Police have charged a man following a serious assault in Launceston yesterday. At around midday yesterday a Launceston business owner was assaulted in.
Following a search at Longford on Thursday 27 May 2021, officers from the Tasmania Police High Risk Child Exploitation Unit today arrested a 24-year-old.
âPlease man, donâtâ: Chilling last words of murdered mate A Tasmanian man who shot and dismembered his friend before disposing his body parts in wheelie bins has been found guilty of murder.
Crime by ROSEMARY MURPHY
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Subscriber only A jury has found Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler guilty of the murder of Launceston man Jake Anderson-Brettner. Sadler, 29, shot Mr Anderson-Brettner three times at his Riverside home on August 15, 2018. He then decapitated and dismembered the body. The jury spent four hours deliberating on Wednesday afternoon and returned the unanimous verdict after about 30 minutes of further deliberations on Thursday morning.
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Firearms, cash and drugs seized in targeted police operation
On 10/5/2021 members of Launceston Firearms Taskforce executed a search warrant at a South Launceston address.
As a result of the search the following was located and seized;
– 3 x pistols
– Over 1000 rounds of ammunition
– Trafficable quantity of methylamphetamine
– $86,000 cash
– Possess a firearm when not the holder of a firearm licence
– Possess ammunition when the holder of a licence
– Trafficking in a controlled substance
– Possess controlled drug
– Dealing with proceeds of crime
The man has been bailed to appear in the Launceston Magistrates Court on 16/6/21.
Investigations are continuing and police have not ruled out further arrests.
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Police charge man with child exploitation offences
Following a protracted investigation, members from Tasmania Police’s High Risk Child Exploitation Unit yesterday arrested a 23-year-old Launceston man and charged him with 11 counts of Involve a Person Under 18 Years in the Production of Child Exploitation Material and one count of Possess Child Exploitation Material.
Police allege that over the course of almost two years the man had contacted children across Australia and in the United States and coerced them to produce Child Exploitation Material in the form of images and video of themselves. It is alleged the images were then electronically sent to the man.