orchestrated attacks <\/a>on Melbourne hospitality venues via encrypted apps, executed search warrants at homes in Port Melbourne and Fraser Rise, and a business in Keilor Downs on Friday.<\/p>\nMethylamphetamine, cocaine and ecstacy was allegedly seized by raiding police, along with counterfeit notes, steroids, a dagger, OC spray, mobile phones, two extendable batons and a Porsche SUV.<\/p>\n
Fraser Rise man Rivin Muthucumarana, 19, was remanded in the Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on Saturday where he faced multiple meth trafficking charges, one count of attempting to traffick a handgun, and committing indictable offences on bail.<\/p>\n
The court heard he was suffering a knee and neck injury, and it was his first time in custody.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s expected to apply for bail at a later date, while his bail on separate charges was revoked, to return to court in September.<\/p>\n
Another man, 18, from Caroline Springs, was also arrested during the raids but released after he was interviewed, pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n
Operation Eclipse launched in April to investigate the organised crime syndicate behind repeated attacks on Melbourne licenced venues.<\/p>\n
The taskforce is now probing other violence directed by the syndicate, including extortion of businesses in a bid to control the illegal drug and tobacco markets.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing, along with overt and covert patrols of hospitality venues.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at crimestoppersvic.com.au. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police probing the bar wars firebombings have allegedly discovered mass drug hauls after co-ordinated raids across Melbourne saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[74203,31771,38897,74195,39152,48170,74190,74199,74200,74194,66675,74202,1572,1113,74178,29113,61380,74172,74186,74192,1109,74188,74180,8672,74181,19980,74167,74185,74201,68271,74175,24261,311,74204,34881,74173,260,74176,74198,74179,5181,4347,74196,74189,74166,53910,310,74193,74170,1047,40839,74187,16821,7296,74182,74197,68113,29115,2036,74184,74183,41738,74171,74191,42730,74169,74174,74177,74168],"class_list":["post-62781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-s-bar-wars","tag-31771","tag-38897","tag-a-19-year-old-fraser-rise-man","tag-a-bid","tag-a-business","tag-a-confidential-report","tag-a-dagger","tag-a-handgun","tag-a-knee-and-neck-injury","tag-a-later-date","tag-a-porsche-suv-fraser-rise-man-rivin-muthucumarana","tag-april","tag-bail","tag-bail-the-court","tag-businesses","tag-caroline-springs","tag-co-ordinated-raids","tag-cocaine-and-ecstacy","tag-counterfeit-notes","tag-court","tag-custody-he","tag-drug-charges","tag-drugs","tag-encrypted-apps","tag-extortion","tag-fraser-rise","tag-friday-methylamphetamine","tag-further-inquiries-operation-eclipse","tag-his-bail","tag-his-first-time","tag-homes","tag-hospitality","tag-indictable-offences","tag-keilor-downs","tag-mass-drug-hauls","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-bar-wars-police-raids","tag-melbourne-hospitality-venues","tag-melbourne-licenced-venues-the-taskforce","tag-mobile-phones","tag-multiple-charges","tag-multiple-meth-trafficking-charges","tag-multiple-suburbs","tag-oc-spray","tag-one-count","tag-operation-eclipse","tag-other-violence","tag-overt-and-covert-patrols","tag-police","tag-port-melbourne","tag-repeated-attacks","tag-saturday","tag-search-warrants","tag-separate-charges","tag-september-another-man","tag-steroids","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-the-bar-wars-firebombings","tag-the-illegal-drug-and-tobacco-markets-investigations","tag-the-melbourne-magistrates","tag-the-orchestrated-attacks","tag-the-organised-crime-syndicate","tag-the-raids","tag-the-syndicate","tag-two-extendable-batons","tag-two-teenagers","tag-wars-raids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}