A light lunch at a Maitland cafe could land an alleged Finks member in jail after he was charged with breaching a serious crime prevention order imposed by the NSW Supreme Court.
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Troy Vanderlight, 27, was charged after he enjoyed sourdough toast with beetroot and feta washed down with a flat white during an alleged meeting with a Gladiator at the Heritage Gardens Cafe on Friday.
The otherwise quiet meeting could have serious consequences for Vanderlight – the alleged Sergeant at Arms of the Finks Newcastle chapter – who became the first man charged with contravening the serious crime prevention order.
He was one of 10 Nomad and Fink members slapped with the strict 12-month court order on April 27, which banned them from associating with any member of any outlaw motorcycle gang.
Other conditions included not travelling in a car between 9pm and 6am except in a medical emergency, producing their phones and passwords to police upon request and not having more than one mobile phone.
The order was the first of its kind ever imposed in NSW.
The NSW Police Commissioner applied for the orders in a bid to quell existing high-level conflict between the two gangs, which had resulted in arson incidents, physical violence and multiple public place shootings including two on Vanderlight’s Tenambit home.
Breaching the order carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
It is a prospect Vanderlight is facing, after he was arrested and searched at the Ashtonfield nursery on Friday afternoon, where police also allegedly seized $1300 cash in an envelope.
Vanderlight was charged and refused bail for contravening a serious crime prevention order, dealing in the proceeds of crime, goods in custody and breaching bail. He will face court later this month and again in October.
His alleged lunch companion, a 43-year-old Gladiator, was also charged with breaching bail.
It comes after the alleged Nomads National President Dylan Brittliffe was charged this month with contravening a non-association order.
The charge on August 7 relates to an alleged meeting between Brittliffe, 33, and Nomads members at a Port Stephens cafe on April 14 – two weeks before the serious crime prevention order was imposed on him.
The non-association order was made as a condition of Brittliffe’s conviction for affray in 2017.