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Friday 20 November 2015

Kings Cross Police, Redfern Strike Force expose a pattern of crime in Woolloomooloo

Police search warrant for the underground bank of the alleged Nomads in the heart of Kings Cross will expose this system in crime.


Police officer of the year from Woolloomooloo and the drugs working out of Woolloomooloo is still a pattern from the Wood's Royal Commission days.....  Can't you smell a rat?  I can



Three charged, drugs and cash seized after search warrants across inner Sydney

Friday, 20 November 2015 04:46:44 AM
Editor’s note: Footage and stills of yesterday’s operation will be distributed via Hightail link when available. They will also be uploaded to NSW Police Force Facebook page.
Police have arrested three people and seized drugs, believed to be heroin and cocaine, and cash following extensive investigations into an alleged drug syndicate operating out of the Kings Cross area.
Officers will allege the group supplied prohibited drugs at least 328 times between 7 October and 14 November, mainly in the Woolloomooloo area.
The drugs allegedly supplied include heroin and cocaine, and were mostly supplied to those from a low socio-economic background.
Yesterday (Thursday 19 November 2015), police from the Kings Cross Drug Unit, with the assistance of the Redfern Drug Unit executed search warrants at Waterloo, Bondi and Woolloomooloo. At the Bondi address, cash was allegedly located in a bedroom being used by a teenager.
A 42-year-old man and two women, aged 38 and 54, were arrested after a hire car was stopped in Missenden Road at Newtown.
All three were charged with ongoing supply of a prohibited drug and participation in a criminal group.
A 42-year-old Bondi man was also charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime.
They were refused bail and will all appear in Central Local Court today (Friday 20 November 2015).
Inquiries are still continuing into the alleged drug supply in the Woolloomooloo area.
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Friday 29 November 2013

Bondi Drug Bust Silk road

Ross William Ulbricht lived at Bondi while allegedly developing billion-dollar drugs website Silk Road

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THE man accused of masterminding billion-dollar drugs website Silk Road was living in Bondi Beach while developing the site, The Sunday Telegraph can exclusively reveal.
Ross William Ulbricht, 29, was arrested while using his laptop in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library by FBI agents and charged with narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering.
According to documents filed in the Southern District Court of New York, Ulbricht established the site - described by FBI prosecutors as "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today" - in January 2011 and was running it up to late September 2013, when he was nabbed by police.
Accused mastermind of drugs website Silk Road Ross William Ulbricht with his sister Cally. Picture: Facebook
Accused mastermind of drugs website Silk Road Ross William Ulbricht with his sister Cally. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
The timing places him in Sydney during the site's early stages, with a local friend saying he spent about six months in the city in 2011, during which he lived in a share house in Bondi Beach.
Ulbricht yesterday appeared calm at a bail hearing in a US federal court, wearing red prison clothes and shackles. His lawyer yesterday denied the charges against him.
A Sydney friend said he was "absolutely gobsmacked" to learn of Ulbricht's double life.
"He's the nicest guy," the friend said. "He said he was a programmer consulting in projects and you could do it from anywhere on the road on laptops. I'm totally spun out."
The accused's sister, Cally Ulbricht, still lives in Bondi. She's not linked to her brother's activities. Authorities claim Ulbricht ran the Silk Road Hidden Website under the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts" from the movie The Princess Bride.
A still of the Silk Road website shows thumbnails for products allegedly available through the site. Picture: AP
A still of the Silk Road website shows thumbnails for products allegedly available through the site. Picture: AP Source: AP
The site functioned as a black market bazaar for drugs, brokering more than $1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs and services such as computer hacking and the sale of fake IDs and passports.
Ulbricht is also alleged to have hired a hit man for $160,000 to kill a blackmailer who threatened to expose users of the site.
In a separate indictment in Maryland, police claim he told an undercover police operative posing as a drug dealer he would pay him to torture and kill a former employee he believed stole money from the site.
Almost one million people used the site from around the world, including Australia.
Police swooped on Ulbricht while he was chatting on his laptop with a cooperating witness about Silk Road and taken into custody.
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This artist rendering shows Ross William Ulbricht, second from left, appearing in Federal Court with his public defender Brandon LeBlanc in San Francisco on October 4, 2013. Picture: AP Source: AP
He was allegedly brought down when an amateur user on the tech site Stack Overflow asked a technical question and Ulbricht answered that the user could go to his website Silk Road, inadvertently using his real name.
One minute later, he changed his name to "Frosty" on the site, but not before the slip-up caught the attention of the FBI.
Authorities then allegedly matched codes in Ulbricht's answer to trace the website back to him.
If convicted, Ulbricht faces a lengthy jail sentence.
Ironically, he penned a lengthy post on his Facebook page on the subject of freedom back in July 2010, before he is alleged to have started the website.
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The price of Bitcoins has continued to fall after it dropped to 8.6 per cent following a raid on Silk Road, the online marketplace that allegedly allows illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
"Is it possible for someone locked in a cage to be freer than someone who isn't?" Ulbricht wrote. "What if they are free from limiting beliefs and can imagine experiences without limits, while the other limits themselves to a prison of dull routines?"
Ms Ulbricht did not return calls.
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