OFF THE WIRE
POLICE seized drugs and a pistol from the Ingleburn home of a suspected senior member of the Rebels motorcycle gxxg this morning.
Officers attached to the Gang Squad's Strike Force Raptor searched a home in Ingleburn about 6.45am this morning and arrested the man, 44.
Police allege he is a high-ranking member of the Ingleburn chapter of the Rebels.
They seized a .45-calibre revolver, two air guns which resembled semi-automatic pistols, almost 200 rounds of ammunition and a quantity of a drug believed to be methylamphetamine.
The man was taken to Macquarie Fields Police Station and charged with three counts of possessing an unauthorised pistol, possessing an unregistered pistol, possessing ammunition, not keeping a firearm safe, supplying a prohibited drug, possessing a prohibited drug, and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
He was refused bail and appeared at Campbelltown Local Court today.
Strike Force Raptor targets outlaw motorcycle gxxgs and theirassociated criminal enterprises.
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