Hells Angels bikie Cooper Gavellas charged with detaining and intimidating woman

A Hells Angels bikie enforcer allegedly detained a woman, threatened her and forced her to deal drugs to collect a debt incurred by her ex-bikie former partner, a court has heard.

A Hells Angels enforcer has been refused bail after he allegedly kidnapped a woman over a perceived debt.

A Hells Angels bikie enforcer accused of kidnapping a woman and forcing her to deal drugs to pay off her ex’s debt allegedly said the gang would get what they were owed – money or blood, a court has heard.

Police will allege Cooper Gavellas, 24, was part of a violent effort to recoup a perceived debt to the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang through a former member’s ex-partner.

A police document tendered to Penrith Local Court alleged the woman had fled Sydney due to the gang’s earlier alleged attempts to enforce the debt.

Magistrate George Breton said police would allege Gavellas and two others had the woman in a room on June 2 when he allegedly grabbed a paint scraper and motioned towards her head.

“They then detained her and forced her into a car, travelling to various premises … ransacking people’s places with the intention to retrieve money from people who owed her through her drug supplies,” Mr Breton said.

Hells Angels colours recently seized by police.

Police will further allege the woman’s own property was ransacked and her mother – who has no association with the gang whatsoever – was also forcibly walked from her home by Gavellas to discuss the debt’s repayment.

The court heard this alleged interaction between Gavellas and the woman’s mother was captured on CCTV.

The court heard police will allege the woman had a years-long association with the Hells Angels but was ultimately forced to deal drugs under duress to pay the perceived debt.

“This is (allegedly) a lengthy period of detention, through which she was forced physically, subject to severe threats of violence and standover tactics,” Mr Breton said.

“(It is alleged Gavellas said) ‘we will get what is owed to us one way or another, money or blood, you can’t hide, we will find you’.”

Penrith Courthouse (AAP Image/ David Swift)

Gavellas now stands charged with two counts of taking and detaining a person to obtain an advantage, intimidation, participating in a criminal group and demanding with menaces.

The court also heard he had been on parole for aggravated break and enter offences at the time of the alleged kidnapping.

High-profile criminal solicitor Hisham Karnib applied for Gavellas to be released on conditions akin to house arrest with a $20,000 surety and a Central Coast address to move him away from the complainants.

A police prosecutor strongly opposed bail, saying Gavellas has been a participant in the Hells Angels and could not simply walk away from involvement in organised crime.

But Mr Breton was not satisfied any conditions could mitigate the potential risk Gavellas posed to the community and bail was refused.

The matter has been adjourned for six weeks to Newcastle Local Court.