Comanchero texts reveal The Last Kings plot to shoot up Doreen home

Police were listening intently to brutal Comanchero puppet gang The Last Kings phone calls and text messages to foil an ambush on a Doreen property in 2016, when they picked up on a secret lingo. Here’s how the cops decoded the bikie drug code.

EXCLUSIVE: A mock crime scene was used to foil a Comanchero-led plot to pepper a home with ­bullets, as police worked to bust a dangerous “puppet” gang wreaking havoc across ­Melbourne.

Court hearings and documents reveal how police taped off a “crime scene” in the same street as the Doreen home of the ­target, after bugged mobile phone chats revealed an imminent plan to attack.

Investigators evacuated the home and initially set up a random breath-testing site nearby, knowing two bikie henchmen were on their way to fire warning shots at the target’s house.

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But the armed pair were ­ordered to drive around the neighbourhood until the breath-testing unit left.

With anti-bikie Echo Taskforce detectives listening in on the plan, more patrol cars with flashing lights saturated the area, traffic cones were used to block off the road and police pretended to investigate a crime.

“F--- man, there are police everywhere,” one of the armed duo told their leader, Comanchero Robert Ale, on the phone when he checked in to see if the warning shots had been fired.

Ale, 35, eventually told the pair to abort the mission.

This was just one of dozens of crimes police prevented as they listened and followed Ale and his underlings as part of a major operation to crack his sophisticated drug ring in Melbourne’s southeast.

The Herald Sun can exclusively reveal the police tactics used to bring down Ale’s criminal enterprise, after he and 18 of his puppets pleaded guilty to dozens of charges in several cases in magistrates’ courts and in the County Court.

Surveillance and telephone intercepts between October 2016 and March 2017 revealed that Ale:

SET UP the puppet gang, The Last Kings, to do Comanchero dirty work, including debt collecting, arson, assaults and aggravated burglaries;

PLOTTED an arson attack on Kittens strip club in South Melbourne, as he and his crew wrongly suspected it was owned by rival bikies;

TRAFFICKED 5.5kg of ice with a value of $1.2 million as well as cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA and cannabis;

ATTACKED his mistress and co-accused Khia Humbles, threatening to kill her and blow up her mum’s home; and

URGED his underlings to use a “batphone” — a Batman TV show reference to an isolated and secure phone link — registered in a false name.

 

 

The Echo Taskforce began investigating heightened tensions between the Comanchero and Rebels bikie gangs in October 2016 after a series of violent attacks across the city.

Ale, once Murray’s right-hand man, was shot nine times by two masked men at a Hampton Park tattoo parlour last February. His would-be killers are still at large.

Ale has been dubbed the “Crybaby Bikie” because his lawyer told a court in one bail application that he had “cried like a baby” in jail.

But he was known as “Big Dog” among the bikies.

Courts have heard how The Last Kings used aliases, stolen vehicles and switched between multiple phones to avoid ­detection, but detectives were always one step ahead, listening to their every move.

In one case, investigators listened as Ale asked “cleanskin” former housemate Leigh Sussman to pick up a kilo of ice from one of his crew at a St Kilda McDonald’s as favour.

Officers then swooped as she happily obliged.

Another attempt to burn a dumped stolen car used in a crime was foiled by police as they again saturated the area as the crew headed there with jerry cans of fuel.

Their presence sent Ale and his associates packing.

“Cops and undercovers all over Dandy!” Ale texted Humbles. “I’m pulling the pin, f--- this. They’re in HiLuxes and ­Rangers and shit.”

Chilling text messages captured Ale planning the shooting attack on the home in Doreen with a new recruit to The Last Kings, Mustafa Baydar. They had initially planned to assault a man inside the home over a debt, on November 11, 2016.

“What do you want me to do?” Baydar, 33, texted Ale that day.

Ale replied: “Knock, knock … just f---ing cave him.”

The mission was later aborted after police deliberately stopped Baydar for a “random car intercept” near the target’s home. He told police he was going on a Tinder date.

Five days later, a determined Ale told Baydar the job was back on, but they would instead “spray the joint from the outside with a .22 or something”. It was to be Baydar’s “blooding” into The Last Kings.

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As Baydar headed to the Yan Yean Rd address about 11.20pm on November 16, Ale messaged: “Be safe brother, enjoy the adrenaline rush! It doesn’t last long lol.”

Baydar replied: “Lmaoo I’m excited bro, can’t wait. Shit’s gonna get real.”

They likened the planned shooting to getting a tattoo and being addictive.

At 1.11am, Baydar called Ale about the heavy police presence, to which Ale said: “Just sit tight for a bit … it would be good to get this under our belt for the weekend.”

They discussed if police were there for their victim, and agreed it was a coincidence, leaving at 1.40am.

Disappointed he couldn’t do the job, Baydar texted: “Man it was gonna be boom, boom, boom, tack, tack, tack, zack, zack, zack, slug, slug, slug, and out bro”.

Ale responded with laughter and said they would return the next night.

 

 

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Originally published as Comanchero texts reveal The Last Kings plot to shoot up Doreen home