1973 Ford F-Series Regular Cab

1973 Ford F-Series in Underbelly, TV Series, 2008-2013 Ep. 2.12

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valiant1962 ◊ 2009-05-07 05:11
jpts ◊ 2023-03-24 13:53	This scene was a reenactment of the capture of Robert Trimbole's associate, Gianfranco Tizzoni who was arrested by police on the Hume Highway near Canberra during a marijuana run from Sydney to Melbourne in March 1982. At the time, Tizzoni and his associates were under surveillance as part of a joint Australian Federal Police-Victoria Police undercover operation the AFP had set up at Binalong, NSW codenamed Operation Seville that had been headed by Commander of the Australian Federal Police Victoria Branch (and later AFP Assistant Police Commissioner), Colin Winchester. In a statement made to the Victoria Police detectives after his arrest, Tizzoni stated that he had been responsible for running Trimbole's marijuana distribution network in Victoria since 1971. Tizzoni then stated after the Euston Raid in May 1977, Tizzoni, Trimbole and an associate met at a restaurant and discussed various solutions to deal with Mackay from bribery to murdering Mackay. Then in June 1977, Trimbole, Tizzoni and other members of the Honoured Society had met again at the restaurant in Griffith and had decided to kill Mackay. As the information provided to the Victoria Police by Tizzoni was kept secret by the Victoria Police detectives from the NSW detectives, when the lead detective into Mackay's murder, NSW Police Detective Sergeant Joseph Parrington had found out about Tizzoni's information was hidden from the NSW detectives by Victoria Police detectives, he was outraged and furious that detectives from another state's police force would kept vital information relevant to the Mackay case hidden from the NSW detectives. According to Crime Investigation Australia on the Mackay case, in response to NSW Police's outrage over Tizzoni's information, one of the detectives who interviewed Tizzoni, Victoria Police Detective Sergeant John McCaskill had stated the information provided by Tizzoni was also kept secret from their own colleagues within the Victoria Police as they believed that if Tizzoni's information was to be made known, then Tizzoni would've be targeted as an informer by those responsible for Mackay's murder and would've been killed. It is suspected that arrests of Tizzoni and the others involved in the marijuana operation as part of Operation Seville is linked to the later assassination of Assistant Commissioner Winchester who was shot as he was getting out of his Ford Falcon in the driveway of his home in Deakin, ACT on the night of the 10th January 1989. -- Last edit: 2023-03-24 14:14:14

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valiant1962

◊ 2009-05-07 05:11

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◊ 2023-03-24 13:53

This scene was a reenactment of the capture of Robert Trimbole's associate, Gianfranco Tizzoni who was arrested by police on the Hume Highway near Canberra during a marijuana run from Sydney to Melbourne in March 1982.

At the time, Tizzoni and his associates were under surveillance as part of a joint Australian Federal Police-Victoria Police undercover operation the AFP had set up at Binalong, NSW codenamed Operation Seville that had been headed by Commander of the Australian Federal Police Victoria Branch (and later AFP Assistant Police Commissioner), Colin Winchester.

In a statement made to the Victoria Police detectives after his arrest, Tizzoni stated that he had been responsible for running Trimbole's marijuana distribution network in Victoria since 1971.

Tizzoni then stated after the Euston Raid in May 1977, Tizzoni, Trimbole and an associate met at a restaurant and discussed various solutions to deal with Mackay from bribery to murdering Mackay.

Then in June 1977, Trimbole, Tizzoni and other members of the Honoured Society had met again at the restaurant in Griffith and had decided to kill Mackay.

As the information provided to the Victoria Police by Tizzoni was kept secret by the Victoria Police detectives from the NSW detectives, when the lead detective into Mackay's murder, NSW Police Detective Sergeant Joseph Parrington had found out about Tizzoni's information was hidden from the NSW detectives by Victoria Police detectives, he was outraged and furious that detectives from another state's police force would kept vital information relevant to the Mackay case hidden from the NSW detectives.

According to Crime Investigation Australia on the Mackay case, in response to NSW Police's outrage over Tizzoni's information, one of the detectives who interviewed Tizzoni, Victoria Police Detective Sergeant John McCaskill had stated the information provided by Tizzoni was also kept secret from their own colleagues within the Victoria Police as they believed that if Tizzoni's information was to be made known, then Tizzoni would've be targeted as an informer by those responsible for Mackay's murder and would've been killed.

It is suspected that arrests of Tizzoni and the others involved in the marijuana operation as part of Operation Seville is linked to the later assassination of Assistant Commissioner Winchester who was shot as he was getting out of his Ford Falcon in the driveway of his home in Deakin, ACT on the night of the 10th January 1989.

-- Last edit: 2023-03-24 14:14:14

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1973 Ford F-Series in Underbelly, TV Series, 2008-2013 Ep. 2.12

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