Police vow to disrupt bikie drug operations

Posted Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:10pm AEST

The Organised Crime Squad has confirmed a senior Gypsy Joker bikie has been arrested over drugs with a street value of up to $1 million.

Police say they allegedly discovered 440 grams of methylamphetamine after executing search warrants at the premises of two senior members in Maddington and Bellevue.

A 52 year-old Maddington man has been charged with possessing methylamphetamine with intent to sell and/or supply.

Detective Superintendent Charlie Carver describes the seizure as significant.

"It's all part of a strategy to dismantle, disrupt, to make a hostile environment for these bikie gangs and this is another wave of our detectives doing good work and actually seizing these drugs off the streets," he said.

He says bikies may portray that they're purely motorcycle enthusiasts but that is not true.

"I know what they're up to and they know exactly what they're up to; it's just a media spin that they'll try to put on that they're mis-understood bike riders when actually in fact they're not," he said.

"This demonstrates it again and we'll use anything at our disposal to dismantle and disrupt their operations and we'll continue the pressure."

 

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