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Mark Buttler is an award-winning crime journalist for the Herald Sun.

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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.

Police & Courts

Legal advice is to pixelate face and tattoos ID CONFIRMED BY CAVANAGH as Richard Ene. A large man of Islander appearance is taken into the Melbourne Magistrates Court by Police. A police taskforce has linked the gangland murder of Tony Mokbel associate Mitat Rasimi with the Love Machine drive-by slayings. Taskforce Sector has for six months been investigating common suspects in the nightclub killings and the fatal shooting of Rasimi at Dandenong earlier this year.Sector detectives have this morning executed eight warrants on homes across Melbourne as part of the sprawling inquiry into the shootings. Two men, a 26-year-old from Hampton Park and a 25-year-old from Hallam, have been arrested. Picture: Mark Stewart

What sparked savage prison guards bashing?

The Comanchero bikie accused of bashing two prison guards in what has been described as one of Victoria’s worst jailhouse attacks was sent into a rage by a family issue.

Police & Courts

Donna Fitchett is taken from St Kilda Road complex to the Magistrates Court. She has been charged with murdering her sons Matthew and Thomas in North Balwyn.

Mum who murdered her two sons dies weeks after being freed from jail

Donna Fitchett, who drugged, smothered and strangled her young sons at their Balwyn home, has been found dead.

Victoria

Iconic farm at centre of ‘Lady of Swamp’ mystery up for sale

The property of Margaret Clement, a wealthy beneficiary whose life fell into ruin before she mysteriously vanished, is up for sale in Gippsland.

Police & Courts

CCTV of Vincent Meyer and Hawre Sherwani (in the white hoodie) bashing a man at a smash repair business in 2014

Charges dropped over alleged hammer-wielding road rage attack

Charges have been dropped against a man accused of waving a hammer while chasing a bikie through traffic on the Western Freeway.

Police & Courts

Kazem Hamad reclines on a sports car while on bail about a decade ago. (2010's) Picture: Supplied

Police arrest eight people allegedly involved in tobacco shop extortion

Lunar taskforce police have conducted raids on Kazem Hamad’s illicit tobacco syndicate, seizing weapons and arresting several people allegedly involved in tobacco shop extortions.

Police & Courts

Comanchero probed over brutal prison guard bashing

A killer Comanchero bikie is alleged to have viciously attacked two prison officers at Melbourne’s Metropolitan Remand Centre in what’s said to be the worst case of violence against jail staff in recent memory.

Victoria

The Melbourne Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall , is in lock down as a prisoner has climbed a light pole inside the grounds and refuses to come down.Picture:Ian Currie

Guards left unconscious in bikie attack in Melbourne prison

Two prison officers have been bashed by an enraged bikie at a maximum security Melbourne prison.

Deadline

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.

Police & Courts

Registered sex offender Sajed Ali. Picture: Victoria Police

Amputee rapist disappears after cutting off ankle monitor

A man who twice raped a sex worker and threatened to shoot her is on the run after cutting off his monitoring bracelet – and now police have released an urgent plea for public support in tracking him down.

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