Comancheros bikie heavyweight Tarek Zahed has been dramatically arrested in Sydney’s east, just months after he survived a spray of bullets that killed his brother in a gangland shooting
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A NSW Police spokesman said Zahed, 42, was arrested by the tactical operations unit when they stopped his car on New South Head Road in Edgecliff at about 4.50pm on Sunday.shows police fired tactical rubber bullets into Zahed’s BMW on the busy eastern suburbs road, shattering his windows, before pulling him out of the car.The police spokesman would not comment on the reason for his arrest aside from it being part of “an ongoing investigation”.
Zahed is the national sergeant-at-arms of the Comanchero bikie gang, while his brother Omar also had links to the gang. Both had been warned by police National president of the Comancheros, Allan Meehan, posted a picture with Zahed on Instagram last week alongside the caption: “Welcome back tarek “hard2kill” zahed”.The Comancheros heavyweight is well known to police. He waslast year after NSW Police sent an alert through global law-enforcement body Interpol.
He was prohibited from wearing gang colours in NSW, and was required to provide police with his vehicle registration, was only allowed one mobile phone and could not have more than $10,000 in his bank account.An earlier version of this article said Mark Buddle was thought to be in Lebanon. That is incorrect. He was deported to Australia earlier this month.
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