A Melbourne business owner has had both arms broken by two Comanchero bikies after he tried to leave the gang, police allege.
The bikies waited for the man to return to his Collingwood panel beating shop on July 21 before carrying out the daylight attack in front of employees and the public.
Two men were taken into custody on Thursday after police raided Melbourne clubhouses and homes linked to the outlaw motorcycle club.
Detective Superintendent Peter De Santo said the assault, which also left the victim with serious facial injuries, was an act of reprisal.
"It just shows the extent the OMCGs (outlaw motorcycle gangs) will go to, against people who try to disassociate themselves from their criminal activities and their criminal environment in which they live," he told reporters on Thursday.
Police executed four warrants at clubhouses in South Melbourne and Williamstown, and homes in Broadmeadows and Oak Park, in the early hours of Thursday, looking for evidence in relation to the attack.
Members of the special operations group used force to enter the South Melbourne warehouse after several failed attempts to contact people operating the property.
"After 90 minutes we chose to forcibly enter the premises, which we're covered by the warrant to do," Det Supt De Santo told AAP.
A 23-year-old Oak Park man and a 24-year-old Broadmeadows man are in custody, and police expect they will be charged and front a Melbourne court on Thursday afternoon.
The 29-year-old victim was in a serious condition at the Royal Melbourne Hospital but has since been released.
The two men arrested following the raids have been charged and will front the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon.
A 23-year-old Oak Park man and a 24-year-old Broadmeadows man are charged with a range of assault-related offences including intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury with circumstances of gross violence, aggravated burglary and assault by kicking and in company.
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