Bikie boss among eight arrested in Raptor operation
A Comanchero bikie boss has been arrested alongside seven other people during a major operation involving Strike Force Raptor and heavily armed members of the Tactical Operations Unit.
A Comanchero bikie boss has been arrested alongside seven other people during a major operation involving Strike Force Raptor and heavily armed members of the Tactical Operations Unit.
A man charged over a semiautomatic Glock pistol found in a major police crackdown on western Sydney’s underworld said he had no idea the firearm was under a couch cushion in his house.
Police have taken the extraordinary step of releasing maps of the suburbs which named individuals have been prohibited from entering after the Mejid Hamzy killing. SEE THE MAPS
Federal police have rescued 16 children and arrested 44 men including a NSW IT consultant, a forklift driver and a retail worker in a stunning crackdown on the sharing of child sexual abuse material.
Slain underworld figure and “King of the Hamzys” Mejid Hamzy has been farewelled at a mosque in Sydney’s west surrounded by a swarm of police and gangland identities.
The man shot in the neck during a violent stand-off with police has died in hospital. It comes as footage has emerged of the bare chested, tattooed man running from police down a Central Coast street clutching a rifle just moments before he was shot.
The lawyer for killer Bassam Hamzy said he learnt about the assassination of his brother Mejid while watching TV in jail and now accepts the murder as “the will of God”. FULL DETAILS
Detectives are investigating whether a vicious brawl between warring crime clans on a south western Sydney street last week contributed to the weekend’s assassination of Mejid Hamzy. WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE FIGHT
CCTV clearly captured two men dressed all in black with balaclavas on running to their getaway car after the morning assassination of underworld figure Mejid Hamzy at Condell Park, a witness said.
Senior police fear the Sydney underworld will explode in a “powderkeg” of violence and recrimination after jailed gangster Bassam Hamzy’s brother Mejid Hamzy was shot dead.
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