Bandidos Gold Coast president Adam White lives with his parents, lawyer claims
UPDATE: Bandidos president, who apparently lives with his parents in Brisbane, has been banned from going near his gang's Gold Coast turf.
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HE MIGHT be the president of the Bandidos Gold Coast chapter, but a Brisbane magistrate has banned him from going anywhere near his bikie stomping ground.
Bandidos president Adam "Big Whitey" Christopher White, 25, was arrested by detectives from Taskforce Hydra following a search of his Carindale home on Saturday.
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He fronted Brisbane Magistrates Court today charged with possession of dangerous drugs and failing to properly dispose of syringes.
His girlfriend sat in the public gallery and blew kisses as White appeared before Magistrate John Costello from the prisoner's dock.
Magistrate John Costello granted him bail, subject to conditions, just before 3pm.
He said the prosecution had failed to demonstrate White was an unacceptable risk of re-offending should be be granted bail release.
He asked White to surrender his passport and banned him from going to Labrador, Southport and Surfers Paradise.
Prosecutor Sen-Sgt Mark Gorton said police who searched White's home, which he shares with his father, and found vials of testosterone as well as a number of used needles.
White was arrested and granted bail in Southport last week after being charged with riot over the alleged bikie brawl between the Bandidos and two Finks associates on September 27.
The court heard White had shared custody of an 18-month-old daughter and was recently made redundant.
Lawyer Sam Di Carlo, for White, said his client's alleged offending would usually only attract a fine "at best".
He said his client suffered from a psychological condition where he relied on steroids.
Mr Di Carlo said White had not contravened the bail conditions set for him in Southport, which included not returning to Broadbeach.
But Sen-Sgt Gorton said those bail conditions included not committing any further offences.
"It must be concerning to the community that a senior outlaw motorcycle gang member is using steroids to improve his physique," he said.
The court hear White was still serving an 18-month suspended jail sentence for possession of a pill press handed down in the Supreme Court in July last year.
He'll next front court on November 4.
Police have executed an all-out blitz on bikies and performed more than 30 arrests after they descended on the busy Aura Tapas and Loungebar beside senior Bandido Jacques Teamo late last month.
It was alleged Teamo and his supporters went inside to intimidate two men linked to the Finks when an all-out brawl was sparked in front of horrified holidaymakers at 8.37pm.
Earlier, it was reported the leader of a Gold Coast bikie gang has applied for bail after he was arrested for steroid possession at his home.
The Bandidos' Gold Coast chapter president Adam Christopher White, 25, fronted the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
Police raided his Carindale home on Saturday during a nationwide bikie crackdown and charged White with drug possession and failure to dispose of a syringe.
He was already on bail for his role in a violent public brawl on the Gold Coast last month which sparked a statewide crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs.
He is also on a suspended sentence for a drug conviction, the court heard.
Dressed in a brown prison-issued tracksuit, White did not speak from the dock.
His lawyer Sam Di Carlo told the court White lived with his parents and was getting counselling for steroid dependence.
The court heard White had shared custody of an 18-month-old daughter and was recently made redundant.
Mr Di Carlo said only a small amount of testosterone was involved and his client's time in custody over the weekend already exceeded the usual punishment for that crime.
Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Mark Gorton opposed bail, saying White had a criminal history and had committed an offence while on bail.
He said the Bandidos' member had shown he was an unacceptable risk of reoffending.
"It must be a worry to the community that a senior member of a criminal motorcycle gang is using steroids in order to improve his physique,'' he told the court.
Magistrate John Costello said he would consider the application and stood the matter down.
Meanwhile, fellow Bandido Ahmed Chebab Kaddour, 26, was granted bail by Mr Costello on the condition he hand in his passport and stay away from Broadbeach.
Kaddour fronted court from the prisoner's dock after being charged with riot last night.
Sen-Sgt Gorton said he'd been directed by the Deputy Police commissioner to ask for Kaddour's passport as "travel is one of the aspects that allows them to operate so freely".
He said he had a directive to apply for the passports of all criminal motorcycle gang members to be surrendered to stop them "plying international misery".
Mr Di Carlo said his client lived with his parents and until he was made redundant, had worked as an optical fibre technician.
He argued surrendering Kaddour's passport was unnecessary.
"It's a matter for Your Honour as a judicial officer... to make a decision on the law without any of the fervent uproar since this Broadbeach incident about what should happen and how it should happen, before the legislation has even passed," he said.
Mr Costello granted bail subject to the surrender of his passport and on the proviso Kaddour not return to Broadbeach.
He'll next front court on November 4.
In other news, police will get extra powers to help them enforce tough new laws targeting criminal motorcycle gangs, expected to be passed by State Parliament this week.
Heading into Cabinet this morning, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said it was his intention to introduce the laws to parliament tomorrow and have them passed by Thursday.
As well as more power and resources for police and the Crime and. Misconduct Commission, Mr Bleijie said the government would legislate to crush the bikes of criminal motorcycle gang members and refuse them bail.
"We are certainly going to have this fight with criminal motorcycle gang members," said Mr Bleijie.
"I've announced today we're going to be crushing the bikes, just as we're going to crush the criminal motorcycle gang enterprises, we're going to crush the bikes.
"This is a reform package that I'll be introducing to parliament this week and cabinet will have its final deliberations on this including recently announced bail changes where I've said that certainly criminal motorcycle gang members should be in jail not bail."
The decision to push the laws thorough parliament without review or examination by a parliamentary committee has angered civil libertarians and the Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland.
MRAQ President Chris Mearns said there could be no justification for bypassing the committee system.
"This procedure was put in place to prevent the potential for the excesses of a government that is able to dominate the single house of Parliament that Queensland has," said Mr Mearns.
"It is apparent that this current government has every intention to ignore this vital check and balance."
He said the MRAQ urged the government to reconsider any legislation that allowed police to target people just for using a legal means of transport (motorcycle).
"If you are going about your lawful business then you should have no worry of interference (by police)," Mr Mearns said.
In the first-ever national day of action against criminal motorcycle gangs, police around the country raided bikies at home, in their clubhouses, at their favourite pubs and even in their prison cells over the weekend.
Weapons, drugs and contraband were seized and 57 people were arrested during Saturday's Operation Patch blitz, including the Bandidos Gold Coast president Adam White, a Hells Angel at Nerang and the Rebels' president in Mount Isa.
White faced the Southport Magistrates Court on Friday charged with rioting over the Broadbeach bikie brawl and was back in custody on Saturday after police allegedly found steroids at a Carindale home.
He is expected to face the Brisbane Magistrates Court today to apply for bail.
The national operation will be the "first of many" said Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing, who is heading the $20 million Queensland crackdown.
"We've been assured by the Government they are very serious about the mission which is to eliminate criminal gangs from Queensland and we're assured we'll have that support," he said.
"This was a blitz to send a message that Queensland isn't going alone here, all jurisdictions are combining to reassure the public that we are taking this matter seriously and doing proactive enforcement."
Taskforce Takedown boss Superintendent Jim Keogh said the message was getting through and already eight gang members had handed in their colours while others were now lying low.
Police also checked on 125 bikies, already on bail for offences, to make sure they were complying with strict residential, curfew and non-association bail conditions.
The crackdown even extended into prisons as officers searched known gang members' cells, demanding random urine tests and even searching their visitors.
- reporting by Brooke Baskin, Robyn Ironside, Leah Fineran, AAP
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