Tag: Crime in Australia

Case reflects new strategy of crime syndicates to bring drugs into Australia using smaller packages sent by mail or air cargo, say police.

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

Sydney man accessed the iCloud accounts of more than 90 unsuspecting victims and shared their sexual photos and videos with his ‘clients’.

Colombian national living in Surfers Paradise arrested by Federal Police after methamphetamine was found hidden in boxes from Mexico.

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

Spanish man living in NSW arrested by Aussie cops after Colombian police find cocaine hidden in bags of coffee bound for Australia.

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

Two Adelaide men who tried to import 18 kilograms of meth worth $7-million into Australia by hiding it in 4WD winches go to prison.

Detectives have released new information they believe may help them solve the mystery of a1991 restaurant fire that left a man dead.

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

Four alleged members of NSW drug syndicate that imported massive quantities of meth into Australia arrested during four-month investigation.

A man and woman who got into a public dispute on an Adelaide street set off a train of events that has landed them in hot water with the law.

A large number of firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, drugs and various stolen items found during search operation.

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

Flash-bang grenade, 37 knives, extendable baton, unauthorised pistol and drugs are among the items seized during operation involving 700 cops.

Sydney man was involved with air cargo and allegedly used his position to advise several criminal groups about police activities.

Authorities say the 77kg of heroin hidden in imported equipment could have been distributed to 770,000 people and caused widespread harm.

AFP reveals that it worked with the American FBI to encrypt supposedly secret information being passed by criminal gangs.

Mistaken identity and incompetence believed to be behind two – possibly three – murders in Victoria linked to outlaw motorcycle gangs.

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

Consignment worth $80.7-million was found hidden in thousands of canola oil bottles sent from Mexico to Melbourne.

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

A costume of Sesame Street character Big Bird caused ruffled feathers when it was stolen. But the bandits have now had their wings clipped.

Accused is one of four Malaysian nationals now in custody for drug-importation offences in Victoria.

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.

Scammers took about $375,000 intended to fund the aged care costs of the elderly Perth woman. Some money has since been recovered.

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.

Charter flights being used to deport foreigners convicted of criminal acts in Australia. Thirty-one deportations occurred in February.

Taskforce disrupts illicit tobacco-growing and destroys crops with a potential excise value of more than $84-million.

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.

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