Listed: 23 South Australian bikies and ex-bikies who have been banned from gun ownership
The number of current and former outlaw motorcycle gang members on the state’s firearms ban register is on the rise. See the list.
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Across South Australia, there are hundreds of people deemed too dangerous to own a gun – ranging from teens caught doing the wrong thing through to those who make a living out of crime.
According to the Firearms Prohibition Order Public Access Register, there are currently 750 South Australians banned from owning guns.
There are many reasons someone may be prohibited from owning a firearm, but the Firearms Act lists one of those reasons as if a person is a known member or associate of gangs or declared criminal organisations.
That means known bikies are banned from owning firearms in accordance with legislation, as outlaw motorcycle gangs are declared criminal organisations.
Someone with a prohibition order is banned from possessing a firearm, firearm parts or ammunition. They are also banned from being in the company of anyone else that holds a firearm.
Not all people served with an order have committed a crime.
Under the act, an individual can be issued with an order if “possession of a firearm by the person would be likely to result in undue danger to life or property” or “the person is not a fit and proper person to possess a firearm, and that it is in the public interest that a firearms prohibition order should apply to the person”.
Some outlaw motorcycle gang members and associates listed on the register cannot be named for legal reasons.
THE BIKIES AND EX-BIKIES BANNED FROM OWNING GUNS
Daniel Abrahamson
Comanchero bikie Daniel Abrahamson was spared jail in 2023 for headbutting a man at an Adelaide pub before chasing a security guard.
The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to assault causing harm and fighting over the incident at the Cumberland Arms Hotel on March 21, 2021.
Magistrate Lynette Duncan said the drunken fight in the early hours of the morning started when the pub closed.
A line-up of people was waiting to leave the venue and Abrahamson and a female friend cut the line to exit.
Abrahamson was sentenced to three months and three weeks in prison, suspended once he entered into a good-behaviour bond.
He was also banned from owning a firearm on January 1, 2023.
Peter Keith Stacy
Peter Keith Stacy, 44, a longstanding Hells Angels member, has been one of the faces of the club’s battle against the state government to regain control of its rural stronghold at Ponde on the River Murray.
Stacy, a co-director of Disorganized Developments, which owns the Hells Angels’ longtime home away from home, has been banned from owning a firearm since February 20, 2020.
John Peter Lord Stacy
John Stacy was arrested at what a court heard was an “annual” meetup in a cemetery last year.
During a bail hearing, his lawyer told the court the prosecution had arisen out of the “attendance by a group of Mr Stacy and his friends in the Hells Angels club that happens every year at the cemetery at Centennial Park, and on this particular year for reasons that are not yet clear, police have decided to prosecute them.”
He has been charged with being present with two or more criminal organisation participants and is yet to enter pleas, but has been banned from owning a firearm since April 24, 2020.
Terry Ian Polley
A long serving member of the Hells Angels in Adelaide, Polley, 63, has been banned from owning a firearm since July 14, 2015.
The decades-long Hells Angels member was one of 13 Hells Angels arrested in January last year and charged with breaking South Australia’s strict anti-association laws.
Daryl John Polley
Daryl John Polley, 62, Terry’s younger brother, has been affiliated with the notorious bikie gang for decades.
He was also banned from owning a firearm on July 14, 2015.
Vincenzo Focarelli (AKA Imran Salaam)
Vince Focarelli, 50, who is now known as Imran Salaam, was a well-known face of the bikie wars that gripped Adelaide throughout the 2000s.
After forming the street gang New Boys in 2007 after leaving the Hells Angels while a prospect, he headed up the new Adelaide chapter of the now powerful Comanchero before being stripped of his presidency because of internal disputes.
He was banned from owning a firearm less than four months after his son Giovanni was shot dead in January 2012.
Hussain Alzuain
Husain Alzuain, 37, was one of seven Hells Angels-linked men who was found guilty of the shooting murder of Jason De Ieso in 2023.
During the trial, the court heard he had been the sergeant at arms of the gang’s North Crew.
He was issued with a firearms prohibition order in February 2010, two years before Mr De Ieso was gunned down amid an escalating bikie war between the Hells Angels and Finks in 2011.
During the trial, the court heard he became a gang prospect between February and May 2010 and a full member around March 2011.
He and all others found guilty at trial are currently appealing both the conviction and their sentences.
Mohamed Alzuain
Husain’s younger brother Mohamed Alzuain, 33, was also found guilty of Mr De Ieso’s murder and was also issued with a firearms prohibition order, but not until June 2015 – after he ended his membership with the Hells Angels.
During the trial the court heard he became a gang prospect around July 2012 and a full member about a year later.
His membership ended in November 2014. Both men have lodged appeals against both their convictions and sentences imposed.
Ross Montgomery
The eldest of the seven Hells Angels-linked men found guilty of murdering Jason De Ieso is Ross Montgomery, 40.
An agreed fact provided to the jury during the trial stated that he became a gang “hangaround” sometime before November 4, 2012.
He then became a prospect before late March 2013 and a full member between October 5, 2013, and January 13, 2014.
His firearms ban came into effect in November 2019, a few months after his August 2019 arrest.
Like each of the men found guilty, Montgomery has also since lodged an appeal against conviction and sentence.
Daniel Jalleh
Daniel Jalleh, 35, is another of the seven Hells Angels-linked men found guilty of the murder of Jason De Ieso.
At trial the court heard he became a gang prospect in January 2012, and a full member of the gang about a year later.
He was issued with a firearms prohibition order in September 2015.
He has also since lodged an appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Nicholas Sianis
Nicholas Sianis, 38, was confirmed as a Hells Angels North Crew prospect in the weeks prior to the murder of Jason De Ieso in November 2012.
He was among the seven men found guilty of the murder, but has also since lodged appeals against conviction and sentence.
During the trial the court heard he went on to become a full member on or about January 16, 2013. He was added to the firearms prohibition list in September 2015.
Tobias Sahlstorfer
Hells Angels member Tobias Sahlstorfer, 36, was found guilty of murdering an innocent man in 2017 and is currently serving a 23 year minimum prison sentence.
During the trial the court heard Sahlstorfer was alleged to be the “main protagonist” in the fatal bashing of innocent man Mark Boyce in 2017.
Another man, Joshua Roy Grant, was earlier found guilty of murdering Mr Boyce at an earlier trial.
Sahlstorfer, who has distinctive Hells Angels and one per cent tattoos inked across his face, was added to the firearms prohibition order register in September 2018.
Mark Barford
Descendants bikie Mark Barford, 61, was sentenced to more than three years imprisonment in 2022 after police found a revolver and methamphetamine at his northern suburbs home.
Police had attended to serve Barford with a Firearms Prohibition Order when he told his son to flush the gun, disguised as a Christmas present, down the toilet.
Barford has been banned from owning a firearm since the day of that arrest on December 14, 2019.
Benjamin Adam Boin
Benjamin Boin, 44, was one of eight Descendants bikies spared jail over his role in a vicious car yard brawl in June 2020.
Boin did not plead guilty to affray but did plead guilty to breaking SA’s strict anti-association laws, which prohibit three or more bikies to gather in public. Boin has been banned from owning a firearm since August 10, 2019.
Graham Daniel Young
A convicted killer, Graham Daniel Young, 48, was linked to the Hells Angels during court hearings related to drug and blackmailing offences in 2015.
The sentencing judge said while Young had made efforts to distance himself from the gang, it was not clear if he had completely broken ties.
He was banned from possessing a firearm in January 2020.
Nicholas Anthony Doublet
Nicholas Anthony Doublet, 34, is another of the eight Descendants bikies spared jail over the June 2020 car yard brawl.
Doublet pleaded guilty to affray and being present with two or more participants of a declared criminal organisation for his part in the incident.
Doublet has been banned from owning a firearm since June 26, 2022
Ethan Ericson
Comanchero Ethan Ericson, 28, was jailed in 2023 for shooting a rival Hells Angels bikie’s home in June 2022.
In sentencing, Judge Geraldine Davison said Ericson had joined the Comanchero while incarcerated for earlier offences in 2019 and had offended within months of serving a prison term.
Ericson has been banned from owning a firearm since he was jailed on February 2, 2023.
Alexander Michael Ilich
Rock Machine president Alexander Michael Ilich, 46, was jailed for 12 years in 2020, dismantling the little-known club’s leadership.
Ilich was arrested for having a Glock self-loading handgun at his Athol Park home as well as more than a kilo of methamphetamine, ammunition and $21,000 in cash.
Rock Machine emerged about eight years ago.
The gang was founded in Canada where it received international attention for a bitter and bloody war with the Hells Angels that claimed 160 lives over eight years.
Ilich has been banned from owning a firearm since December 15, 2009.
Matthew Aaron Pepper
Descendants bikie Matthew Aaron Pepper, 40, unsuccessfully applied to have his Firearms Prohibition Order overturned by the courts in 2015.
He was one of eight Descendants bikies spared jail over the June 2020 car yard brawl.
His Firearms Prohibition Order, which was issued on June 16, 2015, remains in place.
Jordan Mackie
Another Descendants bikie who avoided jail for his part in the 2020 car yard brawl, Jordan Mackie, 29, has been banned from owning a firearm since March 3, 2023.
In sentencing Mackie over the brawl in 2021, Magistrate Simon Smart said the bikie could be seen to be “using a hammer to strike another”.
Dion Jay Madden
The former Nomads chapter president’s jailing was one of the final nails in the coffin for the bikie gang’s operations in SA.
Thrown behind bars for commercial drug trafficking and money laundering, Dion Jay Madden, 44, will be eligible for parole in August 2028.
He has been banned from owning a firearm since April 22, 2022.
Zoran Nikolic
A target of multiple drive-by shootings, Zoran Nikolic, 58, played a pivotal role in the bikie wars which raged across Adelaide between 2008 and 2011.
He was added to the firearms prohibition register in August 2014.
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