Police confirmed the arrests were part of the probe into the movements of Freeman following the shootings in \ufeffPorepunkah last August.<\/p>\n
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Accused cop killer Dezi Freeman has been found and killed after a long and tireless search. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n
The pair are being interviewed.\ufeff They are not related to Freeman.<\/p>\n
Police stormed a property in Victoria’s rural north-east.<\/p>\n
Freeman was hiding out in something that resembled a shipping container and a caravan in Thologolong north-east of Porepunkah and on the border with NSW<\/a> Special Operations Group members had spent three hours at the property attempting to negotiate a peaceful surrender with Freeman before multiple shots were fired\ufeff.<\/p>\n “He fired two shots and eight police responded. He was shot at least 20 times,” The Age crime writer John Silvester told 3AW.<\/p>\n “In all probability, the gun was shot out of his hand because it was some distance away.”<\/p>\n Investigators\ufeff had been tracking a car coming and going from 56-year-old Freeman’s hideout before he was killed in a shootout about 8.30am on Monday, 9News understands.<\/p>\n 9News has been told officers had been surveilling Freeman for several days after watching the car, which repeatedly made the almost 200-kilometre trip between Porepunkah and Thologolong, located on the Victoria-NSW border.<\/p>\n Police have asserted it would have been very difficult for the fugitive to remain hidden for so long without help.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested \ufeffas part of the investigation in to fugitive police killer Dezi Freeman. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-584387","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\/584387","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=584387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c7f18ecc-13bb-4109-a2b6-ab860e9f2722.jpeg\")
The property where Dezi Freeman was shot dead at Thologolong, Victoria. (9News)The seven-month manhunt ended in a hail of bullets<\/a> outside his hiding place, with the fugitive understood to have fired two shots before police returned fire up to 20 times.\ufeff<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/759bb8f9-ce0a-43f5-803e-444c66d26d56.jpeg\")
A police “bearcat” with a tool that punched through the shell of a shipping container Freeman was inside. (Supplied)<\/p>\n