A man has been charged, after a police operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gang members in the state’s north-east.
Oxley Police detectives, with assistance from the Criminal Groups Squad’s Strike Force Raptor, served three Firearm Prohibition Orders at homes in Tamworth, Oxley Vale and Gunnedah on Tuesday.
During the operation, police took ammunition, prohibited drugs, home-made weapons and cash.
A 38-year-old man was arrested at a unit at Robert Street, South Tamworth.
He was taken to Tamworth Police Station and charged with five counts of possessing a prohibited drug, and dealing with property proceeds of crime.
He was granted strict conditional bail to appear before Tamworth Local Court March 1.
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On Saturday, several members of the gang walked into a hotel in Branxton.
Police say two men, one aged 28, then approached two patrons inside the hotel and assaulted them.
Other customers then came to their aid and tried to break the fight up.
However, everyone involved, including the alleged victims, had already left by the time police arrived.
Following investigations, officers attended a home on Wollombi Road at Bellbird Heights, where they arrested the 28-year-old man.
He was taken to Hunter Valley Police Station and charged with affray.
The man was granted conditional bail and will appear in Cessnock Local Court on Wednesday 20 January 2021.
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Police charge man with affray after hotel brawl – Hunter Valley
A man will appear in court following investigations into a brawl at a hotel in Branxton at the weekend.
During the evening of Saturday 19 December 2020, several members of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang attended a hotel in Branxton.
It will be alleged in court that, while inside the hotel two men, one aged 28, approached two patrons and assaulted them.
Other patrons in the venue came to their aid and separated the group; they all left the location – including the victims – prior to the arrival of officers from Hunter Valley Police District.