Bikers facing assault, drug and firearm charges

Police have charged two senior Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang members with assault, drug and firearm offences after two incidents in Hobart. DETAILS >>

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TWO senior Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang members have been charged over an alleged assault and alleged drug offences in Hobart.

A 21-year-old man, who Tasmania Police said was a senior member of the Nomads OMCG, was charged with common assault following an incident in Harrington St on Thursday.

Police say the biker punched a taxi passenger and the victim sustained minor facial injuries.

Police also searched the gang member and found a “quantity of a suspected illicit substance” which is not being analysed by Forensic Science Service Tasmania.

The man was bailed to appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court on January 4 next year.

On Friday, police swooped on a Glenorchy house and found what they say was a cannabis grow room in a detached garage.

Police said there was evidence of recent drug cultivation inside and a search of the house uncovered a quantity of cannabis bud, snaplock bags containing cocaine and a box of ammunition.

A 29-year-old Glenorchy man, another senior member of the Nomads OMCG, will be

summonsed to appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court on drug and firearm charges.