Police have charged a 40-year-old Pakenham man over a spate of alleged burglaries at schools in the Cardinia area over the past month.
Police were patrolling the Officer area on Friday 19 January, when they arrested a man during an alleged burglary at a primary school on Bridge Road at about 4am.
Further inquiries have allegedly linked the man to a number of other burglaries, including at a primary school on Tivendale Road in Officer on the same day.
Police executed a search warrant at a home on Ash Crescent in Pakenham, on Monday 22 January, where they seized tools believed to have been stolen during burglaries at an additional three schools in Berwick and Officer on Thursday 18 January and Friday 19 January.
Police also seized items including a stand-up paddle board allegedly linking the man to a burglary at a camping store in Pakenham on 3 January, as well as a camper trailer valued at $30,000, believed to have been stolen from Innovation Way in Pakenham on Friday 12 January.
Police charged the 40-year-old Pakenham man with four counts of burglary and one count of theft and he was remanded in custody to appear in Dandenong Magistrates Court on Tuesday 23 January.
