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Inside the police sting of the century - Operation Ironside

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Legal eagles that soar above the pack: SA’s best (and priciest) lawyers

In SA’s criminal courts, these are the lawyers to call when you’re in big trouble.

The 'blacklist' - 146 new Operation Ironside AN0M users. Artwork: Steve Grice

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Beware the ‘Russian Hitman’! AFP’s secret AN0M blacklist revealed

Criminals that escaped the Operation Ironside global sting might be shocked to learn they aren’t yet in the clear. See the AFP’s secret blacklist of AN0M users and their bizarre names.

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Vehicle Assets seized as part of South Australia's operation Ironside. Picture: SAPOL

Snitches keep riches: Court rules co-operating crims can keep assets

Drug kingpins and organised crime figures have been given an extra incentive to co-operate with police with a court ruling they can save their frozen assets.

FIFO worker Robert Rich has pleaded guilty to multiple firearms offences for allowing his rural property to be used as an arsenal by an outlaw motorcycle gang. Picture: Facebook

Farmer sentenced for running underworld Ironside ‘firing range’

A young farmer and FIFO worker who let his property be used as a criminal syndicate’s firing range to test semi-automatic weapons has been sentenced.

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Pro boxer and alleged bikie in court over huge meth lab

Pro boxer and alleged bikie in court over huge meth lab

Weeks after a fight in Melbourne in front of tens of thousands of fans, pro boxer Terry Nickolas has discovered if he can have bail.

Two arrested over Australia-wide cannabis syndicate

Two arrested over Australia-wide cannabis syndicate

Three more men have been arrested under Operation Ironside, two over a national marijuana syndicate.

The ANoM app appears on the screen of a smartphone in Paris, on June 8, 2021. - Some 250 people were arrested in Sweden and Finland in the global sting on organised crime, authorities said on June 8, 2021, using phones planted by the US FBI, law enforcement officers were able to read the messages of global underworld figures in around 100 countries as they plotted drug deals, arms transfers and gangland hits on the compromised ANOM devices. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)

Millions to overhaul courts for mammoth Operation Ironside trials

SA’s Operation Ironside arrests are heading towards potentially long, complex, court cases – requiring millions of dollars before trials start.

BEHIND BARS: The Stanthorpe man was given jail time but released on immediate parole after pleading guilty to trespass and breaching a domestic violence order. Picture: innovatedcaptures / iStock

Mr X: The drug kingpin more feared than prison

A veteran underworld figure given immunity from self-incrimination has chosen to go to jail indefinitely, rather than reveal the identity of feared drug kingpin “Mr X”.

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Explained: Where Australia’s Italian mafia clans are

Explained: Where Australia’s Italian mafia clans are

Italian organised crime is now in the sights of the AFP after Operation Ironside exposed its tentacles. This is where they are operating.

Mafi texts for cocaine artwork for Tiser

Revealed: Mafia figures’ text messages about 10kg of cocaine

Court documents have revealed frantic text messages allegedly between two SA mafia figures, after a man was arrested over a 10kg cocaine shipment.

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Ironside’s secret 37: Every accused plus the alleged mob bosses we can’t name

Ironside’s secret 37: Every accused plus the alleged mob bosses we can’t name

A year on from the Operation Ironside sting, here’s the definitive list of all 111 South Australians before the courts – including 37 whose identities are suppressed.

Mystery fugitive the ‘syndicate leader’ in alleged $8.2m drug ring

Mystery fugitive the ‘syndicate leader’ in alleged $8.2m drug ring

An international fugitive charged in the US was allegedly at the helm of an SA drug syndicate that was laundering as much as $8.2m at a time, prosecutors say.

Battle for the underworld: The new crims moving to fill the AN0M void

Battle for the underworld: The new crims moving to fill the AN0M void

A year ago, widespread Operation Ironside raids dismantled the Comanchero and other SA crime syndicates. Now the criminals left behind are battling to take over.

How drugs and gambling debts led to a $17.5m mistake

How drugs and gambling debts led to a $17.5m mistake

Crippling gambling debts and drug addiction led a NSW man to drive $17.5m of meth across the state to a handover with an SA truck driver.

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