In Geelong and its vicinity, specialized firearms detectives from the Victoria Police detained 18 suspects as part of a massive crackdown on illicit guns and other weapons.
The arrests of two Correction Department guards, Darius Murphy and Johnny Chiles, 36, came as part of a massive indictment of 45 members and associates of the "Bully Gang" headquartered in Brooklyn,
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who had been under investigation for at least two years, was also accused of conspiring to expel her husband, Mexico's most prominent drug lord, from jail.
In a three-day police operation reacting to a rash of public shootings in the south-west of Sydney, more than 100 people and cars were searched and 17 charges were laid.
In remarkable new bodycam video, the kind of police takedown commonly reserved for Hollywood, cops smashed their way into a stolen school bus at a northern Queensland KFC car park.