Dozens of police have stormed a gym in Melbourne's north operating under Victoria's lockdown, with three men arrested.

Late this afternoon officers swarmed on the Campbellfield gym, open against the Chief Health Officer's directives during lockdown.

"We can't afford to close the gym so we've been trading as per normal during the lockdown," Al Pope, part-owner of the gym told 9News.

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"Today the police came in numbers and closed us down and arrested my partner."

Mr Pope said about 175 people came through for a casual session today, plus normal members, and no masks were worn.

"I did a hard year last year … simply can't afford to close," Mr Pope said.

Police forced people out of the facility after patrons refused to leave and stayed until it closed.

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Mr Pope said police had issued fines but he had no intention of paying.

"As part of Operation Sentinel patrols, police attended a gym on Sydney Road this afternoon following reports the gym was in operation and in breach of the directions issued by the Chief Health Officer," Victoria Police said in a statement.

"Three men were arrested at the scene all of which will be issued penalty notices in relation to breaching CHO directions."

Businesses face fines of up to $10,000 under current lockdown rules.

A dingo named Eggy is on the loose after having escaped his Sydney sanctuary earlier this month.

Residents in the suburb of Glenmore Park, near Penrith, reported seeing Eggy nonchalantly walking the streets.

The operators of a nearby sanctuary along with the local council are attempting to track the wily dingo down and return him home.

Residents have been posting their sightings online in an attempt to help authorities come into contact with Eggy.

Anyone who spots him is advised not to approach him but rather to contact the Dingo Den in Sydney.

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A Darwin fugitive busted by a pair of fishermen stark naked in croc-infested mangroves last month has told a court he's still suffering scars on his body weeks after his ill-fated bid for freedom.

Luke Voskerensky made headlines around the world after spending four days hiding in mangroves from police, surviving off snails and being eaten by mosquitoes before being rescued by two fishermen, Cam Faust and Kevin Joiner.

The 40-year-old offender convinced the fishermen he had simply become lost on the way to Tones and I's New Year's Eve concert at the Waterfront but in reality, he was a wanted man after assaulting a former girlfriend and removing his electronic monitoring device.

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Voskerensky pleaded guilty to pulling her hair and breaching his bail after booking a flight from Darwin to Cairns under a false name.

It was a flight he never made after the mangroves got the better of him and he needed to be admitted to hospital in a malnourished state.

"I was going to go visit him in hospital and my partner's a paramedic saying he's in hospital with handcuffs on – two cops babysitting him. So we were like, oh maybe we'll leave it," Mr Faust said following the rescue.

Mr Joiner joked: "I don't think we'll ever catch nothing like that again".

In arguing for a suspended sentence, his defence lawyer John Adams said his client had suffered extra punishment for his offences as a result of his "uncomfortable" stay in the mangroves.

But Judge Greg Macdonald questioned whether self-inflicted stupidity could be taken into account.

Mr Voskerensky told the court via video link from custody the four-day snail-eating expedition helped him realise "he's got to do what he's told".

He will be sentenced on Friday.