Graham Potter, an infamous Australian criminal who has been on the run for years, has finally been arrested. Get to learn about his crime and charges.
A convicted killer who escaped Victorian cops for 12 years has been arrested in Far North Queensland.
Since 2010, Graham Gene Potter has been wanted.
He allegedly failed to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on charges of conspiracy to kill and Commonwealth drug offenses.
Police believe he is likely to be in a relationship and living in a rural area in Australia.
He could work as a caretaker, farmhand, or outback station hand because he had welding, beekeeping, hydroponics, aquaponics, gold panning, and earth-moving talents.
A $10,000 reward was issued in 2011 for information leading to his arrest.
Australian Criminal Graham Potter: Finally Arrested After Being Wanted for Years: What Did He Do?
In 2008, Potter was allegedly hired to kill a guy at the wedding of Melbourne underworld boss Mick Gatto’s son.
In the same year, he was charged with a $440 million ecstasy and cocaine haul.
Potter was a former coal miner. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1981 for mutilating and murdering Kim Barry, a woman from New South Wales.
He has been seen in the past wearing wigs and fat costumes, and there have been other unverified sightings.
Potter was previously apprehended by police in August 2010 in Tully, North Queensland. However, he managed to flee.
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The 64-year-old Graham was detained in Queensland’s Tablelands region on Monday morning.
Potter’s extradition will now be assisted by the Victorian detective, who will go to Queensland.
On Tuesday, he is scheduled to appear at Mareeba Magistrates’ Court.
Josh Lawson, John Page, Jim Henderson, and probably Peter Adams were some of his aliases over the years.
When he was caught at a Queensland trailer park in 2010, police were on the verge of apprehending him.
According to the Herald Sun, he was wearing a fatsuit and sporting a ginger beard at the time.