Bandidos bikies face jail for walking to Adelaide CBD together

A group of bikies are all facing jail time after a festive-season walk to an Adelaide CBD liquor store for booze.

Three members of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang are facing imprisonment. Picture: Chris Kidd

Three Bandidos bikies are facing jail after they walked together to a CBD bottle shop and spent half an hour browsing inside – breaching SA’s tough anti-association laws, a court has heard

On Wednesday, Cameron Zadow, 24, Michael Andrew Resetar, 35, and Nathan Brook Englander, 35, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court for sentencing submissions.

The court heard the men were part of two groups, some of whom were staying in the Adelaide CBD, and walked to the BWS liquor store on Gilbert St on December 23, 2023.

The men then spent 30 minutes inside the store, shopping and speaking with one another.

The group then walked back to the hotel room.

A group of six men were arrested and charged with breaching anti-bikie legislation.

The court heard the group of men attended to the BWS liquor store on Gilbert St together – which breached South Australian law. Picture: AAP Image/Dan Peled

SA laws ban three or more members of a declared criminal organisation from being present in a public place, with a penalty of up to three years’ jail.

The men were charged under Section 83GC (1) of the criminal law consolidation act, which declares ten motorcycle clubs as criminal organisations in SA.

The three men pleaded guilty to one count of being present with two or more criminal organisation participants.

The court heard the time spent in BWS was the first time some of the men had met.

Magistrate Justin Wickens clarified that, had the group travelled to the BWS in a car, they would not have committed a crime by walking to the store together – it would have been only the time spent inside the store that was illegal.

Prosecutors told the court they were seeking for the court to impose an order banning the men from communicating with other members of OMCGs and the Bandidos.

Craig Caldicott, for Resetar of Murray Bridge, asked the court that his client served any jail time on home detention, but did not make submissions Resetar should receive a suspended sentence.

Rachel Regester, for Zadow of Murray Bridge, said there was no suitable home detention address because he worked full-time as a farm hand, and electronic signals did not reach the farm where he resided.

Tahlia Penn, for Englander of Aldinga Beach, told the court her client was in custody on a range of matters, but his matter could be resolved with time served.

Prosecutors asked the court that all the men receive a non-contact clause in their sentence to bar them from communicating with other members of outlaw motorcycle gangs or other Bandidos.

The court heard another member of the group who had been sentenced previously had received a communication ban for three months – but the maximum the court could impose was two years.

The three men will be sentenced in April.