Zachary Robb, Axel Sidaros: NSW, ACT bikies rising the ranks

Gold teeth, face tatts - the new players emerging from the country’s roughest bikie gangs are making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons.

Take a look inside the world of some of NSW and the ACT’s most notorious gangs, and the new faces rising through the criminal ranks. These are the up-and-coming bikies charged over crimes ranging from horrific kidnappings to pub brawls.

ZACHARY ROBB

Zachary Robb was close to slain Comanchero Pitasoni Ulavalu.

Many of the movers and shakers of Canberra’s Comanchero bikie gang are behind bars.

Zachary Robb, who was a loyal mate to the gang’s slain chapter president, Pitasoni Ulavalu, copped a knife in the leg during the same confrontation in which Mr Ulavalu was killed.

Robb likes to keep a low profile and stay out of the news, but his gold teeth and face tattoos make his stand out in a crowd.

He gets his share of attention from the ACT’s anti-gang police, but all the charges they’ve tried to make stick on him recently have failed.

Police sources expect Robb to be tapped for a leadership role in the gang’s historically powerful Canberra chapter, if he hasn’t already.

Read more HERE.

AXEL SIDAROS

Canberra bikie Axel Sidaros was found guilty for his part in a terrifying home invasion. Picture: ABC

Sidaros has twice been found guilty of taking part in the armed home invasion and firebombing of former Canberra Comanchero president Peter Zdravkovic’s home.

Although he confessed his crimes to an undercover cop, he has strongly denied being one of the four masked men who shot up Zdravkovic’s home.

Sidaros, backed by his loving millionaire parents — Hani and Gehan — has had a string of the country’s best lawyers representing him, and is appealing his latest round of convictions.

In the gang’s eyes, Sidaros has proven his loyalty.

When he gets out of jail, and if he wants to keep living the 1% lifestyle, Sidaros looks set to move up the gang’s ranks.

Read more HERE.

TAYNE CLARKSON

Finks Gold Coast president Tayne Clarkson, 21, was on the run in NSW. Picture: Facebook

President of the Gold Coast Finks bikie gang Tayne Clarkson was last year jailed for drug supply after taunting police on social media, saying ““F**k Raptor. They can’t catch me.”

Clarkson, just 21, was sentenced in Mt Druitt Local Court in October 2020 after pleading guilty to drug supply.

Clarkson had been on the run from police in Queensland over an alleged armed robbery in company and grievous bodily harm when he was nabbed in Mt Druitt in July.

According to court documents, police tracked Clarkson’s movements on his Instagram page, ‘Cashedarp’, where he bragged about evading arrest and posted “F*** Raptor. They can’t catch me”.

His taunts however, brought him undone when officers tracked him to a house in Rymill Rd, Tregear, and arrested him during a vehicle stop on the Great Western Highway, Mt Druitt, on July 23, 2020.

He pleaded guilty to one count of supplying a prohibited drug after officers found 16g of the MDMA in rock form inside a container in the car.

He was jailed for seven months, with a non-parole period of four months.

Read more HERE.

LUKE OWENS

Inner west Mongols bikie Luke Owens was charged over a pub brawl.

An inner west bikie charged over the bashing of his own brother has racked up a multiple page criminal history during his association with the Mongols and gone under several aliases while on the radar of police.

Luke Owens, who is a member of the inner west chapter of the Mongols, has admitted to assaulting his brother Shayden Owens at the Rydalmere Tavern in October 2020 during a public brawl that played out in front of shocked punters at the pokies.

Documents tendered to the Burwood Local Court in February, after he pleaded guilty to assault, detailed Owens’ rise from youth offender to being a fully patched and tattooed member of the bikie gang which has wreaked havoc on Sydney.

His criminal history includes multiple counts assaulting police, affray, possessing a prescribed substance and supplying a small indictable amount of drugs in recent years.

Read more HERE.

CHAD HOGG

Gypsy Joker bikie Chad Daniel Hogg, 31, tied a woman to a pole and shaved her head.

A Gypsy Joker bikie who shaved a woman’s head during a terrifying kidnapping at a western Sydney clubhouse has been jailed after describing his own actions as “cowardly”.

Chad Daniel Hogg, 31, was sentenced to a minimum of four years in jail over two brutal ordeals involving the same young woman in 2018.

The Cambridge Park bikie faced Penrith District Court in February, after entering last-minute guilty pleas to a string of charges, including intentionally choking a person with recklessness, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and detaining a person while occasioning actual bodily harm.

Hogg’s first assault took place at a caravan park in Jamisontown in July 2018, with the young woman choked multiple times after he grabbed her by the throat.

Hogg’s violence escalated in September of the same year when he kidnapped the same woman and drove her to the Gypsy Joker clubhouse in Horsley Park.

Here, Hogg tied the woman to a pole out the back of the clubhouse with duct tape, before cutting off the tape some time later and choking and slapping her.

He then shaved off chunks of the woman’s hair with clippers while taunting her.

With time already served, Hogg will be eligible for parole as early as November 2022.

Read more HERE.

JAMES BUTT

James Butt has been charged with eight firearm-related offences, He has entered pleas of not guilty. Picture: Facebook

James “Tiger” Butt wasn’t much of a fighter, losing his only professional MMA fight before deciding being a bikie was more fun than being belted in the face.

But things didn’t change much for him when he became a Nomad, and he was at the centre of a punch up at Canberra’s Southern Cross Club, in which he was called a “bitch” and copped “four f*cking cracks” to the nose from a rival Comanchero.

Butt, who has the word “destiny” tattooed across his chest, has had a senior role in the powerful Canberra chapter of the gang, but is battling crook health.

Read more HERE.

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Originally published as Zachary Robb, Axel Sidaros: NSW, ACT bikies rising the ranks