Three Rebels bikies and one associate arrested over brutal home invasion and kidnapping
This is the dramatic footage which shows three Rebels motorcycle gang members and an associate arrested over a brutal NSW home invasion and a separate kidnapping. Now, one of the men have been named. WATCH THE ARREST VIDEO.
Three Rebels motorcycle gang members and an associate have been arrested over a brutal home invasion in the NSW Hunter Region nearly a year ago and a separate kidnapping.
In dramatic footage, one heavily tattooed man is forced to the ground as police raid a home.
The raid comes after police stopped a Ford Falcon sedan on Mount View Road, Cessnock, and spoke with five male passengers.
As a result, Jesse Hunt, 25, was refused bail at Cessnock Local Court yesterday, facing a string of charges including aggravated break and enter, inflicting actual bodily harm and detaining a person with the intent to obtain advantage.
Police allege Mr Hunt and the others broke into a Cessnock home on May 30 last year and assaulted a 24-year-old man, leaving him with serious head and ear injuries.
Mr Hunt was charged with aggravated break and enter, committing a serious indictable offence — inflicting actual bodily harm — taking/detaining a person in company with intent to obtain advantage, knowingly direct activities of a criminal group and two counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception.
Mr Hunt is due in the Cessnock Local Court on July 10.
The other men believed to be involved in the incident include a 27-year-old from Swansea, a 37-year-old Edgeworth man and a 24-year-old from Cessnock.
They are expected to face court for the first time today.
The 27-year-old was charged with aggravated break and enter, committing a serious indictable offence — inflicting actual bodily harm, knowingly participating in a criminal group assisting in crime and dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception.
The 37-year-old was charged with aggravated break and enter, committing a serious indictable offence — inflicting actual bodily harm, taking/detaining a person in company with intent to obtain advantage, dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and knowingly participating in a criminal group assisting in crime.
The 24-year-old man was charged with taking/detaining a person in company with intent to obtain advantage and knowingly participating in a criminal group assisting in crime.
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