Strike Force Raptor
officers conduct raids on properties in Junee and Temora
Marguerite McKinnon
1.34pm: Inspector Darren
Cloake has addressed the media in relation to search warrants
executed in Temora this morning.
A 57-year-old high-ranking member
of the Rebels Motorcycle Club was arrested. In his possession was
200 grams of what police will allege is methamphetamine.
The arrest was the result of two
search warrants and three firearm prohibition orders being served at
two houses.
Police will allege the Rebels have
been operating from Temora and into ACT and Sydney.
A larger investigation identified
people in Temora having heavy involvement in national dealings.
10.23am: Police from Strike
Force Raptor have begun a search of the Royal Hotel in Hoskins Street,
Temora.
The search is one of several currently
underway in the region as the elite police squad, which was formed to
wipe out gang crime, turns its attention to the Riverina.
Police from Strike Force Raptor have
begun a search of the Royal Hotel in Hoskins Street, Temora.
Police from Strike Force Raptor have
begun a search of the Royal Hotel in Hoskins Street, Temora.
10.10am: Police from Strike
Force Raptor have handcuffed a Temora man and are taking him to Wagga
Police Station after a search warrant was executed on his house.
A series of warrants and firearms
searches are underway in the Temora area as part of a widespread
operation by police from the elite Sydney unit and Wagga Local Area
Command.
UPDATE 10am: Police have
brought in a specially trained drug detection dog as part of a series of
searches underway in Temora.
Officers from elite police anti gang
squad Strike Force Raptor have swooped on several properties, including
a home in June Street, Temora, believed to belong to a locally known
bikie gang president.
Wagga Local Area Command officers have
also been deployed as searches continue throughout the area.
EARLIER: Police from Strike
Force Raptor have executed a series of raids on alleged bikie gang
members across Junee and Temora this morning.
Search warrants and firearm
prohibition orders have been given as police crackdown on crime in the
Riverina.Officers have searched a number of properties where alleged
bikie members reside and drug detection dogs have been brought in.