Three men have been arrested by police investigating a series of violent incidents between feuding families in Melbourne's north in the past few weeks.
Santiago Taskforce detectives assisted by the Special Operations Group and the dog squad swooped on the northern suburbs at dawn, arresting the men and executing two search warrants.
The arrests and search warrants were executed in St Albans and Coolaroo "in relation to an ongoing investigation into a series of incidents in the northern suburbs in the last couple of weeks", a police spokesman said.
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Two men, aged 31 and 18, were arrested in St Albans and a 19-year-old man was arrested in Coolaroo.
The men are assisting police with their inquiries but no charges have yet been laid.
Witness Liz told ABC Radio the arrest of the 19-year-old man at Coolaroo was at the same house that has been shot at several times and fire bombed in recent weeks.
The charges follow raids by heavily armed police on a house in St Albans and a house in Coolaroo after 6am today.
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The 19-year-old was arrested outside a home in Guildford Avenue, Coolaroo, that was firebombed and targeted in a series of early-morning drive-by shootings late last month.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said Santiago taskforce detectives were assisted by state operations group and dog squad police.
The most recent outbreak of violence was on June 28, when a gunman in a car fired at another vehicle during a wild pursuit near the intersection of Hilda Street and Justin Avenue in Glenroy around 3.15pm.
At least one shot hit a nearby home.
A day earlier, two vehicles were involved in an early-morning gunfight in nearby Jacana.
On June 23, two shots were fired at a home in Sunset Boulevarde, Jacana, just hours before a light truck was crashed into the Guildford Avenue house, which was also sprayed with gunfire.
The day before, a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window of the same Guildford Avenue home.
No one has been injured in the attacks, which have terrified nearby residents.
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