Car fire in Lockleys linked to recent bikie attacks, police say
A car has been torched in Adelaide’s western suburbs this morning, with police confirming it’s the latest incident in an ongoing bikie feud.
A car that was torched at a home in Adelaide’s western suburbs this morning has been linked to an ongoing bikie feud.
The car, a Holden Vectra sedan, was completely destroyed just after 4am today at a Douglas Ave home in Lockleys.
The house was not damaged and no one was injured.
Police believe the incident is part of an ongoing bikie feud that has resulted in five fires and two shootings across Adelaide this month.
The first incident was on Monday, August 5, when a vehicle was torched in St Clair.
Three days later, a food van parked on a property at Mile End was also torched, while just a day later a Marleston gym was fire bombed.
Last Monday, five shots were fired into a home in Ascot Park and, in the same week, a Seaton hair salon was fire bombed and a West Lakes home was also shot up on Friday.
At the weekend, The Advertiser exclusively revealed senior police believed former Mongols members, elements of the Comancheros and Hells Angels were involved in the feud.
The “tit-for-tat” incidents revolve around a “substantial’’ unpaid drug debt individuals linked to the Hells Angels owe to a crime figure, and other individual gang members attempting to assert their authority within the organised crime community.
On Friday, police raided nearly 30 properties over the escalating feud, arresting former Mongols bikie Pero Mileusnic and charging him with breaching home detention bail.
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