Nine men have been charged over an alleged murder, and an alleged firearm and drug supply, hours after a series of raids were carried out across Sydney in connection to recent underworld shootings.
The coordinated raids unfolded just after midday yesterday at the Olympic Park precinct when officers swarmed on two men and arrested them.
Olympic Park was placed into lockdown as police made the arrests and seized bags of evidence.
"We heard what we though was a fight and were a little noisy and obviously came out and then when we came out there was the SWAT team they had all the guns and all the police were running around," witness Lara Giltinan said.
It was just one of several simultaneous raids that occurred around the city.
On Australia Avenue, diners watched on as police swooped in and arrested another man.
Overnight, police said they had charged nine members of an alleged criminal syndicate operating in Sydney.
It comes after a lengthy investigation by the Gangs Squad’s Strike Force Raptor which looked into the activities of the Burwood Chapter of the Rebels Motorcycle Gang and uncovered the alleged supply of methylampethamine.
Strike Force Osprey, which was launched less than two weeks ago by NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione after a spate of bloody executions on Sydney's streets, including that of notorious crime figure Pasquale Barbaro, was also linked to the syndicate.
Barbaro, 35, was shot in Earlwood on November 14 and hitman Hamad Assaad, 29, was murdered in Georges Hall on October 25.
In April gangland kingpin and convicted killer Walid Ahmad, 40, was killed in a spray of bullets on the rooftop car park of the Bankstown Central shopping centre, with his murder believed to be in retaliation for the fatal shooting of Safwan Charbaji outside a Condell Park panel beater several weeks earlier.
Police will hold a media conference later this morning.