Police raid gathering of 200 Mongols bikies at Sydney clubhouse

Police raid gathering of 200 Mongols bikies at Sydney clubhouse

Police have raided a gathering of about 200 members of the Mongols bikie gang at a clubhouse in Sydney, and charged three men with drug offences.

NSW Police said the State Crime Command’s Raptor Squad received a tip-off about a gathering of the Mongols Outlaw Motorcycle Gang in Blacktown on March 28.

Officers from Raptor Squad, the Public Order Riot Squad, the Rescue and Bomb Detection Unit, the Dog Unit, and PolAir then descended on the property at 7.50pm and allegedly found 195g of cocaine, $37,265 in cash, three knives and 897 containers of alcohol.

Video shows masked members of the anti-gang squad entering the business in an industrial area and ordering Mongols members to lie on the ground, where they then lay in handcuffs in their club colours.

Police then issued the 194 people on site with consorting warnings.

NSW’s controversial consorting laws, devised to target outlaw motorcycle clubs, give police the power to charge people, even those with no criminal records themselves, for “habitually associating” with convicted criminals, including electronically.

A 35-year-old man was arrested at the scene and charged with “supply prohibited drug over indictable and under commercial quantity and deal with property proceeds of crime under $100,000 and over $5000”.

He was granted conditional bail and appeared at Blacktown Local Court on Thursday.

Two other men, a 43-year-old and a 29-year-old, were issued court attendance notices for drug possession. They will appear in the same court on May 1 and May 6.

Header image: Left, right, Mongols members handcuffed during the raid (NSW Police).

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