'We're Kaz's boys': tobacco store standover men arrested for extortion

'We're Kaz's boys': tobacco store standover men arrested for extortion

Two men charged with extortion tied to Melbourne's tobacco wars as police probe arson and firebombing attacks on cigarette and vape stores.

Braybrook extortion arrests | Brimbank & North West

Detectives charged two men yesterday as part of their investigation into the alleged extortion of the owner of a Braybrook tobacco store earlier this year. Police executed two warrants at properties in Port Melbourne and Broadmeadows on the morning of Thursday, April 24, arresting a 26-year-old Port Melbourne man and a 21-year-old Broadmeadows man. The pair were interviewed and subsequently each charged with one count of extortion with threat to…