olice tap phone then raid Hell's Angel

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Police tap phone then raid Hell's Angel

 

A week ago, a raid on a Victorian Hell's Angels member's home netted ammunition, drugs, and items and cash believed to be the proceeds of crime.

 

Detective Senior Constable Stephen Hill, of the organised crime squad, told the Melbourne Magistrates Court that listening devices and intercepts on two mobile phones owned by Paul Joseph Peterson, 28, indicated that the sergeant-at-arms of the Thomastown-based Nomads Chapter of the club was trafficking drugs from his Bundoora home between August 21 and September 4 .. which prompting the raid.

 

Peterson is facing nine charges including being a prohibited person in possession of a weapon, possessing ammunition without a licence, trafficking amphetamines and handling and disposing of stolen goods.

 

During a bail application the court heard that while monitoring a listening device installed in the Hermitage Crescent home Peterson shared with his girlfriend, police had heard him showing another man how to use a nine-millimetre semi-automatic pistol.

 

Senior Constable Hill said Peterson said the gun could "put a decent hole in someone" and had helped in getting $8000 off someone.

 

Police said $3430 was seized in the raid with other items, including a bag containing traces of white power believed to be drugs and scales. A stolen ute was found in Peterson's garage. Police alleged he had been stripping it to sell off as parts. They also found Peterson's Hells Angel's jacket. It had a patch reading "Filthy Few", a title police claimed meant he had killed on behalf of the club.

 

Peterson's lawyer, Stephen Shirrefs, SC, said the term referred to members who were "first to arrive at a party and the last to leave".

 

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