Further jail for wannabe gangster

Riley Vallins is among three people arrested by Mildura police on Seventh Street in January last year. Picture: Ben Gross
Allan Murphy

Allan Murphy A WANNABE gangster jailed following a dramatic daylight sting by police in Mildura’s CBD when he was found with cash, drugs, knives, a large machete and an imitation handgun has been handed a further term of imprisonment. Twenty-one-year-old Riley Vallins was one of three people arrested outside the Mildura Grand Hotel in January […]

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