A shooting and two suspected arson attacks have a suburban Sydney street on edge as police investigate suspected outlaw motorcycle gang links.
Toufik Hamze,64,and his son Salim,18,were gunned down outside their Sydney home. This is how police tracked down the organised crime figures they say ordered the teen’s death.
Detectives say the arrests of more than a dozen people – including notorious rapper Ali “Ay Huncho” Younes – have allegedly “cleaned up” the Alameddine clan on Australian shores.
The 32-year-old man was dropped off at Liverpool Hospital with two gunshot wounds and died shortly afterwards.
A 27-year-old man is also expected to be charged over the gunning down of Ferenc “David” Stemler in Canterbury last year.
Detectives had already arrested two men allegedly involved in the foiled plan to kill the rappers,who recently featured in a Netflix documentary.
Alen Moradian’s execution sparked a gangland war. Now police have charged a seventh man over the Bondi murder.
A Surf Life Saver has filmed the moment he plucked the package of cocaine floating in the water off the famous beach.
Point Piper has been targeted by car thieves,with vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen in a spate of robberies.
A culture of intensifying cruelty including murder and mutilation is escalating as criminals battle for a slice of the $10 billion a year drug trade.
Thai authorities in other stings also unearthed tonnes of drugs earmarked for Australia’s shores by major criminal syndicates.