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

He’s been kidnapped, shot twice, and amassed enormous wealth – now this gangland figure is the suspect in a major international crime.

Prisoners accused of carrying out a “dirty dog” attack on an inmate who later died will not be charged with murder.

A B-double truck loaded with millions of dollars worth of cigarettes — a hot black market commodity — has been stolen from an Altona factory.

It’s been a tough few days for a woman with the same name as Nadia Bartel’s friend. Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with the latest crime buzz.

Three men linked to a powerful Middle Eastern organised crime gang have been arrested in a major drug trafficking investigation.

Fugitive killer driver Puneet Puneet tried to argue that “threatening remarks” by Melbourne’s Lord Mayor proved he wouldn’t get a fair trial.

The moment Maryam Hamka failed to return from a supermarket trip police feared the worst. Here’s how they closed in on their prime suspects.

The hit-run driver who fled to India when he killed a student in Melbourne has surrendered to police, 13 years after turning fugitive.

Chief health officer Brett Sutton has told a parliamentary inquiry he still backs his call to order the shut-down of I Cook Foods.

Eight people have been arrested in a wave of raids across Victoria for allegedly using encrypted apps to threaten police at an anti-lockdown protest.