Seventeen days before underworld figure Mitat Rasimi was murdered, there was a tense meeting where four Comancheros were severely outnumbered and told they’d be allowed to “walk out alive”.
Last year was a massive one for Victorian police fighting serious crime — but while some breakthroughs were very public, many big wins never made the headlines.
A crackdown on alleged armed robberies, home invasions, aggravated burglaries and car theft across Melbourne has seen more than 40 people arrested – most of them school-age.
Emergency crews were called to the horror scene in Boort where a child was found dead inside a caravan.
A hard-as-nails cop, who spent years facing down the toughest bad guys in organised crime, has been left red-faced when he called in the troops to track down his “stolen” car.
Richmond’s Noah Balta has been charged with assault after a late-night incident at a sports club on the Victoria-NSW border that left a man in hospital.
A 16-year-old remains in hospital nearly one week on from a vicious armed brawl at the Forest Hill Chase shopping centre where he was stabbed and left fighting for life.
A runaway witness, punch-ons outside court, Covid hassles and a run-in with a kangaroo were all part of the drama that unfolded during the Mitat Rasimi murder trial.
Two men have been charged with dealing cocaine, MDMA and ketamine at Beyond the Valley festival days after a festival-goer overdosed and ended up in hospital.
The Richmond and Melbourne premiership players were caught up in a 2am fracas near the Continental Hotel in Sorrento which left two men needing hospital treatment.
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