EXCLUSIVE 

A dingy ‘crack den’ littered with sleeping bags, dirty laundry, and drug paraphernalia – including bongs, a blow torch and a methylated spirits – was at the centre of a series of local crimes that led police to Australia’s most wanted man.

Ahmad Alameddine – a member of one of Sydney’s most notorious crime families – was arrested after cops busted him engaging in a sexual act with a woman in a South Coogee flat, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, on Tuesday. 

The dramatic arrest ended a four-week manhunt, sparked when the 33-year-old allegedly fled from officers who turned up to his Greenacre home, in the city’s west, on August 3, to investigate firearm offences. 

Alameddine’s girlfriend Jade Heffer, 28, the widow of slain Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, was taken into custody at the time for allegedly helping him escape – where she has remained since. 

But while her loyalty has allegedly landed her behind bars, it was her boyfriend’s lack of devotion that ultimately led him to the same fate. 

Pictured: The Bundock Road unit block where police accidentally stumbled upon Ahmad Alameddine on Sunday

Pictured: The Bundock Road unit block where police accidentally stumbled upon Ahmad Alameddine on Sunday

Pictured: The Bundock Road unit block where police accidentally stumbled upon Ahmad Alameddine on Sunday

Drug paraphernalia - including bongs and a blow torch - were found on a table in the living room

Drug paraphernalia - including bongs and a blow torch - were found on a table in the living room

Drug paraphernalia – including bongs and a blow torch – were found on a table in the living room

Ahmad Alameddine (pictured), was taken into custody on Tuesday after officers busted him engaged in a sexual act with another woman a back room of the South Coogee flat

Ahmad Alameddine (pictured), was taken into custody on Tuesday after officers busted him engaged in a sexual act with another woman a back room of the South Coogee flat

Ahmad Alameddine (pictured), was taken into custody on Tuesday after officers busted him engaged in a sexual act with another woman a back room of the South Coogee flat

Daily Mail Australia can reveal police were investigating a string of robberies when they accidentally stumbled upon Alameddine shacked-up with the other woman in the back bedroom of the South Coogee flat. 

Police turned up at the unit to speak to other occupants when Alameddine jumped from a window and ran from the scene, wearing only a T-shirt. 

Officers were unable to catch him, but had better luck the second time when their surveillance caught him returning to the property at 2pm.

Sources familiar with the investigation told Daily Mail Australia the unit in the government housing block – with predominantly elderly and disabled tenants – became troublesome when a couple moved in last year.

‘Everything went downhill from there,’ the source said. ‘It turned into a crack den.’ 

Random groups of guests began incessantly trailing in and out of the premises ‘at all hours’ and there would be loud, days-long parties every week. 

Police rummaged through the unit's garbage bin on Tuesday during a raid of the house

Police rummaged through the unit's garbage bin on Tuesday during a raid of the house

Police rummaged through the unit’s garbage bin on Tuesday during a raid of the house

Several officers sifted through the rubbish, finding drug-use equipment and credit cards

Several officers sifted through the rubbish, finding drug-use equipment and credit cards

Several officers sifted through the rubbish, finding drug-use equipment and credit cards

Pictured: Police equipment at the unit block on Tuesday

Pictured: Police equipment at the unit block on Tuesday

Officers spent hours combing through the unit bagging up items to be taken away as evidence

Officers spent hours combing through the unit bagging up items to be taken away as evidence

Officers spent hours combing through the unit bagging up items to be taken away as evidence

Locals began to notice bizarre incidents linked to the flat – including men in balaclavas jumping over the balcony and dashing inside – which were reported to police.

The couple were sent to jail around a month ago, but affairs at the flat only grew worse when their friend – an associate of Alameddine – took over the deserted home and the number of shady visitors and parties increased.

Last weekend, an Uber driver was delivering food to another unit inside the block when an occupant from the problematic flat allegedly robbed and attacked him as he pulled up in the car park. 

It was that incident – and another robbery nearby a few days earlier on August 31 – that cast detectives’ eyes on the Bundock St flat, the source said.

Police swooped on the property around 9am on Tuesday and executed a search warrant, discovering several sleeping bags strewn across the floor in various room throughout the house.

In the living room, a small round coffee table was covered in drug-use items, including a bong, blow torch, and water balloons – which are used within criminal networks to package up illicit substances. 

A wooden board was  hammered into the front door frame to stop anyone from entering the premises after the high-profile arrest

A wooden board was  hammered into the front door frame to stop anyone from entering the premises after the high-profile arrest

A wooden board was  hammered into the front door frame to stop anyone from entering the premises after the high-profile arrest

Two bikes were seen dumped in the lawn outside the housing commission block on Wednesday

Two bikes were seen dumped in the lawn outside the housing commission block on Wednesday

Two bikes were seen dumped in the lawn outside the housing commission block on Wednesday

The windows and doors at the unit on Bundock Road was boarded up (pictured) in the hours after Alameddine's arrest on Tuesday

The windows and doors at the unit on Bundock Road was boarded up (pictured) in the hours after Alameddine's arrest on Tuesday

The windows and doors at the unit on Bundock Road was boarded up (pictured) in the hours after Alameddine’s arrest on Tuesday

Alameddine allegedly jumped out of a window from the bottom floor unit to evade police

Alameddine allegedly jumped out of a window from the bottom floor unit to evade police

Alameddine allegedly jumped out of a window from the bottom floor unit to evade police

But signs of the debauchery was ‘even worse’ in the back room, according to the source. 

Officers dumped the contents of the unit’s wheelie bin on the front lawn before sifting through the rubbish, which included packets of drugs and discarded credit cards. 

Two security cameras – which had been set up by the occupants to guard over the external front balcony – were also seized by police.  

While Alameddine was allegedly on the run, police spoke to the four occupants inside. 

NSW Police would not confirmed whether any of the four have since been charged, with a spokesperson telling Daily Mail Australia ‘investigations are ongoing’. 

After police later arrested Alameddine near Gumara St around 2pm, tradesmen were sent to the property to change the locks and board up the doors and windows.

Alameddine was later arrested near a patch of bushland in Gumara Street (pictured), which runs parallel behind Bundock Stree

Alameddine was later arrested near a patch of bushland in Gumara Street (pictured), which runs parallel behind Bundock Stree

Alameddine was later arrested near a patch of bushland in Gumara Street (pictured), which runs parallel behind Bundock Stree

A gate way that sits behind the unit complex runs down towards Gumara Street

A gate way that sits behind the unit complex runs down towards Gumara Street

A gate way that sits behind the unit complex runs down towards Gumara Street

Pictured: The pathway that runs along the back of the Bundock Street unit block, leading towards the Gumara Street grass track

Pictured: The pathway that runs along the back of the Bundock Street unit block, leading towards the Gumara Street grass track

Pictured: The pathway that runs along the back of the Bundock Street unit block, leading towards the Gumara Street grass track 

After the arrest, Alameddine was taken to Maroubra police station and slapped with nine charges, including four outstanding warrants for serious firearm-related offences and a drug-related offence.

He was due to face Waverley Local Court on Wednesday, but remains in hospital under police guard where he is receiving treatment for a foot injury. 

The unusual turn of events has shone a light on the complex relationship between Alameddine and Ms Heffer – and how her life has appeared to derail in the 15 months since her husband’s death.

After her gangster husband was gunned down next to her in an apartment block carpark, an emotional Jade Heffer told Daily Mail Australia she wanted to keep her head down so her newfound Islamic community would take her seriously, it can now be revealed.

But the former fitness instructor appears to have done the opposite.

Alameddine's girlfriend Jade Heffer is currently behind bars after allegedly helping him escape from his Greenacre home in August. She is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, who was allegedly executed last year

Alameddine's girlfriend Jade Heffer is currently behind bars after allegedly helping him escape from his Greenacre home in August. She is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, who was allegedly executed last year

Alameddine’s girlfriend Jade Heffer is currently behind bars after allegedly helping him escape from his Greenacre home in August. She is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, who was allegedly executed last year 

Jade Heffer is pictured earlier this year, less than a year after her husband's alleged shooting murder

Jade Heffer is pictured earlier this year, less than a year after her husband's alleged shooting murder

Jade Heffer is pictured earlier this year, less than a year after her husband’s alleged shooting murder

Jade Heffer is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, before he died in a carpark last year

Jade Heffer is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, before he died in a carpark last year

Jade Heffer is pictured with her husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, before he died in a carpark last year

Police raided her Paramatta home in June and arrested three men with alleged links to the Alameddine family crime gang over an alleged brawl at a Westfield in Sydney’s CBD.

Two months later, she herself was arrested during another raid – this time, it was her gangster boyfriend’s home in Greenacre, and she was charged with hindering a police officer and weapons-related offences.

But it was just little more than a year ago that Ms Heffer expressed a desire to stay away from the public eye due to fears the Islamic community would criticise her.

She converted to the faith following the alleged shooting murder of her Lone Wolf bikie husband in June last year and promptly swapped plunging necklines for a hijab.

‘I’m grieving and I’ve witnessed an [alleged] homicide,’ she said, at the time. 

‘The world I live in is pretty crazy and talking to the news is something we don’t do.

‘People don’t take me seriously as it is, and I get it, I’m Aussie, I know that, but this is my community now.’

Ms Heffer previously said she was concerned the Islamic community would not take her seriously

Ms Heffer previously said she was concerned the Islamic community would not take her seriously

Ms Heffer previously said she was concerned the Islamic community would not take her seriously

Ms Heffer had been married to Nazlioglu, 40, for six months before he was allegedly shot ten times and left to die in a pool of his own blood in the carpark of their Rhodes unit block, in Sydney‘s west.

Police have since charged Mohammed Hosni Khaled, 25, and Abdulrahman Atteya, 33, over the alleged murder.

Ms Heffer kept a low social media profile in the months following her husband’s death, but she started uploading glamorous selfies earlier this year.

She could be seen at restaurants with friends, posing in hallways and bathroom mirrors – always in modest but figure-hugging attire, paired with different hijabs.

During the police raid at her Paramatta home in June, Ms Heffer could be seen sitting on the kerb with her hoodie pulled down over her face.

She flicked her middle fingers at the camera, as cops searched for evidence.

During her arrest in August, police went to her boyfriend’s family home in Greenacre to execute a Firearm Prohibition Order and allege Ms Heffer and Alameddine’s sister Susan helped him escape.

Officers allegedly found a firearm and an encrypted phone at the property.

Ms Heffer was taken to Bankstown Police Station and charged with hindering police and multiple weapons charges.

Ms Heffer will face Sydney’s Supreme Court on September 11, while Alameddine’s matter is next due before Sydney Downing Centre on September 28. 

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