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Former NRL player Anthony Watts will face court after allegedly being involved in a bikie brawl at a Gold Coast vintage car festival.
The brawl between Finks and Nomads bikies occurred outside Bellakai Restaurant on Marine Parade, Coolangatta during the annual Cooly Rocks On festival last weekend.
A 61-year-old man was hospitalised after he was allegedly punched in the head for trying to video the fracas on his mobile phone.
Mr Watts, a former Queensland Cowboys and Sydney Roosters player, was charged with affray on Monday.
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The 26-year-old former footballer faced Tweed Heads Local Court on Tuesday after allegedly being caught last month carrying knuckledusters.
He was convicted and fined $1500 and the item was seized by police.
He is expected to face Coolangatta Magistrates Court on June 24 on the affray charge.
Police are expected to use the brawl as evidence in their bid to have the Finks declared a criminal organisation.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear the application later this year after the Finks failed in their High Court challenge.
Southeast Queensland has been the stage for a public turf war between several outlaw bikie gangs since the shooting of Bandidos member Jacques Teamo at Robina Town Centre in April last year.
In the past month, two Gold Coast tattoo parlours are believed to have been firebombed.
The Ink Heaven tattoo studio, believed to be linked to the Hells Angels, was set alight just days before its official opening on May 7. And a Palm Beach tattoo parlour burned to the ground on May 20.
The brawl between Finks and Nomads bikies occurred outside Bellakai Restaurant on Marine Parade, Coolangatta during the annual Cooly Rocks On festival last weekend.
A 61-year-old man was hospitalised after he was allegedly punched in the head for trying to video the fracas on his mobile phone.
Mr Watts, a former Queensland Cowboys and Sydney Roosters player, was charged with affray on Monday.
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The 26-year-old former footballer faced Tweed Heads Local Court on Tuesday after allegedly being caught last month carrying knuckledusters.
He was convicted and fined $1500 and the item was seized by police.
He is expected to face Coolangatta Magistrates Court on June 24 on the affray charge.
Police are expected to use the brawl as evidence in their bid to have the Finks declared a criminal organisation.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear the application later this year after the Finks failed in their High Court challenge.
Southeast Queensland has been the stage for a public turf war between several outlaw bikie gangs since the shooting of Bandidos member Jacques Teamo at Robina Town Centre in April last year.
In the past month, two Gold Coast tattoo parlours are believed to have been firebombed.
The Ink Heaven tattoo studio, believed to be linked to the Hells Angels, was set alight just days before its official opening on May 7. And a Palm Beach tattoo parlour burned to the ground on May 20.
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