Ahmad Alameddine: Pants mystery after man runs from cops in Coogee
A high-profile member of the Alameddine crime network who fled police with only a shirt on was found again hours later wearing a pair of shorts he found “in a nearby yard or bushland”.
Ahmad Alameddine was one of the country’s most wanted men when he was sprung by police in a South Coogee apartment, having been on the run for more than a month.
At the time, he fled out the window with no pants on, but had returned to the same window later that day, wearing the mysterious shorts.
The details were revealed in court documents after Alameddine, 33, on Thursday afternoon appeared before Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court where he was sentenced to three months in jail for a string of offences.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing a prohibited drug, resisting an officer in the execution of their duty and entering enclosed land without a lawful excuse.
In August, police raided a Greenacre home in southwestern Sydney and it’s alleged Mr Alameddine jumped the back fence of the Narellan Crescent property to escape.
He spent more than a month on the run before his arrest in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on September 5.
At that time, police were carrying out a warrant on the Bundock St unit because it was boarded up after the tenant was arrested.
“As Operation ODIN officers gained entry, (Alameddine) jumped out the window attached to the rear bedroom of the premises and a short foot pursuit was initiated,” Police facts filed in court state.
Alameddine was wearing only a white shirt as he was chased up Elphinstone Road.
Officers set up surveillance on the unit and later that day Alameddine returned and they once again gave chase, telling him “stop, police”, according to court documents.
On one occasion he slipped from the grasp of one officer but was surrounded when he jumped into the yard of a Gumara St property.
Alameddine was also sentenced for two separate drug offences.
According to a police fact sheet, Alameddine was in prison at the Mid North Coast Correctional Facility in December last year when he was strip searched.
He was found to be in possession of strips of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder.
The court heard on Thursday he was found with 2.5g of the drug.
When he was arrested on another occasion, in June this year, he was found in possession of 0.9g of methamphetamine.
His solicitor Ihad Jamal told the court on Thursday his client began abusing marijuana at 15-years-old and had progressed onto harder drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine.
Mr Jamal conceded Alameddine had a “lengthy criminal history”, which was “growing” however urged the court to impose a non-custodial sentence.
Magistrate Ian Guy imposed no penalty for one of the drug counts, as well as the resisting police and entering enclosed lands offences.
For the other two counts of possessing a prohibited drug he was sentenced to three months and one month respectively.
But with time served he was eligible for immediate release.
However Alameddine will remain in custody bail refused, as he is charged with other offences.
His partner Jade Heffer, 28, and sister Susan Alameddine, 35, were also arrested outside the Greenacre address and charged with hindering police after allegedly helping Alameddine make his alleged escape in August.
Ms Heffer, former wife of slain bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, is also facing separate charges of acquiring a pistol while subject to a firearm prohibition order and acquiring a firearm without a licence.
She has not entered any pleas and was granted bail in Sydney’s Supreme Court earlier this year.
Ms Alameddine has pleaded not guilty to hindering the apprehension of a person who committed a serious offence.
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