{"id":522105,"date":"2026-03-06T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:21:09","slug":"wa-police-target-outlaw-bikie-gang-in-national-day-of-action-albany-family-speak-out-about-suspected-double-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522105\/","title":{"rendered":"WA police target outlaw bikie gang in national \u2018day of action\u2019; Albany family speak out about suspected double-homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WA Police have led a taskforce targeting the Comancheros Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, as part of a coordinated National Day of Action held on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Taskforce Morpheus is a cross jurisdictional initiative, including New Zealand and other Australian states, established to collaboratively target and disrupt criminal activities associated with outlaw bikie gangs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vision from an arrest.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/93e991aa8dcdd7994c195cb000165d4acc6798906c32ecafc0cdae7f38a5b9c8.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Vision from an arrest.WA Police<\/p>\n<p>The taskforce includes the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, AUSTRAC, Australian Taxation Office and Services Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The National Day of Action was focused on disrupting and dismantling the organisational capability of the Comancheros, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country and New Zealand, police executed search warrants and arrest warrants, and targeted illicit firearms, weapons, drugs and traffic related offences.<\/p>\n<p>Further actions undertaken by law enforcement agencies included conducting Firearms Protection Order compliance checks, bail compliance checks, and dispersal or consorting related offences.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Taskforce Morpheus resulted in 56 arrests, 168 charges, 37 firearms compliance checks, 51 search warrants executed, four visa cancellation referrals and several items being seized including illicit drugs, firearms and cash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA Police have led a taskforce targeting the Comancheros Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, as part of a coordinated National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-522105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}