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| UpdatedTasmanian police hope to take more people into custody after a series of drug raids in the north this week.
On Thursday they arrested six people after seizing drugs, guns and cash.
They include two New South Wales men who had checked in for a Sydney-bound flight at Launceston Airport.
Police allege they had handguns, a silencer and a substantial amount of cash in their luggage.
It comes after several drug raids in Hobart and Devonport but police say the incidents are not related.
Topics: crime
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Indonesian police have arrested a man who is understood to be a key people-smuggling boss, with suspected involvement in a fatal boat sinking.
Topics: refugees, immigration, crime, crime-prevention, human-trafficking, indonesia
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A court has been told of a fight near a Glenelg hostel ahead of a fatal punch being thrown.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, glenelg-5045, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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A former senior public servant has been jailed for stealing more than $100,000 to feed her gambling addiction.
Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, prisons-and-punishment, crime, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, gambling, sa, modbury-5092, adelaide-5000, australia
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| UpdatedPolice in Sydney have made more headway against a Romanian gang targeting ATMs.
Topics: crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, police, revesby-2212, nsw, romania
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Police are urging anyone with information about a carjacking this week in Gladstone in central Queensland to come forward.
Topics: crime, gladstone-4680
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| UpdatedAuthorities believe Operation Vouch is a step forward against organised crime rings infiltrating Tasmania.
The Australian Crime Commission admits the major raids targeting organised crime in the state could have little impact on the supply of illicit drugs.
Police have raided several properties across the state and arrested seven people.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, tas, hobart-7000, devonport-7310
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| UpdatedA pistol has been found hidden in the gardens of a Sydney childcare centre, and six more guns seized in a separate police raid.
Topics: crime, police, greenacre-2190, silverwater-2128, nsw
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Ungarie residents hope people power will lead to the reinstatement of a police presence in Ungarie.
Topics: police, crime, ungarie-2669, wagga-wagga-2650, orange-2800
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| UpdatedA Canberra man has been charged after a shot was fired into a car at Wallaroo, just over the ACT border near Hall.
Topics: crime, act, queanbeyan-2620
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| UpdatedTough new legislation cracking down on those who breach their parole has passed State Parliament.
Topics: state-parliament, states-and-territories, prisons-and-punishment, crime, melbourne-3000
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A 35-year-old man is due to appear in court over a firearms incident at Lilydale, in Melbourne's outer-east last Monday.
Topics: crime, ringwood-3134
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| UpdatedPolice have arrested 14 people in an operation targeting drug syndicates in Queensland and New South Wales.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, brisbane-4000
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DPP Tim Ellis remains on sick leave after police announce he will be charged over a fatal car accident.
Topics: crime, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedIndonesian special forces soldiers have been found guilty of premeditated murder for storming a prison and executing four inmates.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, murder-and-manslaughter, indonesia
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A 16-year-old boy charged over a school stabbing in Brisbane yesterday has been granted conditional bail.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA man who killed five people, by driving his road train into a Northern Territory pub 30 years ago, has been denied parole.
Topics: crime, perth-6000, nt
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A lawyer for an Adelaide shooting range has told the District Court it should be allowed to keep its firearms licence because a police investigation into missing firearms had been "shoddy and unfair".
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sa, adelaide-5000
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Police investigating a murder plot have raided an outlaw motorcycle gang's clubhouse in Griffith and charged a Hanwood man
Topics: crime, police, drugs-and-substance-abuse, wagga-wagga-2650, griffith-2680, hanwood-2680
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A 36-year-old Safety Bay man has been charged with drug offences after he unwittingly led police to a suspected drug lab at his home.
Topics: crime, perth-6000
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Two motels were robber in separate break-ins at Forster.
Topics: crime, regional, forster-2428, port-macquarie-2444, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedA man has pleaded guilty in the Launceston Magistrates Court to attempted murder after a man was shot on Cape Barren Island yesterday.
Topics: crime, hobart-7000, cape-barren-island-7257
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| UpdatedTasmania's top prosecutor Tim Ellis remains on sick leave after police revealed he will be charged over a fatal car crash.
Tasmanian police have finished their investigation into a fatal three car crash on the Midland Highway in March this year.
They say a 58-year-old Mount Stuart man will be charged by summons with causing death by negligent driving.
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Cairns MP Gavin King says a concerted effort to reduce crime in the CBD is having an impact.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, cairns-4870
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Victoria Police have found a car that belongs to a fugitive parolee Simon Hancock who is on the run in the Yarra Ranges, in Melbourne's east.
Hancock is wanted over a series of shootings at house in the Melbourne suburb of Lilydale earlier this week.
His car has been found at Coldstream but police believe he is still in the area.
Topics: crime, prisons-and-punishment, coldstream-3770, lilydale-3140