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Editor’s note: Audio grabs of Detective Acting Superintendent Mary Bolton are available via Hightail Two men are scheduled to face Brisbane Magistrate Court today (20 May 2022), after they were both charged with possessing child abuse material following separate investigations by the AFP Northern Command Child Protection Operations team.

A Sydney woman identified through intelligence from Operation Ironside was yesterday (17 May 2022) sentenced in Downing Centre Court to three years and six months’ imprisonment for money laundering and trafficking methamphetamine. 

A 61-year-old man is expected to face Adelaide Magistrates Court today (18 May 2022) charged by the South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) with accessing child abuse material online.

A NSW man and a German national with suspected links to organised crime have been charged by the AFP for allegedly importing 320kg of cocaine into Western Australia.

A 55-year-old man, charged with possessing child abuse material, is due to appear in Cairns Magistrate Court today (17 May 2022), following an investigation by the Cairns Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (Cairns JACET).

A 31-year-old Tasmanian man was yesterday (Monday 16 May) sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for child exploitation and bestiality offences.

A 35-year-old Melbourne man arrested as part of Operation Ironside has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for importing methamphetamine, cocaine and dealing in the proceeds of crime.

A 31-year-old Western Sydney soccer coach has been convicted of sexually assaulting seven children today (13 May) and sentenced to 30 years’ jail in the Downing Centre District Court.  

A 19-year-old man is expected to face Adelaide Magistrates Court today (11 May 2022) charged by the South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) with accessing and sharing child abuse material online.

IMAGES AVAILABLE A Croydon Park man has been sentenced to 11 years and eight months’ imprisonment at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local and District Court over a 2018 seizure of almost 60 kilograms of cocaine.