MAN FACES COURT FOR EVADING COPS
FORMER Hells Angels bikie Benjamin Geppert has pleaded guilty to trespassing and obstructing police after a bizarre incident in which he hid from officers in a shopping centre he is banned from.
The Southport Magistrates Court was yesterday told the 26-year-old breached his parole on August 9 when he failed a drug screen. He had been released on parole a month earlier.
On August 11, police arrived at Geppert’s Robina home at 9.30am with a return-to-prison warrant for the parole breach.
Geppert fled the home after seeing his partner Allaina Vader speaking with police at the front door. He jumped over a balcony, ran through parklands, scaled a 2m fence, ran through a KFC car park and into the Robina Town Centre, where he hid under a car inside a car park.
Geppert had been banned from the shopping centre for five years in May.
He spent 75 days behind bars and served a month in solitary confinement.
Yesterday, Magistrate Andrew Sinclair sentenced Geppert to six months behind bars which was wholly suspended for four years.
On Tuesday, Vader pleaded guilty to six charges, including common assault, drug possession and traffic offences following a road rage attack in May. She was sentenced to three months prison to be suspended for an operational period of 12 months and ordered to pay $1000 in compensation to the victim.