CHIFLEY police called in the Gang Squad to form Strike Force Raptor when 150 members of the Finks outlaw motorcycle club came to Bathurst last month, resulting in the arrest of a club member and a local woman, both of them for drink-driving offences.
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Cekic Bozidar, 20, a member of the Finks, had his mid-range drink-driving case dealt with last week in the Local Court during an ex parte hearing at the Bathurst Court House.
Bozidar failed to answer the charge in court and was convicted and fined $479 in addition to being disqualified from driving or holding a licence for six months.
Magistrate Jan Stevenson relied on a police statement of facts outlining how the Chifley Command had information 150 Fink bike riders were heading to Bathurst on Saturday, October 23 and called in the Gang Squad.
About 1.10am police in an unmarked car observed a white Hyundai van drive north in William Street, Bathurst.
Bozidar, of Main Street, Kapunda, South Australia drove into Durham Street where police stopped the van to conduct a random breath test.
Police said a passenger wearing a Fink t-shirt was in the van with Bozidar, who registered a positive mid-range 0.085 alcohol reading and was arrested. He could not recall how many Jack Daniels drinks he consumed between 10pm and midnight and his licence was suspended on the spot.
Police also told the court last week how Donna Moad, 34, had been out dining with friends the same night before being stopped for a random breath test.
Moad had parked her car and intended to collect it the next day but when she arrived at the taxi rank she’d been alone and was confronted by the Finks among 20 drunken people waiting for cabs.
She felt threatened, unsafe and intimidated and made a poor decision to drive her car home.
Taking into account Moad’s explanation and prior good driving record, Ms Stevenson found her guilty without proceeding to a conviction to enter a Section 10 first offender bond for eight months.
