A Botanic Ridge dad nabbed with an Aladdin’s Cave of meth, GHB, steroids, weapons and $37,000 cash at the home he shares with his partner and children admitted dealing drugs for cash because he gets stressed paying bills.
A US citizen living in Melbourne kept his university job — and even scored a reference from his boss — after he was caught swapping vile child sex abuse material among a social media pedo ring brought down by an FBI sting.
A GHB and meth-addled peninsula party boy who pistol-whipped a “soft target” during a terrifying attempted carjacking at a Frankston servo has been delivered a knockout blow by his sentencing judge. WATCH THE VIDEO
A US nurse – who worked at notorious New York City prison Rikers Island – swallowed and smuggled more than a kilo of cocaine via Melbourne airport in a “risky” plot that only unravelled after authorities spotted one tiny clue.
A youth club leader who ran the ‘Balaclava Boys Club’ at St Margaret’s Presbyterian Church for more than a decade “orchestrated scenarios” to rape multiple victims including giving one boy ice cream to keep their “special friendship” a secret.
A tomahawk-wielding thug was on an early-morning prowl hunting soft targets in Mt Waverley when he menaced and demanded cash from a 73-year-old newspaper delivery man only to flee empty-handed when his quick-thinking victim fought back.
A Point Cook mum who fleeced $150,000 from her ex-boss — a prominent Melbourne developer of high-end projects including car dealerships, schools and kindergartens — will not go to jail despite not paying back a cent. Here’s why.
A serial Newport sex pest and bodybuilder, who posed as a woman to sexually assault a young man, left his victim “shaken and distressed” by his deviant offending.
A Melbourne man who stole $1 million from his dad to fund a flash “Rockefeller” lifestyle of drugs, girls, travel and Uber Eats — leaving his father to survive on Centrelink — will have no such luxuries in prison after a judge threw the book at him.
A remorseless Crown Casino love scoundrel who fleeced $800,000 from businessmen she met on Tinder told police she didn’t feel sorry for one victim because “how can you be so stupid to believe those stories”. So how did she hunt and trap her prey?
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