OUTLAW bikies are believed to have put a $500,000 price on the heads of gang members who allegedly shot the son of a former Finks member. South Australian police are aware of the offer, which leaves them in no doubt club members want to handle reprisals for the shooting of the 11-year-old without their intervention. Mark Sandery's son was shot twice in the leg after armed intruders forced their way into a Semaphore house on Friday night. Police have received no co-operation from witnesses. A source told Melbourne's Herald Sun: "The Finks are offering $500,000 to bring this bloke into any clubhouse in Australia. Every crook in Australia knows about it." The Advertiser understands...
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Bikie group Finks put up $500,000 bounty for child shooting
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Bikie leader silent on son's killing
AAP The self-proclaimed leader of the Comanchero outlaw bikie gang in Adelaide is refusing to help authorities find his son's murderer as police call for tougher laws to break the gangland code of silence. Vincenzo Focarelli suffered a number of gunshot wounds in the fourth attempt on his life, but his son Giovanni Focarelli, 22, died after both men were shot on Sunday in Adelaide. Focarelli has told police he won't help them find the killer. Advertisement: Story continues below It's not the first time the former New Boyz leader has refused to cooperate with...
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Editorial: Police bid to keep bikies out of venues tough for hotel/restaurant owners to enforce
POLICE are to be commended for their determination to eliminate bikie-related violence. That violence erupted last January when the son of former bikie leader Vince Focarelli was ambushed and killed at Dry Creek. In November, a Pooraka business owner was killed in an execution linked to a feud between the Hells Angels and the Finks. Just a week ago, a man was arrested after a fight at a Holden Hill family restaurant between members of the Rebels and the Descendants motorcycle gangs. Video footage shows frightened diners grabbing their children and running for cover as the fight broke out. As part...
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Bounty on wounded Comanchero leader's head, police sources say
POLICE sources say their intelligence suggests the leadership of the South Australian chapter of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club is the prize for killing the renegade gang leader, Vince Focarelli. Focarelli survived a fourth attempt on his life on Sunday night, but lost his son Giovanni, 22, to an assassin's bullets in a suburban street ambush in Flame Ave, Dry Creek. The theories on a motive range from a drug deal gone wrong to a trap for the man who has been the target of would-be killers for the past two years. Despite his son's death, Focarelli has refused to tell police if he knew who was responsible for the attack. Sources close to Adelaide's bikie underworld believe that Giovanni, who...
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Finks bikie gang take control of Focarelli's Hindley St tattoo parlour
THE Finks have taken control of wounded gang leader Vince Focarelli's infamous Hindley St tattoo parlour, Ink Central. A senior Finks Motorcycle gang member took the keys to the parlour after the locks were changed yesterday. The timing could not be worse for Focarelli, who is at the Royal Adelaide Hospital recovering from an ambush which killed his son...
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Focarelli silent on SA bikie shooting
AAP The leader of the Comancheros outlaw bikie gang is refusing to co-operate with police after surviving another attempt on his life, a shooting that also killed his son. Vincenzo Focarelli is in hospital with gunshot wounds and refusing to tell police who shot him and killed his 22-year-old son, Giovanni, on Sunday night at Dry Creek, in Adelaide's northwest. It was the fourth attempt on Vincenzo Focarelli's life. Advertisement: Story continues below He was shot in the leg in December...
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Elizabeth Police to patrol bikie gang hotspots in wake of Pooraka shooting
ELIZABETH Police will increase patrols around known bikie gang hotspots in Parafield Gardens, Pooraka and Salisbury North after a series of violent incidents last week. Superintendent David O'Donovan said extra patrols would monitor the areas following the shooting death of a 33-year-old Finks associate, named as Jason De Ieso, at his Unique Custom Paint and Panel business in Pooraka on Wednesday, November 21. "We have flagged these areas and naturally patrols will gravitate towards these areas to minimise...
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Bikie killing leads to crackdown
The South Australian Government will launch harsh new laws to crack down on outlaw motorcycle gangs in what Premier Jay Weatherill said was the state's top law-and-order priority. The laws, designed to skirt a High Court ruling that overturned earlier anti-bikie legislation, follow the killing of 22-year-old Giovanni Focarelli and the wounding of his father, Vincenzo, in Adelaide on Monday night. Focarelli snr had been associated with the Comancheros bikie club, but after leading the gang for a short period is reported to have been dumped and targeted by other members. Four attempts have been made on his life, and his tattoo parlour has been attacked...
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Comanchero member Giovanni Focarelli shot dead in latest Adelaide bikie shooting
BIKIE leader Vince Focarelli has survived a fourth attempt on his life - but his son Giovanni was shot dead in a ''targeted attack'' in Adelaide's north last night. Police sources say their intelligence suggests the leadership of the South Australian chapter of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club is the prize for killing the renegade gang leader. Focarelli survived a fourth attempt on his life on Sunday night, but lost his son Giovanni, 22, to an assassin's bullets in a suburban street ambush in Flame Ave, Dry Creek. The theories on a motive range from a drug deal gone wrong to a trap for the man who has been the target of would-be killers for the past two years....
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Is shot bikie Vince Focarelli being protected by the Finks?
VINCE Focarelli's bedside business dealings since he was wounded and his son Giovanni killed in an ambush have been halted by his arrest. In between surgeries to remove a bullet fragment from his head and patch...
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Pushy bikie associates arrested for hindering police investigating Parafield Gardens firebombing
FIVE Hells Angels associates who pushed their way through a Parafield Gardens crime scene have been arrested. Operation Alpha detectives last night arrested four men aged 25, 21 and 19 from Parafield Gardens and a 22-year-old man from Thebarton. A fifth associate - a Walkley Heights man, 25 - was arrested this morning. The men were charged with hindering police after they forced their way past officers at a Parafield Gardens home on November 20, where a molotov cocktail was thrown. A fire broke out at this Parafield Gardens house after a molotov...
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Police ban bikie Vince Focarelli from South Australian pubs, clubs for two years
POLICE have banned jailed bikie Vince Focarelli from entering any of the state's 600 pubs and clubs for the next two years as they await the outcome of a bail application for the notorious gang member to be released from prison. Comanchero home movie Watch the YouTube video Giovanni Focarelli made to promote the Comanchero motorcycle gang. The Advertiser can reveal the highest-level barring order available to police was imposed on Focarelli on July 9, in a bid to help protect staff and patrons from being caught in any potential crossfire. Publicans were...
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Broken hearts as family and friends farewell Jason De Ieso
HUNDREDS of mourners stood on the steps of Newton's St Francis of Assisi Church to farewell Jason De Ieso - the latest casualty of Adelaide's vicious bikie wars and one of 23 people to meet with foul play in South Australia this year. A customised Harley-Davidson stood outside the church as De Ieso's family and friends bade farewell in an hour-long service for the 33-year-old, who died when gunmen stormed into Unique Custom Paint & Panel, Pooraka, and gunned him down in front of workmates on November 21. As the bells tolled, De Ieso's casket was carried out and placed in a waiting hearse before his final trip to nearby Payneham cemetery. There was no obvious bikie presence at...
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Broken hearts as family and friends farewell Jason De Iesso
HUNDREDS of mourners stood on the steps of Newton's St Francis of Assisi Church to farewell Jason De Ieso - the latest casualty of Adelaide's vicious bikie wars and one of 23 people to meet with foul play in South Australia this year. A customised Harley-Davidson stood outside the church as De Ieso's family and friends bade farewell in an hour-long service for the 33-year-old, who died when gunmen stormed into Unique Custom Paint & Panel, Pooraka, and gunned him down in front of workmates on November 21. As the bells tolled, De Ieso's casket was carried out and placed in a waiting hearse before his final trip to nearby Payneham cemetery. There was no obvious bikie presence at...
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Hells Angels and Finks feud linked to fatal shooting at Custom Paint and Panel at Pooraka
The fatal shooting of a man inside a northern suburbs spray painting business has been linked by police to a long-running feud between the Finks and Hells Angels. A special taskforce, Operation Alpha, has been established to investigate the shooting at Pooraka and several other incidents which are believed to be related. They include a brawl at a kickboxing event last Saturday, an attack by several men on a Salisbury North tattoo parlour yesterday and a molotov cocktail being thrown into a house at Parafield Gardens on Tuesday night. Police today revealed several men with firearms entered Custom Paint and Panel on Langford St, Pooraka, at 1.40pm yesterday and fired a number of shots before...
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Family yet to pay for Giovanni Focarelli's funeral
ONE year after Giovanni Focarelli was killed in a bikie shooting ambush, his gravesite remains unmarked - because his family has not paid the $5000 bill for his funeral. Giovanni, 22, was killed in a Sunday night suburban ambush of him and his father, alleged Comanchero leader and New Boyz founder Vince Focarelli, almost a year ago. Vince, who was not granted prison release to attend his son's traditional Muslim funeral, has applied for home detention bail in a matter to be heard this week. If the application is successful, it may mean his first chance to see the final resting place of his son, who died of gunshot wounds in...
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Fink bikie bashed at clubrooms on Middle Road, Salisbury North
A FINKS gang member has been treated at the Royal Adelaide Hospital for serious injuries after reportedly being bashed at the Outlaw...
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Finks bikie has multiple fractures after bashing at clubrooms on Middle Road, Salisbury North
A FINKS member is recovering from collapsed lungs, a broken jaw and facial fractures suffered in a violent assault by fellow gang members yesterday. Police and ambulance crews found the man, 45, at the Finks' northern clubrooms on Middle Row, at Salisbury, after he was bashed about 3.30pm. He was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital with serious injuries including collapsed lungs, a broken jaw and facial fractures. The man, from Paralowie, remains in a critical but stable condition at the RAH and is yet...
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Bikie to face court after allegedly breaching hotel barring orders
A BIKIE gang member will appear in court today for allegedly breaching hotel barring orders. The Manningham man, 29, was...
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Newman Government crackdown on bikies sends gangs running for cover, as Mongols make move into Australia
POLICE should be bracing themselves for notorious US motorcycle gang the Mongols to unleash their fury on Australian streets, a retired LA organised crime investigator warns. The Mongols are merging with the Australian Finks, further fuelling concerns outlaw motorcycle gangs are causing escalating violence. NEW LAWS: Gym staff targeted in crackdown CASUALTY: A motorcyclist in firing line of new laws GANGS: Newman's bikie gang hit list MUGSHOTS: 'Bikie brawlers' pictures BIKIE: The making of a Fink Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Department officer Richard Valdemar says Australian police should be very worried about the merger. Former Finks bikie Grant Gavin sports a freshly inked Mongols...
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