass after filming inside Dezi Freeman’s shipping container hideout"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who filmed inside the shipping container where Dezi Freeman had been living prior to his death has been charged with trespass.<\/p>\n

Police allege the man entered the Thologolong property in Victoria’s north-east in April, about three weeks after Freeman was shot dead following a stand-off with police.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old Yea man later published footage filmed inside the shipping container and around the property online, saying he had accessed the site to retrieve a drone.<\/p>\n

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An aerial of the Thologolong property where Dezi Freeman was found in March. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

In a video posted online on Sunday morning, the man said police had been “looking for him” and he had to “hand himself in”.<\/p>\n

He said he had since been charged.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said the 43-year-old Yea man was charged by Wodonga crime investigation unit detectives with one count of trespass in relation to an alleged incident at a property on Murray River Road in Thologolong on April 16.<\/p>\n

The man is due to appear at Wodonga Magistrates’ Court in October.<\/p>\n

Freeman was shot dead by police on March 30 at the remote property on the New South Wales\u2013Victoria border, after more than seven months on the run.<\/p>\n

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Dezi Freeman was shot dead by police after seven months on the run. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

He had been hiding in a converted shipping container after fatally shooting two police officers at a Porepunkah property in August last year.<\/p>\n

The footage of the Thologolong property showed the inside of the container, including clothing, personal items, bedding, batteries, a radio and containers of vitamins.<\/p>\n

It has not been confirmed if any of the items belonged to Freeman.<\/p>\n

The video also showed the conditions inside the container, with one person describing a strong chemical smell and saying they were having difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n

Police used non-lethal baton rounds and tear gas during the 3-hour stand-off with Freeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who filmed inside the shipping container where Dezi Freeman had been living prior to his death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,1376,1371,11019,1377,18090,17628,1372,35588,27752,35587],"class_list":["post-48832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-dezi-freeman","tag-neal-thompson","tag-police-shooting","tag-porepunkah","tag-shipping-container","tag-thologolong","tag-vadim-de-waart-hottart","tag-walwa","tag-youtube","tag-youtuber-charged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832","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=48832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}