Broadmeadows tobacco ambush; more than 60 stores raided; mother blasts police tactics
A 31-year-old man was shot twice in the leg during a daylight ambush on Central Grove in Broadmeadows around 4pm and rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Victorian Viper Squad detectives have bared their teeth, shutting down more than 60 stores in a major crackdown on illicit tobacco. The mother of a teen arrested in a Monash Freeway takedown has accused police of using heavy-handed tactics.
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