Dan Oakes

Dan Oakes

Man sues police after copping capsicum spray to groin

Capsicum spray

Dan Oakes A Violet Town man is suing Victoria Police after three police officers allegedly dragged him from his bed late at night and capsicum sprayed him, causing lasting psychological damage.

Tramps motorcycle club 'puppets' of Hells Angels: police

Tramps motorcycle gathering.


Bikers incensed at police firearm seizures

A police officer displays seized firearms.

Dan Oakes Up to half a dozen clubs may challenge seizure of weapons, cancellation of firearms licences.

MP queries seizure of bike club guns


Dan Oakes Tim McCurdy approaches Police Minister to ask why anti-bikie taskforce seized guns from a country motorcycle club.

Why are we criminals but church isn't, bikies ask

Members of the Tramps Motorcycle Club based in Wangaratta

Dan Oakes The president of a bikie club targeted by a special police taskforce has lashed out at the government's plans to criminalise motorcycle clubs, asking whether the Catholic Church will be a deemed a...

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Gunless bikers set deadline for police chief

Chief Commisioner Ken Lay.

Dan Oakes Motorcycle club members whose weapons were seized by a police taskforce have threatened legal action against the Chief Commissioner unless he decides by noon today whether to give them back.

Bikies take action to get guns back


Dan Oakes Members of a bikie club who had their guns seized by a special police task force will begin legal action against the Chief Commissioner to have their weapons returned.

New bikie laws 'a serious assault on civil liberties'


Dan Oakes Lawyers and bikies have attacked controversial laws that would make 'outlaw motorcycle gangs' illegal, describing them as a serious assault on civil liberties and predicting they will be overturned.

Police cancel bikies' gun licences

Dan Oakes Police intensify war on bikie clubs, cancelling firearms licences of almost 20 members.