Mongols bikie gang investigation: 35-year-old Doreen man charged with weapons and drug offences

Detectives have arrested a 35-year-old man and seized a mobile clandestine laboratory and gun parts after raiding a home in Melbourne’s northeast.

The Doreen man’s home was raided on Tuesday morning.

Gun parts and ammunition have been seized in an investigation into firearm trafficking by the Mongols bikie gang.

Echo taskforce detectives made a pre-dawn raid on a Doreen home on Tuesday morning as part of the inquiry into the manufacturing and sale of weapons linked to the outlaw motorcycle gang.

They allegedly seized firearms parts, ammunition and a mobile clandestine laboratory.

A 35-year-old Doreen man, who is believed to be an associate of the Mongols, was charged with offences including possessing cannabis, cultivating cannabis, possessing methylamphetamine, possessing 1,4-Butanediol, possessing ecstasy, possessing cartridge ammunition, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, possessing a prescribed precursor chemical, failing to answer bail and contravening bail conditions.

He will appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

Police allege they also seized cannabis plants, a crystal substance, ammunition, firearm parts hidden in a pipe, glassware and precursor chemicals in a toolbox.

The operation was carried out with assistance from Banyule CIU, the bomb response unit and the arson and explosives squad.