{"id":652151,"date":"2026-05-06T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:12:11","slug":"7news-live-updates-passenger-trapped-as-car-sinks-in-weir-manslaughter-charge-after-nurse-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652151\/","title":{"rendered":"7NEWS live updates: Passenger trapped as car sinks in weir; manslaughter charge after nurse killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More than $5 million in cryptocurrency and drugs supposedly linked to \u201cdealings\u201d on the darknet have allegedly been seized by police .<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The massive amount of cryptocurrencies reportedly drew the attention of police in September 2024, leading to a raid on a property in Ingleburn, southwest Sydney, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police allege 52.3 bitcoin was located on electronic devices found at the home, valued at about $5.7 million at the time of discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Detectives will allege the vast amount of funds were used on illicit online marketplaces, which advertise the sale of drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It came almost a year after police identified two men, aged 39 and 41, who allegedly had access to the cryptocurrency account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A subsequent search of a property in Surfside, just north of Batemans Bay, on May 27, 2025, allegedly located 7.2g of cocaine and electronic devices with access to $47,000 in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Both men remain before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Commander of State Crime Command\u2019s Cybercrime Squad, Detective Superintendent Matt Craft, said the alleged seizure was \u201cone of the biggest cryptocurrency seizures in the nation\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e511242f82bb246804dda52a103a2d13e5f6dcf2.png\" alt=\"More than $5million in cryptocurrencies and drugs have allegedly been seized in police raids across NSW.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>More than $5million in cryptocurrencies and drugs have allegedly been seized in police raids across NSW. Credit: NSW Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than $5 million in cryptocurrency and drugs supposedly linked to \u201cdealings\u201d on the darknet have allegedly been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,44,5847,8690,22122,7481],"class_list":["post-652151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-queensland-news","tag-sa-news","tag-vic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652151","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=652151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}