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[OZ 9/7/04] Police tap phone then raid Hell's
Angel
Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:06am
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Police tap phone then raid Hell's Angel
By Andrea Petrie
September 7, 2004
A weekend raid on a Hell's Angels member's home netted
ammunition, drugs, and items and cash believed to be the proceeds
of crime, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard yesterday.
Detective Senior Constable Stephen Hill, of the organised crime
squad, said listening devices and intercepts on two mobile phones
owned by Paul Joseph Peterson, 28, indicated that the
sergeant-at-arms of the Thomastown-based Nomads Chapter of the
gang was trafficking drugs from his Bundoora home between August
21 and September 4, prompting last Saturday's raid.
Peterson is facing nine charges including being a prohibited
person in possession of a weapon, possessing ammunition without a
licence, trafficking amphetamines and handling and disposing of
stolen goods.
During a bail application yesterday the court heard that while
monitoring a listening device installed in the Hermitage Crescent
home Peterson shared with his girlfriend, police had heard him
showing another man how to use a nine-millimetre semi-automatic
pistol.
Senior Constable Hill said Peterson said the gun could "put
a decent hole in someone" and had helped in getting $8000
off someone.
Police said $3430 was seized in the raid with other items,
including a bag containing traces of white power believed to be
drugs and scales. A stolen ute was found in Peterson's garage.
Police alleged he had been stripping it to sell off as parts.
They also found Peterson's Hells Angel's jacket. It had a patch
reading "Filthy Few", a title police claimed meant he
had killed on behalf of the club.
Peterson's lawyer, Stephen Shirrefs, SC, said the term referred
to members who were "first to arrive at a party and the last
to leave".
The bail application continues today.