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Harwe Sherwani bangs on a door trying to get help after being shot overnight in Caroline Springs.

Crime figure Hawre Sherwani killed in targeted attack

Police have appealed to the public for more information after the former Comanchero was fatally shot in Melbourne’s west on Thursday night.

  • Cameron Houston, Angus Delaney and Marta Pascual Juanola

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Omar Haouchar has been charged with conspire and agreed to murder any person following an alleged attempted hit on an underworld figure.

Crime family figure allegedly plotted contract killing of underworld rival

Omar Haouchar was the alleged ringleader of the plot to murder the gangland identity in the Sydney CBD.

  • Amber Schultz, Clare Sibthorpe and Penry Buckley
Paea Tuiniua was extradited from Queensland on 13 charges, including possessing a grenade, pistol and semi-assault rifle.

Terrifying arsenal allegedly found after shots fired at Sydney police

A man who allegedly fired shots at police following a suspected failed gangland hit has been charged with multiple firearms offences.

  • Amber Schultz and Jessica McSweeney
Underworld kingpin Kazem “Kaz” Hamad is extorting nearly $1 million a month from the state’s illicit tobacco shops.

Tobacco war kingpin making $1 million a month in ‘extortion tax’

Kazem Hamad’s crime syndicate now controls several hundred underground tobacco retailers, and it’s netting “monster” business for the underworld kingpin.

  • Chris Vedelago
Australian Federal Police arrest footage of 17-year-old who was eventually convicted of drug smuggling. Picture: AFP

Teenager jailed in WA after meth import attempt foiled by federal police

The scheme was uncovered in June when the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department found the drugs packaged inside stone pedestals destined for an apartment in East Perth.

  • Hamish Hastie
The Fortitude Valley tobacconist burned down earlier this month.

Second tobacco shop in as many weeks attacked by arsonists

The early-morning attack comes just days after another tobacco shop was destroyed in Fortitude Valley.

  • William Davis
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AFP seizures have led to millions being taken off criminals in 2024.

The eye-watering amount police seized from WA criminals in 2024

Thanks to our cops, being a criminal in WA is no longer a profitable enterprise as nearly $18 million in cash, items and proceeds of crime were confiscated in the last 12 months alone.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
CCTV of the M80 shooting.

Ring Road shooting ambush an ‘attempted hit’ in tobacco war

Dashcam footage has been released showing a former senior associate of the Haddara crime family being nearly killed in a brazen drive-by shooting on a busy freeway.

  • Chris Vedelago
Police render first aid to shooting victim David Khou.

Neighbours’ desperate attempts to save victim of alleged Sydney gangland shooting

Video footage has emerged following a brazen daylight shooting allegedly linked to Asian organised crime gangs.

  • Amber Schultz, Penry Buckley and Jessica McSweeney
The Comancheros are an outlaw bikie gang.

‘I like to hurt people’: Inside the brutal world of the Comanchero bikie gang

A nine-week murder trial has laid bare the brutality, rules and rigid hierarchy of the most powerful bikie club in the nation.

  • Chris Vedelago and Erin Pearson

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