By Damien Murphy
Two NSW members of the outlaw motorcycle gang, the Nomads, have been charged with trafficking $750,000 worth of ecstasy after a tip off that the drugs were being flown as freight on a flight between Darwin and Sydney.
Northern Territory police arrested a 58-year-old man from Newcastle who they say is a high-ranking Nomads member.
Two members, one high-ranking, of Nomads OMCG have been charged over the alleged interstate freighting of illegal drugs.Credit: Nathan Patterson
He has been charged with a NSW warrant for supplying a large commercial quantity of drug.
NSW Gangs Squad officers travelled to Darwin where they applied for, and were granted, his extradition after he was arrested in an outer Darwin suburb.
Two Nomads bikies have allegedly been caught trafficking $750,000 of ecstasy.
He was flown to Sydney on Saturday and formally charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of the drug MDMA.
He was refused bail.
A second man, a 23-year-old member of Nomads OMCG, was arrested also by gangs squad detectives at a storage facility at Villawood on Friday.
The Breakfast Point man was charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of the drug MDMA and refused bail.