'We run the show here': Brunswick playground for organised crime crew

By Chris Vedelago and Cameron Houston
Updated February 18 2017 - 1:18pm, first published 11:10am
Made then unmade: Brunswick organised crime boss Rocco Arico (left) at a funeral in 2016. Photo: Jason South
Made then unmade: Brunswick organised crime boss Rocco Arico (left) at a funeral in 2016. Photo: Jason South
Sydney Road, Brunswick: Multicultural and increasingly middle-class but still home to mobsters. Photo: Vince Caligiuri
Sydney Road, Brunswick: Multicultural and increasingly middle-class but still home to mobsters. Photo: Vince Caligiuri
Court in the act: Gangland lawyer Joe "Pino" Acquaro, since murdered, leaves court with client Rocco Arico, in 2015. Photo: Courtesy Channel Nine
Court in the act: Gangland lawyer Joe "Pino" Acquaro, since murdered, leaves court with client Rocco Arico, in 2015. Photo: Courtesy Channel Nine
Dark deeds: Allard Park Footy Oval where an ill-fated drug deal went wrong. Photo: Supplied
Dark deeds: Allard Park Footy Oval where an ill-fated drug deal went wrong. Photo: Supplied
Gunned down: Former Bandidos enforcer Toby Mitchell was shot outside a local gym. Photo: Wayne Taylor
Gunned down: Former Bandidos enforcer Toby Mitchell was shot outside a local gym. Photo: Wayne Taylor
Brunswick boy and now jailed Brunswick gangster Tony Mokbel in 2008. Photo: Thanassis Stavrakis
Brunswick boy and now jailed Brunswick gangster Tony Mokbel in 2008. Photo: Thanassis Stavrakis

It was just passing comment caught on a covert police surveillance recording, but it reveals the criminal underbelly beneath Brunswick's thin veneer of gentrification.

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