Boy, 15, among alleged kidnappers of Sydney rapper’s bodyguard

The five-person crew behind the alleged gunpoint abduction of a Sydney rapper’s bodyguard has been charged by the state’s anti-gang detectives, a day after the man was snatched from a Guildford home in the latest targeted attack on the Alameddine crime family.

Emilio Chalhoub, 32, was allegedly beaten by the group of masked men after being kidnapped from a Guildford home on Monday night, triggering an expansive police operation that led detectives to a safe house by the Hume Highway in Casula, where the group fled before being arrested in a nearby street. Chalhoub was recovered in Casula about an hour after his abduction, and was hospitalised with facial injuries.

Chalhoub is the bodyguard of rapper Ali Younes, aka Ay Huncho, an alleged senior member of the Alameddine organised crime network. Last year, Chalhoub was the intended target of an attack at his Guildford home in which his 62-year-old father was allegedly stabbed by two intruders – a 15-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man – at the height of an internal conflict within the fractured Alameddine network.

Luke Manuatu, 22, Anaru Warren, 22, Hikairo Mohi, 21, Harley Sorbello, 21, and a 15-year-old boy have been charged with a raft of offences following Chalhoub’s abduction.

This includes kidnapping and causing actual bodily harm, possessing an unauthorised firearm, wearing a face covering with intent to commit an indictable offence, destroying property greater than $5000 using fire, and aggravated use of a car armed with a weapon.

The four men were refused bail to appear at Liverpool Local Court on Wednesday, while the 15-year-old will front a Children’s Court on Wednesday.

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