Gangs brawling over lucrative Gold Coast drug trade

[Allotropy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AWnxyGsvMM

 

 

 

UPDATE: THEIR beards are greying, their tattoos fading and their influence waning.

The bikie old guard is being pushed aside by a violent new breed of steroid-pumped, amphetamine-taking young rebels who are flexing their muscle in many of Queensland's 14 outlaw motorcycle gangs, crime experts say.

Increasingly, the modern bikie is likely to be in his 20s or 30s and of Middle Eastern or Eastern European descent.

Some, like members of Sydney's Lebanese-dominated Notorious gang who are starting to infiltrate the Sunshine State, do not even ride motorbikes.

This comes as a bloody battle between the Hells Angels and Bandidos is threatening to erupt into a national war – with bikies from interstate on standby to back up their Gold Coast members.

The gangs - already at war in Sydney - are brawling over the Gold Coast's lucrative drug trade.

Hells Angels numbers have swollen since 2010, to the detriment of the Bandidos.

The Sydney members, which include a large proportion of Middle Eastern and Pacific Island bikies, have been flying north to the Gold Coast and operating as "nomads" without reporting to the Queensland chapter.

After a major crackdown on the gangs and guns behind Sydney's violent shooting epidemic resulted in 555 people being arrested and 908 charges laid.

Weekend's shooting

The double shooting of a bikie and an innocent bystander at a Gold Coast shopping centre on Saturday has reignited debate about whether measures to deal with gang violence and organised crime are working.

The offender, believed to be a member of a rival bikie club, remains on the run.

New breed of bikie

Gone are the old-school leathers and long, straggly hair - today's bikies are more likely to sport designer clothes and haircuts, trendy sunglasses and gangster bling.

Assistant police commissioner for the southeast region, Graham Rynders, said the bikie demographic was changing.

"The traditional long beard, long hair is going," he told a media conference yesterday.

"We're seeing more like a younger set - well-groomed, well-presented (and) trying to portray themselves as professional people."

Police say the heavily tattooed man who opened fire in the Robina Town Centre on Saturday, wounding a female shopper and a senior Bandido, fitted the mould of the new breed of bikie - young, well-built, brazen and possibly Middle Eastern.

"The major problem with this new breed of bikie is that they simply don't care," a source told The Courier-Mail.

"Many combine steroid and amphetamine use and it makes them feel 10-foot tall and bullet-proof.

Many of them think nothing of pulling a gun in public, but to actually discharge it in a crowded shopping centre is an extraordinary and frightening new escalation of bikie violence."

The source said many older bikies who joined gangs mainly for brotherhood and a mutual love of motorbikes and partying were being replaced by younger members who used clubs as much for business as pleasure.

"That business revolves around the drug trade, extortion and standover," he said.

"Over the last 10 years, the bikie gangs have seen an influx of young men from the Middle East and the Balkans. They are very tribal and many of them are extremely dangerous."

Police Assistant Commissioner Mike Condon, responsible for State Crime Operations Command which includes anti-bikie squad Taskforce Hydra, said his officers were "constantly monitoring" the influx of new bikies and gaining intelligence from interstate colleagues.

He said Queensland's "top three or four high-risk" bikie gangs were all involved in criminal activity "at some level, sanctioned by the club".

Jacques Teamo, the Bandido shot at Robina on Saturday in front of his two children, is refusing to co-operate with police and Mr Condon admitted the bikie "code of silence" was frustrating investigations into gang activity.

Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said yesterday the woman caught in the shooting was likely to be in hospital for some time.

Mr Atkinson released five images of the muscular, tattooed offender in hope of identifying him.

A succession of Gold Coast bikies, many of them Finks, have been jailed for contempt in recent years for refusing to answer questions about criminal activity in secret Australian Crime Commission hearings.

Some refuse to even confirm they are bikies, despite sporting prominent club tattoos.

But Mr Condon said Taskforce Hydra had arrested more than 1000 bikie gang members and associates on 2800 charges - including attempted murder, extortion and firearm and drug offences - since 2007.

"Those persons have been sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment," he said.

Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said it was "more likely than not" that several rival gangs were involved in the latest wave of violence.

Despite fears of a bloody and now dangerously public bikie war, Mr Condon said there had been violent confrontations between rival gangs for decades, including a pitched battled between Finks and Hells Angels at the Royal Pines Resort in March 2006.

Another incident

In another worrying sign for the depleted Bandidos, a junior and senior gang member argued at a Gold Coast shopping centre on Friday with angry words exchanged after the junior member threw a rolled-up paper napkin at the senior Bandido.

The older bikie is said to have taken offence and threatened revenge against the junior member, with the seemingly innocuous incident now set to lift tensions within the outlaw motorcycle outfit.

Hells Angels bikie associates who have moved to the Gold Coast for "a better lifestyle" for their families are trying to take advantage of fractures inside the Bandidos. Police said there had been signs an all-out bikie war was brewing.

The rise in gun crime and growing bikie gang activity south of the border has brought simmering tensions to the fore on the Surfers Paradise strip.

 

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[Allotropy]

please people keep in mind that more people have been killed and lives ruined by police brutality in brisbane/goldcoast and queensland for that matter then any bikie related deaths.

 

I think the fuck head police commisioner in charge should stop hiding it's own police corruption problems before it starts pointing the finger at anyone in society and suggesting that a few incidents represents a whole community of bikies or hells angels or bandidos for that matter.

 

Some people still revere the police in high esteem despite the raping, aboriginal deaths, deaths, heavy corruption, police brutality , paedophilia and many other crimes that police from the federal or state have been involved in.

Edited April 30, 2012 by Anthesis

[buzzo]

Either way shooting in public places like Shooping centers is simply not on.

 

Bikies used to have a code of ethics.

 

Take the war and keep it in your own backyards.

[Stix87]

i guess shooting in public has got to do with meth/ crack worst drugs around imo to make people wana pull the trigger during the day.

[smashed1]

bit late to worrie about bikie wars now , i here gun shots heaps around here , then that loud fucking choper circules for ages ,. then if the wankers ever find em , there just gunna start shooting at choper to fuck it off ,

[the.weed.fisherman]

Nothing like smoking some bongs and hearing some stories about the bikers fighting each other.

 

Life would be really pleasant and boring without them.

 

the.weed.fisherman

[Budman2012]

please people keep in mind that more people have been killed and lives ruined by police brutality in brisbane/goldcoast and queensland for that matter then any bikie related deaths.

 

I think the fuck head police commisioner in charge should stop hiding it's own police corruption problems before it starts pointing the finger at anyone in society and suggesting that a few incidents represents a whole community of bikies or hells angels or bandidos for that matter.

 

Some people still revere the police in high esteem despite the raping, aboriginal deaths, deaths, heavy corruption, police brutality , paedophilia and many other crimes that police from the federal or state have been involved in.

 

Here Hear ... FInally some Truth

This Horrible Experiment Called "The Police Force" is arguably one of the worst direct assaults on our Freedom since the AllGoDz Damned! -Ol' Timey - "Religionist Persecution" (With All their Terrorism for Centuries , still now)

 

I would hesitate to believe that this Is Actually a Biker Person Thing ...

It coulda been a (Sport-Bag Proof) Agent for anyone knows ... to believe the "Official Lies" is to be Dimwitted beyond the 'modern' minds comprehension LMFAO!!! Plz retain at least some semblance of rationality , thanx

 

Are we seriously just going to commit small talk about mindless Fluff Forever?

The Forest is often missed for all this Bullshit ...

The Fundamentals are So Massively Flawed that it Beggars the Mind ...

Day by Day now they Erode any Sense of 'Civil' Human Rights and 'Purpose' ...

Follow the Dollars ... All War is Unnecessry and if thta isn't Obvious , you need serious help ...

Jabba the Hut now wants to control the inevatble 'Liberal' Fascist Regime ...

& Lets not think about the Weather ... & Who Needs Agriculture Huh!?

 

FFS ... The Brainwashed BLOB! has alot to learn !!!

 

Cheers ... & RAGE Against this Corrupt NAZI Regime , thanx

 

 

 

 

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[Devilspine]

I'd have a beer with a bikie any day of the week ,be fucked if I'd ever have one with a copper...seen good people's lives destroyed by stupid government policies and their evil soldiers..

[KRON BOURKE]

Fuk me, where do i start??... Yeh we got a new breed of bikie, only took the arabs 40 years to find out where the real $$$ is...., straight up poor policing over a period of time has pretty much let this get worse, if they done thier jobs, that we tax payers provide and income for, things might not be the way they are today?

Maybe instead of begging for info off the public, get outta the local gloria jeans, n try a lil ol' fashioned police work?...

Maybe, just maybe they might use thier nogans and instead of banning olmc's and pushing crime even further underground and raising the pricing on the street market?.....yeh, just maybe.....

Wonder what consumer affairs would say if i called up and reported the nsw police force in reguards to fualty goods/services?...

 

O.k.....so back to the new breed....young crazy arabs who have grown up totally dif to what we're used to here, they're used to guns, blood and mayhem...very dif to the other kind of hairy, burley men we're all so used to, but seems they're smarrt enough to have the local swine in the pockets, eg, last week 2 guys got charged with "shoot firearm at building" or sum horseshit never exsisted before charge, if i were to repeat the same offence tonight it'd be attempt murder times however many people in the building.....maybe even 60-70 people....hows that work?...yeh we all know exactly how...

 

Perhaps its even a very fucking clever way for the powers that be to disarm the people?...either way, not much we can do bout it....

Cheers, KB.

[The Hash Nibbler]

I gotta admit, this new Skool mentality is not my Cuppa tea. I see where ya comin from KB........times they are a changing.........