MONSTR founder Shane Ross found dead in Gold Coast park
MONSTR clothing founder and bikie Shane Ross has been found dead in a park a week after he was convicted for his part in a sophisticated luxury car fraud operation. Police are treating his death as suspicious.
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MONSTR clothing founder and bikie Shane Ross has been found dead a week after he was convicted for his part in a sophisticated fraud operation run out of south western Sydney.
Ross’ body was found in a Gold Coast park today and police are treating it as suspicious.
Shane Ross hadn’t been seen since his friend Cameron Martin died in a fatal car crash on the Gold Coast on Friday night.
Ross was found guilty for his role in the alleged luxury car fraud syndicate at Campbelltown District Court on Tuesday.
He was sentenced to a 18 month intensive corrections order, which is a term of imprisonment served in the community.
Ross was involved in the syndicate which used fake identification secure loans to buy luxury cars including Mercedes Benz AMG, Holden Commodore GTS and Holden HSV Club Sport, before onselling them for profit.
The syndicate believed it had discovered a loop hole, by paying the first three repayments they thought the balance on the loan would be a civil lawsuit not criminal.
Police alleged the syndicate stole more than $4 million worth of cars.
A 2016 Ford Ranger 4WD worth $71,000 that was obtained by the syndicate was found at 36-year-old Ross’ Coomera home with a Monstr sign on it in June.
Police claimed the syndicate was ran out of Campbelltown by convicted accomplice Macquarie Fields panelbeater Hilal Merhi, Coomera man Scott Stoneman and Sans Souci man Mohama Alameddine.
Ricky Lee Syned was also convicted and planed on a 18-mont community correction order.
A large group of detectives are on scene combing through Martin Sheils Park in Burleigh Heads where the body was found.
The body was found about 1.30pm today, in bushland on the corner of the Pacific Highway and Tallebudgera Creek Road.
Detectives are investigating the man’s possible links to Martin’s death.
A crime scene has been established and the investigation is focused on a site underneath the Pacific motorway near the water.
A woman who lives close to the area had told the media and police officers that on Friday evening she heard two bursts of what she believed to be gun shots.
Shortly after she heard sirens rushing to the area.
“It was two successions, like bang, bang, bang, and then again,” the woman told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
“We heard ambulances rush past. I said to my husband that sounded like gun shots.
“We then thought it was from the crash – it was all the same time.
“I was driving home from work, I saw the police and thought I should tell them.”
The woman who had lived in the area for two decades said she is “shaken”.
“I couldn’t believe it.”
Originally published as MONSTR founder Shane Ross found dead in Gold Coast park