Bikie charged with torching NSW police van

A Hells Angels bikie has been charged with torching a police paddy wagon in Sydney’s inner-west.

The police vehicle was parked outside a tattoo parlour on King Street, Newtown at around 3am (AEST) on Friday when it was set alight.

Nobody was in the paddy wagon at the time but it was severely damaged.

A 47-year-old member of the Outlaw motorcycle gang turned himself in to Newtown Police Station on Saturday with a lawyer, police say.

He was arrested and charged with maliciously damaging property by fire, threatening to damage another person’s property and four counts of intimidating a police officer.

He was refused bail and is due to appear at Parramatta Local Court on Sunday.

The arrest followed an investigation by Strike Force Kinnarra, set up specially by police this week to crack down on bikie gangs involved in an ongoing street war.

On Friday, the NSW government banned bikie gangs owning tattoo parlours and wearing their colours in licensed Kings Cross venues after two drive-by shootings hours earlier.

Police believe the shootings are part of an ongoing dispute between rival gangs the Hells Angels and Nomads.

A total of 52 shootings between bikie gangs and other rival organised crime groups have alarmed Sydney this year.

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