Crime
‘Drop the phone, drop the laptop now’: Inside a dark web drug bust
Three friends in their 20s sat in a BMW on a Bella Vista suburban street. Then the police moved in.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Tziporah Malkah says she’s ‘the victim of revenge porn’ after alleged photo leak
The former model confirmed she has complained to NSW Police over last month’s alleged distribution of photographs.
- by Jordan Baker
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Scams
Sextortion pushed a NSW teen to suicide, cops traced culprits to Nigeria
Cruel messages bombarded a NSW teenager’s phone hours before the boy took his own life. A deadly global scam that has killed multiple young men is now in Australia.
- by Perry Duffin
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Courts
Seven producer claims model posted ‘intimate image’ as cops probe leak
Taylor Auerbach says Tziporah Malkah posted an “intimate image” of him on Facebook on Christmas Day 2019. Police are now probing claims he leaked naked photos of her.
- by Perry Duffin
‘It’s like the Bronx’: Drummoyne becomes unlikely focus of city’s drug war
The tentacles of Sydney’s multibillion-dollar drug war have reached the affluent waterfront suburb, where locals walking dogs have been approached by the “security” of alleged criminal gangs.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
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Armed cops raid Drummoyne homes
About 50 officers from NSW Police's Raptor Squad locked down parts of Drummoyne on Thursday evening to target alleged members of a high-profile criminal group:
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Courts
Thomas Kelly’s parents speak of ‘double life sentence’ as his killer gets parole
Kieran Loveridge, now 30, will be released from prison more than a decade on from the one-punch attack that killed the 18-year-old.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Courts
‘Our hope and happiness evaporated’: Father’s grief for daughter killed by partner
University student Liqun Pan was found stabbed to death in her south Sydney apartment. Her boyfriend has admitted to the 19-year-old’s murder, and is now facing justice.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
Five more cocaine ‘bricks’ washed up on Sydney beaches as drug mystery deepens
More than a quarter of a tonne of cocaine has bobbed up on beaches in the region since December, with the latest packages found at Freshwater and Curl Curl.
- by Ben Cubby
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Courts
Sarah Dougan made it big in America. Then her Australian past caught up
Executive and mother-of-five Sarah Dougan faces a difficult choice: risk her new life and fortune to face justice in Australia or being kicked out of the US permanently.
- by Perry Duffin
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Courts
Drug dealer Arvind Pillay ‘tortured by King of Castle Hill’, court told
A former real estate agent with a history of drug dealing has been charged just months after the self-styled “King of Castle Hill Towers” allegedly abducted him.
- by Perry Duffin