Notorious Crime Family gang member Jimmey Barkho released from prison

A member of the northern suburbs-based Notorious Crime Family gang has been granted bail despite facing new weapons charges.

Crime figure Jimmey Barkho has been granted bail.

Muscleman Jimmey Barkho has been released from prison after being charged with firearms offences last week.

Barkho, 31, of Greenvale, is a member of the northern suburbs-based Notorious Crime Family gang, a feared group linked to murders and drug rackets.

He was arrested last month over weapons breaches, in breach of a strict firearm prohibition order, then hit with further charges when he allegedly urinated on the floor of Broadmeadows police station.

A subsequent police search, while Barkho was behind bars, allegedly uncovered another gun offence and led to more charges.

Jimmey Barkho allegedly urinated on the floor of Broadmeadows police station.

Barkho allegedly urinated on the floor of Broadmeadows police station.

Barkho appeared at Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court by video link from prison on Monday.

Police opposed bail but it was granted under strict conditions.

Barkho is a close associate of jailed crime boss George Marrogi and his younger brother Jesse, the two key figures in the Notorious Crime Family gang.

George Marrogi was in April charged with high-level drug trafficking offences and with operating a criminal organisation, NCF, from behind bars.

NCF has been linked to murders and drug distribution, and is considered more violent and more powerful than some of the state’s long established outlaw bikie gangs.

The charges he is facing, if proven, could see him jailed for up to ten years.

A woman linked to Barkho was also last week charged with obtaining financial advantage by deception, knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime and creating false documents.

Barkho is yet to enter a plea to the string of weapons and the disorderly conduct charge, and returns to court in September.