Feared gangland enforcer Rodney ‘Goldie’ Atkinson has been arrested on drugs charged after police raids.
Strike Force Raptor – the New South Wales Police Gangs Squad’s elite anti-bikie unit – raided a property in Canley Vale in Sydney’s south-west on Tuesday.
Atkinson, 37, was arrested and charged with five counts of possessing the prohibited drug steroids.
Feared gangland enforcer Rodney ‘Goldie’ Atkinson (pictured, right, with his long-term partner) has been arrested on drugs charged after police raids
Strike Force Raptor – the the New South Wales Police Gangs Squad’s elite anti-bikie unit – raided a property in Canley Vale in Sydney’s south-west on Tuesday (pictured is Atkinson)
Police arrested three of Atkinson’s associates during the raid, and allegedly found a firearm, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The enforcer appeared on television in March, and revealed life in the gang he helped found – Brothers for Life – was ‘absolute s***’.
Atkinson helped start the gang after meeting Brothers for Life kingpin and convicted killer Bassam Hamzy when the pair were in prison segregation in 2006.
Atkinson (pictured, right with his long-term partner), 37, was arrested and charged with five counts of possessing the prohibited drug steroids
Police arrested three of Atkinson’s (pictured, left, right) associates during the raid, and allegedly found a firearm
‘Goldie’, who has the nickname because of his 24-carat diamond-encrusted teeth, quickly went to work for the gang once he was released from jail.
‘It was a job at the end of the day and something that you like doing. It’s a bit easier to do than go into a job and working nine to five for something you don’t like doing,’ he said.
Atkinson told the program he was now a changed man and was in the process of removing his Brother For Life tattoos and his gold teeth.
Atkinson (pictured, right) helped start the gang after meeting Brothers for Life kingpin and convicted killer Bassam Hamzy (pictured, left) when the pair were in prison segregation in 2006
‘It’s s***. It’s absolute s***. One bloke sits there and gets rich, and all the rest are just soldiers,’ said Atkinson (pictured in an earlier mugshot)
‘What you feel and find appealing and think is good at the time – it’s not,’ he said.
‘It’s s***. It’s absolute s***. One bloke sits there and gets rich, and all the rest are just soldiers.’
During the past week Strike Force Raptor has made a number of raids and arrests, charging 14 people with drug and firearm related offences and offensive language.
On Monday Abdullah Hawchar was arrested by the unit, and later hospitalised after suddenly becoming ill during the police search for illegal guns.
During the past week Strike Force Raptor has made a number of raids and arrests, charging 14 people with drug and firearm related offences and offensive language
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