{"id":298614,"date":"2025-10-13T00:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298614\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:49:16","slug":"hawthorn-man-chases-and-detains-teenager-after-break-in-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298614\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn man chases and detains teenager after break-in at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Melbourne man has told of how he chased down and restrained a teenager after his home was broken into in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Grant Brown and his children were asleep in their home in Hawthorn in the city’s inner east when he said he was woken by a noise inside his home about 3:25am.<\/p>\n

He said he confronted two people on the ground floor, giving chase as the pair fled down the street.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Grant Brown says police arrived within minutes of him forcing the alleged offender to call triple-0 on the teenager’s own phone. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Mr Brown said he managed to grab hold of a 15-year-old boy.<\/p>\n

He said he lifted up the boy’s shirt to check he did not have a weapon and, since he did not have time to grab his phone, told the teen to use his own mobile to call police.<\/p>\n

He said the boy told him he was “just doing a job”.<\/p>\n

“I actually feel sorry for them that that’s the situation they find themselves in,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he said.<\/p>\n

He said police arrived within about five minutes and arrested the boy.<\/p>\n

What is a citizen’s arrest and is it safe to do?<\/a><\/p>\n

What are the pitfalls of a citizen’s arrest like the one made by Michael Voss?<\/p>\n

Police said a second boy, aged 14, was also arrested.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said detectives were investigating whether the boys were also involved in an aggravated burglary in Elphin Grove, about a kilometre away, just prior to the incident.<\/p>\n

Youth crime remains a contentious issue in Victoria, and the state recently recorded its highest ever crime levels, driven by thefts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Grant Brown restrained a teenager in a nearby laneway after the 15-year-old allegedly broke into his Hawthorn home. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Premier Jacinta Allan thanked police for their quick response to the Hawthorn incident.<\/p>\n

“No doubt the family has experienced a terrible experience that cannot be tolerated, and it won’t be tolerated,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms Allan said.<\/p>\n

She said Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush would “very soon” announce a new approach to crime prevention and community safety.<\/p>\n

She said Commissioner Bush oversaw a transformation of New Zealand Police that resulted in a reduction in the country’s crime rate and a rise in community confidence.<\/p>\n

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Police look for evidence down a Hawthorn laneway after the burglary at Grant Brown’s house. (ABC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne man has told of how he chased down and restrained a teenager after his home was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,35786,152152,8337,50,152151,67682],"class_list":{"0":"post-298614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-burglary","10":"tag-citizens-arrest","11":"tag-home-invasion","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-teen-offenders","14":"tag-youth-crime"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115364113306430517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}