Olivia Jenkins is the ABC's crime reporter in Melbourne.
She is the winner of a Young Walkley for public service journalism and has been the Melbourne Press Club's young journalist of the year.
She was previously a crime reporter at the Herald Sun.
You can reach Olivia by email at [email protected] , on Instagram at @by_oliviajenkins or on Signal at @oliviajenkins.22
A 51-year-old man who allegedly sent a series of violent threats and sexualised slurs at the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup has been denied bail.
Freeman, who was killed in a police stand-off in March, is now suspected of sexually exploiting two children, law enforcement sources tell the ABC.
The ABC can reveal lethal infighting has erupted inside the crime ring largely responsible for Victoria's illegal tobacco extortions, firebombings and murders as Kazem Hamad's second-in-command goes "rogue".
Victorian police have identified multiple online usernames suspected of ordering crimes including alleged firebombings and extortions across Melbourne.
Detectives are investigating Richmond man Elias Serevetas's potential links to jailed crime boss Kazem Hamad, after the 55-year-old was gunned down in Melbourne's north.
The final moments of a 24-year-old allegedly hacked to death in a pack attack in Melbourne's south-west are revealed in court as three boys and four men face charges almost two years after the ambush.
Helen Haines was struck by a Toyota LandCruiser outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria, yesterday afternoon.
The family of a young Australian woman missing in the US have criticised efforts by local police to find the 26-year-old, who missed her return flight to Melbourne in June and has not been heard from since.
A 42-year-old man, who the ABC understands to be Ali Albadri, was found at a property yesterday afternoon. His death is being investigated by homicide detectives.
Teenage friends of a boy fighting for life after an alleged botched arson have revealed it is the second tragedy to strike their group in recent months.
A teenager accused of mowing down a woman with a stolen car in central Melbourne, metres away from thousands of marathon runners, was out on bail, a court has heard.
The sister of the Melbourne boy clinging to life after an apparent botched firebombing has urged other Victorian children not to accept cash for committing crimes.
Australia's illicit tobacco trade has become so lucrative that criminal overlords have built a secret pipeline suspected of smuggling tens of millions of dollars overseas.
The teenager is fighting for life after being engulfed in flames during an alleged arson attack in Melbourne's north-west on Monday.
The court has been told the accused man has schizophrenia.
A man is charged after a woman was allegedly stabbed in the neck while travelling on a Melbourne tram on Tuesday.
Prosecutors obtained more than 70,000 pages of phone data collected as part of an investigation into Melbourne gym owner Ray "Razor" Dimachki.
Fresh data shows crime levels may be beginning to plateau, but as the state election looms, the political crisis fuelled by the community's perception of safety shows little sign of easing.
Home invasions, carjackings and robberies all fell in the 12 months to the end of June, but police say their work is "far from over".
Khalid Baker has fought to clear his name since being released in 2018 after being jailed for murder. Court documents now allege that Baker has run illicit tobacco stores with a member of one of the nation's most prominent organised crime families.
Intelligence briefs obtained by the ABC show police are concerned by a rise in "communal weapons storage" at major public transport precincts across Melbourne.
NSW Police have extradited a Melbourne woman after alleging they linked a gun used in two other shootings to the death of Marco Tapia in Sydney's south-west in early September.
The ABC understands two students found the imitation firearm at Princes Hill Primary School at lunchtime yesterday.
After rear-ending a vehicle in September last year, the officer blew a 0.07 breath test and told Victoria's police disciplinary board that he drank two "very strong" bourbon and cokes about three hours earlier.
Police investigating the fatal shooting of 22-year-old plumber Daniel Hussein in Melbourne's north have charged two men with his murder.
