Bikie boss locked up on drug trafficking, proceeds of crime charges

The president of the Satudarah bikie gang's Canberra chapter is behind bars after police charged him with drug trafficking and possessing suspected proceeds of crime. The ACT Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday that Darin Paul Keir planned to apply for bail later in the week. The 40-year-old remained in the court cells when lawyer Tim Sharman appeared on his behalf on Tuesday and asked for the matter to be adjourned until Friday. Special Magistrate Margaret Hunter did not read the fresh charges, and no details of the alleged offences were given. Mr Keir was already before the courts on two weapons charges, after police allegedly found him driving around with metal knuckledusters and an extendable baton following reports an armed man was trying to break into a Belconnen home in February. Another two outstanding charges allege that he possessed "a prohibited thing" during a previous period in custody. Police have previously identified Mr Keir as the third president of the upstart Canberra chapter of the Satudarah outlaw motorcycle gang, a feared bikie club with origins in the Netherlands. The chapter's first two leaders, Dean Stephen Reid and David Micheal Evans, are now serving sentences in Canberra's jail after being locked up within two weeks of each other in early 2019. Reid is behind bars until at least May 2022 for aggravated robbery, car theft and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Evans, meanwhile, cannot apply for parole until March 2023 after carrying out two violent beatings, threatening to kill a woman and committing contempt of court by labelling a prosecutor "a mutt".