Australia Arrests Two in Freeman Manhunt Probe

Australian authorities have arrested two men, aged 48 and 35, as part of an ongoing investigation into Dezi Freeman's movements after he killed two police officers last year. According to BBC, the arrests were made at separate locations in Victoria on Tuesday.

The men will be interviewed by police, though authorities have not provided further details due to the ongoing nature of the investigation. As reported by The Guardian, Freeman shot and killed Det Leading Sen Const Neal Thompson, 59, and Sen Const Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 35, at a property in Porepunkah in August.

Freeman had been on the run for seven months after fatally shooting two police officers who were visiting his home to serve an arrest warrant. He was eventually shot dead by police on March 30 at a remote property in Thologolong, near the Victorian-NSW border. The manhunt for Freeman, a self-described 'sovereign citizen' with anti-government beliefs, involved one of Australia's largest-ever police operations.

On Tuesday, a coronial inquest into the deadly police operation at Porepunkah began in Melbourne. As per The Daily Mail, it was revealed that specialist police continue to work without body-worn cameras, eight years after the force began rolling out the technology. None of the officers who gunned down Freeman were wearing body-worn cameras.