Ahmad Alameddine on the run as police arrest his partner Jade Heffer
An alleged member of the Alameddine crime clan is on the run and two women have been arrested a raid over firearms in Sydney’s southwest.
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An alleged member of the Alameddine crime clan has gone on the run through Sydney’s southwest, sparking a chaotic manhunt that led to his girlfriend and sister being arrested for allegedly helping him evade police.
Ahmad Alameddine is believed to have jumped the back fence when he noticed NSW Police on CCTV forming up outside his family home on Narelle Cres in Greenacre about 6am on Thursday to execute a Firearm Prohibition Order (FPO).
By the time State Crime Command Criminal Groups Squad and Raptor Squad officers got inside the home only his partner Jade Heffer and Alameddine’s relatives were there.
Officers soon noticed handprints on the dewy back fence and began a search for the 33-year-old, who they had planned to arrest and charge in relation to possessing two guns during a separate raid in June.
About 9.30am a man — believed to be Alameddine — was allegedly seen jumping back over the fence and into the backyard of his family’s home, before doing another leap over the fence and back out of the property when he saw police.
Over the next six hours Raptor Squad, Criminal Groups Squad, Public Order Riot Squad and local officers, with the assistance of PolAir and the dog squad, searched backyards, drains and streets throughout Greenacre and nearby suburbs.
Ms Heffer, the wife of slain Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, was regularly spoken to by police as the search progressed, and as she drove around the suburb herself.
Eventually, about 12.30pm, police arrested the petite blonde and Alameddine’s sister at a nearby service station.
In a statement, a NSW Police spokeswoman said: “Just before 1pm, two women — aged 28 and 35 — were arrested at a service station on Waterloo Rd.
“They were taken to Bankstown Police Station where they are expected to be charged with hindering the investigation.”
As police officers came and went from the Alameddine house, residents of Narelle Cres watched on, far from surprised.
Their small suburban street has been a hotbed for police activity in recent years, most recently last Wednesday when criminal defence lawyer Mahmoud Abbas — who lives on the street — was shot in the leg and torso.
That followed notorious underworld figure Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad being shot dead in the same street last April.
“Brownie” Ahmad had been leaving the home of his friend Ahmed Banat when he was shot dead last year.
Alameddine is understood to have been visited by police on Thursday morning in relation to an ongoing firearm investigation.
While he was not able to be arrested on Thursday morning, detectives did allegedly find a firearm, an underworld phone known as a dedicated encrypted criminal communication device (DECCD) and other items, including a 3D printer, inside his home.
Alameddine was in the headlines earlier this year after another early-morning raid in which he was arrested.
That raid was over a wild brawl at Westfield in Pitt St Mall in which six alleged members of the Alameddine crime clan were involved in a brawl due to internal tensions within the group.
Ali Elmoubayed, his brother Khaled Elmoubayed, and associates Samijan Azari and Alameddine, were alleged on one side of the brawl.
Those four men allegedly fought against former associates and cousins Mohammad and Zane Zreika, after the two groups had a chance run-in.
When police raided Alameddine’s partner Ms Heffer’s home on Friday, June 23, in relation to that Westfield brawl, they found Ali Elmoubayed, Azari and Alameddine inside.
Alameddine was charged with affray and failing to comply with digital evidence access order over the brawl and that raid.
He had to put up a $100,000 surety in order to be granted bail, which police will now allege he is in breach of.
Alameddine is next due back in court on that charge on August 11 at the Downing Centre Local Court. All five other men allegedly involved in the brawl also remain before the courts.
It is not suggested that anyone named above was involved in the shooting of Mahmoud Abbas or of “Brownie” Ahmad.