{"id":575036,"date":"2026-03-30T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:24:09","slug":"police-vow-to-track-down-the-people-who-helped-dezi-freeman-after-killer-shot-dead-in-early-morning-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575036\/","title":{"rendered":"Police vow to track down the people who helped Dezi Freeman after killer shot dead in early morning raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Mike Bush has repeated much of what he said yesterday, while appearing on his regular slot on commercial radio in Melbourne to take questions.<\/p>\n<p>He refused to detail how and when police received the information that led them to the property where Freeman was.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police Commissioner Mike Bush has been cautious in what details he has revealed about the operation that led to Freeman\u2019s death so far.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/16a6a7e37ccbc1387adcbde484490f275efbf15c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Police Commissioner Mike Bush has been cautious in what details he has revealed about the operation that led to Freeman\u2019s death so far.The Age<\/p>\n<p>Bush was also asked about whether Freeman had help, and the top cop echoed others in saying that was a logical explanation for how he ended up so far away from Porepunkah, seven months after the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think, you know, just practically, you know, how did he get that far? I doubt he got there on his own. He has a wide network of friends and associates within that sovereign citizen group. So we\u2019re going to track backwards, work backwards from yesterday to work out who did assist him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Commissioner Mike Bush has repeated much of what he said yesterday, while appearing on his regular slot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-575036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}