Police charge 44-year-old Hillside man after Love Machine brawl

Echo Taskforce detectives seized an outlaw motorcycle gang vest during a raid where a man was charged over the fight at the Prahran nightclub.

A second man has been charged over a brawl outside the Love Machine nightclub in Prahran

The 44-year-old from Hillside was arrested on Monday over an August 18 outbreak of violence.

He was arrested at his home after a warrant was carried out by Echo Taskforce detectives.

A Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang vest was allegedly seized.

The man has since been charged with affray, common law assault and failing to provide a password.

He has been bailed to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on October 9.

The brawl happened outside the Love Machine nightclub in Prahran on August 18.

A western suburbs man believed to be a member of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang was arrested and charged last week over the Love Machine brawl and an incident at a Chapel St, Windsor, store in which a security guard was assaulted on August 13.

The 39-year-old was detained in Tarneit and faces counts of common law affray, affray, intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing injury, unlawful assault, using threatening words, failing to notify the firearms prohibition order registry of a change of address and possessing a prohibited weapon.

CCTV footage shows the fight breaking out at 3.45am between the man and a 23-year-old Rowville man, before a number of people were drawn in.

The Rowville man was left with a number of knife wounds and another man was left unconscious after he attempted to stop the fight.

The brutal onslaught occurred just metres from where 21-year-old Jacob Elliot – the son of Nabil Maghnie – murdered two people in a brazen drive-by shooting in 2019.

Elliot was sentenced to life behind bars with a non-parole period of 29 years for shooting security guard Aaron Khalid Osmani and Richard Arow dead.

Detectives are looking for anyone who may have witnessed the incident and will release CCTV of the August 18 incident to assist in identifying those allegedly involved.

Witnesses or anybody with information about the incidents have been urged to contact Crimestoppers in 1800 333 000.