Broken vow of man nabbed in border blitz

A TWEED Heads man arrested as part of a major police blitz on bikies and organised crime gangs on the Queensland/NSW border had publicly vowed to go straight after doing time in prison.Randall

Boneham, 27, was found with a loaded rifle and ammunition in his kitchen when cops raided his home last week as part of Operation Viking.

He was one of dozens of people arrested in the joint agency operation involving Queensland and NSW police, the Australian Federal Police, NSW Crime Commission and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

More than $4.5m in drugs, $165,000 in cash, seven guns and luxury cars and watches were seized in sweeping raids across the Gold Coast and northern NSW.

During the two-week operation, police said they also uncovered a Mongols bikie lair – hidden in an underground bunker accessed by a trapdoor and complete with a bar. They also seized weapons including a medieval flail.

Boneham, a father of two, is the first to face court over the raids that saw 54 people arrested on more than 180 charges.

He was refused bail after pleading guilty in Tweed Heads Local Court last week to charges of possessing an unauthorised firearm, possessing ammunition without authority and failing to keep a firearm safely.

Boneham’s Facebook posts include one last month of him with fellow inmates posing in prison greens at what he said was Clarence Correctional Centre in northern NSW.

In January, Boneham posted: “People are so proud of going to jail & being a bad ass … I think it’s nothing but an embarrassment!”

“Crazy … I used to be that person but you gotta find a purpose in life and make better goals and do what it takes to achieve them,” he wrote.

Boneham will face court again next month for sentencing.