MERRI-BEK: Gang member in Fawkner incident
Detectives from Taskforce Echo have charged a man overnight following an incident in Fawkner which occurred early Monday morning, February 16.
Officers were patrolling in the vicinity of Star Court around 4.10am when they spotted a vehicle allegedly travelling at excessive speed.
It will be alleged the vehicle then sped off on police before it was dumped outside a church on Sydney Rd.
Officers cordoned off the area and located two firearms that had been discarded.
A Dog Squad unit was called in and located a 36-year-old Sebastopol man hiding in a shed.
The man was transported to hospital under police guard for treatment of pre-existing injuries.
The man, believed to be a patched member of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, was charged overnight with:
• possession of a traffickable quantity of unregistered firearms
• prohibited person possess a firearm
• prohibited person possess a handgun
• two counts of possess loaded firearm in a public place
• theft of motor vehicle
• learner driver without supervising driver
• enter intersection against red light
• careless driving
• possess ammunition without licence
• theft, and
• fraudulently use vehicle licence plate.
He was to appear at Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court on Friday (Feb. 20).

