By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS
Trees uprooted
TWO full sized Japanese maple trees were ripped from the ground in Emerald and Gembrook on Thursday 7 January.
In the early hours of the morning of 7 January, a tree from the front of the Gembrook Creche was torn from the ground with a car and straps. The straps broke and the damaged tree was left at the scene.
The same day in the evening another Japanese maple was dug from the ground on Beenak Road in Emerald and dragged behind a car for some distance before also being left behind.
Motorcyclists warned
POLICE are asking motorcyclists to be more careful after a spate of accidents in the Gembrook area occurred over the weekend all involving motorcyclists travelling too fast on corners.
On Saturday 16 January, a 21-year-old male from Bayswater lost control of his bike on the Gembrook-Launching Place Road at the same corner another motorcyclist lost his life in 2011. The man from Bayswater was uninjured.
On Sunday 17 January, a 59-year-old male from Rowville hit a car after travelling too fast into a corner on Gembrook Road in Gembrook.
All riders involved in accidents this weekend were handed penalty notices.
“Riders need to slow down and ride to conditions track before somebody is killed again,” Senior Constable Miles Gerrey said.
“We have lovely roads with lovely views up here but it’s not a race track.”
Graffitti spree
EMERALD Police are on the hunt for a two male offenders after the town was hit by a graffiti spree in the early morning of 4 January.
The graffiti was described as “quite extensive” and “more than just tagging” with whole walls covered at various locations around the town.
CCTV footage shows two males, approximately 16 to 18 years old, with their faces covered, vandalising building including Emerald Secondary College, the Commonwealth Bank, Puffing Billy Railway Station and Woolworths.
Police are asking for public assistance to identify the offenders by the accompanying picture or by the use of the tags “MHK” with a crown on top and other tags “SHOT” and “ZANIC”.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Emerald Police Station on 5954 0200.
