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Sydney plumber Darcy Francesco Jenkins was nabbed at the border and arrested by Indonesian police on Monday.

He stopped for cigarettes moments before a deadly ambush. It was the clue police needed

Investigators in Bali, and diplomats from Australia, are scrambling to piece together how a clutch of Australians came to be at the centre of one of the most violent shootings in Bali’s history.

  • Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch

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NSW Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism Yasmin Catley.

Just say ‘no’: How Sydney’s drug habits are fuelling the gangland wars

Police Minister Yasmin Catley, despite coming from the Labor Left, holds some fairly right-wing views on strip-searching, the age of criminal responsibility and drug use.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Police have announced Strikeforce Falcon to crack down on gangland violence.

Murder of innocent tradie catalyst in latest gangland crackdown

A new police taskforce has been set up to crush Sydney’s bloody underworld violence after the deaths of innocent people in public shootings.

  • Perry Duffin and Josefine Ganko
Lawyer Sylvan Singh was reportedly shot in the arm and leg.
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Lawyer seen bleeding on the side of the road after Parramatta shooting

Lawyer Sylvan Singh was reportedly shot in the arm and leg.

Grandmother Kim Duncan was killed in a drive-by shooting that police have labelled “abhorrent”.

Gangland hits were once reserved for major criminals. Not any more

The murder of John Versace is the latest example of a targeted execution on a seemingly ordinary person.

  • Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Thi Kim Tran was abducted from her Sydney home and found dead in a burnt-out car.

Sydney woman murdered over husband’s organised crime links, police say

A drug lab allegedly connected to a criminal group linked to the murder of Thi Kim Tran has been raided.

  • Riley Walter and Perry Duffin
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A car is removed from Welfare Ave North in Beverly Hills after a dead body of a woman was found inside.

Drug rip-off behind woman’s savage kidnap, murder: police

A gang abducted and killed a Sydney woman because they suspected someone close to her had stolen their drugs, police believe as they hunt the killers.

  • Perry Duffin
A Swedish teenager was hiding out in Australia after his parents tried to prevent him from falling in with gangs - but he allegedly spent his time recruiting hitmen from a home in Sydney’s west.

Teen accused of hiring hitmen revealed as Swede living in Sydney’s west

A 15-year-old boy accused of recruiting hitmen for the Scandinavian underworld was living with family in Sydney.

  • Perry Duffin
Nadal Acherkouk was gunned down in Surry Hills on Friday evening.

Brazen plot against underworld figure foiled before Surry Hills murder

Nedal Acherkouk was shot dead on a busy inner Sydney street in front of Friday night diners. Six months ago, he fought off another attack in public.

  • Perry Duffin
The scene of the shooting in Surry Hills on Friday night.

‘We’re coming for you’: Search for underworld figures after Surry Hills shooting

A major search operation is under way after one man was shot dead and a suspected getaway car was found torched in Kensington.

  • Amber Schultz, Riley Walter and Penry Buckley

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