The national sergeant-at-arms of the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang has been charged after police raids uncovered more than 85kg of drugs, hydrogen chloride gas cylinders and a clandestine drug lab in a disused bus.
Martin Klein, 35, was arrested by Strike Force Creswell investigators early on Wednesday evening after he attended a storage cage in residential car park in Kellyville Ridge that was the subject of a police search warrant.
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Senior bikie charged with drug and gun offences
One of the most senior members of the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang has been charged after police raids uncovered drugs and firearms.
The raids, which stretched from Sydney's inner west to Tarago, just outside of Goulburn, uncovered 17.4kg of methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) pills, 1.7kg of powder, believed to be cocaine; and more than 67kg of powders, believed to be MDA, illicit drugs, and assorted precursors.
By Thursday afternoon, search warrants had been executed at the storage cage, a unit in the same complex, a home in Beaumont Hills, a local business in Drummoyne and a property outside of Torago, where a clandestine laboratory was located in a disused bus.
Police also seized two firearms, a silencer, and ammunition, as well as a .38 colt six-shot revolver, encrypted mobile phones, a hydrogen chloride gas cylinder, and various documentation.
Klein, one of the most senior members of the Finks bikie gang, was refused bail at Bankstown Local Court on Thursday, charged with large commerical drug supply and 15 firearms offences.
The raids followed an ongoing investigation into the importation, manufacture and supply of prohibited drugs, and included police from the Criminal Groups Squad’s Strike Force Raptor and the Drug and Firearms Squad’s Chemical Operations Unit.
Detective Superintendent Deb Wallace, commander of the Criminal Groups Squad, said the powder seized from the properties was enough to produce "conservatively, 200,000 individual pills, at an estimated street value of $4 million."
This was in addition to the 17kg of already pressed pills seized by investigators.
Ms Wallace said the raids were "simultaneous" to another investigation addressing a dispute between the Finks and rival gang, the Nomads.
"In managing the conflict between these outlaw motorcycle gangs and other criminal groups is we go straight to the cause of these conflicts, which is usually turf, money owed, drugs," she said.
"So taking out the catalyst for these disputes is often a way of resolving them for the community."
It is not the first time a high-ranking member of the Finks OMCG has faced charges this year.
In February a North Wollongong court heard 34-year-old Tony Fornaciari was accused of using his senior position in the club's south coast chapter to direct fellow gang members and associates in criminal activity, notably drug deals.
It was alleged Fornaciari was found in possession of 189 grams of the drug ice when police raided the North Wollongong warehouse, which they believe was destined to become the gang's clubhouse.
At the time Fornaciari was refused bail after an agressive outburst in court prompted a magistrate to decide he was too aggressive to make an application.
He will appear at Wollongong local court on March 21.
In November last year another Finks member, 22-year-old Jesse Johnston, was met by Australian Border Force officials at Sydney Airport, where he was told his entry was being denied and he was deported to his native New Zealand.
Johnston, who denied his membership to the gang, was attempting to travel to the Central Coast, where it is understood he held a senior position in the gang's Newcastle chapter.