A 35-year-old Kambah man is facing 17 charges in the Magistrates Court after being arrested last night (February 17).
During a search of the man’s home on February 10, police seized evidence they allege connects the man to a burglary and other offences committed in Fyshwick on February 6.
Late last night police arrested the man in Weston Creek for a breach of his bail conditions by being possession of car keys.
The car, a VW Golf, was located nearby displaying number plates that had been reported stolen on February 16. Police will allege it had been used in several incidents where fuel was stolen from service stations.
The man faces charges including making off without payment, burglary, minor theft, obtaining property by deception, two counts of each of disqualified driving, using an unregistered vehicle, using an uninsured vehicle, and three counts of both using a number plate not properly issued, and unlawful possession of stolen property.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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