Bikies fight for lucrative drug trade

Bikies fight for lucrative drug trade: "WHOEVER controls Kings Cross controls Sydney's drug trade - and the lucre that flows from it. The Golden Mile has long been the setting for turf wars by gangs trying to dominate points of distribution for the drug market.
Nightclubs and bars in the Cross are the prime place to sell, mostly amphetamines, to cashed-up partygoers. So it's no wonder that bikie gangs are jostling for a piece of the action.
For gangs such as the Comanchero, Hells Angels and Notorious (the new boys on the block) it has been ''game on'', with no let-up in the violent struggle for supremacy, despite intense police scrutiny and legislative attempts to stop them associating.
Advertisement: Story continues below Kings Cross police received information in January last year that the Comanchero were trying to usurp the moves to ban bikies from clubs by attempting to covertly purchase the Lincoln nightclub right in middle of rival Notorious and Hells Angels turf, a bid that was unsuccessful. The next month, a riot squad was sent to the area of the Cross known as ''the strip'' to boost the number of officers on the street."