Eamon Mulgrew, Brent McCaffrey, Mitch McPhail: Finks bikies avoid jail

The inner dynamics of the Finks in western Sydney have been revealed as three members – including one who moonlights as a model – were sentenced for a wild extortion plot.

Three Finks bikies were involved in a wild extortion attempt against a pawn shop owner with one telling the terrified business owner he’d “burn his f****** shop down”.

Brent McCaffrey, vice president of the Lower Mountains chapter, threatened the owner of Cashline Pawnbrokers in Riverstone in an attempt to acquire bikie chains and jewellery cashed in by a departing member who was trying to pay his way out of the gang.

Along with McCaffrey, Lower Mountains Finks president Eamon Mulgrew and sergeant-at-arms Mitchell McPhail were charged over the incident earlier this year.

Eamon Mulgrew, the president of the Finks Lower Mountains chapter and part-time male model.

Three senior Finks OMCG members charged over alleged extortion attempts – Raptor Squad, Thursday, 03 June 2021 Picture: NSW Police via NCA NewsWire

The police fact sheet tendered to court states former bikie Corey Agius had been trying to get out the Finks and had gone to the Garfield Road pawnbrokers in an attempt to gather money for the $100,000 release payment.

In early April he sold a diamond cut bracelet and necklace and then later a boat and a motorbike, the fact sheet states.

Police allege on April 27 McCaffrey, Mulgrew and McPhail visited the pawnbroker and Mulgrew accused the owner of being a drug dealer.

They then visited the following day and told the broker the necklace and bracelet was “club’ property”.

Former bikie Corey Agius, who has not been charged with any offences.

Mulgrew then asked to see the shop’s computer records, which he did out of fear.

The owner told the trio it would cost $8000 to get the necklace and bracelet back, at which point McCaffrey said: “We are happy to work with you, we just want our club chains.

“If you don’t work with us, you’ll have 30 blokes down here or we will burn your f****** shop down.”

The following day McCaffery attended the pawnbroker alone, and demanded he sell the boat and motorcycle to recover the money he would lose on the jewellery.

The owner was under the impression he wouldn’t be harmed if he did what he was told, the police facts state.

One of the men being arrest. Pic: NSW Police

He then sold the boat and handed the bracelet to McCaffery.

McCaffrey visited him a day later and said he needed the necklace as his state president wanted it. It was subsequently handed to McCaffrey the next day.

The extortion was unravelled when Agius called McCaffrey, unaware there was a police tap on his phone.

Some of the items found by police after they raided homes in relation to the extortion.

McCaffrey told Agius on the phone call: “Listen, make sure he doesn’t f****** go to the police, he’ll f*** me and Eamon over,” to which Agius replied. “What can he say?”

Police then intercepted a McCaffrey call where he informed a male associate that he was in possession of a 4-10 shotgun and a 12 gauge shotgun.

On June 2 Raptor cops searched McCaffrey’s property and found a number of mobile phones, car keys and small resealable bags containing what is believed to be cannabis seeds.

They also found a sawn off 4-10 shotgun inside a door cavity located in close proximity to the shed.

Located within a caravan on the property were multiple rounds of spent ammunition as well as a live round.

McCaffrey was then arrested and taken to Windsor police station.

In court on Tuesday, Magistrate Brian van Zuylen said the charges were “serious ” and that while he is a “risk to the community” the risk isn’t “substantial”.

More of the items seized by police.

the raids uncovered a Finks treasure trove.

McCaffrey pleaded guilty t Blacktown Court this week to demanding property in company with menaces with intent to steal, stalk or intimate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm, participate in criminal group and contribute to criminal activity, not keep firearm safely and possession of an unregistered firearm and a shortened firearm.

He was sentenced to a 15 month intensive corrections order.

St Mary’s man McPhail and Mulgrew, who moonlights as a male model when he isn’t leading the Finks, also pleaded guilty to similar charges and were handed one-year intensive correction orders.

As part of the pair’s sentencing their ties to the Finks have effectively been cut off after the magistrate also ordered they no longer associate with each other or anyone else linked to the gang.