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

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Collingwood star Jordan De Goey and tattoo artist Luke Dyson partying in New York. Picture: Instagram

From Melton tattoo studio to New York courtroom

Jordan De Goey’s New York co-accused Luke Dyson was an in-demand tattoo artist hailing from Melton before being arrested in the Big Apple.

Police & Courts

EMBARGO OCTOBER 2021 : EPISODE 7 EYES SPY PODCAST : NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM CONTENT : The Bug detector Alan Earl Professional Bug Sweeper Technical Surveillance Counter Measure, Yarraville Victoria., Under cover of darkness Alan and his team creep into an office and unpack the tools of their trade., They are there on a top-secret mission to sweep the property and find out if they are being bugged., Spying using technical surveillance if a thing. A big thing it turns out in corporate Australia., “Bug sweeping” takes hours. The debuggers check everything from the floor to the ceiling. Bugs can be planted under desks under the floor, in a vase, or a book on a shelf. PICTURE: supplied,

Spike in abusers keeping women on a ‘GPS leash’

An alarming spike in abusers using stealthy GPS trackers to stalk their victims has prompted calls for tougher laws around the use of the spy gadgets.

ExclusivePolice & Courts

Pusey pleads for insurance for wrecked Porsche

Richard Pusey is desperately fighting insurers to claw back the cost of the Porsche that was mangled in the Eastern Freeway crash, in which four police officers died.

Victoria

Sex worker shortage as brothels reopen

Melbourne’s brothels are bracing to be overrun as they reopen tonight but while business boomed for illicit sex work in lockdown, legal sex workers are in short supply.

Police & Courts

Bandido bikie gang members form a procession for the funeral of Ross

Covid decimates once-feared bikie club

Bikie clubs have continued to recruit new members inside Victoria’s locked-down jails, but the pandemic has cruelled the once-powerful Bandidos.

Police & Courts

Is Cave Clan back under Melbourne’s streets?

They made headlines for their exploits in the tunnels and drains beneath Melbourne, and two men spotted climbing down a Camberwell manhole suggests the Cave Clan could be back.

Police & Courts

More drama for Love Machine as charges laid

Love Machine’s operators have been charged for allegedly breaching chief health officer orders, while a probe into a vodka stash seized at the Prahran club continues.

Victoria

Ex government contractor a secret nazi

Neo-nazi has been named as a former Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet contractor who worked on their computer systems.

True Crime

Inside story of the bikie lawyer’s wife and the missing millions

The wife of a prominent bikie lawyer has faced claims she used someone else’s money to pay for her sons’ Kew private school fees and a trip to Vanuatu.

VideoPolice & Courts

A man has been arrested over weapons officences in Glen Waverley.

Homemade machinegun seized in Glen Waverley raid

Dramatic footage shows the moment detectives swooped on a Glen Waverley home, seizing a cache of weapons including a homemade machinegun.

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