By Bridie Byrne
A 31-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with more than 20 burglaries following a spate of residential break-ins across the West.
Werribee detectives arrested the Ballarat man in Cairnlea last Thursday and recovered more than $10,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from the Mt Clear and Melton West areas.
A second man, in his fifties, from Melton West has been charged with handling stolen goods.
Police say the arrests were part of an ongoing investigation since August into to a number of burglaries that occurred at houses where no one was home at the time.
