Melton tobacco store firebombed
A High St smoke shop is the latest business to be targeted by arsonists in the ongoing tobacco wars.
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White ute mystery stumps police in case of Golden Mile arsonist
Police are no closer to solving the identity of a man who showed up in a white ute at Shenley Croft — a heritage listed home sitting on a $6m block along Canterbury’s Golden Mile — shortly before it was torched.
Chopper, a ration of milk and a bikie’s prison poison plot
Pentridge Prison saw plenty of vicious scheming but few were as elaborate as when a notorious Comanchero boss enlisted Mark “Chopper” Read and a dentist to poison a jailhouse rival.
Follow the money: How ‘de-banking’ is hurting crime bigwigs
Stripping organised crime figures of access to the banking system — a process dubbed de-banking — has clamped shut the accounts of some of the biggest names in Melbourne’s underworld.
When private school mums took aim at bikie boss
When the mums at Melbourne Girls Grammar realised the daughters of a bikie boss were in their midst they wanted them thrown out of the elite school. But he wasn’t about to take it lying down.
Significant crime players targeted by gang-busting taskforce
A special taskforce at the frontline of the state’s battle against organised crime has made more than 1000 arrests in its first two years, targeting criminals implicated in homicides, arsons and shootings.
Ballarat Curry House chef who stabbed customer dies in prison
A Nepalese chef who was jailed for stabbing a customer at an Indian restaurant in Ballarat has been found dead at Port Phillip Prison.
Four arrested at Campbellfield factory as $280m of ice seized
The arrests follow police and border officials seizing $283m of methamphetamine hidden inside a six-tonne hydraulic press that had been shipped into Melbourne.
Notorious ‘Balenciaga bikie’ soon to be back on the streets
One of Australia’s top Comanchero bikies, known for his love of designer goods, is expected to reconnect with his Victorian associates when he walks from a Sydney jail.
Infamous ‘society murders’ killer could soon be a free man
The killer behind one of the state’s most infamous crimes could soon walk free from prison, with Matthew Wales nearing the end of his sentence for the murders of his mother Margaret Wales-King and her husband Paul.
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