Detectives arrested two men aged 48 and 35 at separate locations in north-east Victoria as part of Operation Summit, an investigation into Dezi Freeman’s movements after shootings at Porepunkah. The men will be interviewed by police, and the investigation remains ongoing. Freeman shot and killed Det Leading Sen Const Neal Thompson and Sen Const Vadim De Waart-Hottart, and injured a third officer during an incident at a property near Porepunkah in August. The officers were executing a search warrant on 26 August after receiving disclosure involving an alleged sexual assault of a child under 16 and an attempt to involve a child in production of child abuse material. Freeman fled heavily armed into the bush, leading to a seven-month manhunt that ended when he died after being shot by police on 30 March near the Victoria-New South Wales border. The arrests followed coroner’s court directions hearings related to the officers’ deaths and Freeman’s final shootout.
"Police on Tuesday said detectives had arrested the men aged 48 and 35 at two separate locations in north-east Victoria as part of Operation Summit, the investigation into Freeman's movements after the shootings at Porepunkah. The pair will now be interviewed by police, police said. The investigation remains ongoing and as such, we are not in a position to provide further details at this immediate time."
"Freeman shot and killed Det Leading Sen Const Neal Thompson, 59, and Sen Const Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 35, and injured a third officer at a property in Porepunkah in August. The two police officers had been part of a group of 10 police made up of local officers and members of the sexual offences and child abuse investigation team who entered the property, about 210km north-east of Melbourne, on 26 August to serve a search warrant before allegedly being fired upon by Freeman."
"The seven-month search for Freeman ended when he died after being shot by police on a remote property in Thologolong, near Walwa on the Victoria-New South Wales border, on 30 March. The arrests come a day after the coroner's court held two separate directions hearings looking at the deaths of the two police officers and the final shootout involving Freeman. There are no set dates for either, although both could take place next year."
"State coroner Liberty Sanger heard the officers had arrived at Freeman's property on 26 August to execute the search warrant after receiving disclosure of an alleged sexual assault involving a child under the age of 16, as well as an attempt to involve a child in the production of ch"
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