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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

Bikie gang bosses choose Canberra for meet hub as eased drug laws arrive

Interstate chapter bosses for two of Australia's biggest bikie gangs, the Hells Angels and the Comancheros, used Canberra as their covert meeting location in recent months, fuelling concerns of the gangs' fresh interest in building their networks in the territory.

ACT chief police officer Neil Gaughan this week told an ACT Assembly committee hearing there were around 30 "patched" members now residing in Canberra and these were supplemented by an unknown number of "associates".

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