 At 11 o'clock last night, detectives from the Gold Coast executed a search warrant on a resort here on the Gold Coast. They searched a room and took into custody three men. Police will allege that the three men taken into custody are members of a criminal motorcycle gang. They've been arrested and charged under the new legislation in relation to criminal organisations insofar as more than two of them in a public place. Police will also allege that a sum of money was found approximately $7,700 and that's the subject of additional charges for tainted property and also a quantity of dangerous drugs. The men will appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today. What's the significance of the arrest? This is the first arrest under the new legislation here in Queensland as far as criminal organisations go. Have you been waiting to use these charges? I don't know if I've been waiting to use the charges. The legislation's been there. They've been well aware of the legislation there and of course police will allege that they disregarded the legislation and moved together in a public place in a group of more than two. Can you elaborate on how you discovered the three men in the same hotel room? Yeah I won't disclose the source of the information but I can indicate that police will allege that two of them belong to the criminal motorcycle gang the Mongols, the third person belonging to the criminal motorcycle gang the things. Whereabouts did they actually meet? In the FOIA. How long was the actual meeting? Was it a chat? Were they drinking together? What were the circumstances? No they were talking together in the FOIA whilst being attended to by an employee of the resort. Was it perhaps as they were checking in or something? That's right. Were they wearing the Mongols caps in the paraphernalia at the time? That's right. Two of them were wearing paraphernalia clearly linked into a criminal motorcycle gang and that will certainly form part of the case insofar as the criminal organisation goes but we'll also look at further charges under the provisions of the liquor act which forbid the wearing of criminal motorcycle gang paraphernalia on licensed premises. Police will allege that that area of the resort is in fact licensed. That's pretty sort of legal. I mean they're just turning their noses up and they'll thought they were doing it aren't they? That's right. It's a very public resort. They obviously had little regard for the law and perhaps we'll pay the penalty. And were these guys locals? Where were they from? Yeah two were from Southport, one from Western Australia. Were they surprised that they had breached? Were they perhaps unaware that that area was licensed? They may be unaware the area was licensed but certainly like I say it was a reasonably popular resort and I think there should have been an expectation that they shouldn't have been doing what they were doing to get caught. What do you think they were there for? Were they staying there for a while? There wasn't a holiday? I mean there was a lot of cash and they're much drugs now? Well I think you could draw a conclusion that it was a business type gathering by the way of the money that was found and certainly people of the like mind as far as criminal motorcycle gang goes. Whilst they don't have anything specific to indicate while they were there I think you could draw your own conclusions. You know three people associating together given that two of them are from one club and one's from another club is there a loophole there potentially that they're all from the same club and that they could associate into club work? No the clubs are clearly listed under the criminal organisations. Can you confirm which resort it was? No. What types of drugs? They haven't been analysed yet. They're just pills at this stage until we get something back from the government analyst. There's a lot of bikies or members of criminal outlaw gangs are going underground and you know moving to other states and sort of staying low. So is it a surprise I guess to you guys that they were in that sort of resort that is quite public and sort of making an appearance like that? Yeah it is a surprise but police will allege that they booked into that resort very early in the morning before there was a lot of people going through the main square of the hotel and of course when the police attended it was 11.30 last night. Can we just clear up who is the member of which club after a 26 year old from Western Australia is he a thinker or a mongrel? The 28 year old is a thinker the 28 year old is a mongrel and the 36 year old mongrel. Can you explain the process now? They'll appear and no doubt make a bail application when they go to Brisbane and from there they'll be either granted bail or reminded in custody pending no doubt a hearing. Is this a message now or do you think this message might actually get through to other criminal motorcycle gang members? I think the message should get through to other criminal motorcycle gang members. Heaven forbid we've certainly put it out there on a number of occasions not simply for major resorts or the glitter strip but also for the suburban hotels indicating that we would be going through the legislation as far as the criminal organizations go. But on this particular occasion they thought perhaps they would fly under the radar. What sort of penalties can they face? Probably not appropriate for me to comment on penalties I'd suggest perhaps is upwards of six months of imprisonment. Do they fall under that banner of 10 years or 15 years potentially as well? Do these charges come under that? They do come under mandatory sentencing which I believe is in excess of six months jar. What do you mean? With the paraphernalia there guys is it only the hats that are logoed or is the logos on our stuff? Look I haven't really looked closely at it certainly the hats display the wording of Mongols. And the other shoes, what would they have been taken to the police to take all these shoes? Look I haven't looked closely at them to see if they do actually display any logo of a criminal motorcycle gang. Given that there are three caps that say Mongols I think causing the process of patching over as the rest of the gang has done. Yeah we're highly likely we're not seeing too many things remaining with the Finks Club as such especially with the younger people. Maybe some of the more senior members may remain with Finks but the rest are patching over to Mongols. Can you confirm the reports that it's as much as 90% of the club? That's what we are hearing here. Always look good.