Police and Courts
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Egan fraud netted almost $800k, police allege
FORMER Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative chief executive Phillip Egan is accused of secretly pocketing almost $800,000 from supplier invoices paid by the Robinvale-based organisation. In…
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Police beat: Licence scam
Licence scam AN unsuspecting victim has fallen to a driver’s licence scam on social media. Police said the victim saw an advertisement on a Facebook…
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Police pursue violent fugitives
VICTORIA Police has warned family violence perpetrators that “closed doors will not protect you from being targeted and held to account”. Operation Enforceable will see…
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Police on hunt for wanted man
POLICE believe a man wanted in relation to the suspected murder of a woman on the Sunshine Coast more than two decades ago could be…
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Police briefs
Fuel theft TWO hundred litres of diesel fuel has been stolen from a Lake Boga shed. Between July 21 and 24, at roughly midday, offenders…
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Egan faces 73 charges after fraud allegations
FORMER Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative chief executive Phil Egan has been charged with 73 offences by financial crime squad detectives as part of an investigation…
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Snatch and grab drug theft ends in murder
A BROKE and desperate drug-addict who stabbed a man to death at Manangatang in March last year only intended to commit a quick “snatch and…
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Regional Victorians more likely to use drugs, alcohol
IT’S well known that smoking is more common among regional Victorians, but a report released last week shows we’re also more likely to consume a…
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Man held over weapons
Weapons found on wanted man A MAN was found in possession of a tomahawk and box cutter in Swan Hill after being arrested for an…
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Police find drugs in two separate searches
Drug find POLICE found MDMA, cocaine and cannabis in searches of properties in Brown Street and Melore Grove, Swan Hill. A man was later remanded…
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