Mob flexing muscles in Australia, leak reveals

The Mongrel Mob chapter in Australia is branching out of its Logan, Brisbane, heartland to infiltrate surrounding suburbs including the northern Gold Coast to hide criminal activity, leaked police intel says.

Intelligence reports seen by the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper detail the lengths the Mongrel Mob and the Hells Angels are going to in order to hide their activity.

The reports also show how closing the traditional clubhouses has done little to stop them from meeting and conducting club business.

The “intelligence brief” details the notorious New Zealand gang’s development in southeast Queensland, how it concentrated its early growth in Eagleby, before stretching tentacles into other suburbs to try to hide members’ movements.

It’s understood the Mongrel Mob launched a Gold Coast chapter in 2016, before the gang was outlawed in Queensland in 2018.

“A recent review of current Mongrel Mob participants has identified since the primary establishment of the group, members/associates are continuing to move out of Eagleby to other suburbs within the Logan [police] District, including suburbs within neighbouring districts,” the brief reads.

“With the gradual move of Mongrel Mob participants away from ... Eagleby, there have been limited police interactions and intelligence reporting around their activities.

“Intelligence received indicates the Mongrel Mob are continuing to establish/strengthen relationships with varying OMCGs [outlaw motorcycle gangs] in the Southeast Region and continue to be the subject of drug and weapons related holdings.”

Mob members have been seen in the Gold Coast’s northern suburbs for years, slowly growing a presence among young New Zealand men, sources have told the Bulletin.

The report goes on to say, “it is likely the collective movement by members/associates from Eagleby to other suburbs is to try and limit future detection of their activities by police and to expand their influence in the areas they move to”.

The report into the Hells Angels reveals “animosity between the Brisbane and Gold Coast chapters of the Hells Angels”, recently.

However a recent change in the Brisbane chapter president position will squash that “animosity”.

Shadow Police Minister Dan Purdie, a former detective who dealt with OMCGs in the past, said the Labor Government had rolled out the red carpet for the gangs to go about their illegal business.

“Annastacia Palaszczuk has rolled out the red carpet for criminal gangs putting the safety of Gold Coast residents at risk,” he said. “This is yet another example that the bikies are well and truly back under Labor.

“Labor’s organised crime laws are weak and unenforceable, which is why there has been a staggering 1511 consorting warnings but not one bikie sent to prison.

“The police intelligence proves just because bikies have taken their names off the buildings doesn’t mean they’re not meeting.”

Police Minister Mark Ryan, in a statement last week spruiking a crackdown on organised crime, said: “Under the Palaszczuk Government, Queensland has the toughest antiorganised crime legislation in Australia. I’m advised by police there are currently no active bikie clubhouses known to Queensland police.

“Police are arresting bikies and disrupting their organisations. The results prove that.

“Our outstanding police are taking tough action and arresting outlaw bikie criminals.”