Six people have been charged by federal police over an alleged plot to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illicit drugs imported into Queensland. Operation Minjiang seized 178kg of cocaine and 142kg of methamphetamine.
Toronto police are investigating if the killing of Constable Marc Pinizzotto during a search warrant execution is linked to a global terror network, potentially connected to the March shooting at the US consulate and a broader series of "shooters for hire" attacks.
A Toronto police officer, Constable Marc Pinizzotto, was fatally shot while executing a search warrant related to a March shooting attack on the US consulate. Authorities are searching for a second suspect, 19-year-old Zara Jabbi, who is considered armed and dangerous.
A Toronto police officer was shot during a raid on an apartment allegedly linked to the March attack on the US consulate. The search warrant was part of a national security investigation into the incident where two men fired shots at the empty diplomatic building.
Gavin Begbie, 59, was arrested in NSW and charged with harassing a witness at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Police found Neo-Nazi material, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and leaflets for the proscribed National Socialist Network, along with prohibited weapons and alleged instructions for making explosives.
The FBI searched GKN Aerospace's Garden Grove facility after a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate. Authorities feared a catastrophic explosion. The search targets documents and records related to the chemical and its storage, use, or disposal.
Mohammed Skaf, known for past gang rapes, was arrested in Sydney and charged with 24 offenses, including 22 counts of supplying prohibited drugs, dealing with crime proceeds, and directing a criminal group. Police seized drugs, $245,000 cash, and a vehicle.
The FBI is searching GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems in Garden Grove, California, following a chemical leak last month that forced 50,000 residents to evacuate. A federal judge approved a warrant to seize records related to the storage and use of methyl methacrylate, the chemical that overheated in a tank.
Allegations of child sexual assault and child abuse material production were the reason for a search warrant that led to Dezi Freeman fatally shooting two Victorian police officers. Freeman was later killed by police.
Authorities have served a search warrant at a home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996
Federal agents executed multiple searches in Minnesota on Tuesday in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children. The searches targeted childcare centers, businesses, and residences in the Minneapolis area. At least 65 people, many Somali Americans, have previously been convicted of defrauding a federal program providing food to children. Gov. Tim Walz welcomed the raids and noted up to $9 billion in federal funds may have been stolen.
