Battle for the underworld: The new crims moving to fill the AN0M void
A year ago, widespread Operation Ironside raids dismantled the Comanchero and other SA crime syndicates. Now the criminals left behind are battling to take over.
A year ago, widespread Operation Ironside raids dismantled the Comanchero and other SA crime syndicates. Now the criminals left behind are battling to take over.
Crippling gambling debts and drug addiction led a NSW man to drive $17.5m of meth across the state to a handover with an SA truck driver.
After more than a year of maintaining his innocence, a man who went to collect $20m worth of cocaine hidden in a welder has confessed to his crime.
Further messages from AN0M chat groups that sparked the massive Operation Ironside police blitz have been heard in court as part of an alleged bikie’s bid for bail.
With the Comanchero smashed by the AN0M breakthrough this week, police fear another bikie gang is on the horizon, waiting to pounce – the Hells Angels.
He’s just 18 and looks even younger – but this former private schoolboy from Burnside is now behind bars facing serious charges following the global police sting.
An Aladdin’s Cave of treasure including a $450,000 Rolex, Lamborghinis and $4.9m in cash are just some of what Operation Ironside found.
Australia’s bikie-busting cop has issued a threat to violent gangs caught in the AN0M web who are “disloyal thugs” and peddle drugs to children.
Fugitive drug lord Hakan Ayik had his tentacles hooked into almost every one of the group indicted after the crime sting of the century.
These are the members of the Victorian Comancheros bikie gang who have been arrested as part of the global AN0M police sting.
The US is “working” to extradite all 17 suspects – including seven Australians – and 10 foreign nationals as part of a global bust on organised crime, but most remain at large.
The FBI has revealed more arrests have been made as part of Operation Ironside – the Australian-US crackdown on organised crime.
Operation Ironside allegedly averted a potential slaughter on The Parade – get the inside story of how police say they thwarted gangsters’ plans to execute a rival.
Senior police have revealed a second alleged murder plot by Comanchero bikies – in which they went to the wrong house – was foiled in a huge sting operation.
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