Overview
- Police arrested a 27-year-old man in Dawes Point on Wednesday and charged him over the March 2023 abduction of Marvin Oraiha.
- Officers found $31,700 in cash during a search of the man’s car, which police say was seized as part of the arrest.
- He faces charges of taking and detaining in company with intent to ransom occasioning actual bodily harm and participating in a criminal group, and he was refused bail to appear in court.
- Investigators say Oraiha was held overnight at a Belfield unit in March 2023 while ransom demands and images showing head injuries were sent to his family, weeks before he was shot dead in Elizabeth Hills on 22 May 2023.
- The arrest builds on a multi‑year Strike Force Hackenburg probe that has already produced multiple charges over Oraiha’s killing, including a murder charge against Simione Lua, and it advances prosecutions targeting organised bikie‑linked violence.