source : the age
A party at the Mongols’ Sydney headquarters ended early after NSW Police’s anti-bikie squad gatecrashed the event and forced 200-odd revellers to lay face down on the ground as they seized alcohol, drugs and cash.
Dramatic vision released by police shows Raptor Squad and Operations Support Group officers, heavily armed and wearing masks, storming the Mongols’ event in a Blacktown industrial park just before 8pm on Saturday.
The officers repeatedly yell out “police search warrant” and order the bikies and their associates to “get on the ground” of the Forge Street clubhouse.
Footage shows dozens of bikies from Mongols Australia’s Steel City, Central Coast and East End Raiders chapters sitting or laying on the ground with club colours on their shirts and jackets, and forced to keep their hands and identification visible.
Police shine lights in their faces and search their pockets.
Police allegedly located and seized about 195 grams of cocaine, $37,265 in cash, three knives, and 897 containers of alcohol, a police statement reads.
Consorting warnings were handed out to the 194 people at the party.
One 35-year-old man was charged with drug supply and the proceeds of crime. He will appear in Blacktown Local Court on Thursday.
Two more men were charged with drug possession and will face court in the coming weeks. All three were bailed by police.
One of those arrested was loaded into a police wagon after being instructed to remove his Mongols’ branded belt. He was allowed to wear his vest with the “1%” outlaw badge as he was taken into custody.
The same clubhouse was investigated in August 2023 after Mongols prospect Andre Stepanyan was invited to a “patch party”, where an unnamed man was filmed trying to escape through the locked gate on CCTV.
Four bikies kicked and punched the man before one stabbed him repeatedly in the buttocks, court documents obtained by this masthead revealed.
Stepanyan washed the blood from the clubhouse driveway with buckets of water. Stepanyan never became a full member of the gang.
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