FIVE Rebel members and associates will front court today to answer serious drug supply offences in Tamworth following yesterday’s operation.
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Police will allege the members have been tracked for months as part of Strike Force Mewburn, set up by Oxley detectives to investigate the supply of drugs in Tamworth.
Late yesterday, Mark Jeffrey Hicks appeared in the dock of Tamworth Local Court charged with seven offences.
Detectives allege the 38-year-old supplied a commercial quantity of amphetamine up to January 1 this year, supplied illegal drugs on an ongoing basis, and also supplied 393 grams of methylamphetamine between November and March at a location in Westdale.
He’s also accused of recruiting a woman to help supply drugs and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
Solicitor Fiona Hadlington said the charges were serious and she needed more time to prepare a bail application.
“It is too complicated for me to take proper instructions this late in the day,” she told Tamworth Local Court yesterday afternoon.
Co-accused Bradley James O’Connor, arrested in Nundle yesterday morning, is charged with supplying ice between December and March as well as amphetamine between October and December last year.
The 34-year-old fronted the dock of the court late yesterday charged with three offences but made no application for bail.
Vincent Maxwell Duffy, 35, is charged with suppling cannabis between September last and March this year, as well as
possessing 456 grams of cannabis when he was arrested yesterday morning in Coledale.
Solicitor Rae Parker said there was not enough time to do “justice” to a proper bail application for Duffy.
“I can’t make a proper application,” she told the court.
All three man were formally refused bail by Magistrate Peter Barnett.
A 33-year-old man arrested in Westdale yesterday morning will front court for the first time today as well as another co-accused.
