Media releases

A man from the southern NSW city of Albury is expected to be charged with terrorism-related offences following a NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) investigation.

A 46-year-old man charged with allegedly possessing child abuse videos and images is expected to face Condobolin Court today (9 December 2020).

A second man arrested as part of an Australian Federal Police (AFP)-led cybercrime investigation into malicious SMS phishing communications has been charged with fraud, drugs and proceeds of crime offences. He is scheduled to appear in Downing Centre Local Court today (Tuesday, 8 December 2020).

I outlined in September this year that under my leadership, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) would take a more aggressive strategy to fight the insidious crime of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Today, I can reveal the AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) on 13 November restrained the Adelaide home of a man accused of ordering and instructing live-distance child abuse that he watched online.

A 63-year-old Sydney man has been jailed for 4 years and 9 months for livestreaming the sexual abuse of a child in the Philippines.

IMAGES AVAILABLE: Australian Federal Police (AFP), with the assistance of Australian Border Force (ABF), have dismantled an alleged drug syndicate smuggling methamphetamine into Australia, after arresting three men in Western Sydney.

IMAGES AVAILABLE: A 33-year-old man from New South Wales has been charged over the April 2019 seizure of 200 kilograms of methamphetamine imported into Melbourne from Canada, after an extensive multi-agency investigation. Victorian Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (JOCTF) investigators arrested the man at his home on the NSW Central Coast last Wednesday (25 November 2020) and have charged him with organising the drug importation, which had an estimated street value of $150 million.

VISION AVAILABLE: Police have arrested 18 people and seized almost 30 firearms, drugs and cash as part of a national joint operation to target and disrupt criminal activities linked to the Mongols Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG).

A 35-year-old Queensland man has been charged with accessing and transmitting child abuse material using an encrypted application.

A 55-year-old Queensland man is expected to face Brisbane Magistrates Court today (4 December) charged with accessing child abuse material.