Alex Miller: former Nomads bikie denied bail on drug and driving charges
Alex Miller, the former sergeant-at-arms of the Nomads’ Canberra chapter, has been refused bail after a police search allegedly turned up drugs, cash and a knife in his car.
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Top former Nomads bikie and self-professed male prostitute Alexander Victor Miller has landed back behind bars on remand after being arrested on drug and driving charges.
Miller, 30, fronted the ACT Magistrates Court by video link on Wednesday following a night in the Canberra police lockup, where he was refused bail on a string of drug and driving charges.
The former sergeant-at-arms of the Canberra chapter of the Nomads briefly went missing in unexplained circumstances in April, prompting “grave concerns” for his life and a public appeal for help finding him.
The disappearance followed The Canberra Star revealing that Miller, had plotted to overthrow the Nomads’ national president, Mick Clarke, a plan which he said had the backing of the gang’s Blacktown and Melbourne chapters but which never came to fruition.
Miller has since been booted from the Nomads, according to police.
Bikie sources say Miller is the subject of ridicule among Canberra’s bikie gangs, both for disgracing the Nomads by publicly claiming to be a male prostitute, and for his failed plot to overthrow the powerful Mr Clarke.
ACT police said in a statement that Miller was pulled over shortly before 11am on Tuesday on suspicion of driving disqualified.
“Police conducted a search of the vehicle and located drugs, a sum of cash and a knife,” the statement said.
Miller appeared by video link, wearing a Tommy Hilfiger jumper and a pair of short shorts.
He did not enter pleas and did not apply for bail, which Magistrate Glenn Theakston formally refused.
He is charged with driving disqualified, possessing a prohibited substance, possessing tainted cash, drug trafficking, drug possessing and possessing a knife without a reasonable excuse.
Court records show Miller has been the target of ongoing police surveillance, including the use of listening bugs.
Police allege Miller’s self-confessed employment as a male prostitute is a clever ruse to cover for the large amounts of cash he has been arrested with, which they suspect of being the proceeds of drug trafficking.
Miller returns to court on July 8.