Wide Bay police arrest 11 people allegedly linked to bikie gangs
The special squad targeting crimes linked to outlaw motorcycle gangs in Queensland has made a series of arrests across the Wide Bay.
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Gun and drug raids across the Wide Bay by the police squad targeting bikie-linked crime have landed 11 people with a court date.
Between them, those arrested face a total of 49 drug and firearm offences.
Detectives from Task Force Maxima, which targets syndicates with alleged outlaw links including to the Finks and Outcasts, searched five homes at Gympie’s Southside, the Fraser Coast suburbs of River Heads and Eli Waters as well as Wallaville, near Bundaberg.
There, the officers seized two firearms and unknown quantities of meth, marijuana, prescription drugs and drug utensils.
A 28-year-old Wallaville woman was charged with producing and possessing marijuana, possessing things used in a crime, possessing utensils, possessing a rifle, and possessing ammunition.
She will appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on October 29.
At Southside, a 34-year-old Gympie man was charged with four drug possession offences, three weapon offences and possessing things used in the commission of a crime.
A 30-year-old Gympie woman was also charged with three drug possession offences and possessing things used in the commission of a crime.
Both are due to appear at Gympie Magistrates Court on November 1.
On the Fraser Coast a 32-year-old River Heads man was charged with three drug possession offences and possession of property suspected of having been acquired for the purpose of committing a drug offence.
He is due to appear at Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on December 1.
A 40-year-old Eli Waters man was also charged with possessing dangerous drugs and things used in the commission of a crime, and possessing utensil while a 34-year-old Torquay man was charged with one count of producing marijuana, possessing marijuana, possessing a utensil and possessing things used in the commission of a crime.
Both are due to appear in Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on November 11.
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