Another perfectly legal drug is shaking up Vic’s black market
Victoria seems to be the type of state where legal substances can become even more valuable than illegal ones on the black market.
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The mystery of the missing bullets and a police raid gone wrong
Nobody in Victoria Police command seems interested in who made a small truckload of seized ammunition vanish like a rabbit from a hat, but when officers raided the property of a 76-year-old, they picked on the wrong man.
Could this must-have in crime-ridden Johannesburg be coming to Melb’s leafy east?
As Melbourne’s avalanche of aggravated burglaries turns the city into a version of Johannesburg, residents in some affluent suburbs are considering shock tactics to zap the bad guys into rethinking their intentions.
Chilling clues in World War II veteran’s violent death
Hughie Wilson’s ugly end is not well known outside the district where he lived and died. What happened to the World War II veteran still hangs over Colac and Victoria Police, a shameful chapter in the history of both.
Social posts drag Leskie-saga character back into Valley spotlight
It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from Latrobe Valley identity Kenny Penfold, but social media posts doing the rounds have brought him back to mind for some locals.
I slept with a loaded shotgun: The day a camper crossed paths with Greg Lynn
When Cam Stuart saw a photo of the man who had been arrested over the deaths of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay, he knew his face. They had shared a campsite almost two decades before — and the encounter was chilling.
The Melbourne brothel taking the Bunnings route
This inner-Melbourne knock shop has gone all in on the old adage “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”.
In world of bikie gangs, every dog has his day until he’s roadkill
Outlaw motorcycle gangs are a ruthless racket rigged to favour the powerful, manipulative and greedy — and the lowest in the ranks are expendable pawns. The bitter truth is, it’s tough at the bottom.
Three years on, ‘racist’ killing turns out to be something very different
Even the Prime Minister felt the need to ignore the absence of facts and join media and human rights groups in branding the killing of Indigenous Perth teenager Cassius Turvey as racist. Years on, a different narrative has emerged.
Complex extradition process giving crims a passport to freedom
For every long-range arrest set up overseas — after many years and much money — plenty of fugitives remain one step ahead of the law and out of reach.
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