Motorists warned to obey signagePOLICE will continue to target key local intersections as part of Operation Obedience, monitoring obeying traffic lights, stop and give way signs.
Assistant Commisioner Frank Minelli said comparing the number of crashes in a given November day with the same date in 2007, 2006 and 2005 showed significant decreases, with only 27 crashes in 2008, compared with 32, 35 and 56 in preceeding years.
Police will be watching: the Hume Highway, Milperra Road, the M5, Cumberland Highway, The Horsley Drive, Elizabeth Drive and many others.
Blockbuster staff threatened with knife
A MAN threatened three staff members at Villawood Blockbuster with a 20cm knife on Saturday about 5pm before fleeing with a small amount of cash and video games.
The staff, two women aged 16 and 17, and one man, 18, were not hurt.
The man is described as being of Middle Eastern appearance, about 170cm tall and of solid build, with brown eyes and brown bushy eyebrows. He was wearing a grey and white striped hoodie and black pants with three white stripes on each leg.
He was last seen running to Camira Avenue and leaving in a white van.
Woman harmed in bagsnatching
A WOMAN, 74, was pushed to the ground and punched in the head during a bagsnatching on Friday, November 28.
At about 1.30pm the man attacked her on the Konneman pedestrian bridge at Vine Street, Fairfield.
She described her attacker as a male, aged 16-20, wearing a black beanie, grey tracksuit pants and a grey hoodie.
$140,000 in cosmetics seized
MORE than $140,000 worth of cosmetics was found when two Fairfield houses were raided last Thursday, allegedly stolen from a distribution warehouse in Yennora.
Fairfield police have been receiving complaints from the warehouse since January when goods started disappearing from deliveries to outlets including Woolworths.
Police identified an ebay account where more than 12,000 items matching the description had been sold at a value of a further $140,000.
Representatives from Woolworths brought scanners to the scene and identified missing stock.
A man, 25, and two women, 23 and 46, with links to the warehouse were taken in for questioning.
The man was charged with dealing in the proceeds of crime while the women await further investigations.
Record pirated disc seizure
A shop front in Cabramatta was raided yesterday, Wednesday, December 3, with police seizing the largest ever collection of pirate music and Asian movies in Australia.
NSW Police allege the shop was distributing the nearly one million illegal discs, allegedly moving across a number of suburbs to avoid detection.
Camden police lead five searches following months of investigation by police and anti-piracy organisation Music Industry Piracy Investigations.
In June 2008, 20,000 pirated Asian DVDs and music CDs were seized from a shop in Cabramatta.
The proprietor of the shop is currently before the courts on multiple charges of piracy.
Criminal penalties for copyright infringement are up to $60,500 and five years imprisonment per offence for individuals, and up to $302,500 for corporations.
- SMH
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