AyHuncho arrested: Ali Younes taken into NSW Police custody after major investigation into Alameddines

Famous Sydney rapper Ali ‘Ay Huncho’ Younes has been arrested along with 14 others following police raids targeting the Alameddine crime network.

Younes was arrested early on Wednesday morning as part of investigations into an alleged drug ring across Sydney’s south-west.

Detectives had already shut down 26 phones that were allegedly used for drug trafficking and were connected to more than 50,000 customers.

Some of those customers received a text message from NSW Police saying: ‘The NSW Police Force: Strike Force Wessex has identified this number as interacting with a ‘dial a dealer’ phone. organized crime drug supply.

‘If this continues, you may be the subject of further investigation. Cease all contact now.’

Younes makes drill rap, a subgenre that is filled with references to the use of weapons such as knives, hammers and guns against members of rival gangs from suburbs with opposite zip codes.

New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said Wednesday’s arrests eliminated what remained of Alameddine’s criminal network.

“Today’s operation has cleaned up what was left of them on our coasts,” he said.

Police say the traditional code of silence around criminal gangs is being disrupted by a new generation of young people seeking fame on social media.

“Their (drill rap) is used to gain notoriety, the basis is that unless you committed the crime, you can’t sing or rap about it,” Strike Force Raptor Commander Jason Weinstein said.

Younes has not yet been charged.

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