Inside the wild police raid on Sydney’s ruthless ‘kill-car’ gang – thugs for hire to the highest bidder

NSW Police have charged three alleged contract criminals and seized five ‘kill cars’ following a series of house arrests.

Officers arrested three males aged 16, 18 and 21 who are alleged members of the ‘G7’ gang – a youth group said to be recruited by underworld figures for violent acts.

On Thursday at 6am, detectives carried out eight search warrants in Sydney’s south-west as part of an investigation into serious and organised crime across the city.

The strike targeted the alleged G7 members who are believed to be using a network of cars to carry out contracts for other organised crime networks, police said.

The vehicles are often stolen well in advance, fitted with cloned number plates and supplied with a kit designed to enable murder and escape. 

That kit, police say, frequently contains balaclavas, guns, a change of clothes, and a jerry can to set the car alight and remove forensic traces. 

‘This is a perfect example of the criminal contractor concept,’ Detective Superintendent Peter Faux told reporters on Friday.

‘The males we charged yesterday… we are alleging is that what they did was a part of the coordination of what was going to be the murder of a male. 

‘But it should also be clear that, their role in this, they have the same blood on their hands as the people who inevitably carry out the act of violence in the end.’

Detectives have linked the tactics to murders carried out by bikie gangs, Pacific Islander groups, Middle Eastern crime syndicates and Asian drug networks; the G7 crew is one of several groups of contract criminals allegedly using these cars. 

In Oran Park, police arrested the two men, aged 18 and 21, who were taken to Camden Police Station.

The teenager was charged with dealing with property intended to be an instrument of crime, conspiracy to take person intended to commit serious indictable offence, participating in a criminal group and four counts of knowingly deal with proceeds of crime intent to conceal.

The 21-year-old was charged with two counts of possessing or using a prohibited weapon without permit, and using, supplying, acquiring or possessing a defaced firearm.

He was also charged with knowingly dealing with proceeds of crime, dealing with property intended to be an instrument of crime, and participating in a criminal group.

The pair were refused bail to appear in Bail Division Local Court 3 on Friday.

The 16-year-old was arrested in Hinchinbrook and taken to Liverpool Police Station, where he was charged with participating in a criminal group.

Police also charged him with driving conveyance taken without consent of owner, be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner, and as a never licensed person driving a vehicle on the road.

He was refused bail to appear in a children’s court on Friday.

During the search, police also seized five cars, a firearm, ammunition, $41,000 in cash, GPS trackers and 37 mobile phones and DECCDs – dedicated encrypted criminal communication devices.

‘The use of kill cars has emerged as a common denominator in serious and violent crimes linked to organised crime – including murders, kidnappings, and other high-risk offences,’ Det Supt Faux said.

‘These vehicles aren’t just transport; they’re tools of violence. Without them, offenders lose mobility, anonymity, and the ability to commit serious offences.’

He added that one of the vehicles had a ‘kidnapping kid’ in it, which included a sledgehammer, baseball bats, pillow cases, gloves, and gaffer tape.

‘It’s clear that (criminal groups) have transitioned to not necessarily carrying out the crimes of violence themselves, but having these criminal contractors,’ he said.

‘There are definitely different tiers and levels to this type of crime…. (The groups of contract criminals) are definitely coordinated by a middle man on behalf of the organised crime group.’

The arrests come just two days after a separate incident in which heavily armed officers stormed a busy Sydney street in broad daylight.

They fired shots at two vehicles to foil what police allege was a planned underworld hit near a daycare centre. 

Motorists watched as the Tactical Operations Unit, PolAir, the Dog Squad and State Intelligence Command swooped on two cars in the western suburb of Revesby shortly before 4pm on Tuesday.

It’s understood that officers fired ‘bean bag’ rounds – pouches packed with lead pellets designed to stop but not kill – to bring the cars to a halt.

Dramatic video footage showed officers in bulletproof vests pounding on the sides of a silver Mercedes and shouting orders as one officer aimed his firearm at an occupant.

Within seconds, two men were dragged from the vehicle and pinned to the road.

Further down The River Road, a Mitsubishi SUV peppered with bullet holes was boxed in by police before officers hauled a third man from the driver’s seat.

Inside the vehicles, police allegedly uncovered two pistols, balaclavas, body-worn cameras and jerry cans filled with fuel.

During his press conference on Friday, Det Supt Faux addressed the presence of the ‘GoPro’ body-warn cameras in the alleged criminals possesion.

‘The GoPros, we believe, are to record the actual crime as evidence that they’ve committed the crime,’ he said.

‘There was criticisms around the arrest of these people on Tuesday who are on the way to do a murder.

‘But it’s clear, when you look at this type of footage and you see what these people are doing, I don’t think people would criticize the way they were arrested.’

He added that the use of body-worn cameras could, in general, allow offenders to live stream an actual incident to someone off-shore, who may be higher in a criminal organisation. 

Three men, aged 18, 19 and 26, were arrested at the scene.

The two teens were each charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of an unauthorised pistol, being carried in a stolen vehicle, participating in a criminal group and breaching bail.

The 26-year-old faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder and participation in a criminal group.