Greg Carr
2009-06-06 23:59:41 UTC
POLICE CARRY OUT RAIDS FOR SECOND DAY IN A ROW
MONTREAL -- Looking to fight back against organized crime operations
in Quebec, RCMP and Surete du Quebec officers took part in raids in
different parts of the province yesterday, the second wave of
operations in as many days.
Many arrests were made and several search warrants were served during
the stings, which targeted the Italian mafia, the Hells Angels and one
of that gang's affiliated clubs.
Early yesterday morning, seven people were arrested in Laval and
Montreal as part of Operation Sable, which was targeting a group of
criminals involved in cocaine trafficking who are alleged to have ties
to the Italian mob. Elsewhere, police arrested 17 members of the Hells
Angels puppet club, Devil's Child, after carrying out raids in
Drummondville, Victoriaville, Sorel and Saint-Hyacinthe. Those picked
up the sweep are accused of drug trafficking, conspiracy and
gangsterism.
http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1599462
Hells Angels clubhouse seized
Posted By GRANT LAFLECHE AND MATTHEW VAN DONGEN, STANDARD STAFF
Updated 4 days ago
It has been a rough year for the Niagara Hells Angels. Its most
influential member, founding president Gerald Ward, is serving a long
term in prison. Its membership has been so decimated, the chapter was
forced to bring in out-oftowners to keep their numbers up.
And now, the club is on the verge of being homeless.
During a Monday morning police raid, the gang's Darby Road clubhouse
in Welland was seized by the Attorney General's office.
The courts will determine how the building will be disposed of, or if
it will be returned to the property owners, police sources said. Until
then, the rural fortress remains in government hands.
About 15 officers from the Niagara Regional Police and OPP descended
on the clubhouse before 8 a. m., cutting through a lock on a gate at
the side of the property.
Wearing riot gear, police stormed the clubhouse, which turned out to
be empty.
"You're always going to assume the worse-case scenario," NRP
spokeswoman Const. Jacquie Forgeron said. "We don't know if they had a
tipoff... Our members were dressed in full emergency gear. You take
all precautions."
One of the property's owners, Hells Angel Tim Panetta -- the last
original member of the local chapter -- arrived shortly after the raid
dressed in a black Hells Angels Nomads shirt.
Police officers served Panetta with papers. He responded by yelling
profanities at them when he was forbidden from entering the clubhouse.
There was no physical altercation with police, however, and once
Panetta opened the front gate of the clubhouse, he left without
further incident.
The clubhouse has been home to the Niagara Hells Angels since 2001,
shortly after the chapter was formed.
It has been a rough year for the Niagara Hells Angels. Its most
influential member, founding president Gerald Ward, is serving a long
term in prison. Its membership has been so decimated, the chapter was
forced to bring in out-oftowners to keep their numbers up.
And now, the club is on the verge of being homeless.
During a Monday morning police raid, the gang's Darby Road clubhouse
in Welland was seized by the Attorney General's office.
The courts will determine how the building will be disposed of, or if
it will be returned to the property owners, police sources said. Until
then, the rural fortress remains in government hands.
About 15 officers from the Niagara Regional Police and OPP descended
on the clubhouse before 8 a. m., cutting through a lock on a gate at
the side of the property.
Wearing riot gear, police stormed the clubhouse, which turned out to
be empty.
"You're always going to assume the worse-case scenario," NRP
spokeswoman Const. Jacquie Forgeron said. "We don't know if they had a
tipoff... Our members were dressed in full emergency gear. You take
all precautions."
One of the property's owners, Hells Angel Tim Panetta -- the last
original member of the local chapter -- arrived shortly after the raid
dressed in a black Hells Angels Nomads shirt.
Police officers served Panetta with papers. He responded by yelling
profanities at them when he was forbidden from entering the clubhouse.
There was no physical altercation with police, however, and once
Panetta opened the front gate of the clubhouse, he left without
further incident.
The clubhouse has been home to the Niagara Hells Angels since 2001,
shortly after the chapter was formed.
Forgeron said the government seizure of the clubhouse was driven by
evidence gathered during a 2006 joint forces, province-wide police
operation called Project Tandem.
The project's raids resulted in 15 Hells Angels members being
arrested, including Ward and his lieutenant, Kenneth Wagner.
Last year, Wagner was sentenced to 11 years in prison for trafficking
cocaine.
In March, Ward was sentenced to 14 years, minus five years for
pre-trail custody, for trafficking cocaine and instructing people to
commit crimes for a criminal organization.
Police sources say the seizure was made by the Attorney General's
Criminal Remedies for Illicit Activities office. It's a civil, rather
than criminal, action. Police detectives at the clubhouse, including
members of the joint forces biker enforcement unit, were there to
execute the order rather than conduct an investigation.
Forgeron said officers were remaining at the scene Monday to prevent
anyone from accessing the property.
This is the fourth clubhouse seized in Ontario using a civil action,
the others being in Oshawa, Thunder Bay and London, Forgeron said.
It's the second Niagara clubhouse seized by authorities. Several years
ago, the Outlaws clubhouse on Oakdale Avenue in St. Catharines was
seized under proceeds of crime legislation. Its final fate has yet to
be decided by the courts.
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Hells Angelsfortress facts
Constructed in 2001 after the formation of the Niagara Hells Angels
chapter, the red-and-white building is located on Darby Road in
Welland.
Because of its location on a rural road surrounded by farms, it is
more difficult for police to monitor than a clubhouse in a suburban
location.
Like all outlaw biker clubhouses, it is protected by surveillance
systems, fortified doors, fences and obstacles to make access
difficult for police.
Originally the headquarters for nine local Hells Angels, the
clubhouse's membership has been reduced to six by police raids and
members quitting. Only one original member remains and several others
were brought in from out of town to keep the chapter alive.
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1594095
Ex-informant accuses Mounties of failing to stop Hells hit
By Geoff Nixon, Ottawa CitizenJune 1, 2009
OTTAWA A former RCMP informant is stepping out from the shadows to
tell the story of his nearly two-decade-long undercover career and
involvement in a Hells Angels contract killing nine years ago.
Paul Derry is a former drug dealer whose testimony helped send four
men to jail for the murder of Sean Simmons, a dockworker who fell
afoul of the biker gang's Halifax chapter.
It's a case that current RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike Cabana and
Derry's closest police contact once warned could tarnish the force's
reputation were it ever to become public.
That's because Derry, who now lives under a new identity in the
federal witness protection program, tried to warn police about the
murder less than a month before it happened.
"They let a man die and tried to play it off like it was nothing,"
Derry, 43, said in a recent interview.
In a new book, Treacherous: How the RCMP Allowed a Hells Angel to
Kill, he gives his account of how Simmons came to die.
It was September 2000 when Derry first learned full-patch Hells Angels
member Neil "Nasty" Smith was planning to kill someone.
Derry had been in the Halifax area since the summer, looking for some
business he could sell to the RCMP.
By fall, he was working as a driver for Wayne James, a violent drug
dealer who was married to Derry's cousin and worked for Smith.
Derry found himself immersed in meetings where James and Smith would
talk shop.
"It was during these meetings that I learned of a murder being
planned," Derry writes in Treacherous. "I also learned that Wayne
would be doing the hit and I would be driving."
Derry called his longtime handler, Cabana, then an inspector and now
an assistant commissioner (and who only a year later would lead the
anti-terrorist investigation against Maher Arar) to tell him what he
knew.
Cabana helped set up a meeting between Derry and Halifax RCMP on Sept.
12, 2000.
When the meeting ended, the officers said they would be in touch. A
few days later, when Derry still hadn't heard back from them, he
called Cabana, who checked on the situation. He told Derry there was a
problem.
According to the RCMP's files, Derry was marked down as "treacherous."
"It means: Don't touch. Don't go near," Derry said, explaining the
term that prohibits officers from working with such informants.
It's a bureaucratic black mark he was stamped with in 1991, about
halfway through his 17-year career as an informant.
It was a mistake, later reversed, which had caused him trouble for
years. But with a potential murder on the horizon, Derry said he did
not think the RCMP would let paperwork get in the way.
Later that month, Derry had a conversation with a man he met at a
Dartmouth, N.S., crack house, who claimed to know James.
It turned out to be Simmons, whom Derry quickly found out was the
target Smith wanted dead.
But Derry never got a chance to pass on the more detailed information
to the Halifax RCMP officers.
They never got in touch with him.
On Oct. 3, 2000, Simmons, a 31-year-old father of two, was gunned down
in the lobby of a Dartmouth apartment.
Dean "Dino" Kelsie, the violent, crack-using nephew of James, was the
shooter.
Steven Gareau, an Ottawa labourer who once killed a roommate with an
axe during a drunken fight, was the bait. Gareau spent time at the
crack house that day, partying with Simmons. He left, promising to
return with beer. Instead, he came back with the gunman who shot
Simmons three times.
James had planned it and Smith had paid them for their efforts.
The killers got away in a car driven by Derry. He remembers feeling
numb.
"It's not that I was surprised that Neil Smith had had Sean Simmons
killed, but I was shocked that I had played such a huge part in it,"
he writes in Treacherous. "After all, I had thought that I was one of
the good guys."
The Halifax RCMP officers would later say they could not reach Derry
prior to the killings, a claim he finds hard to believe considering
that he had "two pagers, two cells and a home phone."
When a reporter contacted Cabana about Derry's book, he declined to
comment.
Instead, Sgt. Greg Cox, an RCMP spokesman, sent an e-mail explaining
Mountie policy "is that we do not confirm nor deny the identity of
current or past sources."
By the end of October 2000, Derry was arrested by Halifax police
during the murder investigation. He ended up cutting a deal and
testifying against the four men.
In exchange, Derry got immunity and a new identity.
After a series of trials sent the four killers to jail, Derry filed
suit against the Mounties and fought them for five years in court,
seeking compensation for himself and the family of the murder victim.
He also wanted them to apologize.
Last year, he settled and started writing his book.
Today, all Derry wants is for the RCMP to admit they could have done
more to prevent Simmons' death and for the system to learn from its
mistakes.
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/informant+accuses+Mounties+failing+stop+Hells/1649369/story.html
Brianna Kinnear was just 22 when she was gunned down in a borrowed
truck on the side of a Port Coquitlam street Feb. 2.
Kevin LeClair was a little older at 26 when he was sprayed with
automatic gunfire in a busy mall parking lot four days later.
And Betty Yan was 39 when she was found shot to death in a grey
Mercedes at a dark industrial Richmond strip mall April 15.
All three were targeted for death because of their rung in the
hierarchy of one of B.C.'s 135 crime groups.
Kinnear worked on the front lines selling drugs in a street crew
operating throughout the Tri-Cities. LeClair was mid-level, a member
of the notorious Red Scorpion gang, who ran more than a dozen drug
lines. And Yan was one of those rarer hits of someone connected to the
top-echelon crime groups in B.C., in her case the Big Circle Boys.
With billions of dollars a year at stake and an unprecedented number
of groups vying for territory and profits, police and academics say
there is an increasing sophistication in the way crime groups do
business here.
At the same time, there has been a record number of gangland slayings,
most of them of mid-level or front-line drug dealers.
"It is still a very diverse illicit market per se," said Supt. Brian
Cantera, who heads the RCMP's regional drug section. "It has still got
the potential for huge profits and there are those who are fighting
over those profits.
"If you take a look at the level of violence we've seen, there are a
lot more gang-related homicides or mid-level drug trafficking
homicides than we've seen in the past," Cantera said.
It is rare for someone like Yan, a loan shark with tentacles deep into
organized crime groups, to be targeted.
More commonly, those sacrificed in the war are front-line soldiers
like Kinnear or gang members like LeClair, possibly targeted because
of his association with gangsters such as Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie
Bacon.
Cantera said it is difficult to quantify exactly how much money is
passing through B.C. crime groups every year.
One estimate has pegged the province's marijuana industry alone to be
worth $7 billion annually.
Criminologist Stephen Schneider, who has just released a book on the
history of organized crime in Canada, says there has been a shift in
how crime groups operate in B.C. and other provinces.
"There has definitely been an historic evolution in all aspects of
organized crime," Schneider said. "Sophistication. Power. Wealth.
Reach.
"As the groups have become more powerful and more widespread, just
like a legitimate corporation, there is a need for hierarchy. So you
have seen, as the groups evolve, increases in hierarchy."
In B.C., that hierarchical structure looks a pyramid with groups such
as the Hells Angels, the Mafia, the Big Circle Boys and other Asian
triads at the top.
They have long historic roots, international connections,
sophisticated structures, exclusive memberships and are often dealing
with tens of millions of dollars a year.
Sometimes they are directly linked to mid-level groups such as the Red
Scorpions, the Independent Soldiers and the United Nations - all
brand-name gangs that morphed out of smaller groups involved in the
drug trade over the last decade.
The mid-level groups range in size and sophistication. The UN, for
example, has about 100 members and more entrenched indoctrination,
much like the top-level groups.
When police raided the houses of leader Clay Roueche last year, they
found a score sheet indicating almost $900,000 in drug transactions.
The gang bought two aircraft to smuggle drugs across the border, a
crime to which Roueche has pleaded guilty in the U.S.
Roueche also boasted in bugged conversations to having his own
contacts in Colombia and other source countries.
The Scorpions, started in a youth detention centre nine years ago,
number no more than about 25, says Sgt. Shinder Kirk, of the B.C.
Integrated Gang Task Force.
Yet the Scorpions have been linked to some of the worst gang violence
in B.C. history, including the slaughter of six people in a Surrey
high-rise in October 2007.
Mid-level gangs might have an annual cash flow ranging from a few
hundred thousand to millions of dollars.
Crews like Kinnear's can be independent operators or tied vertically
to a gang.
But as Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich said last month, so-called
street-level dealers get linked by rivals to the gang with which they
do business, regardless of whether the connection is real or
perceived.
"Any young person out there now - because of the potential for
retaliation and the confusion that exists over who is associated with
who - is at risk if they are involved in the drug trade," Rich warned.
Front-line drug crews are earning thousands to tens of thousands a
month, but are also the ones taking most of the risk, whether it is of
arrest or violent underworld retaliation.
Kirk said the top-level crime groups are deliberately insulating
themselves "from not only the general day-to-day business, but from
the dirty business.
"They still profit from the illegal activities of those at the lower
level."
The mid-level gangs "work horizontally with other groups at the same
level, but also vertically within the triangle."
Some of the front-line and mid-level gangs were actually set up by top
groups, Kirk said.
"You've got puppet clubs that may be newer on the scene than some of
the more recognized puppet clubs that have been around for a long
time. So that is more insulation and evolution in the sense of getting
someone else to do your dirty work."
Some mid-level groups or even unknown "freelancers" are involved in
cross-border smuggling, Kirk said, because the profits are so high if
they can find a mode of transportation and a route.
Last month, B.C. tow truck driver Robert Fox was arrested near
Sacramento, Calif. with $7 million worth of ecstasy and more than
$400,000 cash. He has no criminal record here, but is now facing
serious U.S. charges.
"There is a capacity for an individual or a group at any level to
cement international ties into the U.S. or overseas," Kirk said. "You
can have a subcontractor who develops a smuggling route and was
contracting his services out to individuals who have product. He would
then guarantee delivery or make arrangements for delivery."
B.C. drug gangs learned from the huge Colombian cartels of the 1990s
how to create "corporate hierarchal structures," Schneider said.
But the Colombians wanted to control all aspects of the drug deals
from production to purchase to delivery, while new crime groups hire
specialists at different stages, Kirk said.
"One of the trends in organized crime over the last 20 years has been
less self-contained hierarchical groups that work exclusively on their
own and towards incredible networking of small groups, of larger
groups, of individuals, and that's why the problem has proliferated in
that you have this cooperation," he said.
"It is almost like you have specialization and division of labour,
where one group specializes in providing the product, the other in
transporting it, the other in marketing it at the street level,
another wholesaling it."
When Metro Vancouver's Rob Shannon was sentenced to 20 years for his
role in a multi-million-dollar cross-border drug trafficking ring
linked to the Hells Angels, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik
did not accept the prosecution's position that Shannon was the overall
crime boss.
Lasnik did accept that Shannon headed the transport division of the
criminal enterprise, specializing in creative cross-border smuggling
modes, and slapped him with a 20-year sentence.
That makes sense, according to Schneider, whose book Iced: The Story
of Organized Crime in Canada, was recently published.
"We are seeing these very large criminal conspiracies but again, they
are operating on a network basis and that allows for more fluidity,
flexibility, and it also is strategic in that if one cell or partner
gets busted, there is less chance the police can go to another cell
because the relationship is not as strong."
The fluidity, ever-changing allegiances and networking, coupled with
increasing sophistication of the schemes, makes the job even tougher
for law enforcement agencies, as well as the courts, Schneider said.
"Our criminal justice system now simply cannot cope with the scope of
the problem - the level of sophistication. Our prosecutorial services
are just cut to the bone provincially and federally and they cannot
take on sophisticated cases or large cases, and that's why you see so
many of them being plea-bargained."
Police have had to strategize and to some degree, mirror the structure
of the criminal hierarchy, having different agencies tackle different
levels of organized crime and gangs.
To effectively go after the highest ranks, police need legislative
changes making it easier to seize the proceeds of crime, Cantera said.
"What we need are laws that make asset seizure and forfeiture of
assets more easily attainable for police. That's what we need to
protect the public.
That is at the root of the problem," Cantera said.
"What makes the upper echelon more vulnerable is when they attain
their assets. That's when they become vulnerable to law enforcement
and it has been difficult for us to be able to get to it."
Cantera said the drug trade works very much like the legitimate
business world.
"You have the manufacturer, you have the wholesaler, and you have the
guy who is selling it out of the business," he said.
Which one is the most powerful crime group in the province varies
depending on the groups' success getting their products in and out of
the country, Cantera said.
"You are only as big as your last importation."
Cantera thinks the increase in gang murders is in part due to the
increasing importance of gun trafficking in the underworld business
model. He said they are using marijuana and synthetic drug profits to
get more guns into Canada.
"When you have access to firearms, you are potentially going to use
them."
But Schneider, who teaches at Halifax's St. Mary's University, thinks
the violence in B.C. has resulted from a fracturing of traditional
organized crime codes.
"At least the Italian Mafia had certain codes: You didn't shoot police
officers. You didn't shoot people's relatives. You didn't get kids
involved," Schneider said. "There are no rules any more."
High-level groups are deliberately engaging more vulnerable groups at
the lower end of their crime chain.
"You have these upper-level, very sophisticated powerful criminals
like the Hells Angels, or mainland Chinese or others and then they use
immigrants or young offenders to do all the dirty work," Schneider
said
"In B.C. and Quebec, you now see innocent people being deliberately
targeted. You look at Mexico. There is no honour among thieves any
more.
There are no rules any more and that is the scariest part of this, and
that is why the problem has become so bad in B.C. and Mexico."
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Gang+wars+Justice+times/1667974/story.html
HA
is involved with
extortion, homicide, kidnapping, prostitution, meth and cocaine
dealing, rape, armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child
pornography
as well as phony currency and witness intimidation and obstruction of
justice. They have been known to bribe and scare law enforcement
officers and judges into doing their bidding. These ppl must be
rooted
out of the Cdn justice system. Three judges including Ontario Superior
Court Justice John McMahon have actually done their
job
and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist is
calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org.
"The Hells Angels should be treated as a domestic terror organization.
We should encourage those who make and enforce our laws in their
efforts to eradicate them."
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=517a2096-953a-4ea3-9507-ee3c5e8d39e2
The White Rock chapter Sgt.Of Arms, Villy Roy Lynnerup, recently was
arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR
with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into the
Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in exchange for
the
release of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned full patch members. All
the
Hell's Angels, their supporters, associates etc. should be imprisoned
for twenty years
their children put in foster care and their assets seized.
Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you support
this
then write letters to editors of local newspapers and your local MP.
As well John Les the solicitor-general of BC before he resigned has
advocated banning
the wearing of gang colours such as biker patches in bars. Perhaps
Rich Coleman can finish the job he started. Since HA
is
known to frequent Brandis and the Cecil and has links to
various bars in BC that would be an improvement. The gang has a
history of intimidating
bartenders, infiltrating unions involved in the bar industry, beating
and killing strippers and beating customers to death at random for no
reason. Contact your MLA as well as the local media and tell them you
want this implemented sooner rather than later.
VPD is appealing again for info about the homicide of Maria Yvette
Monzon who was shot dead on the westside of Vancouver. She was killed
by HA but the police have never stated that. There is a reward.
Colleen Reiter (Ryder?) of Surrey was killed by HAMC but the RCMP
refuse to confirm this.
Real Menard ***@parl.gc.ca is working to have HAMC banned. Give him
your support.
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We are awaiting the return of our JHVH in the flesh or his Son. His Son Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected and walked the earth for awhile then ascended unto Heaven. We await the Third Coming not the Second.
Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay-"The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude. ...
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I am looking for my missing automobile. Left in the care of Low's Tire (Firestone) on King George Hwy which has since gone out of business. A man who claimed to be a tow truck driver named Jerry (sounded Black) called me and said he had it
but when I called him back he denied it. JVD-298 "89 Plymouth Reliant white with red interior. Devellis in lettering on the rear trunk. Contact me by email or the GRC if you are one of those ppl. Am looking for the address of Dave Reynolds and any info about him. He used to run Low's Tires and since he refuses to answer his email ***@telus.net I can only assume he is the person who stole my vehicle and the contents in it. I have talked to the new owners and they claim to know nothing.
3P3BK41D9KT921716 is the vin number. Dave Reynolds still has a valid email ***@telus.net but refuses to return my inquiries.Any info about this thief is appreciated.
I am also looking for various books and CD's that I have discovered missing. All are marked Greg Carr on the inside cover or somewhere in the CD booklet. $5 reward for each CD and for each book. Will pay $200 for info regarding how they disappeared because I honestly don't know.
u8m854p98su072q3l8chiss3t0lcr0***@4ax.com is a post of mine about the liar and police agent G. S.. It has been censored by Google Groups.
Jonathon Gregory and Craig Wong are thieves and liars and smokers.They live at 344 E.Hastings St. They call and lie to Vancouver Police and the Landlord-Tenancy Branch.
Mike Poirier is HA and works at DPS at 817 Denman St. This company is such a bunch of liars that besides stealing from ppl they claim to be 100% Cdn owned on their signs when in fact they are owned by a rich man in Seattle. You anti-semitic types might like to know the man is a Jew. Poirier is a liar and perjurer and he attacks ppl for no reason and then calls Vancouver Police if he loses.
DPS 817 Denman St
V6G 2L7 Canada
(604) 681-8797
(604) 684-0329 Fax
***@diamondparking.com
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 3055
Vancouver, BC V6B 3X5 Canada
Canada
Mike Poirier Regional Vice President of Operations
***@diamondparking.com
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MONTREAL -- Looking to fight back against organized crime operations
in Quebec, RCMP and Surete du Quebec officers took part in raids in
different parts of the province yesterday, the second wave of
operations in as many days.
Many arrests were made and several search warrants were served during
the stings, which targeted the Italian mafia, the Hells Angels and one
of that gang's affiliated clubs.
Early yesterday morning, seven people were arrested in Laval and
Montreal as part of Operation Sable, which was targeting a group of
criminals involved in cocaine trafficking who are alleged to have ties
to the Italian mob. Elsewhere, police arrested 17 members of the Hells
Angels puppet club, Devil's Child, after carrying out raids in
Drummondville, Victoriaville, Sorel and Saint-Hyacinthe. Those picked
up the sweep are accused of drug trafficking, conspiracy and
gangsterism.
http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1599462
Hells Angels clubhouse seized
Posted By GRANT LAFLECHE AND MATTHEW VAN DONGEN, STANDARD STAFF
Updated 4 days ago
It has been a rough year for the Niagara Hells Angels. Its most
influential member, founding president Gerald Ward, is serving a long
term in prison. Its membership has been so decimated, the chapter was
forced to bring in out-oftowners to keep their numbers up.
And now, the club is on the verge of being homeless.
During a Monday morning police raid, the gang's Darby Road clubhouse
in Welland was seized by the Attorney General's office.
The courts will determine how the building will be disposed of, or if
it will be returned to the property owners, police sources said. Until
then, the rural fortress remains in government hands.
About 15 officers from the Niagara Regional Police and OPP descended
on the clubhouse before 8 a. m., cutting through a lock on a gate at
the side of the property.
Wearing riot gear, police stormed the clubhouse, which turned out to
be empty.
"You're always going to assume the worse-case scenario," NRP
spokeswoman Const. Jacquie Forgeron said. "We don't know if they had a
tipoff... Our members were dressed in full emergency gear. You take
all precautions."
One of the property's owners, Hells Angel Tim Panetta -- the last
original member of the local chapter -- arrived shortly after the raid
dressed in a black Hells Angels Nomads shirt.
Police officers served Panetta with papers. He responded by yelling
profanities at them when he was forbidden from entering the clubhouse.
There was no physical altercation with police, however, and once
Panetta opened the front gate of the clubhouse, he left without
further incident.
The clubhouse has been home to the Niagara Hells Angels since 2001,
shortly after the chapter was formed.
It has been a rough year for the Niagara Hells Angels. Its most
influential member, founding president Gerald Ward, is serving a long
term in prison. Its membership has been so decimated, the chapter was
forced to bring in out-oftowners to keep their numbers up.
And now, the club is on the verge of being homeless.
During a Monday morning police raid, the gang's Darby Road clubhouse
in Welland was seized by the Attorney General's office.
The courts will determine how the building will be disposed of, or if
it will be returned to the property owners, police sources said. Until
then, the rural fortress remains in government hands.
About 15 officers from the Niagara Regional Police and OPP descended
on the clubhouse before 8 a. m., cutting through a lock on a gate at
the side of the property.
Wearing riot gear, police stormed the clubhouse, which turned out to
be empty.
"You're always going to assume the worse-case scenario," NRP
spokeswoman Const. Jacquie Forgeron said. "We don't know if they had a
tipoff... Our members were dressed in full emergency gear. You take
all precautions."
One of the property's owners, Hells Angel Tim Panetta -- the last
original member of the local chapter -- arrived shortly after the raid
dressed in a black Hells Angels Nomads shirt.
Police officers served Panetta with papers. He responded by yelling
profanities at them when he was forbidden from entering the clubhouse.
There was no physical altercation with police, however, and once
Panetta opened the front gate of the clubhouse, he left without
further incident.
The clubhouse has been home to the Niagara Hells Angels since 2001,
shortly after the chapter was formed.
Forgeron said the government seizure of the clubhouse was driven by
evidence gathered during a 2006 joint forces, province-wide police
operation called Project Tandem.
The project's raids resulted in 15 Hells Angels members being
arrested, including Ward and his lieutenant, Kenneth Wagner.
Last year, Wagner was sentenced to 11 years in prison for trafficking
cocaine.
In March, Ward was sentenced to 14 years, minus five years for
pre-trail custody, for trafficking cocaine and instructing people to
commit crimes for a criminal organization.
Police sources say the seizure was made by the Attorney General's
Criminal Remedies for Illicit Activities office. It's a civil, rather
than criminal, action. Police detectives at the clubhouse, including
members of the joint forces biker enforcement unit, were there to
execute the order rather than conduct an investigation.
Forgeron said officers were remaining at the scene Monday to prevent
anyone from accessing the property.
This is the fourth clubhouse seized in Ontario using a civil action,
the others being in Oshawa, Thunder Bay and London, Forgeron said.
It's the second Niagara clubhouse seized by authorities. Several years
ago, the Outlaws clubhouse on Oakdale Avenue in St. Catharines was
seized under proceeds of crime legislation. Its final fate has yet to
be decided by the courts.
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Hells Angelsfortress facts
Constructed in 2001 after the formation of the Niagara Hells Angels
chapter, the red-and-white building is located on Darby Road in
Welland.
Because of its location on a rural road surrounded by farms, it is
more difficult for police to monitor than a clubhouse in a suburban
location.
Like all outlaw biker clubhouses, it is protected by surveillance
systems, fortified doors, fences and obstacles to make access
difficult for police.
Originally the headquarters for nine local Hells Angels, the
clubhouse's membership has been reduced to six by police raids and
members quitting. Only one original member remains and several others
were brought in from out of town to keep the chapter alive.
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1594095
Ex-informant accuses Mounties of failing to stop Hells hit
By Geoff Nixon, Ottawa CitizenJune 1, 2009
OTTAWA A former RCMP informant is stepping out from the shadows to
tell the story of his nearly two-decade-long undercover career and
involvement in a Hells Angels contract killing nine years ago.
Paul Derry is a former drug dealer whose testimony helped send four
men to jail for the murder of Sean Simmons, a dockworker who fell
afoul of the biker gang's Halifax chapter.
It's a case that current RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike Cabana and
Derry's closest police contact once warned could tarnish the force's
reputation were it ever to become public.
That's because Derry, who now lives under a new identity in the
federal witness protection program, tried to warn police about the
murder less than a month before it happened.
"They let a man die and tried to play it off like it was nothing,"
Derry, 43, said in a recent interview.
In a new book, Treacherous: How the RCMP Allowed a Hells Angel to
Kill, he gives his account of how Simmons came to die.
It was September 2000 when Derry first learned full-patch Hells Angels
member Neil "Nasty" Smith was planning to kill someone.
Derry had been in the Halifax area since the summer, looking for some
business he could sell to the RCMP.
By fall, he was working as a driver for Wayne James, a violent drug
dealer who was married to Derry's cousin and worked for Smith.
Derry found himself immersed in meetings where James and Smith would
talk shop.
"It was during these meetings that I learned of a murder being
planned," Derry writes in Treacherous. "I also learned that Wayne
would be doing the hit and I would be driving."
Derry called his longtime handler, Cabana, then an inspector and now
an assistant commissioner (and who only a year later would lead the
anti-terrorist investigation against Maher Arar) to tell him what he
knew.
Cabana helped set up a meeting between Derry and Halifax RCMP on Sept.
12, 2000.
When the meeting ended, the officers said they would be in touch. A
few days later, when Derry still hadn't heard back from them, he
called Cabana, who checked on the situation. He told Derry there was a
problem.
According to the RCMP's files, Derry was marked down as "treacherous."
"It means: Don't touch. Don't go near," Derry said, explaining the
term that prohibits officers from working with such informants.
It's a bureaucratic black mark he was stamped with in 1991, about
halfway through his 17-year career as an informant.
It was a mistake, later reversed, which had caused him trouble for
years. But with a potential murder on the horizon, Derry said he did
not think the RCMP would let paperwork get in the way.
Later that month, Derry had a conversation with a man he met at a
Dartmouth, N.S., crack house, who claimed to know James.
It turned out to be Simmons, whom Derry quickly found out was the
target Smith wanted dead.
But Derry never got a chance to pass on the more detailed information
to the Halifax RCMP officers.
They never got in touch with him.
On Oct. 3, 2000, Simmons, a 31-year-old father of two, was gunned down
in the lobby of a Dartmouth apartment.
Dean "Dino" Kelsie, the violent, crack-using nephew of James, was the
shooter.
Steven Gareau, an Ottawa labourer who once killed a roommate with an
axe during a drunken fight, was the bait. Gareau spent time at the
crack house that day, partying with Simmons. He left, promising to
return with beer. Instead, he came back with the gunman who shot
Simmons three times.
James had planned it and Smith had paid them for their efforts.
The killers got away in a car driven by Derry. He remembers feeling
numb.
"It's not that I was surprised that Neil Smith had had Sean Simmons
killed, but I was shocked that I had played such a huge part in it,"
he writes in Treacherous. "After all, I had thought that I was one of
the good guys."
The Halifax RCMP officers would later say they could not reach Derry
prior to the killings, a claim he finds hard to believe considering
that he had "two pagers, two cells and a home phone."
When a reporter contacted Cabana about Derry's book, he declined to
comment.
Instead, Sgt. Greg Cox, an RCMP spokesman, sent an e-mail explaining
Mountie policy "is that we do not confirm nor deny the identity of
current or past sources."
By the end of October 2000, Derry was arrested by Halifax police
during the murder investigation. He ended up cutting a deal and
testifying against the four men.
In exchange, Derry got immunity and a new identity.
After a series of trials sent the four killers to jail, Derry filed
suit against the Mounties and fought them for five years in court,
seeking compensation for himself and the family of the murder victim.
He also wanted them to apologize.
Last year, he settled and started writing his book.
Today, all Derry wants is for the RCMP to admit they could have done
more to prevent Simmons' death and for the system to learn from its
mistakes.
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/informant+accuses+Mounties+failing+stop+Hells/1649369/story.html
Brianna Kinnear was just 22 when she was gunned down in a borrowed
truck on the side of a Port Coquitlam street Feb. 2.
Kevin LeClair was a little older at 26 when he was sprayed with
automatic gunfire in a busy mall parking lot four days later.
And Betty Yan was 39 when she was found shot to death in a grey
Mercedes at a dark industrial Richmond strip mall April 15.
All three were targeted for death because of their rung in the
hierarchy of one of B.C.'s 135 crime groups.
Kinnear worked on the front lines selling drugs in a street crew
operating throughout the Tri-Cities. LeClair was mid-level, a member
of the notorious Red Scorpion gang, who ran more than a dozen drug
lines. And Yan was one of those rarer hits of someone connected to the
top-echelon crime groups in B.C., in her case the Big Circle Boys.
With billions of dollars a year at stake and an unprecedented number
of groups vying for territory and profits, police and academics say
there is an increasing sophistication in the way crime groups do
business here.
At the same time, there has been a record number of gangland slayings,
most of them of mid-level or front-line drug dealers.
"It is still a very diverse illicit market per se," said Supt. Brian
Cantera, who heads the RCMP's regional drug section. "It has still got
the potential for huge profits and there are those who are fighting
over those profits.
"If you take a look at the level of violence we've seen, there are a
lot more gang-related homicides or mid-level drug trafficking
homicides than we've seen in the past," Cantera said.
It is rare for someone like Yan, a loan shark with tentacles deep into
organized crime groups, to be targeted.
More commonly, those sacrificed in the war are front-line soldiers
like Kinnear or gang members like LeClair, possibly targeted because
of his association with gangsters such as Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie
Bacon.
Cantera said it is difficult to quantify exactly how much money is
passing through B.C. crime groups every year.
One estimate has pegged the province's marijuana industry alone to be
worth $7 billion annually.
Criminologist Stephen Schneider, who has just released a book on the
history of organized crime in Canada, says there has been a shift in
how crime groups operate in B.C. and other provinces.
"There has definitely been an historic evolution in all aspects of
organized crime," Schneider said. "Sophistication. Power. Wealth.
Reach.
"As the groups have become more powerful and more widespread, just
like a legitimate corporation, there is a need for hierarchy. So you
have seen, as the groups evolve, increases in hierarchy."
In B.C., that hierarchical structure looks a pyramid with groups such
as the Hells Angels, the Mafia, the Big Circle Boys and other Asian
triads at the top.
They have long historic roots, international connections,
sophisticated structures, exclusive memberships and are often dealing
with tens of millions of dollars a year.
Sometimes they are directly linked to mid-level groups such as the Red
Scorpions, the Independent Soldiers and the United Nations - all
brand-name gangs that morphed out of smaller groups involved in the
drug trade over the last decade.
The mid-level groups range in size and sophistication. The UN, for
example, has about 100 members and more entrenched indoctrination,
much like the top-level groups.
When police raided the houses of leader Clay Roueche last year, they
found a score sheet indicating almost $900,000 in drug transactions.
The gang bought two aircraft to smuggle drugs across the border, a
crime to which Roueche has pleaded guilty in the U.S.
Roueche also boasted in bugged conversations to having his own
contacts in Colombia and other source countries.
The Scorpions, started in a youth detention centre nine years ago,
number no more than about 25, says Sgt. Shinder Kirk, of the B.C.
Integrated Gang Task Force.
Yet the Scorpions have been linked to some of the worst gang violence
in B.C. history, including the slaughter of six people in a Surrey
high-rise in October 2007.
Mid-level gangs might have an annual cash flow ranging from a few
hundred thousand to millions of dollars.
Crews like Kinnear's can be independent operators or tied vertically
to a gang.
But as Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich said last month, so-called
street-level dealers get linked by rivals to the gang with which they
do business, regardless of whether the connection is real or
perceived.
"Any young person out there now - because of the potential for
retaliation and the confusion that exists over who is associated with
who - is at risk if they are involved in the drug trade," Rich warned.
Front-line drug crews are earning thousands to tens of thousands a
month, but are also the ones taking most of the risk, whether it is of
arrest or violent underworld retaliation.
Kirk said the top-level crime groups are deliberately insulating
themselves "from not only the general day-to-day business, but from
the dirty business.
"They still profit from the illegal activities of those at the lower
level."
The mid-level gangs "work horizontally with other groups at the same
level, but also vertically within the triangle."
Some of the front-line and mid-level gangs were actually set up by top
groups, Kirk said.
"You've got puppet clubs that may be newer on the scene than some of
the more recognized puppet clubs that have been around for a long
time. So that is more insulation and evolution in the sense of getting
someone else to do your dirty work."
Some mid-level groups or even unknown "freelancers" are involved in
cross-border smuggling, Kirk said, because the profits are so high if
they can find a mode of transportation and a route.
Last month, B.C. tow truck driver Robert Fox was arrested near
Sacramento, Calif. with $7 million worth of ecstasy and more than
$400,000 cash. He has no criminal record here, but is now facing
serious U.S. charges.
"There is a capacity for an individual or a group at any level to
cement international ties into the U.S. or overseas," Kirk said. "You
can have a subcontractor who develops a smuggling route and was
contracting his services out to individuals who have product. He would
then guarantee delivery or make arrangements for delivery."
B.C. drug gangs learned from the huge Colombian cartels of the 1990s
how to create "corporate hierarchal structures," Schneider said.
But the Colombians wanted to control all aspects of the drug deals
from production to purchase to delivery, while new crime groups hire
specialists at different stages, Kirk said.
"One of the trends in organized crime over the last 20 years has been
less self-contained hierarchical groups that work exclusively on their
own and towards incredible networking of small groups, of larger
groups, of individuals, and that's why the problem has proliferated in
that you have this cooperation," he said.
"It is almost like you have specialization and division of labour,
where one group specializes in providing the product, the other in
transporting it, the other in marketing it at the street level,
another wholesaling it."
When Metro Vancouver's Rob Shannon was sentenced to 20 years for his
role in a multi-million-dollar cross-border drug trafficking ring
linked to the Hells Angels, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik
did not accept the prosecution's position that Shannon was the overall
crime boss.
Lasnik did accept that Shannon headed the transport division of the
criminal enterprise, specializing in creative cross-border smuggling
modes, and slapped him with a 20-year sentence.
That makes sense, according to Schneider, whose book Iced: The Story
of Organized Crime in Canada, was recently published.
"We are seeing these very large criminal conspiracies but again, they
are operating on a network basis and that allows for more fluidity,
flexibility, and it also is strategic in that if one cell or partner
gets busted, there is less chance the police can go to another cell
because the relationship is not as strong."
The fluidity, ever-changing allegiances and networking, coupled with
increasing sophistication of the schemes, makes the job even tougher
for law enforcement agencies, as well as the courts, Schneider said.
"Our criminal justice system now simply cannot cope with the scope of
the problem - the level of sophistication. Our prosecutorial services
are just cut to the bone provincially and federally and they cannot
take on sophisticated cases or large cases, and that's why you see so
many of them being plea-bargained."
Police have had to strategize and to some degree, mirror the structure
of the criminal hierarchy, having different agencies tackle different
levels of organized crime and gangs.
To effectively go after the highest ranks, police need legislative
changes making it easier to seize the proceeds of crime, Cantera said.
"What we need are laws that make asset seizure and forfeiture of
assets more easily attainable for police. That's what we need to
protect the public.
That is at the root of the problem," Cantera said.
"What makes the upper echelon more vulnerable is when they attain
their assets. That's when they become vulnerable to law enforcement
and it has been difficult for us to be able to get to it."
Cantera said the drug trade works very much like the legitimate
business world.
"You have the manufacturer, you have the wholesaler, and you have the
guy who is selling it out of the business," he said.
Which one is the most powerful crime group in the province varies
depending on the groups' success getting their products in and out of
the country, Cantera said.
"You are only as big as your last importation."
Cantera thinks the increase in gang murders is in part due to the
increasing importance of gun trafficking in the underworld business
model. He said they are using marijuana and synthetic drug profits to
get more guns into Canada.
"When you have access to firearms, you are potentially going to use
them."
But Schneider, who teaches at Halifax's St. Mary's University, thinks
the violence in B.C. has resulted from a fracturing of traditional
organized crime codes.
"At least the Italian Mafia had certain codes: You didn't shoot police
officers. You didn't shoot people's relatives. You didn't get kids
involved," Schneider said. "There are no rules any more."
High-level groups are deliberately engaging more vulnerable groups at
the lower end of their crime chain.
"You have these upper-level, very sophisticated powerful criminals
like the Hells Angels, or mainland Chinese or others and then they use
immigrants or young offenders to do all the dirty work," Schneider
said
"In B.C. and Quebec, you now see innocent people being deliberately
targeted. You look at Mexico. There is no honour among thieves any
more.
There are no rules any more and that is the scariest part of this, and
that is why the problem has become so bad in B.C. and Mexico."
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Gang+wars+Justice+times/1667974/story.html
HA
is involved with
extortion, homicide, kidnapping, prostitution, meth and cocaine
dealing, rape, armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child
pornography
as well as phony currency and witness intimidation and obstruction of
justice. They have been known to bribe and scare law enforcement
officers and judges into doing their bidding. These ppl must be
rooted
out of the Cdn justice system. Three judges including Ontario Superior
Court Justice John McMahon have actually done their
job
and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist is
calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org.
"The Hells Angels should be treated as a domestic terror organization.
We should encourage those who make and enforce our laws in their
efforts to eradicate them."
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=517a2096-953a-4ea3-9507-ee3c5e8d39e2
The White Rock chapter Sgt.Of Arms, Villy Roy Lynnerup, recently was
arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR
with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into the
Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in exchange for
the
release of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned full patch members. All
the
Hell's Angels, their supporters, associates etc. should be imprisoned
for twenty years
their children put in foster care and their assets seized.
Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you support
this
then write letters to editors of local newspapers and your local MP.
As well John Les the solicitor-general of BC before he resigned has
advocated banning
the wearing of gang colours such as biker patches in bars. Perhaps
Rich Coleman can finish the job he started. Since HA
is
known to frequent Brandis and the Cecil and has links to
various bars in BC that would be an improvement. The gang has a
history of intimidating
bartenders, infiltrating unions involved in the bar industry, beating
and killing strippers and beating customers to death at random for no
reason. Contact your MLA as well as the local media and tell them you
want this implemented sooner rather than later.
VPD is appealing again for info about the homicide of Maria Yvette
Monzon who was shot dead on the westside of Vancouver. She was killed
by HA but the police have never stated that. There is a reward.
Colleen Reiter (Ryder?) of Surrey was killed by HAMC but the RCMP
refuse to confirm this.
Real Menard ***@parl.gc.ca is working to have HAMC banned. Give him
your support.
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The following is my sig file updated as of 8th of Nisan, 5769
Happy Birkat Hachamah Only once every 28 years.
We are awaiting the return of our JHVH in the flesh or his Son. His Son Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected and walked the earth for awhile then ascended unto Heaven. We await the Third Coming not the Second.
Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay-"The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude. ...
Who will be the last Coalition soldier to be maimed in Iraq?
Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into Darfur.http://www.amnesty.ca/instantkarma/petition.php
Good luck to anyone trying to learn Hebrew. I am looking for a Hebrew-Gregorian calendar in both Hebrew and English lettering.
I am looking for my missing automobile. Left in the care of Low's Tire (Firestone) on King George Hwy which has since gone out of business. A man who claimed to be a tow truck driver named Jerry (sounded Black) called me and said he had it
but when I called him back he denied it. JVD-298 "89 Plymouth Reliant white with red interior. Devellis in lettering on the rear trunk. Contact me by email or the GRC if you are one of those ppl. Am looking for the address of Dave Reynolds and any info about him. He used to run Low's Tires and since he refuses to answer his email ***@telus.net I can only assume he is the person who stole my vehicle and the contents in it. I have talked to the new owners and they claim to know nothing.
3P3BK41D9KT921716 is the vin number. Dave Reynolds still has a valid email ***@telus.net but refuses to return my inquiries.Any info about this thief is appreciated.
I am also looking for various books and CD's that I have discovered missing. All are marked Greg Carr on the inside cover or somewhere in the CD booklet. $5 reward for each CD and for each book. Will pay $200 for info regarding how they disappeared because I honestly don't know.
u8m854p98su072q3l8chiss3t0lcr0***@4ax.com is a post of mine about the liar and police agent G. S.. It has been censored by Google Groups.
Jonathon Gregory and Craig Wong are thieves and liars and smokers.They live at 344 E.Hastings St. They call and lie to Vancouver Police and the Landlord-Tenancy Branch.
Mike Poirier is HA and works at DPS at 817 Denman St. This company is such a bunch of liars that besides stealing from ppl they claim to be 100% Cdn owned on their signs when in fact they are owned by a rich man in Seattle. You anti-semitic types might like to know the man is a Jew. Poirier is a liar and perjurer and he attacks ppl for no reason and then calls Vancouver Police if he loses.
DPS 817 Denman St
V6G 2L7 Canada
(604) 681-8797
(604) 684-0329 Fax
***@diamondparking.com
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 3055
Vancouver, BC V6B 3X5 Canada
Canada
Mike Poirier Regional Vice President of Operations
***@diamondparking.com
He lives in Burnaby. Caucasian 5"8 in platform shoes.
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