Stuart Leslie Wood: Ex bikie allegedly found with identity making equipment

A former Lone Wolf sergeant-at-arms was allegedly caught with equipment to create false driver’s licences.

A former Lone Wolf sergeant-at-arms has allegedly been found with printers and plastic used to create fake identifications.

Stuart Leslie Wood, 46, appeared in Tweed Heads Local Court on Thursday.

He pleaded guilty to charges of possessing prohibited drug, possessing unlawfully obtained goods and possessing house breaking implements.

The charges related to alleged offending in 2014.

Wood also pleaded not guilty to police pursuit, take knowingly stolen conveyance, drive unlicensed and display misleading plates relating to alleged offending on February 1, 2019.

He further pleaded not guilty to use vehicle displaying misleading plates, possess equipment to make identifying information, possess identifying information with intent to commit an indictable offence, knowingly possess identity plate on the wrong vehicle, dishonestly possessed interfered with unique identifier and possess goods suspected stolen relating to alleged offending from February 16, 2022.

It is understood Wood was previous a sergeant-at-arms with the Lone Wolf Motorcycle Club however left the club about 2014 after time in custody.

According to agreed facts, police found Wood hiding in a cupboard when they attended a room in the City Lights Motel at 7.55am on May 16, 2014.

Wood was handcuffed and searched.

Police found a NSW driver’s licence for Daryl Hill, a Medicare card for Robert Kimberley, a Queensland licence for Thomas Shirley and a Queensland licence and passport and other identity documents for Raymond Brookes.

Wood told police the ID was given to him by a friend who knew he was on the run from police in Queensland.

Wood was taken to the police station where officers found 0.55g of meth worth $350.

Wood said he took it with him because he didn’t want his girlfriend to find it.

Police also found a small homemade screwdriver with allen keys, a leatherman and a vibrating key ring in Wood’s car, which he said was used to break into cars.

Police further allege Wood was in a police pursuit in an allegedly stolen Toyota HiLux on February 2, 2019 in Murwillumbah between 11.58pm and 12.17am.

It’s further alleged he was unlicensed at the time and the car allegedly had a false WA licence plate which was paper printed and laminated.

Wood’s additional charges relate to allegedly using misleading licence plates attached to the wrong vehicle in Kingscliff, allegedly possessing a printer and adhesive plastic capable of making driver’s licence and number plates, allegedly possessing a driver’s licence and Medicare cards in the name of Edward Crosby-Goold and allegedly possessing a suspected stolen iPad.

In court defence lawyer Lucas Swan applied for Wood’s bail.

He told the court Wood had sustained a back injury working as a roof tiler which would make his time in custody more difficult than others.

He offered an acceptable person to pay a $10,000 surety, to report to police daily while living in a Laravale address, near Beaudesert, and to not enter the driver seat of any vehicle.

However police prosecutor Sergeant Nathan Lockett objected to the bail noting Wood’s history of evading police and apprehension.

“There’s an unacceptably high risk once he returns to Queensland he may not be seen in this jurisdiction for many years,” Sergeant Lockett said.

Magistrate Geoff Dunlevy agreed Wood was capable of evading police detection for significant periods of time.

He refused Wood’s bail application.