| Body found on property where Gino and Mark Stocco arrested |
Acting Assistant Commissioner for the western region Clint Pheeney addressed the media on Wednesday afternoon and said both Gino and Mark Stocco received treatment at Dubbo Hospital for injuries sustained during their arrest.
“Contrary to some media reports they did not surrender to police or hand themselves in, they were arrested following the property that they were in being surrounded by tactical police,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Pheeney said.
“There was some resistance to the arrest and as a result of the arrest some minor injuries... for both Gino and Mark. They are not serious in nature.
“I’m told that Mark Stocco has very superficial injuries, Gino’s injuries aren’t serious but it may require further treatment.”
Two key pieces of information regarding a suspicious vehicle in the Goonoo State Forest and a missing relative provided by members of the public led police to the property, which was already known to them.
“It actually put the final pieces of the jigsaw together in terms of this property,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Pheeney said.
“The telling point I think was a member of the community telling us a story about a missing relative and a person who has not been seen for about three weeks.”
Police believed the Stoccos had actually been conducting some work on the property, which police had visited before in relation to the fugitives.
The actual nature of the work is not yet known. Detectives from State Crime Command’s Robbery and Serious Crime Squad have formed strike force Peta to investigate the circumstances around the man’s death and a post mortem will now take place.
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