Deadline: Gangland glamour girl Sabrine Maghnie all smiles on tour of Middle East

What’s the best way to beat the cost-of-living squeeze hitting hip pockets across Australia? Live it up abroad like this gangland couple.

Sabrine Maghnie on a camel. Picture: Instagram

Mark Buttler and Andrew Rule with the latest crime buzz.

Let Blooming good times roll

Deadline was interested to see Sabrine Maghnie on the socials recently reliving some happy times.

A post from not so long ago, captioned “cleaning out my camera roll,” showed her at a Bloomingdale’s department store somewhere in the Middle East.

Clearly, Ms Maghnie has been able to avoid the cost-of-living squeeze afflicting the rest of us if she can afford to shop at the American-based luxury goods store.

Sabz at Bloomingdales in the Middle East.

Her account contains other evidence that her financial position has been sound for the past few years.

Here, Ms Maghnie is on a camel in front of the Pyramids and dining out at fancy restaurants. There, she is cruising through the desert on an all-terrain vehicle. Soon after, she’s living the la dolce vita in Italy.

The number of photos showing Jesse Marrogi indicates the pair are still together, given the general social media policy of purging images of exes after a bust-up.

Sabz with Jesse Marrogi in Egypt.

The good times have been enjoyed against a backdrop of turbulence for both families.

Sabrine’s brother AJ was wounded by gunfire in a shooting that claimed the life of gangland wildman Gavin Preston last September.

Her brother Jacob Elliott is doing a marathon prison sentence over the double-fatal 2019 Love Machine nightclub drive-by shooting.

Dad Nabil, the feared northern suburbs crime figure, was shot dead at Epping in 2020 in a crime that remains unsolved.

Things haven’t been a bed of roses for the Marrogis with Jesse’s brother George serving a monster prison term over the 2016 murder of Kadir Ors at Campbellfield and for high-level international drug trafficking.

Jesse remains on bail over charges he dealt in the proceeds of crime from his brother’s multimillion dollar outlaw empire.

Fears for his safety are such that a magistrate ordered his address be shredded after being handed to him during proceedings last year.

Men from Snowy River cop a fall

There’s more evidence of bikies expanding their horizons and unsuccessfully doing some business in East Gippsland. Allegedly.

In an attack which is another indicator of just how lucrative the illicit tobacco trade is, two patched members of the Rebels were charged over firebombing a smoke shop in Orbost, the sleepy farming town perched on the lower reaches of the fabled Snowy River.

The pair are accused of making the five-hour drive from Melbourne to blow up the store, which is in an arcade off Nicholson St, otherwise known as the main drag.

CCTV allegedly shows the pair running into the arcade before something is thrown through a window of the shop. The pair then flee the scene in a Holden Commodore.

Detectives from the Victoria Police Lunar taskforce, set up after Melbourne’s wave of tobacco shop torchings, arrested the men in Melbourne last week.

A 31-year-old from Airport West and a 42-year-old from Reservoir were charged with criminal damage by fire.

It wasn’t that long ago that the Finks OMCG emerged as a bigger pest around the Bairnsdale district than rabbits and thistles. This was after they set up a clubhouse in the tiny riverside town of Lindenow, west of Bairnsdale.

What was known as the Kalimna chapter hit some stern resistance from police and is no longer operating after what one local copper described as a move to cancel the gang’s east Gippsland visas.

Crim’s burg with the lot

A strange break-in broke the peace at outer suburban Sunbury recently.

Melbourne aggravated burglary victims are nowadays accustomed to having their cars stolen when intruders sneak in the dead of night to rob them.

A recent burglar had different and decidedly weird intentions.

He took some yoghurt from the fridge, ate it, then left.

Craig heath of sting & thief

Country musician and alleged conman Craig Graham Heath was arrested while meeting with a prospective “client” last week.

The client identifies as female. So do many of the guitar-pickin’ crooner’s other temporary friends.

This does not come as a surprise to at least one confirmed female in the law and justice system who might have mentioned to Herald Sun reporter Regan “Scoop” Hodge that the accused was “actually quite charming” and “full of compliments.”

Well, he would be charming and complimentary, wouldn’t he? “Con man” being short for confidence man.

Prosecutors are not so charmed with good ol’ Craig, who’s accused of scamming would-be property investors of many millions of dollars over more than a decade. Many of his alleged victims being adult persons who identify as single women.