ONE of the men at the centre of the Tamworth 'ice castle' investigation is behind bars after being captured in Queensland.
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The Leader can reveal Hayden Lansdown was arrested by Queensland police at a home in Cairns last week.
Detectives from Strike Force Radius - the dedicated operation by Oxley police to bring down the alleged drug and gun supply ring - travelled to Cairns to extradite him.
He fronted court in Far North Queensland where a magistrate granted the extradition application for him to be taken back to NSW.
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Flanked by police, he was flown to Sydney on Friday where he was formally charged with four separate warrants, including gun supply that police allege implicates him in the 'ice castle' supply ring.
Lansdown's accused of seven charges including supplying and possessing an unregistered firearm; supplying and possessing a shortened firearm; two counts of supplying a pistol to a person that's unauthorised to possess it; and supplying or giving ammunition to someone not authorised to possess it.
He also faces two separate charges of possessing a prohibited drug; as well as seven unrelated fraud, larceny, intimidation and damaging property offences.
Lansdown has not been required to enter a plea to the charges and faced an out-of-sessions bail hearing in Parramatta on Saturday.
The cases were adjourned to Tamworth, with Lansdown refused bail by the court.
The 24-year-old has allegedly been on the run since May when police went looking for him Tamworth.
Officers claim Lansdown fled to Queensland when the raids on several Tamworth homes unfolded.
After exhausting all avenues to find him in NSW, Oxley detectives applied for an arrest warrant, which was granted in Tamworth court.
Detectives allege more than 25 men and women were involved in the supply chain of prohibited drugs and guns that was being run out of a headquarters inside a housing commission unit, referred to as the 'ice castle' in Petra Avenue, Tamworth.
Ashley Hoye and Aden Mohammed have warrants out for their arrest after allegedly going on the run from police earlier this year on a raft of supply charges.
Breanna Chillingworth
Northern Daily Leader Senior Crime and Court Reporter
Northern Daily Leader Senior Crime and Court Reporter
