Melbourne Crime Watch

[Texan]

The baby is my granddaughter. She lives in Kansas with my son in the military.

I like my gun laws. They make sense to me. Even if we didn't have our military, who would even think of invading us. I see Mexico, where guns are illegal. The people are caught between the cartels and the corrupt police and military. I don't want that spreading over my border.

what a delight you must be so chuffed...


seriously do you think every man and his dog who owns a gun in Amerika will fight to protect their borders???.....really after Trump and his wall have stymied ... I think most would run a mile if you had a real invasion...

most Mexicans would be dead if they were armed like Americans....get real....people dont prevent WARS govts and armies do......

if you believe owning a gun protects you....I hope you never have to put it too the test,,

I have no intention to fight at my border. That is a responsibility of the federal government and I would do best to stay out of it. I was referring to an armed invasion of my country by another army. (Russia, China, whoever........) I'm more interested in crime prevention, particularly against me or my family. I like to compare El Paso TX and Juarez Mexico. Both cities have the same racial makeup and each city is very large, but crime is almost non existent in El Paso compared to Juarez. They are only separated by a waste high river and people pour back and forth across the border daily. The only difference I can see is that El Paso is armed and only the cartels and police are armed in Juarez.

[Valkie]

Criminals don't participate in buy backs.

I understand that bo... but I read somewhere were we now have more guns in the country than the first buy back...

and I dont think too many o them are legal..

so how do they get into the country?....to me they are worse than drugs..

I would imagine the crims are importing them.....our coastline is huge, and mainly unguarded....connect the dots....

Interestingly, I read something a while ago about several handed in weapons being used in crime.

Our police are probably the biggest criminals after muzzos in Australia.

[Valkie]

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A NETWORK of firearms dealers has rorted the $600 million national guns buyback scheme, and weapons supposedly destroyed years ago have resurfaced in criminal hands in NSW.

The Herald can reveal that at least two of the so-called "phantom guns" - both pistols written off by the Queensland Firearms Registry - have been fired at the scene of separate unsolved robberies in Sydney in the past six months. Police believe there are hundreds more like them.

The buyback scheme has been credited with removing about 650,000 firearms from the streets in the past 10 years. A newly elected John Howard staked his political future on forcing it through after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. He still regards it as one his finest achievements.

But thousands of the guns were never destroyed. The man largely responsible for the rort is Frank Curr, a licensed firearms dealer and pawn shop owner from Wacol in Queensland.

Curr paraded as a civic-minded dealer concerned about drugs and violence in his neighbourhood while secretly arming criminals across the border with an estimated 2000 guns he had been paid to destroy or render inoperable. Only 50 of the weapons have been recovered.

Curr, who was convicted last year and will be sentenced next week, was brought down by a four-year covert operation by the NSW Firearms Squad, which describes him as Australia's largest dealer in illegal firearms.

Police say Curr used a network of 20 other illegal arms dealers in NSW and Queensland, with links to Victoria and South Australia, to flood Sydney with 1600 to 2000 guns between 1998 and 2002. At the same time, Curr was being reimbursed by the Government for supposedly destroying or rendering harmless firearms he had received from gun owners who surrendered their weapons.

Detective Inspector Albert Joseph, of the Firearms Squad, and other undercover officers infiltrated the heart of the illegal gun trade operating from Queensland. He says only a few of Curr's guns were recovered because of steps the dealer took to obliterate their serial numbers. Those that have been found had remnants of their serial numbers that were traceable by ballistic experts.

Police alleged that Curr made between $1.6 million and $2 million before he and his network of illegal gun dealers - which included a cartel on the NSW mid North Coast and Blue Mountains - was finally shut down.

Inspector Joseph said Curr corrupted a licensed armourer into providing certificates that weapons had been rendered harmless, so the dealer could then sell them as replica pistols in Queensland, thereby exploiting a loophole in the buyback scheme.

In evidence presented to the trial, police said official statistics showed handgun violence had increased more than fourfold since 1996.

"The possession and sale of illicit firearms is the subject of intense media, political and community interest and the recent release of statistics by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research clearly indicate the significant rise of handgun-related crimes resulting in violence," Inspector Joseph told the court.

Both the pistols recovered in NSW were used in robberies in which only the empty cartridge cases of bullets fired were found at the scenes of the crimes.

* A man faced court yesterday after police uncovered a cache of weapons, including a rocket launcher and a hand grenade, in his Melbourne home and ute.

Timothy Robert Vivoda, 36, of Monbulk, faced eight firearms-related charges in Ringwood Magistrates Court. Army experts told the court the rocket launcher and the grenade were inoperable. Vivoda's lawyer said the weapons were in the ute because they were to be taken to the tip.

Vivoda was remanded to reappear in the same court on Monday

The guns were most likely obtained through police.

[Black Orchid]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

[Bobby]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

Another violent sex offender out on bail?

[Black Orchid]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

Another violent sex offender out on bail?

I don't believe they have caught him yet.

[billy the kid]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

Another violent sex offender out on bail?

Well, it is Victoria....we do tend to expect it dont we.....

[cods]

it wont be long before the Vic Govt issues a warning to women

about walking alone.....it has to happen...


what about camera in parks.??


to hard I guess..

the park looks quite open which doesnt seem to deter these animals that troll them does it?..

maybe its time the Vic Police told the govt of the day

to stop letting those they do catch OUT usually on BAIL....

that might go somewhere to keeping women safe...

[Bobby]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

Another violent sex offender out on bail?

Well, it is Victoria....we do tend to expect it dont we.....

It's not funny -
it's dangerous for women in Melbourne.
There are violent psychopath sex offenders everywhere out on bail.

[billy the kid]

Police are investigating a suspected murder after a woman's body was discovered at Parkville, in Melbourne's inner north, amid fears her death could be the result of another fatal attack on females in the city.

The woman was found dead at Royal Park, near tennis courts on Elliot Avenue, at about 9.15am on Saturday. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Homicide and other detectives are scouring a crime scene near the North Park Tennis Club where dog walkers discovered the woman near a collection of logs and trees just before 9.30am on Saturday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-found-d ... 49094.html

I am not going to say it but .....

Another violent sex offender out on bail?

Well, it is Victoria....we do tend to expect it dont we.....

It's not funny -
it's dangerous for women in Melbourne.
There are violent psychopath sex offenders everywhere out on bail.

Wrong smilie....