Vic: Two more arrested over Easternats riot at Oakleigh

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2010
Vic: Two more arrested over Easternats riot at Oakleigh

MELBOURNE, April 12 AAP - Two more young men have been arrested following the riot
that wrecked a Bob Jane T-Mart store in Melbourne last month in protest over the cancellation
of a drag race meeting.

On Monday, police charged two 19-year-old men from Morwell in eastern Victoria for
their alleged involvement in the riot on March 19.

Members of the Glen Waverley Crime Investigation Unit and Divisional Tasking Unit arrested
the men at a house in Morwell.

One man has been charged with affray, riotous behaviour, burglary, theft and criminal
damage and the other with possessing a flare.

Both men were bailed to appear at La Trobe Valley Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.

The riot broke out after the Easternats race meeting at Bob Jane's Calder Park was cancelled.

The mob trashed the Oakleigh franchise of Bob Jane T-Mart using bats, steel poles,
flares and street signs.

On April 1, alleged ringleaders Omar Amr and Aziz Elbayeh, both 19, were bailed in
the Melbourne Magistrates Court after being charged with incitement to riot, riot, affray,
burglary, theft and criminal damage.

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