High-ranking bikie charged after search of unit
POLICE in western Sydney have charged an alleged high-ranking member of a brutal European-based bikie gang after allegedly finding a rife, weapons and drugs while searching a St Marys unit.
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POLICE in western Sydney have arrested an alleged high-ranking member of a brutal European-based bikie gang.
Strike Force Raptor police turned up to the 26-year-old member of the Satudarah gang’s St Marys home to serve him with a firearms prohibition order just before 8am yesterday.
And when they searched the unit they allegedly revealed a shortened .22 calibre rifle, ammunition, knuckle dusters containing a conducted electrical weapon; a ‘credit card knife’, methylamphetamine, and Satudarah club paraphernalia.
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The man who police allege is a high-ranking member of Satudarah and well known to them, was taken to Penrith Police Station and charged with possess shortened firearm (not pistol) without authority, possess ammunition without holding licence/permit/authority, possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit, possess prohibited drug, possess unregistered firearm-prohibited firearm, not keep firearm safely-prohibited firearm, possess unauthorised prohibited firearm, and supply prohibited drug.
He was refused bail to appear at Penrith Local Court today.
The gang, whose name means “one blood”, was founded in The Netherlands by Indonesian immigrants in 1990 and is considered more violent than rivals the Hells Angels in that country.
Police said a second resident of the home — a 26-year-old woman — would be given a Future Court Attendance Notice for the alleged possession of the knife.
Criminal Groups Squad Commander, Detectives Superintendent Deb Wallace said Satudarah networks in NSW were small, unsophisticated and quickly snuffed out.
“Because of their reputation in Europe, they’re extremely violent, we monitor them,” Supt Wallace said.
“These are very low-level criminals, not very sophisticated ... But every time they stick their head up, we’re cutting it off very quickly.”
She said the group attempted a “half-baked” expansion into Granville in Sydney in recent years, with blatant call-outs to new members on social media then in the New England region.
“We heard they were trying to expand into Glenn Innes and that never kicked off either, we were working with the locals up there.”
A court in The Hague declared the Satudarah an outlaw group throughout the Netherlands early this month.
The group has also attempted to set up chapters in Queensland, where police have also vowed to wipe the group out, classing them recently as an “identified organisation”.
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