Suspect with links to crime families charged over firebombing YouTube star's Bondi home

An associate of the Alameddine crime family currently behind bars has been charged more than a year after the home of a controversial YouTube star was bombed.

The Bondi home of satirist Jordan Shanks, better known online as FriendlyJordies, was badly damaged in Sydney's eastern suburbs in 2022.

Strike Force detectives arrested a 37-year-old man at Silverwater Prison on Wednesday.

Tufi Junior Tauese-Auelua, 37, appeared at Waverley Court on Wednesday charged with two counts of damage to property by fire in company.

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