NSW Police has charged five men following a brazen daylight shooting at the home of an alleged local Alameddine crime boss, days after a car outside his house was firebombed.
According to a police statement, officers were called to Earl Street in Marylands around 9.20am following reports of a shooting.
No one was home at the time and there were no reports of injuries.
According to The Daily Telegraph, police have speculated Ali Elmoubayed has been overseeing the Alameddine crime gang’s million-dollar drug enterprise in recent years after Rafat Alemeddine fled overseas.
Thursday’s shooting took place at his home.
As bullets were being fired into his home, the Telegraph reported Mr Elmoubayed was on his way to Parramatta Local Court to ask for his bail to be varied.
He faces some 40 charges including supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, dealing with the proceeds of crime, kidnapping, and knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group.
He is yet to enter pleas.
Superintendent Jason Box said gang crime has not escalated, based on the figures, but there is a “concern that it is happening”.
A short time after Mr Elmoubayed home was shot up, a burnt-out Porsche was found on Beverly Crescent, Chester Hill.
Upon leaving Chester Hill, the group travelled in a Hyundai and were tracked by a police helicopter before being arrested about 20 minutes later.
The men were arrested while fleeing on foot along McMahon Road in Yagoona.
Three men aged in their early twenties, were taken to Granville Police Station and charged with conspire to discharge firearm and other offences, including participate in a criminal group.
One of the men, 22, was also charged with acquire etc pistol-subject to firearms prohibition order.
The trio were refused bail to appear in court on Friday.
Around the same time, a Ford Territory was seen driving erratically before crashing on Prospect Road in Greystanes.
The occupants of the vehicle, two 17-year-olds, were detained by community members before police arrived. They were subsequently placed under arrest.
During a search of the vehicle, jerry cans containing fuel, bleach, balaclavas, and a knife were seized by police.
The teens were charged under Taskforce Falcon with take and drive conveyance without consent of owner, accessory before the fact to damage property by fire, custody of a knife in public place and participate in a criminal group.
One of the males was also wanted for allegedly being involved in a home invasion in Ermington in February and received additional charges, including commit serious indictable offence-inflict actual bodily harm and accessory before and after the fact to an aggravated break and enter.
The two teens were both refused bail to appear in a Children’s Court today.
One of the men who made a citizen’s arrest told the Telegraph the teen he managed to apprehend begged to be let go.
“I was stuck in traffic and I looked to my right… and I saw two guys running away from the car that was smoking up,” the man said, adding how he jumped out of his car and chased them.
“He was begging, begging me, ‘please, please my mum is sick, they’re going to kill me if they find out.’”
