Victoria Police have raided Comanchero bikie properties across Melbourne
DETECTIVES from Victoria Police’s anti-bikie Taskforce Echo are raiding properties linked to the Comancheros in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
Police executed search warrants on a series of properties in South Melbourne, Hallam, Hampton Park, Narre Warren, Boronia, Lysterfield and Dewhurst as part of their crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Nitro Gym, which is run by Comanchero Victorian boss Mick Murray, on the Princes Hwy in Hallam was among the properties searched as part of the operation.
Public Order Response officers guarded the gym while detectives scoured the fitness centre just before 10am.
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After about 20 minutes, they appeared to emerge empty handed.
No-one was arrested and Mr Murray was nowhere to be seen.
In September, the gym was targeted in a drive-by shooting in what was believed to be an ongoing turf war with rival gang, Hells Angels.
The Comancheros Hallam clubhouse in a previous raid.
Police are yet to reveal details as to what they are looking for or what has sparked the latest raids.
It comes just a month after police discovered an arsenal of explosive power gel, detonators and cord during raids on 63 Comanchero-linked properties across metropolitan Melbourne.
The police operation, codenamed Crosswings, was the largest simultaneous execution of warrants in Victoria’s history.
That raid came a week after police targeted the Hells Angels Darkside chapter, in which a military style weapon was found.
At the time, police released behind-the-scenes footage of those raids (see above).
Last year, police conducted widespread raids on Hells Angel clubhouses as part of an ongoing investigation into criminal bikie gang activity.
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