About 3pm on Friday 26 September 2025, Bankstown police clocked a grey BMW sedan on cloned plates on Columbine Avenue. When they went to talk to the driver, police say he took off. A loaded handgun turned up dumped on Fairford Road, and police now allege the whole thing was a planned hit on a prominent organised crime figure.

Six people were already charged. On 9 October Taskforce Falcon came for a seventh at Ingleburn, and police say the plot behind that BMW ran a lot deeper than one driver.