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‘Airtasker for crooks’: Contract killings becoming big business
Business in Sydney’s underworld is booming, as criminal networks outsource their killings.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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A drive-by shooting and two flaming cars: The Sydney street under siege
A shooting and two suspected arson attacks have a suburban Sydney street on edge as police investigate suspected outlaw motorcycle gang links.
- by Perry Duffin
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‘Cleaning cars’: How an alleged murder syndicate was blown open
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.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Police ‘eradicate’ one of Sydney’s most high-profile crime gangs
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.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
Man dies after turning up at Sydney hospital with gunshot wounds
The 32-year-old man was dropped off at Liverpool Hospital with two gunshot wounds and died shortly afterwards.
- by Ben Cubby
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Pregnant woman charged with shooting murder of Sydney crime figure
A 27-year-old man is also expected to be charged over the gunning down of Ferenc “David” Stemler in Canterbury last year.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Third man arrested over alleged murder plot targeting Sydney rappers Onefour
Detectives had already arrested two men allegedly involved in the foiled plan to kill the rappers, who recently featured in a Netflix documentary.
- by Angus Dalton
Indiana Jones ‘getaway driver’ charged with murder of cocaine kingpin
Alen Moradian’s execution sparked a gangland war. Now police have charged a seventh man over the Bondi murder.
- by Perry Duffin
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Moment Surf Life Saver plucks $200k cocaine brick from Bondi waves
A Surf Life Saver has filmed the moment he plucked the package of cocaine floating in the water off the famous beach.
- by Perry Duffin
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Australia’s richest street rocked by car thefts – police eye teen gangs
Point Piper has been targeted by car thieves, with vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen in a spate of robberies.
- by Perry Duffin
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Organised crime
Torture, hit squads and $100m drug lords: NSW gangsters embracing extreme violence
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.
- by Jordan Baker