Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed, on murder and kidnapping charge, to apply for bail

Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed, who has been charged with murder and kidnapping, will apply for bail next week after he was arrested at gunpoint.

Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed was arrested in Edgecliff on Sunday over his alleged involvement in the 2014 murder of Youssef Assoum.

Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed, who has been charged with murder and kidnapping, will apply for bail next week after he was arrested at gunpoint in the middle of a busy Sydney road over his alleged involvement in a 2014 gangland murder.

The national sergeant-at-arms of the Comancheros was stopped by tactical police as he drove through Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Sunday afternoon, months after he survived an attempt on his life that left his brother Omar dead.

On Monday morning police said they conducted the “high-risk arrest” under the belief the 42-year-old may have been armed. Images released by police show him handcuffed on the ground and his head appeared to be bandaged.

Homicide squad commander Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said Mr Zahed had been “non-compliant” during his arrest, and said the beanbag rounds had to be used to get him out of the car. Spots of blood could be seen at the scene of the arrest on Monday morning.

“He’s previously been shot at himself, so he’s aware and he’s of high alert of his own safety so we were concerned he may be armed,” Detective Superintendent Doherty said.

“We could not discount that whoever else was in the car may be armed, so the arrest and the tactics used by the Tactical Operations Unit were commensurate to the risk that this person potentially would have caused to the public or the community,” he said.

Police arrest Comanchero bikie Tarek Zahed in Edgecliff on Sunday afternoon. Picture: Twitter

The black BMW Tarek Zahed was travelling in when he was arrested. Picture: NCA NewsWire

Mr Zahed did not appear via audio-video link before a magistrate at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Monday morning.

His lawyer did not apply for bail but stated she would be making a release application on September 5 at Bankstown Local Court.

Mr Zahed was arrested on New South Head Rd on Sunday and taken to the inner-city Surry Hills police station, where he was charged with murder and kidnap in company with the intention of committing a serious indictable offence occasioning ­actual bodily harm.

Photographs show four TOU 4WD vehicles involved in the take-down outside Edgecliff train station.

Police can be seen surrounding a man, understood to be Mr Zahed, on the ground on the footpath.

It is understood the arrest is in relation to the death of Youssef Assoum, who died after he was found shot and stabbed near a Sydney hospital in 2014.

Mr Assoum, found by a doctor in December 2014 just 50m from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney’s west, was shot in the leg and stabbed in the head.