Media releases

ACT Policing’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Team is seeking information about a series of sexual assaults committed against children under the age of 16 during the 1980s and 1990s.

The head of a syndicate responsible for smuggling 300 kilograms of cannabis between South Australia and the Northern Territory has been sentenced yesterday (6 January) in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to nine years’ imprisonment.

Fifteen people have been charged after a year-long WA joint law enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of around $15 million worth of methylamphetamine (meth), four guns and more than $75,000 cash.

A 42-year-old Portuguese national has been charged by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) with importing cocaine, after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers at Perth Airport allegedly located several kilograms of the drug concealed inside bottles of toiletries in her baggage.

A 48-year-old woman has been sentenced to an Intensive Corrections Order in a New South Wales court today (24 December) for her role in the illegal exportation of 90 tonnes of nickel-rich superalloy from Australia to Iran almost a decade ago.

A man is due to appear before Parramatta Local Court today (Tuesday, 24 December) following an alleged indecent assault occurring outside Sydney International Airport.

Office hours for the AFP National Media Team over the Christmas holidays are: Tuesday, 24 December 2019 (from 12:30PM AEDT) – Wednesday, 1 January 2020: Office closed. Thursday, 2 January 2020: Office reopens.

A 25-year-old US child sex offender who exploited several young boys – including two in Australia - has been jailed for 35 years in Ohio.

A 19-year-old Tasmanian man has been charged with child abuse and bestiality offences after Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers executed a search warrant at a Devonport property today (Thursday, December 19, 2019).

A former Biosecurity Officer from the Department of Agriculture has today been sentenced for abusing his position to facilitate the importation of illegal fauna.