Casey crime on the rise

Emily Chapman Laing

The latest crime statistics show a haunting increase in residential aggravated burglaries in Casey over the past 12 months.

Residential aggravated burglaries have exceeded pre-Covid and 2022 levels, up by 54.3 per cent since last year and by a whopping 125 per cent since 2018.

In Victoria, there was a 30 per cent increase in this crime type, which police said is driven predominantly by youths sneaking into unlocked homes to steal car…

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