1 September 2022
High-Ranking OMCG member charged with murder
Man charged with shooting murder
9 July 2022
$150 million Illicit Drug Drug Seizure
9 May 2022
Further arrests made into ongoing drug supply
$250 million drug seizure
10 March 2022
Additional arrests over Mejid Hamzy Shooting
28 February 2022
Two men jailed for combined 57 years for murder of Ho Ledinh
24 February 2022
Strike Force Diffey Sentencing
16 February 2022
Further arrests made as part of Strike Force Mote investigations
14 February 2022
20 January 2022
Arrest linked to $7.5M drug import
13 January 2022
$8M cash seizure as part of money laundering investigation
2021 Media Statements
Operation Ironside: Eight men to face court after targeted police activity in NSW - 17 December 2021
Cash and illicit drug seizures as part of ongoing investigations - 17 December 2021
NSWCC and ILGA Media Release: Poker Machine and Money Laundering Inquiry
NSW Government Media Release: Poker Machine and Money Laundering Inquiry
Man charged over $2M cocaine seizure - 5 November 2021
Charge laid over murder of Wellington man - 1 November 2021
Media Release: Investigation into Eddie Obeid and Family - 22 October 2021
$1M drug seizure leads to arrests - 16 September 2021
Seizure of Pseudoephedrine worth $1.4 Million - 31 August 2021
Charges laid over Mejid Hamzy shooting - 14 July 2021
Arrests made after large cocaine and ‘ice’ seizure - 12 July 2021
$1.5M worth of 'ice' seized - 2 July 2021
Opium seizure valued at $45,000 - 18 June 2021
Charges laid over conspiracy to supply $900M of cocaine - 4 June 2021
$155M Cocaine Seizure - 20 May 2021
Charges laid over Illawarra drug syndicate - 14 May 2021
Six men set to be charged in international $47M cocaine investigation - 31 March 2021
Cocaine filled vessel seized off NSW coast, one man arrested - 17 March 2021
$4M of prohibited drugs seized - 10 March 2021
Two men arrested as part of cocaine supply investigation - 23 February 2021
Large-scale fraud results in three arrests - 18 February 2021
Man arrested after $5.8M cocaine import - 18 February 2021
Regional drug supply disrupted as drug syndicate dismantled - 18 February 2021
One man charged after ‘ice’ and $400,000 cash seizure - 15 February 2021
Two men charged after $3M 'ice' importation - 8 February 2021
Older Statements
Michael Barnes appointed as NSW Crime Commissioner - 1 August 2020
Two arrested as clandestine drug laboratory dismantled - 13 July 2020
Three charged over drug distribution Syndicate - 9 July 2020
7 year investigation into organised crime syndicate leads to arrests -17 June 2020
Large scale drug syndicate arrests in NSW Wellington-Dubbo region - 17 June 2020
Commission proceedings Against Damion Flower - 24 May 2019
Joint Operation Astatine spurs further arrests in Europe - 4 July 2018
Drug lab discovered in Sydney home - July 2018
Joint operation to dismantle encrypted communications - March 2018
Retirement of the Commissioner - November 2017
Operation Prospect - June 2017