Police have charged an associate of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang, over an alleged pursuit at North Gosford.
Shortly before midday on Thursday, June 18, a Traffic and Highway Patrol officer from Brisbane Water Local Area Command was patrolling Henry Parry Dve, when he allegedly observed a motor scooter overtake a vehicle illegally.
Police followed the scooter, which allegedly attempted to speed away and a pursuit was initiated. The pursuit continued for a short distance, before the rider crashed the scooter on Booth St at Wyoming.
A brief struggle ensued between the rider, a 37-year old man, and the officer; however, he was detained until further police arrived and placed him under arrest. During a subsequent search of the scooter, police allegedly located knuckle dusters, a flick knife, prohibited drugs and other drug paraphernalia.
All items were seized for forensic examination. Further inquiries revealed the scooter had allegedly been stolen from a business on Hely St, Gosford, earlier that day.
The man was taken to Gosford Police Station, where he was charged with resisting an officer in execution of duty, possessing prohibited drugs, supplying prohibited drugs, two counts of possessing prohibited weapons, possessing goods suspected of being stolen, driving conveyance without consent of owner, negligent driving and a number of other traffic related offences.
He was refused bail and appeared before Gosford Local Court on Friday, June 19.
Media release,
19 June 2015
NSW Police media