$140k offer to take the rap for $1.5m Ironside cannabis haul
The alleged head of a multimillion-dollar interstate cannabis syndicate offered a co-accused $140k to take the wrap for a 160kg drug bust, Ironside prosecutors claim
The alleged head of a multimillion-dollar interstate cannabis syndicate offered a co-accused $140k to take the wrap for a 160kg drug bust, Ironside prosecutors claim
After his gambling and drinking led to money problems, Timothy Barkla agreed to store drugs in his kitchen for someone else. Then Operation Ironside detectives came knocking.
SA prosecutors have their eyes on $2.75m cash found during Operation Ironside during a truckie’s Adelaide-Sydney run – but NSW Police already has the money.
Accused drug kingpins arrested under Operation Ironside have won a significant legal battle that may allow them to hide their riches from police.
In just over a week, police have crushed hydroponic setups at homes in western Sydney, arrested more than a dozen people and seized millions of dollars of ice, cannabis and cocaine.
The US is “working” to extradite all 17 suspects – including seven Australians – and 10 foreign nationals as part of a global bust on organised crime, but most remain at large.
The FBI has revealed more arrests have been made as part of Operation Ironside – the Australian-US crackdown on organised crime.
Operation Ironside allegedly averted a potential slaughter on The Parade – get the inside story of how police say they thwarted gangsters’ plans to execute a rival.
Senior police have revealed a second alleged murder plot by Comanchero bikies – in which they went to the wrong house – was foiled in a huge sting operation.
Police have dismantled a “trans-national” meth and cocaine ring in SA and caused “mass disruption” to the Comancheros in the past 18 months under Operation Ironside.
A tech-savvy convicted drug trafficker has been revealed as the person who invented the Trojan horse app AN0M.
Police are fearing a rise in violence in Sydney’s criminal underworld after mass arrests in the AN0M police sting.
Police say exiled Comanchero boss Mark Buddle would have been on the tapes recorded jointly by the FBI and the AFP and that he has fled to Iraq just in the past several weeks.
Fugitive drug lord Hakan Ayik, who led the criminal underworld straight to law enforcement, has been given an ultimatum.
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