Gardener assaulted
ON September 2, at about 8.50am, a man who was mowing the nature strip in front of his house in Stradbroke Street, Swan Hill, said hello to a person as he walked past.
The pedestrian punched the man to the left side of his face with a closed fist and then kicked a panel out of the property’s Colorbond fence.
The offender then threw a metal drink bottle at a white Ford Falcon ute with a canopy.
The drink bottle broke a window in the side of the canopy, leaving a substantial hole in it.
The alleged offender is described as male with dark skin, aged in his early 20s, about 180cm (6′) tall and wearing a hoodie.
Garden vandalised
A SWAN Hill resident emerged from her house on September 2 to find that plants had been pulled out of the ground and a potplant had been smashed on the footpath.
The property is in Rutherford Street near Murlong Street.
Haystack burned
ON August 27 at about 4.45pm police were notified by the CFA of a haystack fire on Blackwire Road, west of Memorial Drive, Swan Hill.
A large haystack well alight and had been burning for several hours by the time the emergency services arrived.
The fire was on the side of the road.
The fire was managed by the CFA in conjunction with the property owners until it burned completely out over the next day and a half.
No structures were damaged or other property lost.
Investigators have not been able to determine the cause of the fire.
Fuel tank contaminated
BETWEEN 10pm on August 26 and the following morning, an unknown offender or offenders put a contaminant into the fuel tank or a white Ford Fairlane parked at a farm shed on Kinghorne Lane, Nyah West.
It is thought that the contaimant was most likely spray seed.
