Northern and southern end of the Gold Coast prime recruiting areas for feeder gangs for bikies

A NOTORIOUS bikie gang is rebuilding across Australia — and unemployed Gold Coast teenagers are considered easy targets.

Police on a bikie gang border blitz in 2013.

BABIE bikies are back on the Gold Coast, creating havoc in the city’s north and being targeted as a feeder gang in the south.

The Bulletin has been told the Mongols bikie gang is rebuilding across Australia, seeking out youth feeder gangs and considers teenage unemployed on the border as easy to recruit.

Meanwhile, a new gang called ‘Street Team Brotherhood 4209’, which appears to have close links to the Rebels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, has emerged around Upper Coomera.

Young members have been photographed wearing “SYLR” T-shirts, a popular logo which stands for “Support Your Local Rebels”.

Street Team Brotherhood is a youth gang on the northern Gold Coast, believed to be a target for bikies recruiting. Photo: Facebook

Concerns about the Mongols have been sparked by evidence in Melbourne where a Children’s Court was told how two notorious youth gangs renowned for violent carjackings were linked to the gang.

Bikie sources on the Coast warn an Australia-wide recruiting drive by the Mongols will focus on Queensland in the wake of Labor dumping the tough VLAD laws.

Police in 2013 launched a crackdown on the Coast’s southern end where “baby bikies” from the Gold Coast Brotherhood (GCB) and Soldiers of Islam had emerged following on from gangs like the Palmy Army and Coomicubs.

“The Coomicubs on the Tweed were really harnessed by the Lone Wolves. Gold Coast Brotherhood was feeding into the Nomads,” a bikie source said.

The southern Gold Coast is prime youth feeder gangland for bikies.

“Here on the Coast the Mongols didn’t have a feeder club. The areas of recruitment are your jails and feeder groups. For the Mongols, the Tweed will definitely be a source of feeder groups.”

Police know the bikie gangs target youths about 16 who have left school and are on the street.

The typical pattern on the Glitter Strip has been for the runaway youths to earn their colours by working on minor drug deals and debt collection.

Albert MP Mark Boothman said youth crime had exploded in the Upper Coomera area and police resources were not strong enough to respond.

“It is a massive problem for us to have youths acting in this way, they are brazen and appear to be trying to outdo one another,” Mr Boothman said.

“Local police tell me bikies are targeting young gang members and kids involved in these groups are big targets.”

Albert MP Mark Boothman is aware of a youth crime wave in his electorate.

Dr Terry Goldsworthy, a former senior Coast detective and criminologist at Bond University, said police could still launch a crackdown on youth gangs because the laws had yet to change on recruitment of bikies.

“Some of the laws are not repealed until late 2018. The police still have the powers to arrest if they (the bikies) are recruiting. But we haven’t seen any arrests for recruitment over the last three years.”

Dr Terry Goldsworthy from Bond University. Pic by Richard Gosling

Taskforce Maxima commander Detective Superintendent Michael Niland said yesterday detectives were aware of bikie gangs targeting youth in the Gold Coast area.

“As always we do our best to constantly monitor all the activities of any criminal gangs known to us,” he said.