{"id":806710,"date":"2026-07-17T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:32:12","slug":"dezi-freeman-arrest-nsw-woman-arrested-over-infamous-cop-killers-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806710\/","title":{"rendered":"Dezi Freeman arrest: NSW woman arrested over infamous cop-killer\u2019s movements"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NSW<\/a> woman has been arrested as detectives continue to investigate the movements of Dezi Freeman<\/a>, who shot and killed two police officers in Victoria\u2019s high country last year.<\/p>\n

Police arrested the 58-year-old woman in the Bairnsdale area in East Gippsland<\/a> on Friday, and are working to establish how Freeman evaded authorities during his seven months on the run in alpine bushland.<\/p>\n

\"Victoria's<\/p>\n

A woman has been arrested during the investigation into the movements of Dezi Freeman.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

The arrest follows previous statements from police that they were investigating whether the fugitive received help while hiding from the law.<\/p>\n

The woman was being interviewed by detectives, and no charges had been laid by Friday night.<\/p>\n

Freeman was shot and killed by police at a property in Thologolong in March, ending a massive cross-border manhunt.<\/p>\n

Tactical officers had surrounded the 56-year-old inside a shipping container near the NSW border, where he refused repeated demands to surrender during a three-hour stand-off before finally emerging armed with a gun.<\/p>\n

Freeman, who declared himself a \u201csovereign citizen\u201d, had previously been suspected by police to have died in the bush.<\/p>\n

His months on the run began immediately after the August 26 ambush on a property in Porepunkah, where officers executing a sexual offences search warrant were fired upon.<\/p>\n

The deadly attack claimed the lives of Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, 35, and left a third officer seriously injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NSW woman has been arrested as detectives continue to investigate the movements of Dezi Freeman, who shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-806710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806710","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=806710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}