A mother and son team have catapulted their infamous family back into the spotlight for an alleged major drug deal.
Blaise Armor, nephew of slain Melbourne gangster Jason Moran, and Suzanne Kane, the boy’s mother, have been charged with multiple drug and weapons offences.
Armour, 32, was just a toddler when his uncle Jason Moran was shot dead in front of shocked parents and children watching a Saturday morning football clinic in Essendon, northwest of Melbourne, on June 21. of 2003.
Armour, who was in the van when his uncle was killed, and his mother were charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs after raiding their north Melbourne home in April.
Cops alleged Armor and Kane sold GHB mirror drug 1,4 butanediol from their home in Coburg North between November 2023 and April 4 this year.
The mother-son duo were also charged with trafficking methamphetamine and cannabis.
Police alleged that Armor and Kane were caught with an arsenal of ammunition and weapons, including a Colt No.1 .41, a fountain pistol, an imitation Glock and an allegedly stolen Adler shotgun.
The duo were also allegedly caught with $11,140 (suspected to be proceeds of crime) and a wad of allegedly counterfeit cash, as well as a $5,000 Focus Jam2 electric mountain bike, 20 designer handbags, a haul of power tools and 20 bottles of wine. and more than 100 bottles of other alcoholic beverages.
Blaise Armour, Jason Moran’s nephew, has been charged with drug trafficking
Armor’s mother, Suzanne, whose sister Trish married Jason Moran, was also charged.
The police alleged that the seized loot was proceeds of crime.
Kane, who received 49 charges, was also allegedly caught with a Taser.
Armour, who faced 67 charges, also allegedly sold ketamine and MDMA and possessed cocaine, morphine and valium.
Investigators also confiscated several sports collectors’ cards suspected of being the proceeds of crime.
The cards included a limited edition 1994 Michael Jordan card and a Luka Doncic card and were supposedly tied to Armour.
Armour, who changed his last name to avoid the associated notoriety, was in the van when his uncle and partner Pasquale Barbaro was shot dead by a brazen killer.
The success fueled shooting deaths among Victoria’s most vulnerable players and catapulted Melbourne’s gang war into the spotlight.
Jason Morán in 2002
Drug dealer Carl Williams ordered the murder of Jason Moran
Late drug dealer Carl Williams pleaded guilty to ordering the murder before being beaten to death by jailer Matthew ‘The General’ Johnson inside Barwon Prison’s maximum security Acacia unit on April 19, 2010.
The Moran family and Carlton Crew’s war with Williams and the aftermath which left a large number of bodies, including Mark Moran, Graham ‘The Munster’ Kinniburgh, Alphonse Gangitano and feared hitman Andrew ‘Venji’ Veniamin, were the subject from season 1 of the hit television series. Belly.
Suzanne Kane, 60, is the daughter of Les Kane.former painter, docker and gangster until his murder in 1978.
A former senior Victoria Police detective said Suzanne often spoke of her father’s gruesome death at the hands of unknown people.
“My dad is in the chopper,” the police officer recalled Kane saying.
There are suggestions among Melbourne’s underbelly that criminal identity Norman Leung Lee, an enemy of Les Kane and his team, disposed of the bodies by placing them in dim-sims in his factory.
Jason Moran’s father, Lewis Moran, was murdered in 2004.
Suzanne’s sister, Trish Kane, married Jason Moran.
Suzanne Kane’s former partner Geoff Armor is serving a minimum 21-year sentence for murdering Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran, Jason’s uncle and brother of slain gangster Lewis Moran.
Lewis Moran’s wife, Judy, mother of Jason, was also convicted and sent away for murdering Tuppence.
Suzanne appeared in a Melbourne court today before her matters were adjourned to a later date.
Armour, who uses the surname Geoff Armor but is not his biological son, did not appear today and remains in custody.
Kane had his bail extended to front court at a later date.