1.34pm: Inspector Darren Cloake has addressed the media in relation to search warrants executed in Temora this morning.
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A 57-year-old high-ranking member of the Rebels Motorcycle Club was arrested. In his possession was 200 grams of what police will allege is methamphetamine.
The arrest was the result of two search warrants and three firearm prohibition orders being served at two houses.
Police will allege the Rebels have been operating from Temora and into ACT and Sydney.
A larger investigation identified people in Temora having heavy involvement in national dealings.
12.21pm: Video footage of the arrest of a man in Temora during police raids.
10.23am: Police from Strike Force Raptor have begun a search of the Royal Hotel in Hoskins Street, Temora.
The search is one of several currently underway in the region as the elite police squad, which was formed to wipe out gang crime, turns its attention to the Riverina.
Police from Strike Force Raptor have begun a search of the Royal Hotel in Hoskins Street, Temora.
10.10am: Police from Strike Force Raptor have handcuffed a Temora man and are taking him to Wagga Police Station after a search warrant was executed on his house.
A series of warrants and firearms searches are underway in the Temora area as part of a widespread operation by police from the elite Sydney unit and Wagga Local Area Command.
UPDATE 10am: Police have brought in a specially trained drug detection dog as part of a series of searches underway in Temora.
Officers from elite police anti gang squad Strike Force Raptor have swooped on several properties, including a home in June Street, Temora, believed to belong to a locally known bikie gang president.
Wagga Local Area Command officers have also been deployed as searches continue throughout the area.
EARLIER: Police from Strike Force Raptor have executed a series of raids on alleged bikie gang members across Junee and Temora this morning.
Search warrants and firearm prohibition orders have been given as police crackdown on crime in the Riverina.
Officers have searched a number of properties where alleged bikie members reside and drug detection dogs have been brought in.
More to come.
