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.
Police say they stopped Darin Paul Keir in Moncrieff about 3am on Tuesday and found his car to contain more than $8000 in cash and 11 grams of a substance believed to be methamphetamine. The street value of the drugs is estimated to be more than $8000.
Mr Keir stayed in the court cells when lawyer Tim Sharman appeared on his behalf in the ACT Magistrates Court later in the morning.
Mr Sharman told the court the 41-year-old Nicholls man was content to remain in custody until Friday, when he planned to apply for bail.
Mr Keir had been on bail facing two weapons possession charges, after police investigating reports of an armed man trying to break into a Belconnen home allegedly found him driving around with metal knuckledusters and an extendable baton in February.
Another two charges that remain before the courts allege that he possessed "a prohibited thing" during an earlier stint 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".
