Police have arrested two \u201cassociates\u201d of cop killer Dezi Freeman.<\/p>\n
Victoria police said their detectives arrested a man and a woman on Saturday as part of their ongoing investigation into Freeman\u2019s movements after he fled Porepunkah.<\/p>\n
The cop killer was on the run for seven months after shooting dead Sen. Const. Neal Thompson and Sen. Const. Vadim de Waart-Hottart and seriously injuring a third officer.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n A team of 10 police officers had attended his rural Victoria property to execute a search warrant related to alleged child sex offences.<\/p>\n \u201cThe man and woman were arrested about 7am on 4 April at two properties in north east Victoria,\u201d Victorian police said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will now be interviewed by police.<\/p>\n \u201cThe investigation remains ongoing and as such, we are not in a position to provide further details at this immediate time.\u201d<\/p>\n Police confirmed that the man and woman are both associates of Freeman but are not family members of his.<\/p>\n After Freeman fled Porepunkah in August last year, a huge manhunt ensued for months, with many speculating that the cop killer had died somewhere in the bush.<\/p>\n That came to an end on Monday, when Freeman was shot dead after a three-hour standoff with police that began about 5.30am.<\/p>\n The arrest of Freeman\u2019s associates comes after Victoria\u2019s Police Commissioner Mike Bush said it would have been difficult for the fugitive to get to the location where he was found.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very keen to learn who, if any, but I\u2019m sure some (people) actually assisted him in getting away from Porepunkah to where he was located,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that\u2019s a very important part of what comes next to determine that, and if anyone was complicit, they will be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Bush said there had been no confirmed sightings of the fugitive until Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had over 2000 leads, some of them were a number of sightings, none that were confirmed. In fact, they were eliminated. But we had a lot of information that came to us and I do thank the public for providing that information to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested two \u201cassociates\u201d of cop killer Dezi Freeman. Victoria police said their detectives arrested a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-584925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584925","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=584925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}