A dodgy former Frankston City Council officer used his high-ranking position to concoct a bogus invoicing scheme linked to a mate’s company to fleece more than $460,000 from the city’s coffers.
A Neighbours actor – known in drug circles as ‘drkemist’ – who also appeared in Wentworth and Romper Stomper has been busted peddling premium European MDMA, LSD and cocaine to Melbourne’s party scene players.
A dole-bludging Craigieburn mum who owned two investment properties, a house and a boat stole more than $100,000 from Centrelink which she splashed on international travel, parties and a family trip to Movie World.
The sister of a leading jockey buddied up to a Frankston man undergoing treatment for heart and pancreatic cancer after he was paid a large inheritance only to bound and bash the helpless victim during a brutal home invasion.
A hoon menace who seriously injured a spectator at an illegal “skid” meet in Melbourne’s west has been jailed while his victim wants taxpayers to cough up $70,000 in compensation. WATCH THE VIDEO
A gang leader who used Snapchat to orchestrate a brutal bashing at a Cranbourne North home that left a boy fighting for life has now been sentenced 17 times for violent offending. So why could the serial menace be out of jail in less than three weeks?
A Melbourne graffiti gang insider has revealed how a clandestine subculture of organised vandals wreaked havoc on the city with brazen attacks, a Mafia-level code of conduct and a rumoured secret street war with rogue transit police.
A GHB and meth-addled peninsula party boy pistol-whipped a “soft target” during a terrifying attempted carjacking at a Frankston servo but the masked brute didn’t bank on his brave victim fighting back. WATCH THE VIDEO
A chef who raped a sex worker at a Collingwood brothel has blamed the police for his conviction but a judge said the “brutish” creep really just lacked remorse.
A Hallam drug dealer with links to Comanchero bikies and Asian drug runners has been placed in protective custody after he peddled a stack of meth and high-powered guns to undercover police.
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