No Willie, they are not just like the rest of us.The rest of us do deal in drugs,prostitution, rape,theft, terror,murder,and every other vile criminal act that will yield a dollar.
Some of them may look like us,act like us and maybe even go to Church to keep up a front. Take a real close look and you will see them for the Scum that they are,reaking of Filth.
Hells Angels & co. are actually Hells A$$holes,spewing $hit where ever they go.
The largest and most-feared chapter of the Hells Angels was formed in Montreal.
According to Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, the Hells Angels is the foremost organized crime group in the country, topping traditional Mafia and ethnic gangs.
It's estimated that Canada has about 500 full-fledged members in 32 active chapters across the country. The largest and most-feared chapter of the Hells Angels was formed in Montreal.
In Quebec, the Rock Machine emerged in 1986 and quickly became the biggest rival of the Hells Angels. A turf war between the two gangs in the late 1990s claimed 150 lives, including two prison guards and 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers, who died when a car bomb exploded outside a biker hangout.
Hells Angels
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada describes the Hells Angels as the largest "outlaw motorcycle gang" in the country, with at least 32 active chapters and 500 members, especially in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
In its 2004 report, CISC said the Angels derives "significant financial income from various criminal activities across the country such as prostitution, fraud and extortion. However, drug trafficking, particularly cocaine, marijuana and increasingly methamphetamine, remains the primary source of illicit income."
BIKER GANG HIERARCHY-condenced
Each chapter of a motorcycle gang follows a strict hierarchy. Some gangs also have an overarching national or international hierarchy operating above the regional chapters.
Full-Patch Member: Full members of the gang, who wear full colours, pay dues and have voting rights. Must be approved by a unanimous vote of established members. The Bandidos also have honorary members, who have retired from gang life but can still wear colours.
Prospect: Prospective members are sometimes called "strikers" or "probates." Must perform tasks for members to prove their worth. Wear some gang badges, but not full colours.
Hangaround: Act as associates and guards for gang members. Wear only the city patch for the gang.
Friend: An official status between associate and hangaround in the Hells Angels.
Associate: Someone who has been useful to the gang. May attend parties and events, but can't wear colours.
1998
In New Brunswick, the Quebec Chapter of the HELLS ANGELS control most of the drug trade. In the Hillsborough and Moncton areas, the 12 member BACCHUS motorcycle gang continues its illegal activities with the support of the HELLS ANGELS
June 2000
A small New Brunswick gang called The Bacchus is expected to become a prospect chapter of the Hells Angels, based in Moncton. Prospect chapters are on probation, usually for a year, before being considered for full status.
Oct. 2005
A Moncton biker gang, the Bacchus, is considered a Hells Angel ‘hangaround’ chapter. The biker source said the Angels may look to boost the profile of the Moncton club and make it a full-fledged chapter, or use it as a “farm team” to recruit members to the Halifax chapter. Waterfield said that also couldn't be substantiated.
Biker gang establishes on P.E.I.
Last updated Mar 22 2005 08:38 AM AST
CBC News
The Bacchus motorcycle gang from New Brunswick has taken control of a biker club called Forerunners Prince Edward Island.
The Bacchus Motorcycle Gang has two chapters in New Brunswick: one just outside Moncton and another in Saint John. The Forerunner takeover sees them expanding into Pleasant Grove, Prince Edward Island.
Bacchus took control of the seven members of Forerunners in February. Pierre Vaillancourt, an outlaw motorcycle gang expert with the RCMP in New Brunswick, says the new pledges will have to prove their worth before being given full gang status.
He says they'll be asked to do things such serve guard duty and drug trafficking.
The Albert Country, N.B., chapter that oversees P.E.I. has roughly a dozen members, more than half of whom have criminal records.
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Motorcycle gang member in P.E.I. erects signs ridiculing raid of shop
CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) _ A member of a motorcycle gang in Prince Edward Island
has erected a sign ridiculing a police raid on a Hells Angels merchandise store.
Dean Huggan, 41, a member of the Bacchus gang, says he was protesting police removing merchandise from his Route 81 shop in Charlottetown.
Two weeks ago the store was stripped bare in one of a series of co-ordinated raids by Island police aimed at collecting proceeds of crime from drug trafficking.
One of the Huggan's signs claimed the Island justice system assumes guilt before the accused sees a judge or courtroom.
''Should you not prove a man's guilt in court before taking his business and possessions away?'' he asked.
Huggan says he was one of the five people who was arrested in the raids. All five were released later the same day.
However, police say the items seized from Route 81 were considered proceeds
of crime.
Drugs and money were also seized during the execution of eight search warrants.
Huggan said police not only went after Route 81, which he said was being run by his girlfriend, but other places that also hit close to home, for example his mother's home.
He claims they caused damage at his mother's residence.
Huggan said police also raided the residence of a man who was doing handiwork for Route 81.
The Bacchus gang expanded in P.E.I. last year about the same time the Route 81 store opened on Prince Street in Charlottetown.
Huggan said he came to the city to start a legitimate business.
''I bought a whole whack of gear, my woman and I,'' he said. ''Moved over here, filled the store and been just trying to make it.''
The store remains closed and the shelves are still bare.
The shop opened in March 2005, joining existing outlets in Moncton, Halifax and Toronto.
Route 81, according to the chain's own website, was established in Copenhagen in 1995 to provide financial support for Hells Angels members and their families.
While Huggan says he has never been a member of the Hells Angels, he admits to associating with at least some members of the motorcycle gang.
''I have friends,'' he said. ''You know, we're friends. We're all friends ... We all support our clubs.''
RCMP Sgt. Richard Thibault said police decline to comment on the signs that were hanging in Route 81's windows on Monday.
''Our investigation (into alleged drug trafficking) is continuing,'' he said.
Guy Ouellette, a retired biker cop from Quebec, sees the Bacchus expansion into Prince Edward Island as significant.
He says it's part of an effort by Bacchus to show that it is on top in the Maritimes. They're doing that, he says, by showing the rest of the country that they are well organized, don't need supervision, and can achieve success in their criminal activities.
Ouellette says the Bacchus tried joining the Hells Angels a couple of years ago, but it was felt the club wasn't ready.
With the recent expansion on P.E.I., Ouellette believes the Bacchus is positioning itself for another push to convince the Angels the club is ready.
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Local bikers may get Hells Angels status
Last updated Aug 23 2002 03:36 PM EDT
CBC News
An expert in organized crime says the Hells Angels may soon have a foothold in New Brunswick. The biker gang Bacchus already runs a clubhouse near Moncton. It's holding a gathering this weekend where the gang may be promoted to Hells Angel status.
The Bacchus' clubhouse in the backroads of Hillsborough. Hells Angels from across the country may coming to the party.Organized crime expert Guy Ouellette says the party is significant.
"This weekend there will be a gathering at the clubhouse of the Bacchus on Steve's Mill Rd. in Dawson Settlement. We expect that the Bacchus who are at the hangaround status with the Hells Angels could receive, or could be promoted, as a prospect chapter of the Hells Angels."
That would bring this area closer to having New Brunswick's first full-fledged chapter of the Hells Angels. The Bacchus clubhouse has been outside Hillsborough for years. Most people in the community don't want to comment on the gang or this weekend's party.
But Ouellette says people in New Brunswick should be concerned.
"Having a Hells Angels chapter means having increased criminal activity related to drug and the sex industry."
If the Bacchus is promoted to prospects this weekend, the gang will then have to wait another year before reaching full Hells Angel status. Ouellette says organized crime units will be keeping an eye of the weekend event.
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Hells Angel store closed down
Last updated May 26 2006 07:00 AM ADT
CBC News
Police on Prince Edward Island have closed down a store that sells merchandise for the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Route 81, on Prince Street in Charlottetown, was one of several properties hit by police on Thursday during Operation Legalize, a co-ordinated series of raids aimed at shutting down drug trafficking on the Island.
"We were targeting a major drug trafficker in our area and the network underneath that person," RCMP Sgt. Dave Thibeau said on Thursday.
Thibeau said the suspected trafficker, whom he refused to identify, worked for Route 81 and was picked up in the raids. A source told CBC the suspect is a member of the Bacchus motorcycle gang, which is based in New Brunswick.
The RCMP police dog was part of the raid on Route 81
The man's Harley Davidson motorcycle was seized in the raids, along with some drugs and an undisclosed amount of cash, police said
The raids included several residences: five properties in Charlottetown and one in rural Queens County.
Operation Legalize began in January, police said, with Charlottetown police and the RCMP dedicating nine officers full-time to the operation. Thirty officers, some from specialized crime units based off-island, took part in the raids.
Guy Ouellette, a retired biker gang cop from Quebec, said the raid of the Route 81 store speaks volumes about the strength of the Island case.
"Raiding Route 81 means that they have enough evidence to link the Bacchus [motorcycle gang] and that specific store, who's there just to sell Hells Angels merchandise," Ouellette said.
While based in New Brunswick, the Bacchus gang is known to have become established in P.E.I. about the same time the Route 81 store opened.
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Hells Angels store opens on P.E.I.
Last Updated Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:50:27 EST
CBC News
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Hells Angels motorcycle gang has set up shop on Prince Edward Island, leading police to warn that patronizing the new store amounts to supporting organized crime.
Supporters of the biker club can purchase everything from Hells Angels belt buckles to T-shirts and calendars at a store in Charlottetown called Route 81.
The merchandising arm of the gang is dubbed Route 81 because the numbers eight and one correspond to where the letters H and A fall in the alphabet.
Route 81 stores are sprouting up all over Canada. One opened in Toronto last year, a store opened in Moncton in January, and one is slated to open in Halifax.
Donny Petersen, a Hells Angels member from Toronto, said the group sells everything from clothing to calendars at the stores.
"Obviously we want to make money off them and we do make good money off them," he said.
Petersen said there are no immediate plans to open a Hells Angels clubhouse on the tourist haven island best known for Anne of Green Gables and pastoral farm scenery.
Pierre Vaillancourt, a motorcycle gang expert with the RCMP in Fredericton, said the Route 81 stores across Canada are linked to the crime world.
"Most of these are operated by local individuals, usually somebody connected to a bike gang," he said. "So what people are actually doing when they go in and buy clothing, they're supporting the Hells Angels."
The Charlottetown franchise is registered to Shannon Irene Huntington.
Sources have told the CBC she is the girlfriend of a man who is in the process of joining a motorcycle gang.
Attempts to reach Huntington for comment were unsuccessful.
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Bikers, police hold separate meetings in Maritimes
Last Updated Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:49:03 EDT
CBC News
HALIFAX - As a national police conference got under way in Nova Scotia Sunday, officials said another group was holding a meeting to discuss expanding a criminal empire.
About 60 bikers, many of them Hells Angels, gathered on the weekend at a remote clubhouse in Albert County, New Brunswick.
Hells Angels bikers head to Albert County, N.B.
Hells Angels bikers head to Albert County, N.B. The meeting took place at the home of the Bacchus motorcycle club. Police believe the group's members are about to become the latest converts to the Hells Angels, which has a longstanding relationship with the Bacchus.
A three-hour drive away, the two-day national police association meeting opened on Sunday. Part of this year's annual conference will focus on biker gangs.
Tony Cannavino, of the Quebec Provincial Police, says bikers want to get everywhere, into every small town across the country.
"Their intention is to expand, to go elsewhere. To get everything they can get from society and they're going to threaten people," he said. "It's not only dope – it's everything."
Organizers of the Halifax conference say it is important for all police to know when a meeting such as the one in New Brunswick happens.
National police conference meeting in Halifax "It's very important that policing in Canada is working off the same page when dealing with complex organized crime such as the Hells," said Don Bell, who is with the Ontario Provincial Police biker enforcement unit.
Police say they're not sure if the Bacchus has become the newest Hells Angels chapter.
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