Alleged bikie associate back behind bars a week after getting bail

AN ALLEGED bikie associate who was granted bail last week is already back behind bars

Alleged Hells Angels associate Barry Hunt is back behind bars after being granted bail last week.

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AN ALLEGED bikie associate who was granted bail last week is already back behind bars after being caught drug driving despite his insistence that he “hadn’t smoked drugs that day” so “it must have been from the day before.”

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Barry Hunt, 42 – who police allege is an associate of the Hells Angels bikie gang – was arrested last week following a nationwide crackdown on the gang’s activities.

He stands charged with a raft of drug and weapons offences.

Hunt (pictured) was granted bail in the Darwin Local Court last Thursday but when police tried to serve him with a notice to appear in the Supreme Court for a bail review, he was drug tested and found the be driving under the influence of drugs.

Barry Hunt faces was granted bail in Darwin Local Court last week.

He was arrested on Wednesday and taken to the Palmerston watch house before appearing in the Darwin Supreme Court this morning.

Hunt, who appeared without a lawyer, told the court he had been driving to report to police as per his bail conditions when he was caught with drugs in his system.

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“I hadn’t smoked any drugs that day, it must have been from the day before,” he told the court.

The bail review was adjourned to Friday morning with Hunt being remanded in custody.

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