16/09/2025
Victoria Police have arrested nine people and laid 42 charges as part of a national day of action targeting Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMCG), including the Mongols.
In Victoria, the Taskforce Morpheus day of action – which ran on Wednesday 10 September – focussed on swooping on OMCG members, including the Mongols, and their associates for Firearm Prohibition Order (FPO) searches and other offences including affray and drugs.
Detectives from Echo Taskforce, VIPER Taskforce and Hawk Taskforce, as well as police from the regions including Caulfield Divisional Response Unit and Dandenong Family Violence Investigation Unit teamed up to conduct 20 FPO searches in multiple suburbs.
Suburbs included Parkdale, Mentone, Narre Warren, St Kilda, Hallam, Hoppers Crossing, Docklands, Diggers Rest, South Kingsville, Clyde North, Point Cook, South Morang, Craigieburn, Smythes Creek, Tatura and Shepparton.
Four new FPO’s were also served on OMCG members.
Six of the arrests resulted in charges for an affray linked to an assault in a correctional facility in Lara on 7 December 2024.
The other arrests related to various criminal offending.
It included a 34-year-old Cranbourne West man who was arrested for possessing 100g methylamphetamine.
He’s since been charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of a drug of dependence and has been remanded to face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today.
More than 1,400 in cash was also seized by police during the arrest.
Another arrest included a 26-year-old Diggers Rest man for possessing prescription medications without a prescription.
Across the country, police arrested 41 people in total, resulting in 120 charges.
Police also conducted 43 FPO compliance checks, 21 search warrants, seizing two replica firearms, an amount of ammunition, more than 100kg of methamphetamine, 231ml of anabolic steroids, 447 tablets of prescription medication, about $20,000 worth of illicit tobacco and more than $32,000 cash.
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