OUTLAW motorcycle gangs like the Finks and the Bandidos could find themselves banned from their own clubhouses within weeks as the State Government moves to run them out of Queensland. New laws being drawn up in response to Friday’s violence on the Gold Coast include wide-ranging bans on bikies – from where they work to what they wear when they go out. Bikie target brags: No marks on my face Policewomen targeted in gang brawl Broadbeach brawl leads to war on bikies The legislative attack is designed to complement a police blitz on the Glitter Strip even bigger than the one that followed the slaying of Coast detective Damian Leeding. One hundred police reinforcements will be sent...
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Queensland Government to drive bikie gangs such as Finks and Bandidos out of their own clubhouses
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Rebels set off on national run to Perth
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Mongols gang leaders banned from talking to each other
THE Mongols bikie gang's top two members are now banned from talking to each other because police have taken unprecedented legal action to keep them apart. The Advertiser can reveal that Mongols president Andrew Majchrak has been slapped with a Consorting Prohibition Notice that bans him from any contact with notorious bikie Mark Sandery, the gang's sergeant-at-arms. Majchrak has also been served with another notice banning him from consorting with former Finks bikie Dylan Jessen - who has told the District Court he has not joined the Mongols in the recent "patch-over" of Finks members. While Majchrak is not contesting the notice concerning Jessen - who is in...
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Gold Coast bikie brawl: Police release mugshots of 30 accused
POLICE say these are the faces of bikie violence - men and women accused of the Broadbeach brawl. Every person pictured has been accused of taking part in the mass fight at Aura. All 30 are charged with serious charges of affray or riot, even the women. Love triangle triggered bikie brawl Pulled over just for being a bikie Bandidos pair banned from Coast Coast's next generation of bikies Some of the faces of the accused bikies in the Broadbeach...
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Police alert on former Finks bikie Mark Sandery's vow to hunt down rivals who shot ...
POLICE are monitoring the activities of former Finks bikie Mark Sandery following his release from prison. There are fears Sandery will seek revenge against rival Hells Angels bikies connected to the shooting of his 11-year-old son in a home invasion at his Semaphore home in September 2011 . Sandery has publicly vowed to exact revenge on those responsible for shooting his son , stating "We'll unturn every rock and we will find you, you f**king dogs.'' Police have charged...
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Gangs providing money and goods for jailed bikies
Dozens of bikies in jail are receiving money and goods from their former clubs, with authorities examining whether the inmates can be charged under proceeds of crime laws. The Hells Angels publish the details of members who are imprisoned across the world on their website and dub the inmates the ''big house crew''. Australian members of the crew include Melbourne CBD shooter Christopher Wayne Hudson and an Adelaide bikie alleged to have...
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Bikie gang the Finks will join with US group the Mongols to become a global ...
THE Gold Coast's most notorious bikie gang has brokered a deal with a US powerhouse gang in a deliberate push to become a global outlaw force. At least 90 per cent of the Finks nationwide will patch over and join with the Mongols to become arguably the most powerful outlaw gang in the country. Brokered in the past week, the deal includes the Finks handing in their club support gear and erasing or disguising club tattoos as they wait for official Mongol colours to arrive. The patch over almost the entire club is believed to be the largest ever seen in Australia and will see the Mongols become a major outlaw force of more than 400 members. The move will realise the Finks' goal to go global,...
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Why Adelaide's bikie gang continue to attract new membership
THEY arrive on foot, dressed in brightly-coloured hooded jumpers, tracksuit pants and sneakers. Hands in their pockets, the eight-man group strolls up the driveway of an automotive workshop and, in a split second, turn violent. Three men at the front of the group draw weapons from their pockets and fire into the Pooraka business, their shots killing an innocent man. Five others hang back a little, hands still in their pockets, shifting back and forth - out of excitement, possibly, or even nerves. One, dressed in red, covers his hooded ears with his hands to muffle the noise of gunfire and half-crouches, almost as if he is ducking. In seconds, it's over - the men at the back start running...
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Bikies face secret hearing to end Jason De Ieso execution silence
THE Australian Crime Commission's coercive hearings may be used by police investigating the bikie war execution of Jason De Ieso. The secret hearings - at which those called to appear are compelled to answer questions - have previously been used as part of police investigations into Adelaide's violent bikie feuds and their organised criminal activities, but never in a murder inquiry. Assistant Commissioner (Crime) Paul Dickson would not comment at length on the use of the...
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Why Adelaide's bikie gangs continue to attract new membership
THEY arrive on foot, dressed in brightly-coloured hooded jumpers, tracksuit pants and sneakers. Hands in their pockets, the eight-man group strolls up the driveway of an automotive workshop and, in a split second, turn violent. Three men at the front of the group draw weapons from their pockets and fire into the Pooraka business, their shots killing an innocent man. Five others hang back a little, hands still in their pockets, shifting back and forth - out of excitement, possibly, or even nerves. One, dressed in red, covers his hooded ears with his hands to muffle the noise of gunfire and half-crouches, almost as if he is ducking. Murder victim Jason De Ieso. Image supplied by SAPOL by...
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Family of Jason De Ieso plea for help to find men who shot him
POLICE have released CCTV images of a group of men entering a workshop in Adelaide's northern suburbs moments before the shooting murder of custom spraypainter Jason De Ieso. Major Crime detectives hope the vision and a recent offer of a $500,000 reward, will bring forward witnesses who can identify the nine men captured on the CCTV cameras on November 21 last year. Watch the video here The vision shows the suspects - believed to be Hells Angels and their associates- running from the scene seconds after a number of shots were fired inside the Pooraka workshop, killing Mr De Ieso. Police believe the murder is linked to a dispute between the Finks and the Hells Angels motorcycle gangs. Still...
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Vince Focarelli appeals to Department of Corrections to let him attend son Giovanni's funeral
SHOT gangland figure Vince Focarelli is now relying on the Department of Corrections to allow him to attend the funeral of his eldest son. Focarelli, 37, of Wattle Park, appeared in the Supreme Court via phone link with the Royal Adelaide Hospital this morning to review a Magistrate's refusal to grant him bail. Today, Justice Ann Vanstone agreed with the Magistrate's ruling and denied Focarelli release on bail even for a few hours to attend the funeral, which is believed will be held tomorrow. "There is a risk of further offending if Mr Focarelli were to be released," Justice Vanstone said. "There is also the question of his safety and the safety of the community,...
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Top cop's warns outlaw bikies, 'we have a gang too'
Exclusive Superintendent Brett Guerin. Photo: Wayne Taylor Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay describes Brett Guerin as a ''hard-nosed investigator'', which is just as well because he is about to stick it into places where it will be most unwelcome. Superintendent Guerin has been moved from the Crime Department to take over the Razon liquor taskforce with one instruction - ''Take on the bikies.'' ''We are going to let him loose on the nightclubs to get a far better understanding on the security side of things and links back to organised crime. You will see some fire-works down there in four to five weeks,'' Mr Lay told Fairfax Media. For years the Razon taskforce has tried to work hand in...
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Finks bikies set to take Queensland Police to court
FINKS bikies are taking the Queensland Police Service to the High Court, fighting a move to have the gang outlawed . Lawyers for the Finks on Monday lodged a High Court appeal against police attempts to have the gang's Gold Coast chapter declared a criminal organisation. The move comes two months after police used Queensland's anti-bikie laws for the first time to launch Supreme Court action against the Finks and...
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Fourth South Australian Finks bikie arrested over club bashing
A FINKS bikie was arrested this morning for the savage bashing of a senior colleague at the outlaw motorcycle gang's clubrooms at Middle Row, Salisbury, in February. The 41-year-old is the fourth man arrested by outlaw Crime Gangs Task Force detectives. The bikie from Mile End has been charged with aggravated...
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Police show force around Bandidos bikies clubhouse in West End, Brisbane
POLICE have descended on the Bandidos bikies clubhouse in West End. in inner Brisbane as the war on bikies ramps up. A patched member of the Bandidos has been arrested near the West End club house tonight over his alleged involvement in last week's Gold Coast bikie brawl. Police have swarmed on Kurilpa St and Montague Rd this evening in a show of force against the outlaw motorcycle gang. Acting Chief Superintendent Jim Keogh said police "were of the understanding that Bandidos were coming to the clubhouse tonight." "As a result, we have arrested one offender here who we believe was involved in the melee down the Gold Coast on Friday night," he told reporters. He said the...
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Crime and Misconduct Commission gets $7m funding boost and more powers to take on bikies
BIKIES could soon find themselves hauled before the Crime and Misconduct Commission's star chamber under a plan to give the CMC more money and power. Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie has announced the CMC will be given a $7 million funding boost and have its powers broadened to make it easier for the watchdog to call outlaw motorcycle members before a star chamber hearing in order to gather intelligence rather than after a referral from police or other agencies. “The changes will give the CMC more powers and make it easier for it to use those powers,” Mr Bleijie said. FACES OF FEAR: Mugshots of accused bikie brawlers MOTIVE: Love triangle triggered bikie brawl POWERS: Pulled over...
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Missing woman Rachael Moritz' mum's plea: Show us you're alive
THE mother of missing woman Rachael Moritz has made an emotional plea for her daughter to send her a sign she is alive. Her plea came as police revealed her stolen car was used in a bikie murder. Corinna Smith said she could live with her youngest daughter, 20, never coming home, so long as she heard from her and knew that any contact made was not a hoax call. "You ring me, Rachael . . . or send me a message," Ms Smith said. "Tell me the name of the toy you lost when you were a child and I'll know that it is you and you are alive. "Think about home. Think about the conversations we had in the lead-up to your disappearance. Think about your family, your life...
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Bikie bans dangerous to enforce, say Adelaide restaurant owners
BEFORE closing for Christmas renovations, Rigoni's Bistro kept a list of police orders banning bikies from entering the premises. But Rigoni's Bistro proprietor Tony Bailey says he's now given up trying to enforce the mounting orders. With the Leigh St restaurant due to re-open tomorrow after Christmas renovations, the number of orders has grown to almost 80 since 34 before the closure. "You look at them and think, `we're supposed to enforce this'?" Mr Bailey said....
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European alert as Australian bikies expand
AUSTRALIAN bikie gangs are aggressively expanding overseas and creating havoc for international authorities who fear violent inter-group conflicts and a boost in drug and arms trafficking. A memo circulated by the European law enforcement agency, Europol, said the arrival of the Rebels and the Comancheros was causing tension with established outlaw motorcycle gangs in Europe. The increasing concentration of gangs in Europe has the potential to escalate into extreme violence akin to the Nordic biker wars of the 1990s, in which 11 people were...
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