<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Melbourne youth offender who was taken on a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victorian-youth-offenders-taken-to-gold-coast-theme-parks-on-ndis-funded-trip/fe49dc5c-4ed7-48ce-8a62-04f215232bf1" rel="" target="" title="taxpayer-funded journey to the Gold Coast"><span>taxpayer-funded journey to the Gold Coast</span></a><span> as part of a plan to deter him from a cycle of reoffending has been arrested again.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The teenager, now 18, was arrested and charged alongside four others over a spate of armed robberies and home invasions across Melbourne's south-east.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was arrested in Highett last week and charged with armed robbery and unlawful assault against a delivery driver in Brighton on Christmas Day.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sinkhole-opens-aj-burkitt-oval-banyule-flats-reserve-heidelberg-melbourne/cfbca52b-8818-4084-9b9a-244af29a6a8b" target="_blank"><strong><span>Major sinkhole opens up on popular Melbourne footy field</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Just a few months ago the teen, along with another youth offender, was flown to the Gold Coast to visit theme parks and go sightseeing to help with their criminal rehabilitation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is understood the teens had been convicted of violent home invasions and carjackings but were not jailed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Victoria's Department of Justice and Community Safety gave the green light for the pair, amending their community corrections orders to allow them to travel to Queensland.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/youth-offender-arrested-again-gold-coast-rehabilitation/975dd6d8-8d95-44e7-97dc-a9a56752bfb5" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The National Disability and Insurance Agency is understood to have funded the trip, which sparked anger.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We see that youth offenders don't think there's consequences for their actions. Why would they?" Opposition Leader Jess Wilson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"How does that stack up? How does that say their actions are not acceptable? It's not how our justice system should operate."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></a><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727"><strong><span>Apple App Store</span></strong></a><span> </span><strong><span>and</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1"><strong><span>Google Play</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div>