22:20 EDT, 5 April 2021
Olympian Scott Miller (pictured) is facing life in prison if convicted of supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug
A fourth member of swimming great Scott Miller s alleged $2.2million drug ring has been charged, weeks after the Olympian s dramatic arrest.
Unlike Miller and two other co-accused, Luke Matthew Peake is not facing a potential life sentence if convicted over his alleged role in the syndicate.
Peake was arrested at Junee prison, where he was in custody for other unrelated alleged offences.
The 40-year-old was one of two men who allegedly collected 4kg of meth from Miller after the Olympic silver medallist drove the consignment from Sydney halfway to the Victorian border.
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Officers assaulted during brawl, four people charged at Albury
Four people have been charged after a brawl that saw four police officers assaulted in the state’s south last night.
About 6.45pm (Saturday 13 March 2021), officers attached to Murray River Police District responded to reports of a group fighting on Townsend Street, Albury.
Upon arrival, police were told a woman had allegedly hit a man in the head with a glass bottle. The man, known to the woman, allegedly punched her in the face.
After the man was arrested, he was attacked by another man, who was also arrested.
A former AFL star told police he downed 10-12 schooners and ate only chips before he was busted behind the wheel almost five times the legal limit, a court has heard.
Jeffery Garlett, 31, pleaded guilty to high range drink driving when he appeared in Albury Local Court on Monday.
Police spotted Garlett driving through a red light in Albury on the NSW/Victoria border around midnight on November 15 and pulled him over, according to court documents.
Jeffery Garlett (pictured) was almost five times over the limit after downing 10-12 schooners and a few chips and Twisties on a big night in Albury last November. He s pictured at Melbourne Demons training in 2019
21:07 EDT, 24 February 2021
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Justin Szabolics (pictured) is accused of being part of Olympic swimmer Scott Miller s alleged $2.2million drug syndicate
A third member of swimming great Scott Miller s alleged $2.2million drug syndicate has been charged with supplying four kilograms of crystal meth.
Justin Szabolics was one of two men who allegedly picked up the drugs from Miller after the Olympic silver medallist drove the consignment from Sydney halfway to the Victorian border.
Szabolics, from Albury-Wodonga, has been charged with participating in a criminal group and supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug.
The 44-year-old, who was already in Junee prison accused of unrelated offences, appeared before Albury Local Court on Wednesday.
Third man charged over cold case murder
William Chaplin was last seen in early to mid-May 2010. (NSW Police)
A third person has been charged over the murder of a man whose body was found in a shallow grave nine years after he vanished from Albury.
William Chaplin was 25 years old when he was last seen alive in Gerogery, about 30 kilometres north of Albury in May 2010.
A man and a woman were charged with murder after his body was found in a shallow grave on a rural property on Gerogery Road near the Olympic Highway in 2019.
Today, a 50-year-old man at a prison in Sydney was also charged with his murder.