How the police caught the rat on the cold tiled roof
An element nearly took over the small Irish town of Rathkeale, swelling the local population of 1500 to several thousand when they returned from their crime missions abroad. Johnny Dooley, Michael Dooley and Joseph Ball won’t be spending much time indoors under the law. They get cut sentences because they plead guilty and in a world of multimillion-dollar scams, their offenses don’t make headlines. But the damage they do to their victims exceeds the money. They strip a lot of their trust and confidence. And they make good people feel stupid. In Melbourne, they perfected the fly-in, fly-out model, hitting multiple targets around the usually affluent suburbs and moving forward before the police caught the magnitude of the sting. As a young detective, about eight years ago, Steve Sinclair discovered “there were 70 to 80 jobs in which they used leaflet drops with fake companies or businesses they had set up to promote. They seek out vulnerable targets and use aggressive sales promotion