POLICE have charged an alleged member of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang with a drive-by shooting in Lalor Park last December, bringing to three the shootings he allegedly committed.
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The man, Todd Obierzynski, 21, had already been charged - with three fellow Bandidos - with firearms offences and two other drive-by shootings at Lurnea and Sadlier on December 10. Each are allegedly linked to a dispute between the Bandidos and Rebels motorcycle clubs, involving 13 tit-for-tat shootings between late October and early December.
All four Bandidos will face court again on May 6.
Meanwhile a fifth member of the Comanchero charged over the Sydney Airport brawl, Christian Menzies, 26, failed to make bail in Central Local Court yesterday afternoon.
Magistrate Allan Moore had given the prosecution two days to produce evidence indicating Menzies was an "active participant" in the airport affray.
But he refused bail yesterday after he was satisfied witnesses had seen him participating.
"I'm told that the prosecution authority has witnesses who have given statements involving this gentleman in the affray," Mr Moore said.
Menzies's lawyer, Lesly Randle, said she would appeal against the decision in the Supreme Court.
The brother of the man killed in the airport brawl, Peter Zervas, was in a stable condition in hospital yesterday with police waiting to interview him.
A senior police officer said yesterday police were speaking to the Zervas family about providing protection. "We will make some arrangement depending on what they are comfortable with," he said.
Police had spoken to the driver of the white car which had nearly run over the alleged gunman who shot Zervas, a Hells Angel member, last Sunday. "We got some information from that person which was helpful," he said.
A source inside the Hells Angels said yesterday they were aware of attention from senior American leaders of the Hells Angels, but contrary to a recent newspaper report there were no plans to close either of the two Sydney chapters.
"I know there's talk over there [the US] about what's going on and people are not happy about it. And there's been a direction [saying], 'low key, boys, low key'.
"They're pissed off but at the same time they do understand that the [Sydney chapters] are under attack, that they didn't start it."
Meanwhile, one of the biggest events on the outlaw scene, the annual Bankstown Custom Motorcycle Show, run by outlaw club Highway 61, was cancelled.
"After taking into consideration concerns for public safety, as well as the current global financial crisis, we have decided to cancel the 2009 Bankstown Custom Motorcycle Show," a statement on hardnfast.com read. But an organiser, "Moose", denied the cancellation was due to fears for public safety.