Finks boss accused of violent home invasion kept in custody
A FINKS bikie boss accused of attacking a man with a tyre iron and threatening to kill his kids in a brutal home invasion has been kept behind bars.
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POLICE will sift through more than 15,000 conversations caught on listening devices and telephone intercepts as they prepare their case against a Finks bikie boss charged over a home invasion.
The force has so much material they asked the Melbourne Magistrates Court for longer than usual to prepare a brief of evidence.
Wearing a body-hugging white T-shirt, well-built bikie Brent Reker, with heavily tattooed face, head and arms, did not seek bail in a brief appearance in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
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Reker was remanded in custody to reappear in January.
The court heard the 33-year-old was taking a number of medications — Valium, lithium and Ventolin — to treat depression and anxiety, bipolar and asthma.
The court heard Reker, who has a 15-week-old son, was also suffering nose bleeds, had sustained a chest injury that may require surgery and was a risk of self-harm.
The bikie boss hit the headlines in May this year when his former home in Frankston was targeted in a drive-by shooting and has been working to establish the Finks as a force in Victoria.
He was charged as part of an investigation into a home invasion in Hampton Park.
Police allege Reker, in the company of accomplices, entered the home with a tyre iron and assaulted a person he knew at the premises.
Police claim he also threatened to kill his victim’s kids and another person.
Detectives from the anti-bikie Echo Taskforce charged Reker after he was arrested at his property in Karingal Drive, Frankston, shortly after 1.30pm on Wednesday.
During a search of the property police seized a handgun, ammunition, samurai sword, a range of drugs including methamphetamines, cocaine and steroids, outlaw motor cycle gang clothing and what are believed to be stolen war medals.
A stolen Range Rover was also seized from the property.
He was also served with a Firearm Prohibition Order.
Reker has been charged with 20 offences including aggravated home invasion, intentionally cause injury, make threats to kill, unlawful assault, Firearm Prohibition Order — fail to immediately surrender firearm and possess general category firearm.
He was also charged with possess cartridge ammunition, traffick methamphetamine, traffick cocaine, possess methamphetamine, possess cocaine, possess testosterone, possess prohibited weapon and commit indictable offence while on bail.