Two masked offenders, armed with a knife, compelled their manner into a house on Arnold Street in Brighton East about 1.30am yesterday, police allege.
The noise woke the home-owner, 76-year-old Pat, who confronted the pair.
One of many offenders, holding the knife, allegedly demanded Pat hand over her automobile keys.
“I stated ‘no’ after which I stated ‘get out of my home’, and I repeated it,” Pat stated.
“Subsequent factor my daughter appeared …and she or he began screaming.”
The offenders fled empty-handed after Pat’s daughter, 54, referred to as triple zero.
The ladies weren’t bodily injured through the incident.
Police had been on scene inside minutes, the place a police canine was capable of detect a observe main officers north of Arnold Street.
A getaway automobile, described as a white 4WD, had been for the offenders close to the scene, in accordance with police.
The offenders stay on the run.
Police proceed to evaluation CCTV footage and are interesting for anybody with info to return ahead.
In response to an increase in burglaries and automobile thefts throughout Victoria, police have a devoted operation focusing on neighbourhood crime.
On prime of normal patrols, further police sources together with the canine squad, Public Order Response and police AirWing are deployed from daybreak to nightfall to stop and reply to burglaries and automobile thefts, police stated.
Because of the operation, police have arrested 671 burglars and automobile thieves nearly 1683 instances within the 12 months to September 2025.
