Two men arrested in connection to Dezi Freeman’s movements after Porepunkah shootings
Two men have been arrested in connection to Porepunkah shooter Dezi Freeman’s months on the run after he killed two police officers.
Two men have been arrested in connection to Porepunkah shooter Dezi Freeman’s months on the run after he killed two police officers.
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.
Freeman, a 56-year-old with a history of association with pseudolaw or “sovereign citizen” ideology, allegedly fled into the bush heavily armed, and a high-profile manhunt began.
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.
