Three people have been charged over their alleged roles in a plan to smuggle the alleged outlaw motorcycle gang member from Western Australia using a luxury yacht.
Troy Mercanti has been found guilty of fighting in public and fined $2500 after footage emerged of the 58-year-old brawling with a rival bikie at The Como.
Offshore,interstate or sitting on a couch a crime boss is crime-tasking – using an encrypted app to set up a job “that is paying well”.
The identity of the man responsible for shooting the bikie from 365 metres away at Kwinana Motorplex in 2020 can now be revealed after the former soldier asked the courts to lift a suppression order.
The party at the Mongols’ clubhouse ended early after heavily armed police forced bikies to lie on the ground and turn over alcohol,drugs and cash.
The businessman,whose identity has been suppressed by a court order,sued to recover his phone and $8000 in cash from police. He’s worth well over $50 million.
The gangland wars between Carl Williams and the Moran family dominated Melbourne for years. Now,John Silvester talks to one of the lead police investigators about what it took to put some of them behind bars.
In the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs,the ‘code of silence’ is supposed to be the bedrock of survival. But in the Supreme Court of Western Australia,that code didn’t just crack - it shattered.
The verdict was delivered nearly three months after a Supreme Court trial into the shooting death of the 51-year-old at Kwinana Freeway in December 2020.
The massive drug bust began as a traffic stop on Leach Highway in Welshpool,before several search warrants revealed the true scale of the haul.