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Stephen Drill covers organised crime, business and the politics of sport. His investigative podcasts include Mafia’s Web, Bikie’s Inc. and Faith On Trial. Drill was Europe correspondent for the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail and Adelaide Advertiser from 2019 to 2021. The Walkley Award winner has also worked at The Wall Street Journal in New York and The Sun in London.

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MARCH 5, 2021: Yvonne Lacey OAM, who was living in a rental property in Mannum so badly contaminated with methamphetamine, she herself tested positive for meth and started feeling ill just weeks after moving in. She is now calling for tougher rental laws supporting tenants in similar situations. She pictured at the house with her husband Michael Lacey wearing PPE. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

Ice contaminated properties: How to test your home

Unsuspecting Aussie homeowners’ properties are so badly contaminated with ice that it’s forced them to spend a fortune to repair them. Watch video.

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Connie Cicchini's rental in Brisbane has suffered $360k damage from meth user tenants. Pictured is Connie inside the property where most of the damage has taken place.

‘I’m screwed’: Connie’s ice house nightmare

Connie Cicchini’s retirement has been shattered after ice-smoking tenants destroyed her nest egg, leading to a two-year fight with NRMA insurance. Watch video.

National

‘Shirked responsibility’: Scathing attack on Carlton president

Luke Sayers is facing fresh allegations about PwC’s role in a tax scandal during his time there as chief executive.

EXCLUSIVENarcos on the Front Line

Aussie drug kingpin and bikie broker’s cunning move

An Australian fugitive on the run for a decade in Mexico, who is a key drug broker for bikie gangs, is suspected of taking a dramatic step to avoid capture.

Police & Courts

Notorious crime family special. Meshlin Marrogi.

‘Sick’ attack on tomb of crime boss’s dead sister

Vandals have broken into a mausoleum and smashed open the coffin of Meshlin Marrogi, the sister of gangland boss George Marrogi.

National

Josh Bornstein, Principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers.

Wayne Carey’s lawyer in $176k bill fight

Wayne Carey’s former lawyer is embroiled in an investigation into a disputed $176,000 bill for a “no win, no fee” case.

Narcos on the Front Line

‘Narco tour’: Tourism boom in murder capital

The drug-torn city of Medellin, once ruled by Pablo Escobar, is experiencing a tourism boom, but for many residents the trauma is never far away.

Narcos on the Front Line

** MUST SPEAK TO KRISTI MILLER BEFORE USING ** NETWORK FIRST USE ONLY- NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM CONTENT: NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO NEWS.COM/NO SKY NEWS Abel Zapata, 63, is a builder in Comuna 13, He was asked by his boss to build a private room in a jail for Pablo Escobar while he was imprisoned. Zapata refused because he feared Escobar would kill him once the job was finished. Abel sitting in the new house he is building for his son.Comuna 13, Medellin, Colombia. - Medellin was once known as the murder capital of the world, with drug lord Pablo Escobar taking control of Comuna 13, a poor suburb in the hills on the outskirts of the city, Escobar's story has led to a narcos tourism boom in Comuna 13 in Medellin, with former US President Bill Clinton among those who have visited. Picture: Jason Edwards

‘I said no to Pablo Escobar’: Drug lord’s brutal reign

Colombian builder Abel Zapata bravely refused to work for Pablo Escobar – a man who struck fear into the heart of most locals.

Narcos on the Front Line

** MUST SPEAK TO KRISTI MILLER BEFORE USING ** NETWORK FIRST USE ONLY- NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM CONTENT: NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO NEWS.COM/NO SKY NEWS Rosa, 59, lives in Comuna 13 in Medellin, Colombia, and has seen her suburb controlled by Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and then paramilitaries after his death in 1993. She had 10 children, including five sets of twins. Rosa confronted paramilitaries who were planning to kill one of her sons, saving his life. She was photographed with her granddaughter Balaria, 6, who is in grade one at school. Comuna 13, Medellin, Colombia. - Medellin was once known as the murder capital of the world, with drug lord Pablo Escobar taking control of Comuna 13, a poor suburb in the hills on the outskirts of the city, Escobar's story has led to a narcos tourism boom in Comuna 13 in Medellin, with former US President Bill Clinton among those who have visited. Picture: Jason Edwards

‘You’ll have to kill me too’: Mum saves son from gunmen

A brave mother has recalled how she stood up to militia in what was once the murder capital of the world.

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Chinese crims’ new Aussie party drug plot

Chinese organised crime gangs are infiltrating new countries to sell drugs as cartels find new ways to get ice into Australia. Watch how in our Narcos on the front line docuseries.

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