The Melbourne men are accused of orchestrating the gang to steal cigarettes which were then on-sold.
Investigators will allege two 19-year-old men recruited the children, aged 12 to 17, to carry out over 140 cigarette burglaries and armed robberies across Melbourne's eastern suburbs since the start of this year.
Police will allege the two 19-year-old men would provide children with stolen vehicles and specific locations to carry out the burglaries and steal cigarettes. The cigarettes would then allegedly be on-sold to two cigarette vendors – a 33-year-old man and a 53-year-old man – with businesses in Silvan, Burwood, and Cremorne.Police said there had been a sharp spike in cigarette related burglaries this year.
Two of the men and the 15-year-old boy have previously been arrested in connection to cigarette burglaries, however, their arrests yesterday related to an aggravated home invasion in Bulleen where they allegedly broke into a home while armed with knives, police said.
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