UPDATE, Monday, 8.15am: A 13-year-old boy has been charged with making threats and weapons offences after an incident at a McDonald’s restaurant on Sunday.
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Detective Senior Constable Kim Wheeler, of Warrnambool police crime investigation unit, said the youth was arrested near the Warrnambool central restaurant.
He was taken to the Warrnambool police station where he was interviewed and charged with making threats to both kill and serious injury and weapons offences.
The boy will appear in court at a later date.
Detective Senior Constable Wheeler said it was serious offending.
“The fact that people think it’s OK to walk around with a knife is a concern,” she said.
“It won't be tolerated by police and we will prosecute investigate and prosecute to the full extent of the law,” she said.
Sunday: A 13-year-old boy allegedly threatened a group of teenagers with a knife at a Warrnambool McDonald’s store on Sunday.
Senior Constable Kim Wheeler, of Warrnambool Criminal Investigation Unit, said the group was inside the store when the boy, who was outside, allegedly produced a fishing-style knife with a curved blade, pointed it at the youths and “motioned it across his throat indicating a slashing of the throat”.
She said the boy then ran up Liebig Street before police found him.