Drug kingpins be warned – your days of hiding behind street-level dealers could be numbered thanks to the work of forensic scientist Dr Marie Morelato whose research can track seized drugs back to their source. FIND OUT HOW
Queensland drug dealers are brazenly using Instagram to ply their trade, even offering users free drop off or pick up of illicit substances. SEE THE LIST OF SUBURBS
This suburban industrial unit was a haven for Descendants bikies – until police dismantled it using tough anti-gang laws. Now two other bikie HQs are being targeted.
When investigators searched the office of celebrity-status mayor Paul Pisasale, they found more than just his short black coffee cup collection. There was also a bag under his desk containing some surprising items.
HE jokes about police attempts to link him to a string of crimes — but when his name came up in connection with notorious drugs kingpin James Kinch even Roger Rogerson admitted: “It’s an amazing story.”
THE Gold Coast has long been the backdrop for disputes between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs, but rarely have these arguments spilt into the public sphere. All that changed in 2006 when a violent public confrontation between bikies set plans in motion to have the city’s gangs completely dismantled.
IT started with needles found in strawberries packed by two brands. It’s exploded to more than 100 incidents of ‘spiked’ fruit. Has the uproar inspired a wave of ‘copycats’?
IF you ask any long-serving Gold Coast cop what their worst day on the job has been, they’ll answer May 29, 2011. The day when one of their own — a young father and a good mate — was cruelly gunned down in a brazen tavern robbery.
CLIFF Lockwood was a big cop acquitted of murdering criminal figure Gary Abdallah, but he still paid a high price after being accused in court of executing a kneeling man like “a dog on a short leash”, writes Andrew Rule. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
AN ex-classmate of the woman at the centre of the “Teacher’s Pet” case has told how the former Sydney schoolgirl was left “damaged” by her marriage to Chris Dawson.
THE state’s anti-consorting laws designed to disrupt criminal syndicates in NSW are being used so effectively by Strike Force Raptor that bikies are now crying foul, saying the legislation is making them lonely.
SARAH Bowles was devastated the father figure in her life was missing, but then came the shocking realisation that police believed her mother had killed him and the family home had been bugged.
YOU know it from TV shows such as CSI — but it was actually a small group of Australian scientists who changed the way police forces around the world view scenes of crime.
WHEN a Melbourne man and his cousin suffered gruesome deaths on a boat off the Greek coast, authorities were quick to close the book. But all was not as it seemed.
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