http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/apr/05/oregon-bike-gang-member-charged-with-rape-kidnappi/
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Judgements in the matters of Serious Crime Prevention Orders
Attached are the judgements in relation to the Serious Crime Prevention Orders for members of the Finks and Nomads Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Orders made in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/5ae11eb3e4b074a7c6e1e98e
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/5ae1174ce4b074a7c6e1e96c
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Serious Crime Prevention orders imposed in NSW
The Supreme Court has imposed a serious crime prevention order on 10 members of rival Newcastle bikie gangs in the hope of disrupting a volatile and escalating turf war between the groups.
The order, the first of its kind made in NSW, means five members of the Nomads and five members of the Finks will live under strict conditions for the next 12 months including being unable to associate with each other and unable to wear their club’s insignia.
Police applied for the orders in the midst of a series of tit-for-tat shootings and fire-bombings targeting Hunter homes early this year, including one incident where a man was shot in the leg. Senior officers branded the situation an “emergency” in which the next shooting was imminent.
In an application to bring the orders, police said Nomads members Bradley Bowtell, Dylan Patrick Brittliffe, Blake Kevin Martin, James Kenneth Quinnell and Kane Benjamin Tamplin were involved in serious criminal activity, as were Finks members Mitchell Alexander Cole, Benjamin James Main, Andrew Robert Manners, Matthew Francis Maybury and Troy Vanderlight.
Both groups disagreed, with the five Nomads giving evidence that there was not a war with the Finks.
On Friday, Justice David Davies found some of the Nomads were “extremely evasive” witnesses, while others “lied constantly” and gave inconsistent evidence.
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He found all 10 men were involved in serious crime-related activity, for which they had not been convicted of a serious criminal offence, and was satisfied the Nomads and the Finks were both criminal groups which have violence as one of their objectives.
“I reject for the most part that suggestion by the defendants that the incidents … are nothing more than personal disputes between two individuals,” Justice Davies said.
“The evidence overwhelmingly leads to the conclusion that most of the violence stems from a rivalry between the Nomads and the Finks.
“I am satisfied that the safety of members of the public is being put at risk by the ongoing violence between members of the two OMCGs.”
Justice Davies cited information provided by a confidential source who revealed Finks members were required to engage in violence, members of the Finks had firearms including Glock pistols and an AK-47, and Finks members went out on at least one occasion to find Nomads and “engage in violence against them” over the turf war.
He said the most effective way of restricting or disrupting the violence was to prevent the men from associating with one another, acknowledging it would be a “serious restriction on the liberties of the defendants”.
Under the order, the men will be unable to approach or contact any member of any bikie gang, unable to travel in a car between 9pm and 6am except in a medical emergency, must produce their phones and passwords to police upon request, and must not go to any place where a member of any bikie gang lives or works.
They are also prohibited from using encrypted communications including WhatsApp, Wickr and Snapchat, cannot have more than one mobile phone, cannot possess a weapon, and are prohibited from wearing or displaying any insignia or patches from their club.
The Nomads were given slight variations on the conditions which allow them to associate with bikies who are members of their family, and allow them to drive to overnight shift work as long as they inform police, carry their roster with them, and take the most direct route.
Justice Davies rejected two proposed conditions which would have prevented the men going to pubs and clubs and restricted their use of computers, finding they were not reasonable.
He imposed the serious crime prevention order for a year, finding anything less than that would create only a “brief hiatus” before the conflict would be “re-ignited”.
“A period of 12 months has more chance of producing a more permanent end to the conflict because habits and behaviour that have been routine will be interrupted, may possibly be changed in the interim, and will be more difficult to re-establish,” Justice Davies said.
The men were not in court for the judgment.
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OMG CASE LAW
For the good of the order, attached is a timeline I maintain regarding OMG case law. There is an updated case from this month where a court in Florida backed the sheriff’s office after the were sued by the Outlaws for using their (the Outlaws) photos to carry out lobbying efforts against open carry laws. The law suit was dismissed. Ok to pass among LE.
Dan Michener, St Paul Police
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Iron Order Bonaire Caribbean 1162017 Officer Dan Michener St Paul Police EDITED
Attached are some power point slides regarding the Iron Order club house in Bonaire. I was on the island in November and the clubhouse was a few blocks from the resort. The bathroom attached restaurant gives you access inside the clubhouse. On Friday nights the clubhouse is open to the public. I met the president (originally from Iowa). I had to edit the power point because the file was too large to upload…if this is of interest to anyone, I can send them the full power point.
Dan Michener
St Paul Police, Financial Intelligence Unit
US Secret Service Task Force
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‘I’m over it’: Court hears from Finks state president in police attempt to stop ‘turf war’
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-m-over-it-court-hears-from-finks-state-president-in-police-attempt-to-stop-turf-war-20180411-p4z92k.html
In a recent phone call at Goulburn Correctional Centre, Andrew Robert Manners had a blunt assessment for police: “Mate, I’m over it.”
Manners, the state president of the Finks motorcycle club, was referring to a turf war between the Newcastle chapters of his club and the Nomads, which escalated in March when his home was sprayed with dozens of bullets while his partner and her daughter were inside.
The tit-for-tat dispute has increasingly worried police, who have labelled it an “emergency” and the most significant bikie feud in the state. The Police Commissioner is applying in the Supreme Court for a Serious Crime Prevention Order to be placed on five members from each of the clubs.
The applications – the first of their kind brought in NSW – are part of a police crackdown, with officers carrying out extensive raids in the Hunter last week as part of a “relentless” pursuit of the clubs to stop further “imminent” violence.
If Justice David Davies imposes the orders, the ten men would be subject to strict conditions including not being allowed to associate, being banned from pubs and clubs, banned from travelling in any vehicle from 9pm to 6am, and restricted from using encrypted communications like Wickr, Snapchat or WhatsApp.
They will also be restricted from owning more than one mobile phone, must produce their phone and passwords to police upon request, and will not be allowed to wear or display any insignia or patches from their club.
Both clubs have opposed the orders in court.
In a hearing on Wednesday, police barrister Mark Tedeschi QC said the orders sought against Manners and other Finks members Mitchell Alexander Cole, Benjamin James Main, Mathew Francis Maybury and Troy Vanderlight were “necessary” for the protection of the public.
He said police raids last week unearthed crossbows and arrows, a balaclava, a lock-picking gun, a taser, knuckle dusters, a gun barrel, an extendable baton, and four explosive detonators.
“[The detonators] are explosives in themselves, but can also be used to set off larger explosive devices,” Mr Tedeschi said.
“On the afternoon of that same day, the fifth of April this year, police located a failed incendiary device in a laneway behind the premises of the Nomads vice president in that area. [The] device contained flammable liquid, which showed every sign an attempt had been made to detonate it.”
Defence barrister Peter Lange said “nothing of interest” had been seized from his clients , except “Finks-related merchandise” and a “gang clothing ledger”.
The explosive detonators were found at a premises linked to the Nomads, he said, denying his clients had been involved in “acts of so-called retribution”.
“There is simply no evidence to support the contention any of these defendants is directing acts of violence,” Mr Lange said.
The court previously heard police had spoken to senior bikies in an attempt to defuse the situation, in which several homes have been targeted with weapons including molotov cocktails, pistols, a shotgun and a rifle.
In a jail phone call played to the court, Manners told two detectives he was the only one who could sit down with the Nomads, and “trying to bust my boys’ balls to talk” was “not going to work”.
“I’m the voice for the Finks, so there’s no point trying to trash us and do shit to us,” Manners said.
“If you can help me out and line it up, I’ll sit down straight away.
“I’m about over it just as much as you are. Mate, I’m over it. We’re fighting over turf, I don’t think we’ve even got someone there any more.
“We can have one of them [Nomads] and just me so we’ve got no dickheads talking bullshit. You get me out, you get the big boss of them, I’ll sit down and talk to them.”
Manners, wearing a green prison t-shirt, listened silently via audio-video link from Goulburn for the entirety of the hearing.
He is due to apply for bail on Thursday.
Justice Davies reserved his judgment.
RELATED STORY: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nomads-bikies-deny-open-warfare-with-finks-in-newcastle-20180329-p4z6wy.html
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Bikie Gangs smashed by 280 Cops in raids
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/bikie-gangs-smashed-by-280-cops-in-raids/ar-AAvtVB8?li=AAgfIYZ
The Finks and Nomads bikie gangs in the Hunter region of New South Wales have been left reeling after a huge police operation smashed the two groups in rolling raids from early this morning.
More than 280 officers executed 31 search warrants across 10 suburbs in the region from 5am. Police seized a number of items and placed 10 people in custody with more arrests to come.
The raids were aimed at stopping the bloodshed triggered by the ongoing conflict between the Finks and Nomads groups. Last month, a 44-year-old man was shot in the leg during a late-night drive-by attack at a home near Maitland.
‘Some of the items seized include firearm parts, prohibited weapons, drugs, unauthorised reptiles (snakes), and a number if items we will allege support the charge of participating in a criminal group,” Detective Superintendent Wayne Humprey said.
“NSW Police will continue to interrupt the activities of these two outlaw motorcycle gangs. We will not tolerate public acts of violence but increasingly these drive-by shootings.”
Det Supt Humphrey pleaded with members of the public to come forward if they had any information of the two groups.
“I know this will be a hard road, but eventually you risk someone in your family being shot in these public place shootings… and that will be on your conscience.”
Last month’s shooting of a 44-year-old man followed another six shootings since January, all of which have been connected to the feud between the Finks and Nomads.
This year officers from Strikeforce Raptor have dismantled two separate Nomads clubhouses in the Hunter region.
The Nomads’ Muswellbrook headquarters was shut down at the end of February as police targeted convicted offenders visiting clubhouses and the illegal sale of alcohol.
Officers found a “fully-functioning bar and entertainment area, as well as clubs, believed to be positioned as weapons” during an inspection.
While the Nomads’ Islington clubhouse was also shut down under the same Supreme Court orders on February 5.
In December, a man was charged over a suspected drive-by shooting involving the Kurri Kurri home of a mother and three children.
The family was woken by the sound of a motorcycle during the October incident and later discovered holes in windows and the lounge room wall.
The 21-year-old who was arrested was a nominee for the Finks.
Last May, police carried out raids at 15 Hunter properties in an effort to shut down the rivalry between the two clubs, resulting in handguns, a replica rifle, a trench knife, drugs and fireworks being seized.
Twenty alleged Finks members were also issued with consorting warnings.
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Hells Angels / Mongols Tensions – Arizona
Note – the flyer states that the ‘victims’ were unidentified. They have since been identified as HA members.
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Colorado Springs Car/Bike Show and Swap Meet March 2018
Man, it was a cold ride that morning. My fingers were burning they were so cold. I arrived at the swap meet as soon as they opened on 03/12/2018. The line was probably 50 people deep,all I was worried about was warming up. After getting through the line and finally thawing out from the chilly ride, I was able to take in my surroundings and mingle with the tattooed biker trash that surrounded me. Most of the usual suspects were in attendance. The SOS as always were running security. I wouldn’t expect anything else, It is their backyard after all. They greeted most with the proverbial head nod in a downward motion, myself included but only because I did it first. It should be noted that I don’t go to these things looking like a LEO or even closely resembling one. Im a biker,I look like everyone else in the crowd ” scooter Trash” which allows me to mingle with anyone… Usually. I Did see the SOS President and V-P wandering around. The VP works for Pikes Peak Harley Davidson in the service department. I gave them both the head nod.
The SOS had multiple tables at the event selling gear. I was informed they had a pig roast that was hosted at a local BACA club house and many SOS were in attendance. Some other clubs that were present that should be noted are Valliant’s flyin wheels-street soldiers- BACA- SOS-Silent Few ( also helped with security)- Banditos-. The Banditos did not show up in force however I did see two in the parking lot of the event. Im not sure if they ever made it inside. They were outside speaking to SOS members. The Banditos didn’t seem to hang around the event long. As fast as they showed up is as fast as they left. They were around 1 hour tops. I wasn’t able to see what chapter they were from I would assume pueblo or up north, but you know what they day when you assume.
All in all the Swap meet was a success. There were no problems amongst the clubs and the general public was able to peacefully assemble and enjoy the bikes, beer, cars and vendors. I cant speak for the day prior day of the event but on Snday there were not as many people as I would have imagined would show up. The Colorado Springs event is nothing compared to The Swap meet that happened in Denver. The Denver show is much larger and comes with far more junk to pick through.
S. Krueger
