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In a sweeping crackdown across Australia and New Zealand, law enforcement agencies conducted synchronized raids targeting criminal operations, resulting in the confiscation of drugs, cash, and weapons.
These coordinated efforts were part of Taskforce Morpheus, which focused on dismantling outlaw motorcycle gangs in every state simultaneously yesterday.
The taskforce, a coalition of local and federal police, the Australian Border Force, and the Criminal Intelligence Commission, aimed its latest operation at alleged members of the Comancheros.
Officers executed search warrants at 51 undisclosed locations nationwide, uncovering an array of illegal items, including machetes, knuckle dusters, ammunition, and illicit drugs.
Search warrants were executed at 51 undisclosed locations across the nation, with officers uncovering a suite of machetes, knuckle dusters, bullets and illicit substances.
“We do know it’s taken drugs off the street and firearms off the streets and sending them a clear message,” WA Police Detective Acting Inspector Sean Wright said.
Police made 56 arrests and laid 168 charges in total.
“Anything associated with outlaw gangs was targeted – their homes, their club houses, the motor vehicles they drive,” Wright added.
The work of Taskforce Morpheus is 24/7, gathering intelligence on organised crime groups like the Comancheros to disrupt and dismantle their networks.
“Tomorrow it could be you, next week it could be you, everyday we’ll be targeting one of you,” Wright said.
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