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Police raid 19 properties in drug operation

Police have raided 19 properties in Melbourne’s west, allegedly seizing 1530 cannabis plants during a seven-week operation which ended Thursday. The Altona North Divisional Response...

Drugs, cash seized in Deer Park raid

Police have arrested and charged two women and seized a large quantity of drugs, cash and weapons during a raid in Deer Park yesterday. Wyndham...

Drug importer refused appeal

A Hillside man who was convicted of importing more than 23 kilograms of methamphetamine in a Chevrolet Impala has had his appeal against the...

Man charged with trafficking a drug of dependence after police raid on Sunshine North...

A man has been charged with trafficking a drug of dependence following a raid on a Sunshine North house. Brimbank crime investigation unit detectives...

Drugs appeal squashed

A St Albans woman sentenced to 10 years prison in 2016 for drug offences had her appeal against the sentence rejected by the Supreme...

Bail denied for drugs charges

A St Albans businessman will face a committal hearing on July 7 after being refused bail on 39 drug-related charges in the Supreme Court...

Man jailed for ‘reckless’ shooting

A Braybrook man, who shot a man in the knee with a sawn-off shotgun on Australia Day last year, has been sentenced to three...

Call to act on drug overdoses

More than 100 people have died from drug overdoses in Brimbank in the past seven years. In a submision to the Parliamentary drug law reform...

Charges follow major drug bust

By Jane Lee, The Age   Three men from St Albans and one from Sunshine are among five men charged earlier this month with importing pseudoephedrine...

St Albans drug trafficker fails appeal

A St Albans grocer sentenced to 25 years’ jail for drug offences has had his appeal for a lighter sentence rejected by the Victorian...

Ice users subjecting police to more violence

Police are increasingly subjected to violence from drug-affected people while on the beat across Melbourne, according to the police association. A Police Association of Victoria...

Caroline Springs house busted for growing cannabis plants

The entire second floor of a Caroline Springs house was used to grow 320 cannabis plants, police say. Police were called to a double-storey property...

Huge drug bust on Caroline Springs house

The entire top floor of a Caroline Springs house was being used to grow 321 cannabis plants, police say. Police were called to a double...

Ice-related offences almost doubled in Brimbank

Offences involving the drug methamphetamine have almost doubled in Brimbank. New figures from a Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) research paper show that the number of...

Crime Stoppers urges Sunshine residents to dob in a dealer

Sunshine residents are being urged to dob in a dealer. Crime Stoppers is asking people to call if they suspect a manufacturer or distributor of...

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