St Kilda crime crackdown leads to dozens of arrests
Amid concerns from St Kilda locals about drug activity, police have made dozens of arrests and laid trafficking charges after crime crackdown.
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Shock twist in gym boss’ legal fight
Key kickboxing figure and gym boss Paul “The General” Fyfield has had the charges laid against him by an organised crime task force dropped.
How a guilty conscience undid killers
A 90-year-old woman is found dead in her Parkville home and an anonymous caller reports hearing screams. It kickstarts the hunt for sadistic killers.
Melbourne’s social media stars who fell from fame
A Peninsula glamour girl who posted more than 20,000 photos on Instagram, turned to drugs to break her social media “obsession”. But it was a simple traffic violation that brought her down. And she is not alone in going from glamour to the gutter.
‘He’s been attacked’: Mate sure campers met with foul play
The close friend of missing high country camper Russell Hill is convinced his mate was attacked and killed, saying he spoke without a “worry in the world” during a phone call hours before he vanished.
Injecting room chief stood down amid drug arrests
The chief of North Richmond Community Health, which operates Melbourne’s controversial injecting room, has been stood down after two staffers were arrested in a police swoop on alleged drug traffickers.
Ali Chaouk‘s dark path to murder rap
When a 10-year-old Ali Chaouk watched his father shoot a man, he was set on a path of violence that would end with most of his family killed or imprisoned. Chaouk now has all the time in the world to ponder the destruction of his clan as he rots in jail.
The bandits behind our biggest heists
Criminals long ago moved on from big armed robberies, but there was a time when violent heists on banks, armoured vans and payroll deliveries were a constant occurrence. Here are some of the most notorious bandits from that era.
Wife killer Borce’s silence cost $1m, hampered other cases
Huge resources were consumed by one of the highest-profile homicide cases in the state’s history due to Borce Ristevski’s refusal to own up to killing his wife Karen for more than two years.
Fiji bribery bid revealed as Nikolic cops 23 years in jail
An Australian businessman with strong underworld links has tried to bribe a Fijian official in the $30 million John Nikolic cocaine catamaran case. The sabotage attempt emerges as Nikolic was sentenced to a maximum of more than two decades in jail.
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