Sneaky ‘rips’: Brazen way crims get drugs to Australia
This is how organised crime gangs are flooding the world with illicit drugs through their networks of sleeper agents and trusted insiders.
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900 Aussies on watchlist as huge drug busts revealed
Border Force has a secret list of more than 900 Australians, who are being watched, as it continues to stop drug importation. See the busts so far.
New lethal drug organised crime gangs want
It’s the one thing that keeps Border Force awake at night — this is the drug criminals are cashing in on around the globe.
Cops’ theory on how Qld man was killed in Texas home
Murder charges have been laid after an Australian man was gunned down in his Texas home while trying to protect his wife and children.
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‘I don’t remember what she looks like’: Heartbreak left behind after Tara Brown’s horror death
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Shock photos reveal Aussie gangsters’ new ghost guns
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Husband of hero teacher ‘dies of grief’, as parents begged for help
The husband of a fourth-grade teacher killed protecting her students died of a ‘broken heart’, as video shows parents pinned down by the police they begged to help.
Trio arrested after $45m coke import lost to sea floor
A failed cocaine import has led to an international smuggling syndicate scuffle, with one of the alleged Australian crooks involved linked to infamous runaway Mostafa Baluch.
‘I heard the AK-47s’: Crime families take Asian Triads’ turf
Asian Triads may be gone but crime families run Sydney’s south west, and a top cop explains how the two worlds operate.
Fresh twist in mystery disapperances
Police have launched a new appeal for information into separate disappearances of two men in NSW, with one of the cases being treated as suspicious.
Where most guns are being stolen from
More stolen firearms are on our streets and are used by criminals to threaten, intimidate and harm. See how they are getting to the underworld.
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