new wave of bikie 'super clubs' as membership soars and major gangs move to take over smaller clubs.

SENIOR Gold Coast police are bracing for a new wave of bikie 'super clubs' as membership soars and major gangs move to take over smaller clubs.An internal police email from a high-ranking officer leaked to the Gold Coast Bulletin reveals police have pinpointed these 'super clubs' as a serious threat.Major clubs like the Hell's Angels, Bandidos, Finks and Black Uhlans are expected to swallow smaller clubs.Some members of the Nomads have already swapped colours to the much larger Hell's Angels in anticipation of a potential takeover.The email also said some members of the Commancheros and Lone Wolf gangs in Sydney had joined forces in drug manufacture...

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You don’t get much sleep with a lumpy, loaded sawed-off shotgun under your pillow.

You don’t get much sleep with a lumpy, loaded sawed-off shotgun under your pillow.Nevertheless, that’s where Niagara police found the double-barreled weapon when they raided a crack house in a Queenston Street apartment in St. Catharines Thursday.Police had heard there might be a weapon inside the house before they executed a search warrant and also found ammunition for it as well as some crack cocaine and marijuana.“The firearm was located in the bedroom stuffed under a pillow and appeared to be in working condition,” a police spokesman said, adding members of the St. Catharines Street Crime Unit had begun receiving information a week ago about...

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bikies were involved in a Melbourne nightclub bashing that left five staff members needing treatment at a hospital.

Police are investigating whether bikies were involved in a Melbourne nightclub bashing that left five staff members needing treatment at a hospital.Police say five men entered the premises of the Centrefold club in King Street in Melbourne's CBD sometime after 6am (AEDT) but the group was asked to leave as the bar was closing.A fight broke out and several of the employees were assaulted."We're talking with witnesses and trying to see if a bikie gang was involved," a police spokeswoman said.Five people were treated in hospital with minor injuries varying from cuts and bruises to a broken jaw.In a separate incident, a man was found beaten unconscious...

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Ryle, a known bank robber and drug dealer, was shot five times in the head, neck and upper body

DEATH of a man from injuries he sustained in a gangland shooting at the weekend is being linked by gardaí to a feud between two rival factions that has cost three lives in recent months.Robert Ryle, a 30-year-old from Blackditch Rd, Ballyfermot, west Dublin, died in hospital yesterday morning after being ambushed in a gun attack on Sunday night.It was the 20th gun murder of the year.Ryle, a known bank robber and drug dealer, was shot five times in the head, neck and upper body on Foxdene Ave, Clondalkin, shortly before 8.40pm on Sunday.He had been driven to the area by a female friend but when he stepped from his car to walk up the driveway into...

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John Masters is living in fear after turning supergrass against an underworld figure.

John Masters is living in fear after turning supergrass against an underworld figure.He struck an agreement with Northumbria Police to help a gangland investigation. But while being held in a safe house, Masters let slip he had also pistol-whipped a man in Heaton, Newcastle, in 2003.Kingsley Hyland, prosecuting at Newcastle Crown Court, said: “On September 14 this year during a conversation with his protection officer, Masters – who is a protected witness – disclosed he was previously involved in an assault in Heaton.“He said he pistol whipped a man asleep on a settee . . . and said he failed to disclose this earlier.”Christopher Knox, defending,...

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Former top Bonanno gangster Salvatore (Good Looking Sal) Vitale, who admitted to 11 gangland murders, was sprung from prison

Former top Bonanno gangster Salvatore (Good Looking Sal) Vitale, who admitted to 11 gangland murders, was sprung from prison Friday as a reward for helping the feds jail 51 mobsters.Vitale expressed deep remorse for his life of crime and wept as Judge Nicholas Garaufis pronounced him a free man - to the extent someone in witness protection can truly be free."He will live the balance of his life as a notorious and endangered prisoner in a cell of his own creation, targeted by the very criminal organization of which he was once a leader," Garaufis said.Dozens of FBI agents and prosecutors packed the courtroom in Brooklyn Federal Court for the sentencing...

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Robert Ryle, a 30-year-old from Blackditch Rd, Ballyfermot, west Dublin, died in hospital yesterday morning after being ambushed in a gun attack

DEATH of a man from injuries he sustained in a gangland shooting at the weekend is being linked by gardaí to a feud between two rival factions that has cost three lives in recent months.Robert Ryle, a 30-year-old from Blackditch Rd, Ballyfermot, west Dublin, died in hospital yesterday morning after being ambushed in a gun attack on Sunday night.It was the 20th gun murder of the year.Ryle, a known bank robber and drug dealer, was shot five times in the head, neck and upper body on Foxdene Ave, Clondalkin, shortly before 8.40pm on Sunday.He had been driven to the area by a female friend but when he stepped from his car to walk up the driveway into...

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