24-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested over a bikie shootout at an Adelaide restaurant that sent patrons ducking for cover

24-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested over a bikie shootout at an Adelaide restaurant that sent patrons ducking for cover.

The man was detained at a suburban Adelaide address yesterday without incident. Police said he had been taken to the city watchhouse where he was expected to be charged with acts to endanger life.

The man was injured in the December 18 incident, which police believe was sparked by an internal dispute among members of the Comancheros bikie gang. A small group were dining at Caffe Paesano when they allegedly were approached by the arrested man.

Police won't confirm who fired the first shot, but witnesses told media outlets that the man who began the shooting was hit in the leg as others returned fire.

Images of the man leaving the restaurant were released in a bid to track him down.

Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said the arrest was the result of the dedicated efforts of police from the crime gangs taskforce.

The shootout was the most serious in a number of shootings across Adelaide in recent months involving bikie gangs.

In other incidents, the head of the Comancheros, Vince Focarelli, was shot in the leg in the third attempt on his life in recent years.

Detectives were also continuing to investigate the shooting in September of the son of a former senior Finks member, after several masked men burst into the man's home and opened fire. It remains unclear if the boy was the intended target.

Kristiansen is the leader of Hells Angels in Norway and is currently serving a sentence for drug violations.

The Icelandic state was acquitted of charges filed by two members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Norway, Leif Ivar Kristiansen and Jan Anfinn Wahl, in Reykjavík District Court yesterday. 

The men wanted to have the decision of the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration to deport them as soon as they arrived at Keflavík International Airport early last year revoked, visir.is reports.

Kristiansen is the leader of Hells Angels in Norway and is currently serving a sentence for drug violations. Wahl, who has a clean criminal record, wanted to attend the court case when it opened in Reykjavík last month but was deported again.

The Hells Angels are also suing the Icelandic state for libel and defamation.

The shots punched through the glass doors of the gym and hit equipment and walls inside.

TASK Force Hydra, set up to fight outlaw motorcycle gangs in Queensland, has joined investigations into a Gold Coast gym which was riddled with bullets.

The Serious Violent Crime Squad has also been asked to help look into the attack on the First Choice Fitness Centre at Helensvale, which was sprayed with a dozen shots from a high-calibre weapon late last night.

Police at the scene said they counted a dozen bulletholes. A witness said he heard about four shots around 2am.

Police are investigating whether the shots were intended as a warning.

"The owner of the store is an associate of an outlaw motorcycle gang," Superintendent Dave Hutchinson told reporters on the Gold Coast.

The shots punched through the glass doors of the gym and hit equipment and walls inside.

"It would appear to be a high-calibre weapon. We have ballistics police on the scene at the moment, and they'll be able to give us a better indication of the type of firearm that was used," Supt Hutchinson said.

The owner was co-operating with police, he said.