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A GUN, ammunition, computers and a live
snake were seized in police raids targeting the Finks bikie gang
on the Gold Coast yesterday.
About 30 heavily armed police stormed the gang's Coast
headquarters and a neighbouring industrial shed at Labrador,
alarming local factory workers having their morning smoko.
The road in and out of the industrial area was sealed off as
Special Emergency Response Team officers, their guns drawn, used
a ladder to smash their way into a factory with skulls on the
gates.
"It was unbelievable," said boatbuilder Josh Teua,
whose factory was used to launch the raid on the next-door
building.
"We were having lunch and all of a sudden we saw four
four-wheel-drives come down our driveway, the cops jumped out, a
ladder went up and a window was smashed."
But despite the scale of the raids, the police pickings were
slim.
A carpet python, which police said was being kept without a
permit, was seized in an aquarium in a unit above the Wrights
Place factory. An inoperable handgun, ammunition and computers
were also removed and taken away by police.
Down the road, the Finks clubhouse was raided by detectives from
Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Club members threatened news crews and ordered them from the
property.
Prominent Gold Coast criminal lawyers Jason Jacobson and Adam
Guest attended the Finks clubhouse but offered no comment.
© Queensland Newspapers
