Tag: Crime and courts

Would-be drug smugglers found with Australia’s biggest cocaine haul in their vessel off the NSW coast each get 17 years in jail.

A WA man who was jailed for five years for money laundering is to lose the $6-million in cash that police found in his possession.

Australian court imposes a sentence of more than nine years on Adelaide man who sexually assaulted girls during regular overseas trips.

Court hears three young men had already paid a deposit on a semi-automatic rifle to be used to attack people in central Melbourne.

Arrest after law enforcement agencies found nearly 350kg of heroin hidden in a consignment of machinery from Malaysia.

Man aged 65 is the second person to be sentenced for attempting to import 1,2 tonnes of ephedrine into Australia.

Accused is alleged to be part of a criminal syndicate that used labour hire and payroll companies to defraud the Commonwealth.

Two crew members of yacht sailing from the Pacific to NSW sentenced to between seven and 16 years for drug trafficking.

Victim from India was kept for almost nine years in squalid conditions and forced to cook, clean and care for couple's children.

SA man defrauded Commonwealth fuel credit schemes of almost $4-million using complex system of false identities and fraudulent claims.

Federal Court finds private college engaged in unconscionable conduct by enrolling vulnerable and disadvantaged people in courses.

Some victims believed they had been granted legal entry to Australia, while others paid over $15,000 for supposed visas that never arrived.

Filipino victim was kept in slave-like circumstances and forced to work in couple’s home and business for more than three years.

Many considered him a ‘friend’, but he spent their superannuation money on holidays, rent and paying his own credit card debts.

Long jail sentence and hefty fines for negligence over 2020 death of one worker and serious injury to another.

The man who stabbed four people at a store in Dunedin appears to have been acting alone and was seemingly not motivated by terrorism.

Seventeen-year-old Perth girl is among those arrested for trafficking. Police say the heroin has an estimated street value of $55-million.

Two Sydney men extradited to Queensland as Australian and Dutch police continue their investigations that began in 2019.

Sixty-three kilograms of methamphetamine found hidden in wooden pallets containing mop buckets from Malaysia.

Hundreds of bank accounts were allegedly set up using data such as names and addresses that were hacked from company files.

Early morning search warrants in NSW today lead to arrest of five men over $47-million drug consignment from Mexico.

Australian counter-terrorism police apprehend one man in Melbourne and another near Brisbane for assisting fighters to go to Syria.

Police surveillance watched the man as he allegedly dug up a bag hidden in bushland. It contained a large quantity of methamphetamine.

Melbourne man was arrested after UK police alerted their Australian counterparts that he was communicating with 13-year-old for sexual purposes.

Targeting of illicit tobacco rings continues, with taskforce hitting two organised crime syndicates operating in WA and Victoria.

Qld woman gets four years in jail for helping her son abscond shortly before he was due to stand trial on major drugs charges.

Two people imprisoned for attempting to export 17 packages containing 45 native Australian species to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Police warn that innocent people are being duped into being ‘money mules’ by fake job ads that are too good to be true.

Chinese national living in Perth forged documents to convince unsuspecting clients they had been granted an Australian entry visa.

A ground-breaking Victorian initiative that uses dogs to support children and other vulnerable people testifying in court is being expanded.

Federal Police and international authorities tracked down NSW man after hoax call disrupted flight operations in Singapore.

Two Sydney women have been charged and faced a regional NSW court after a stabbed and bloodied female found in boot of car.

Authorities uncover an ‘opportunistic attempt’ by organised crime to use a postal system insider to traffick narcotics.

Pair who attempted to smuggle 9.5 -million cigarettes into the country are sentenced to almost five years in prison.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity in order to blackmail girls into providing him with sexually explicit images.

NZ police are impounding vehicles, laying charges and issuing infringement notices following reckless driving during a funeral procession.

Sydney man faces multiple charges relating to allegedly sexually touching three teenage girls at local netball courts.

Senior real estate agency employee diverted clients’ money intended for agency’s trust account into her own personal bank account.

Although she has never been a volunteer firefighter, she was able to claim large sums intended to help out-of-pocket Black Summer volunteers.

Man was one of three Victorians who aimed to steal around $5-million from the Australia Tax Office using an elaborate fraud scheme.

Thirty-six-year old had a hatred for ‘Muslims and lefties’ and planned to use explosives to attack two venues in Melbourne.

Cops say they are targeting the criminal economy by confiscating criminal assets and removing the profit from crime.

Mom, 57, and son, 28, will spend a minimum of 6-7 years behind bars for their illegal work with a meth-trafficking syndicate.

Man sentenced to nearly 15 years in a Melbourne court this week. He is now the fifth syndicate member to get a combined 68 years’ jail time.

Fan apparently tracked down the umpire’s mobile phone number and then left numerous ‘menacing’ voicemails.

English teacher alleged to have had sexually explicit online conversations with person he believed was a 13-year-old girl.

Fine and suspended jail term handed out to pair of young women who escaped from their quarantine hotel on Tuesday.