It was known as Operation Jackfish, and it put Adelaide mafia boss Joe Romeo behind bars – but the story of how police finally cracked his drug smuggling ring had all the twists of a true crime thriller.
A man is in custody and millions of dollars worth of luxury assets have been seized after a lengthy investigation into an alleged multimillion-dollar meth ring.
They’re pleading with the Australian government to bring them home, but dangerous assumptions are being made about brides of Islamic State fighters who could pose ongoing security threats if they return Down Under.
Explosive documents have blown the lid off a shame file revealing the improper and illegal acts committed by Australian Federal Police officers who have consorted with criminals, boasted about access to cheap cocaine, and had sex with the victim of a crime.
FIVE years on from the infamous Broadbeach bikie brawl, Queensland faces a new and very frightening threat.
IT’S been five years since a “lynch mob” of Bandido bikies stormed a busy Queensland dining strip, where they king-hit police, threatened to slit an onlooker’s throat and caused “fear and distress” to innocent women and children. This is what happened next.
POLICE trying to identify the remains of three people found in a suspected gangland graveyard at the site of Captain Cook’s first steps in Australia have hit a brick wall, despite DNA testing and expert analysis in the US.
AUSTRALIAN police have seen a dramatic increase in the reporting of acts intended to cause injury, which includes domestic violence — but international analysis shows white victims are less likely to report abuse than other ethnic groups.
FOR two decades, Henry Keogh was in jail as one of SA’s most reviled murderers. But journalist Graham Archer kept questioning the official narrative … and eventually Keogh was cleared. In his own words, Archer recounts the clues and contradictions that led to a wrongful conviction.
KELI Lane is adamant she didn’t kill her baby and there’s a small army of people working behind the scenes trying to help her prove it.
FOR months she had sat quietly in the dock listening to claims that she killed her baby daughter Tegan 14 years earlier. As a guilty verdict was delivered, Keli Lane shattered her silence with a piercing scream of “No!” and collapsed to the floor.
A SECRET dossier mapping out extensive alleged mafia operations in Australia — has been sent to Italy’s famed anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri.
LAWYERS for Marcelo Santoro have made an astonishing request after a Brazilian police chief slammed NSW Police for not helping with their investigation into the murder of Cecilia Haddad.
AN ORDERED hit, a biscuit company extorted for millions of dollars, two dead and a man on the run for nearly three decades. This is the bizarre and true story of the execution of SP bookmaker Peter George Wade and his partner Maureen Ambrose by Ronald Henry Thomas and John Victor Bobak.
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