Blaise Armour and mum Suzanne Kane slapped with multiple drug and gun offences

A mother-and-son team has put their infamous family back in the spotlight over a suspected major drug racket.

Murdered gangster Jason Moran, Blaise Armor, and the boy’s mother, Suzanne Kane, have been hit with multiple drug and weapons offenses.

Armour, 32, was an only boy when his uncle Jason Moran was shot on June 21, 2003 in front of shocked parents and children watching a Saturday morning football clinic in Essendon in Melbourne’s northwest.

Armour, who was in the van when his uncle was killed, and his mother were charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs after their home in Melbourne’s north was raided in April.

Police alleged that Armor and Kane sold GHB level drug 1,4-Butanediol from their home in Coburg North between November 2023 and April 4 this year.

The mother-son duo was also charged with trafficking meth and cannabis.

Police alleged that Armor and Kane were captured with an arsenal of ammunition and weapons, including a Colt No.1 .41, a pin pistol, an imitation Glock and a suspected stolen Adler shotgun.

The duo were also reportedly caught with $11,140 (presumably from crime) and a stack of alleged counterfeit money, as well as a Focus Jam2 electric mountain bike worth $5,000, 20 designer handbags, a load of power tools and 20 bottles of wine. and more than 100 bottles of other alcohol.

Armor’s mother Suzanne, whose sister Trish married Jason Moran, was also charged

Police claimed the seized loot was proceeds of crime.

Kane, who was charged with 49 charges, was also allegedly caught with a taser.

Armour, who has 67 charges, is also alleged to have sold ketamine and MDMA and to have possessed cocaine, morphine and Valium.

Investigators also seized several sports collectible cards suspected of being the proceeds of crime.

The cards include a limited edition 1994 Michael Jordan card and a Luka Doncic card and are said to be related to Armor.

Armor, who changed his last name to avoid the associated notoriety, was in the van when a brutal killer gunned down his uncle and associate Pasquale Barbaro.

The hit sparked shooting murders among Victorian underbelly players and catapulted Melbourne’s Gangland War into the spotlight.

Jason Moran in 2002

Murdered drug lord Carl Williams ordered the murder of Jason Moran

The late drug lord Carl Williams pleaded guilty to ordering the murder before he was beaten to death by prison enforcer Matthew ‘The General’ Johnson in Barwon Prison’s maximum security Acacia Unit on April 19, 2010.

The Moran family and the Carlton Crew’s war with Williams and the aftermath that left behind a slew of dead bodies including Mark Moran, Graham ‘The Munster’ Kinniburgh, Alphonse Gangitano and the feared assassin Andrew ‘Venji’ Veniamin was the subject of season 1 of the popular TV series Onderbuik.

Suzanne Kane, 60, is the daughter of Les Kanea former painter, dock worker and gangland heavy hitter until his murder in 1978.

A former Victoria Police detective said Suzanne often spoke about her father’s horrific death through unknown people.

“My father is in the meat grinder,” the officer told Kane.

There are suggestions in Melbourne’s underbelly that crime identity Norman Leung Lee, an enemy of Les Kane and his crew, has disposed of bodies by stuffing them into dim-SIMs in his factory.

Jason Moran’s father Lewis Moran was murdered in 2004

Suzanne’s sister Trish Kane married Jason Moran.

Suzanne Kane’s former partner Geoff Armor has been jailed for a minimum of 21 years for the murder of Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran, uncle of Jason and brother of murdered gangster Lewis Moran.

Lewis Moran’s wife Judy, mother of Jason, was also convicted and sent to trial for Tuppence’s murder.

Suzanne faced a Melbourne court today before her cases were adjourned to a later date.

Armour, who uses Geoff Armour’s surname but is not his biological son, did not appear in court today and remains in custody

Kane had her bail extended to the court at a later date.