01:02 EDT, 11 May 2021
New details have emerged of how an undercover police operation investigating the alleged abduction of former cricketer Stuart MacGill helped gather the damning evidence needed to make four arrests.
The retired spin bowler was allegedly confronted outside his unit on Sydney s lower north shore on April 14, forced into a vehicle and taken 60 kilometres to Bringelly in western Sydney.
MacGill was allegedly held against his will after becoming embroiled in an alleged $660,000 cocaine rip-off before he was driven to Belmore and released.
Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of MacGill s girlfriend Maria O Meagher was one of four men arrested last week, along with Son Minh Nguyen Nguyen, 42, Richard Schaaf, 29, and his brother Frederick, 27.
06:08 EDT, 10 May 2021
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Cricket star Stuart MacGill was held against his will for four hours after becoming embroiled in an alleged $660,000 cocaine rip-off, according to court documents.
The retired leg spinner has made a nine-page statement about his alleged ordeal which was tendered in court on Monday along with a statement by his girlfriend Maria O Meagher.
Police allege MacGill was kidnapped after unwittingly introducing an acquaintance, known only as Sonny, to Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of Ms O Meagher.
Sotiropoulos allegedly supplied Sonny with 2kg of cocaine sourced from an unnamed dealer but Sonny failed to pay for the drugs and has since gone to ground.
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03:38 EDT, 13 April 2021
An unemployed repeat traffic offender has been refused bail after allegedly ramming his car into a police officer during a dramatic arrest in a Woolworths carpark.
Both Sam David McLennan, 25, and Miguel David, 24, will remain behind bars after they were arrested in front of stunned onlookers in Neutral Bay, on the Lower North Shore, about 4.20pm on Monday.
Police allege McLennan accelerated toward a senior constable and sent him flying five metres while he was attempting to make an arrest on David over drug matters.
Both men appeared in Manly Local Court on Tuesday, where lawyers for McLennan applied for bail.
20:03 EDT, 12 April 2021
Two men have been charged after a car was allegedly driven into police during a dramatic arrest that involved gunshots in a Woolworths carpark in Sydney.
The incident unfolded as police conducted a drug operation in Neutral Bay, on the Lower North Shore, at about 4.20pm on Monday.
Officers attempted to arrest a 24-year-old man in the supermarket carpark but their efforts were thwarted by another man, 25, who allegedly drove his car at police.
The car allegedly slammed into a detective as he moved in to make his arrest.
Pictured: A man is taken into police custody following a dramatic arrest at a Woolworths in Neutral Bay