Drug users can’t shirk responsibility. If a social media influencer posts pics of themselves using cocaine,they are participating in a supply chain dripping in blood.
A small motorbike – potentially even a Vespa or another type of scooter – was used as a getaway vehicle in the brazen murder of fruiterer John Latorre in Melbourne’s northern suburbs last week.
The list of executions associated with Victoria’s fruit and vegetable markets is long,but memories are short when the police ask questions.
Victoria Police says the identity of an informer in the Joe Acquaro murder case must be kept secret,arguing they are at “real risk of death” if exposed.
George Marrogi’s violent outbursts have injured jail staff,who have put him on a safety plan requiring handcuffs and forcing him to kneel when he enters a room to appear for remote court hearings.
Latorre,a man police describe as belonging to the “older generation” of Italian organised crime,was gunned down in the driveway of his suburban home in the early hours of Tuesday.
Sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Melbourne,the now-dead Latorre told me I’d confused a police conspiracy with a group of Calabrian Australians who looked out for each other.
Drummoyne man Michael Mato,22,was allegedly carrying a brick of cocaine weighing more than a kilogram,branded with an image from Al Pacino’s 1983 film Scarface.
After two police officers were gunned down in South Yarra in 1988,the taskforce was slow to get off the ground and notoriously under-resourced.
The 20-year-old has been charged with several offences relating to the fire at Emerald Reception Centre in Thomastown and car theft.
Six members of an alleged tobacco importation syndicate have been charged after early morning raids and the seizure of 10 million illicit cigarettes.