Bikie gangs
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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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
- Analysis
- Naked City
$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
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
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
- Exclusive
- Crime
‘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
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.
- Analysis
- Analysis
‘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
- Updated
- Crime
‘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
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