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Queensland Police have successfully applied to extradite him.

Plot to smuggle Queensland fugitive bikie to Indonesia foiled

Three people have been charged over their alleged roles in a plan to smuggle the alleged outlaw motorcycle gang member from Western Australia using a luxury yacht.

  • Aaron Bunch

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Troy Mercanti leaving court on Monday.

WA bikie Troy Mercanti found guilty over Como pub brawl caught on camera

Troy Mercanti has been found guilty of fighting in public and fined $2500 after footage emerged of the 58-year-old brawling with a rival bikie at The Como. 

  • Heather McNeill and Sarah Smith
Fire damage at Soho Restaurant and Bar at Southbank earlier this month.

$500 to firebomb: How crime gangs are outsourcing Melbourne’s Bar Wars

Offshore, interstate or sitting on a couch a crime boss is crime-tasking – using an encrypted app to set up a job “that is paying well”.

  • John Silvester
Benjamin Johnson shot bikie Nick Martin from 365 metres away in front of 2000 people.

Revealed: The sniper who shot Perth bikie boss Nick Martin can finally be named

The identity of the man responsible for shooting the bikie from 365 metres away at Kwinana Motorplex in 2020 can now be revealed after the former soldier asked the courts to lift a suppression order.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
The 200-odd revellers were forced to lay face down on the ground during the operation.

Police gatecrash bikie clubhouse party in Sydney

The party at the Mongols’ clubhouse ended early after heavily armed police forced bikies to lie on the ground and turn over alcohol, drugs and cash.

  • Perry Duffin
Police suspected the company was a front for the Comancheros bikie gang.

‘You’ll hear from my lawyer, bro’: Rich-lister’s company a suspected front for bikies

The businessman, whose identity has been suppressed by a court order, sued to recover his phone and $8000 in cash from police. He’s worth well over $50 million.

  • Patrick Begley
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Judy Moran’s last ride from freedom in 2009. In police car with Stuart Bateson

A shooting in front of children at a footy clinic shifted everything in the notorious Underbelly war

The gangland wars between Carl Williams and the Moran family dominated Melbourne for years. Now, John Silvester talks to one of the lead police investigators about what it took to put some of them behind bars.

The sniper shooter arriving at David Pye’s home as captured by police covert operations.

‘There is no code of silence’: How a Perth sniper shattered the bikie myth

In the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs, the ‘code of silence’ is supposed to be the bedrock of survival. But in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, that code didn’t just crack - it shattered.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
David Pye is accused of ordering the hit on Nick Martin, middle, by a sniper.

‘Weak evil cowards’: Nick Martin’s family release statement after guilty verdict

The verdict was delivered nearly three months after a Supreme Court trial into the shooting death of the 51-year-old at Kwinana Freeway in December 2020.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Police making the discovery of a cocaine haul underneath a concrete slab.

WA Police discover $11 million worth of cocaine hidden under slab

The massive drug bust began as a traffic stop on Leach Highway in Welshpool, before several search warrants revealed the true scale of the haul.

  • Heather McNeill