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Bikie Warfare Looms! Mongols vs Comanchero Turf War in SE Queensland

Bikie Warfare Looms! Mongols vs Comanchero Turf War in SE Queensland To understand the brewing war, we need to go back to 2013, when Queensland's criminal landscape changed forever. The Mongols Motorcycle Club, founded in California and built on the recruitment of Hispanic veterans, made a move that would reshape Australian organized crime. In October 2013, a deal was brokered to "patch over" the Finks ahead of a proposed ban on the Finks under anti-gang legislation in Queensland. An estimated 90% of the Finks' members joined the Mongols. The patch-over wasn't just a merger – it was a conquest. The Mongols' "patch over" of the Finks was the largest ever motorcycle club amalgamation in Australia, and made the club one of the most powerful bike gangs in the country, with a membership of around 400 and chapters in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. But with power came problems. The Mongols weren't just absorbing territory – they were inheriting enemies, rivalries, and debts that stretched back decades in Queensland's criminal underworld. Former Finks members brought their disputes with them, and new tensions emerged as the American-born Mongols tried to assert control over Australian criminal networks. The club is designated an outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) by the Australian Federal Police, but designation is one thing – reality on the ground was another. The Mongols found themselves controlling some of Queensland's most lucrative criminal territories, but they also found themselves at war with rivals who refused to accept the new order. The first major test of Mongols power came through Shane Bowden, a man whose life and death would define the trajectory of Queensland's bikie wars for years to come. Bowden had "patched over" to the Mongols from the Finks in 2013 but was expelled from the club in "bad standing" for bashing a fellow member and rejoined the Finks shortly before his death. Bowden's defection back to the Finks wasn't just personal – it was political. The Mongols were reportedly concerned by Bowden's recruitment of new members into the Finks, and police theorised that he was killed over a dispute between the clubs. The killing of Shane Bowden would prove to be more than just another execution. It would be the match that lit a fuse leading to the most sustained period of bikie violence in Queensland's recent history.