Comancheros and Rebels refuse to hold peace talks as bikie tit-for-tat attacks continue

OUTLAW bikies from the feuding Comancheros and Rebels have refused to hold peace talks to ease tensions between the clubs.

Comancheros and Rebels have refused to hold peace talks to ease tensions between the clubs. Picture: AAP/Dean Lewins

OUTLAW bikies from the feuding Comancheros and Rebels have refused to hold peace talks to ease tensions between the clubs.

The stand-off, which follows a series of violent incidents in October, including bashings and a firebombing, has led to increased surveillance by the anti-bikie Echo taskforce.

The Taskforce detectives are investigating a shooting in Thomastown on November 29.

It is believed a number of shots were fired at a house on Marlock Close about 12.45am, injuring a woman in her 30s.

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The Herald Sun understands the shooting was aimed at a Rebel member.

The woman received non-life-threatening injuries to her leg and was taken to hospital.

Detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and are keen to speak to any witnesses.

The shooting occurred despite a flurry of police activity on November 17 with up to half a dozen arrests.

The Rebels and Comancheros have refused to hold peace talks to ease tensions between the clubs.

The highlight for police was netting an associate of the Comancheros, Chris Hamilton, who was allegedly found with 2.2 kilos of cocaine and methamphetamine, known as ice, with a street value of $300,000 to $400,000.

Hamilton was intercepted by police on the Hume Hwy south of Wodonga and heading towards Melbourne in a rented Hyundai Accent.

He has been charged with a possessing a large commercial quantity of drugs and remanded in custody.

His arrest came on the same night warrants were executed by police across Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs.

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The raids also came the same day as Yoshan Vincent, who was caught with a military grade Russian grenade in his Blackburn South home along with guns and ammunition in June this year, faced a Melbourne court with a raft of charges.

But Vincent will be walking the streets in six months.

Vincent, who has been on remand awaiting his court date, received a one-year prison sentence, of which he has served six months on remand.

He was also ordered to complete a 12 months community corrections order.

Apart from storing the deadly grenade, which he has not divulged how he obtained, he was also caught with unregistered handguns, a knife, ammunition, proceeds of crime ($8500) and fireworks.

He was also convicted of drug trafficking and the unusual offence of refusing to give over his password for police to look into his computer files.

Two other Comanchero bikies also faced court last month.

On Tuesday, Emir Jaha, who is prohibited from having a gun, was given 12 months jail in relation to a number of offences including shooting bullets into the roof of a Preston restaurant.

Nine months of his term is to be served concurrently with a previous prison sentence involving blackmail.

His dinner partner on that night in 2015, Elvin Bafto, became the first person charged under new Firearms Act offence — possession of a trafficable quantity of unregistered firearms — after he was raided by police.

But he had better luck in court than on the street.

Police seized two firearms, ammunition and an “explosive substance’’ from him during a raid along with a drug of dependence.

He was given 118 days jail, which he had served on remand, before his court case in September.

The court ordered he also complete an 18 month community corrections order.

Bafto, however, was involved in a nasty brush with the Rebels in October, in which he was run over and hospitalised.

The Echo-taskforce declined to comment on its investigations into two violent incidents at Dandenong venues and the firebombing of the Rebels Dandenong South chapter.