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New law and a case against Hells Angels
New law and a case against Hells Angels 2006/10/10
National Post
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
VANCOUVER - The money, says Michael Plante, had nothing to do with it. Not the frequent gifts, the bundles of cash, the $1-million employment contract he signed with the RCMP.
A former street tough now living under an assumed name and in an undisclosed location, Mr. Plante is the star witness at a sensational trial unfolding inside a Vancouver courtroom.
"Moral and ethical reasons" compelled the muscular 39-year-old to declare war on his Hells Angels brothers and to participate with police in an undercover investigation called Project E-Pandora.
His mission: Leverage his position as a see-all strip club bouncer and trusted Hells Angel gofer. Become a mole inside the motorcycle gang's large east Vancouver clubhouse. Wear a wire, betray associates, start working for the cops. Spend money like a carefree gangster, in clubs, on women. And always -- always -- collect receipts. The Mounties insisted on it.
Mr. Plante was not the perfect spy; at times, police suspected he was mentally unstable, and that he might have required psychological counselling. He frequently argued with police handlers during his undercover stint. He threatened to punch one of them.
The stress was exceptional. He quit once, twice, but always returned. Then he quit again, for good.
But in the nine months he spent undercover -- from April, 2004, to January, 2005 -- Mr. Plante collected valuable evidence for police. Project E-Pandora culminated in July, 2005, with the arrest of 18 men. Six of them are "full patch" members of the Hells Angels, police allege.
One of the men pleaded guilty last month to five charges relating to the possession and sale of cocaine. Jonathan Sal Bryce, 25, sold five kilograms to Mr. Plante, the mole. He is to be sentenced next month.
The rest of the accused will be tried in small groups, on a variety of drug charges. Two are on trial before Mr. Justice Victor Curtis of the B.C. Supreme Court. Ronaldo Lising and Nima Ghavami are charged with trafficking methamphetamine.
Their lawyers have filed a motion to have all charges against their two clients stayed. They argue that Mr. Plante committed dozens of unauthorized crimes while acting as an undercover police agent and that his testimony and related evidence is therefore inadmissible. Mr. Plante has already spent two weeks on the witness stand.
The case provides a rare glimpse inside the Hells Angels' secretive society. But it is also an important test for lawmakers and police.
New provisions in Section 25 of Canada's Criminal Code allow undercover officers and people acting at their direction to commit acts that would otherwise be illegal -- acts such as drug dealing. The new "law enforcement justification provisions" are already controversial. The Canadian Bar Association loathes them and wants them repealed.
The chairman of the CBA's national criminal justice section, Greg DelBigio, says no one should ever be above the law, not police and certainly not their hired informants, "commonly people with criminal records who continue to live a criminal life." As it happens, Mr. DelBigio represents Mr. Lising, a full patch member of a local Hells Angels affiliate.
Should Mr. DelBigio manage to persuade Judge Curtis that police informant Plante did break laws not covered under Section 25, the entire E-Pandora operation might be for naught. The Crown's case against all 18 men would likely collapse. The Hells Angels will have won, again. And a new crime-fighting tool will be found at fault.
Three years ago, Michael Plante was living on the margins of Vancouver's criminal society. A bodybuilder and admitted steroid enthusiast, he held jobs at several downtown bars, places that police have long alleged are used for drug dealing and other illegal acts.
Mr. Plante was also in with local Hells Angels, who viewed him as a potential initiate, or "friend," which is three ranks below an official "full patch" member.
In July, 2003, Mr. Plante was arrested on suspicion of assault and extortion. RCMP soon offered him a deal. The matter would be dropped if he agreed to turn police informant. The Mounties also offered him payments of $3,000 a month. Mr. Plante testified in court last month that he agreed to the proposal.
As a Hells Angels "friend," Mr. Plante had rare access to the Vancouver chapter's east side clubhouse, where he demonstrated his value and loyalty to the organization by mopping floors and scrubbing toilets. Police believed he was in a good position to collect information about drug dealing and other crimes allegedly conducted by local Hells Angels members.
In April, 2004, Mr. Plante was offered a promotion, to police agent. He would be paid $30,000. Again he accepted and signed a formal letter of acknowledgement.
For reasons that still haven't been fully explained in court, Mr. Plante was quickly given an enormous raise. In August, 2005, he was paid an initial $500,000 lump sum. He stands to collect the remaining $500,000 should his testimony lead to Operation E-Pandora convictions.
Mr. Plante has testified in the ongoing voir dire process that he earned up to $15,000 a month in additional payments from the RCMP -- tax-free. He received other incentives: six tickets to a Jerry Seinfeld performance in Vancouver and monthly lease payments on a new Harley- Davidson motorcycle.
"That's pretty good negotiations on your part," noted defence lawyer Mr. DelBigio, during an exchange with Mr. Plante in court last month.
"It was the police who suggested every payment I received," Mr. Plante replied. "This was all their doing, not mine."
Mr. Plante had apparently become invaluable to the RCMP's undercover unit. According to his testimony, he kept tabs on Hells Angels' activities and focused on specific "targets" identified by his police handlers. Operating under police authority, and protected by Section 25 of the Criminal Code, Mr. Plante participated in drug deals worth hundreds of thousand of dollars. He carried weapons, including illegal handguns, and participated in various extortion efforts.
In part, this was to help him gain credibility and influence with the Hells Angels. An RCMP superintendent in Ottawa vetted each activity and granted the necessary "exemptions" required under Section 25.
Working undercover and secretly recording conversations inside the Hells Angels Vancouver clubhouse proved extremely stressful, Mr. Plante testified. It didn't help that the RCMP demanded that he collect receipts while out boozing with the boys.
Mr. Plante recalled that on one occasion, he took a number of Hells Angels out for drinks and dinner. The bill came to $2,000. "It looked very, very strange asking for a receipt," he testified.
More than once he castigated his handlers and told them he was resigning. They always wooed him back, court heard.
Mr. Plante was not permitted to resort to violence, as that would violate Section 25 provisions. This presented some difficulties for him and for his handlers.
The tasks he allegedly performed on behalf of the Hells Angels would normally require aggression. Indeed, Mr. Plante has testified he had to pull punches -- literally -- while collecting debts owed to gang members. In October, 2004, he was beaten up outside a Vancouver strip club. Under normal circumstances, he would have fought back.
Mr. Plante displayed a hair-trigger temper, acknowledged RCMP Inspector Gary Shinkaruk, an undercover specialist who led Operation E-Pandora from May, 2004. He dealt with Mr. Plante on a daily basis.
Testifying in court last week, Insp. Shinkaruk noted Mr. Plante "at times got mad very quickly" when interacting with his handlers. "He threatened to punch me," added the inspector.
According to a report prepared by his undercover team in August, 2004, Mr. Plante's behaviour had become a concern.
His undercover work showed "a lack of detail, fullness," says the report, read in court last week. Mr. Plante was "not returning phone calls" to handlers. He was "making decisions on his own."
Defence lawyers allege that a hotheaded Mr. Plante committed illegal acts of violence while working as an RCMP mole.
It will be up to Judge Curtis to determine if Mr. Plante really was a rogue police agent, as the defence suggests, or, rather, a reliable operative. Much depends on his decision. The voir dire portion of the trial is expected to last another five weeks.
John Bryce, president of the east Vancouver Hells Angels chapter, checks the clubhouse after a 2005 raid in which son Jonathan was arrested.
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Bikers as “Angels”-self-appointed crusaders for democracy and freedom?
Bikers as “Angels”
Issue 1 2006 By Don Bell-->
Has the public bought into OMG spin?
Over a year ago, the Ontario Hells Angels launched its own sanitization campaign, using the gang’s involvement in public motorcycle organizations and events to champion biker rights and defend against the systemic discrimination and unwarranted harassment they claim is targeted at law-abiding motorcycle enthusiasts. Unlike other outlaw motorcycles gangs in Canada, the Hells Angels is the only gang to embark on such an overt campaign to curry favour with the public and the media.
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Courtesy Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada
A biker takes part in the annual Christmas toy run in Massachusetts. Gang spokesmen continually portray the Hells Angels as a non-violent, community-based organization despite their true violent nature. | But why, after spending more than 50 years cultivating an image rife with violence, intimidation and criminality, has the Ontario Hells Angels stepped into the limelight as a self-appointed crusader for democracy and freedom? Simply put, they are acting out of self-interest and self-preservation.
The Hells Angels organization in Canada knows the potential ramifications of new criminal organization legislation. Such a designation would severely impact their ability to travel; would be an aggravating factor in any future investigation or judicial proceeding; could influence other countries to take a similar position, and would taint the entire Hells Angels organization worldwide.
The organization’s executive realizes it must take an aggressive approach to undermine the violent and fearsome reputation the gang has earned over the years.
Members of the Ontario Hells Angels have taken up the challenge, with the Toronto chapter’s spokesman granting media interviews and claiming that despite the crime and violence attributed to the organization in other provinces and countries, "Ontario Hells Angels are different."
The Toronto chapter made every effort to reinforce this view by launching a website that basically serves as a Hells Angels editorial page, submitting open letters to national newspapers, cultivating celebrities, aligning themselves with charities, associating with professional organizations and businesses, and using high-profile marketing tactics designed to appeal to the public’s increased distrust in the system.
But is this concerted effort working? Even as they struggle to portray the organization as a benign group of guys who enjoy riding motorcycles, the public is inundated with contradictory messages. Hells Angels’ clothing and other outlaw biker paraphernalia-worn and sold by its members-openly insinuates violence. Members participate in charitable rides but their motorcycles are adorned with threatening decals and morbid paint schemes depicting death and violence. Hells Angels members throughout Canada and the rest of the world are being convicted of drug trafficking, violence, murder, weapons offences and extortion.
Despite all of this, the Hells Angels have registered a slight degree of success in sanitizing their image by exploiting a pervasive attitude of rebellion among some segments of society that are seduced by non-conformist philosophies. Romanticized and idealized by books, movies and television, the Hells Angels’ outlaw image has gained a semblance of social acceptance.
Perhaps the Hells Angels does not wholly expect this campaign will sway the masses and the intent is merely to neutralize or numb public opinion. It’s doubtful that outlaw bikers believe they will garner widespread backing since their criminal activities are unlikely to garner community support.
Instead, it appears they are striving to minimize the public’s fear of the Hells Angels, diverting attention from their criminal activities to other issues that have a more immediate impact on individuals such as democratic rights and freedoms.
Certainly the media doesn’t appear to support their efforts to any great degree. While the Toronto media have covered this public-relations campaign extensively, their commentary tends to ridicule it.
The reality of the Hells Angels belies the myth. An ongoing litany of biker arrests resulting from police investigations and projects are compounded by the devastating impact of biker-related violence on innocent victims.
A multi-disciplined approach-public education, professional investigations and an integrated media communications plan-is key to undermining the Hells Angels’ efforts to distort the truth.
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B.C.'s Hells Angels: RICH AND POWERFUL I Canada is a haven for the outlaw motorcycle gang, with more members per capita than any other country.
B.C's Angels have mounted an effective public-relations campaign that portrays them as harmless motorcycle enthusiasts, but they maintain a fearsome reputation in the criminal underworld.
Lori Culbert and Neal Hall, Judith Lavoie
Vancouver Sun
The rich and powerful Hells Angels motorcycle club in B.C. -- whose members largely eluded criminal charges and flew below society's radar screen for two decades -- are now expanding across the province, bolstering their multi-million-dollar business network and cementing their territorial stake on organized crime.
The expansion is partly because they are protecting their turf from the Bandidos. A rival U.S. outlaw motorcycle gang with deep roots in neighbouring Washington state, the Bandidos have moved into Alberta and are threatening to set up shop in B.C.
Last January a Bandidos member was fatally shot outside a strip club in Edmonton, where the Texas-based motorcycle gang has established a probationary chapter.
But the Hells Angels expansion is also a savvy business move by a successful and powerful organization with a legendary reputation that is growing internationally.
Eight years ago, there were 70 so-called full-patch members and five chapters in B.C. Today, there are 95 members spread across seven chapters: Vancouver, East End, Haney, White Rock, Mission, the Nomads and Nanaimo.
There are also plans for a new Kelowna chapter and there's talk of another chapter in Surrey, where a so-called shadow support club was established months ago.
The Renegades, an outlaw motorcycle group in Prince George that has about a dozen members, is a Hells Angels puppet club.
The Hells Angels, a predominantly white organization, has roughly 2,000 members worldwide, with chapters in Canada, the U.S., Europe, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and South America.
Canada has more Hells Angels members per capita than any other country, including the U.S., where there are chapters in about 20 states.
At the same time as B.C.'s Hells Angels became some of the wealthiest bikers in the country, they've used a public relations campaign to establish an image as a harmless club of motorcycle enthusiasts.
Sure, a few members have criminal records, the club maintains, but any large organization has people who have run-ins with the law. That doesn't make them a criminal organization, the Hells Angels say.
But in the criminal underworld, the Hells Angels have a fearsome reputation.
The trial last year of contract killer Mickie (Phil) Smith heard evidence that one of Smith's five murder victims was Paul Percy Soluk, 33, who had ripped off Hells Angels marijuana-growing operations. Smith said he was told by an Asian gangster named Brian, who arranged the murder, that it was being done for the East End chapter of the Hells Angels.
Police never found the body of Soluk, who was killed in 1999. Smith, a 56-year-old former life-insurance salesman, confessed to an undercover officer posing as a crime boss that Soluk was located in a Surrey crack house and taken to a garage in Surrey, where he was shot.
Smith said a man he called Yurik helped chop up the body and dispose of it.
"He's not an Angel but he works with the Angels," Smith said of Yurik. "I know he's done lots of hits."
Police said the Smith case underscores how Hells Angels distance themselves from crimes that could put them behind bars for life, instead contracting out to other gangsters -- a marriage of convenience, of sorts.
So far, Hells Angels in B.C. have avoided the kind of violent and bloody public turf war that erupted on Montreal streets with the rival Rock Machine biker gang, which sparked the political will and funding to target the bikers and prosecute them on charges of murder, extortion, drug trafficking and making money from prostitution.
Here in B.C., the Hells Angels have operated largely unopposed by rival biker gangs, allowing them to consolidate operations.
"They are disciplined and well led," said RCMP Insp. Bob Paulson, who is in charge of major investigations involving outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Although the Angels have a reputation for violence and retaliation, for the most part B.C. has not seen the deaths of innocent victims caught in the crossfire, unlike Montreal, where the death of a young boy outraged the public, who pressured politicians to take action.
"Arguably there are a number of murders attributed to the HA in B.C., but they're all kind of within their element . . . there was no spillover," Paulson said.
But even without the kind of street warfare that erupted in Quebec, having the Hells Angels spread across B.C. is expected to create spinoff effects from increased underworld activity, including rising insurance rates to cover damage caused by marijuana-growing operations in houses.
The huge profits reaped from the drug trade, police say, have been used by Hells Angels to establish legitimate businesses ranging from trucking firms and retail cellular-phone outlets to travel agencies, coffee bars and hip clothing stores.
Members of the public generally do not know they are frequenting businesses owned by Hells Angels members, since police chose for years not to publicize that information.
And many Hells Angels use nominees -- trusted associates who register companies in their names -- to hide business assets, police say.
Vancouver police chief Jamie Graham vowed to "shine the light" on Hells Angels activity when he took over as chair last August of the national strategy to combat outlaw motorcycle gangs for the Canadian Association of Chief of Police.
The public is also affected by the hundreds of Hells Angels "associates" -- a network of friends of club members who have been known to infiltrate the country's ports, phone companies, the post office and other government offices where private information can be obtained about citizens who run afoul of the Angels.
"The ports is an example where they use their associates to facilitate criminal activity," said Inspector Andy Richards, in charge of the outlaw motorcycle gang unit within the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, the successor to the Organized Crime Agency of B.C.
"The telephone company, or Shaw Cable or ICBC, that's an example where they've just got this wide-range of contacts ... where they can just make a phone call and get something done, if they need to, for example, run a licence plate," Richards said.
Hells Angels members also have used the collective muscle of the organization to push aside competitors in certain business ventures, he said.
There used to be six or seven agencies that handled strippers in Vancouver, but now two are controlled by the Angels or associates and one is an independent, Richards said.
In the early 1990s, Richards said, the now-dead Hells Angels member Donald Roming was one of the key enforcers helping push others out of the stripper business -- at one point seriously assaulting one of the owners of another agency.
"Without speaking ill of the dead, he was responsible for laying a very serious beating on a 67-year-old man who was involved with one of the independent companies at the time, to the point this guy was hospitalized," he explained.
There were no arrests from these "takeovers" because of the victims' reluctance to report the activities to police, he added.
Over the years, Richards has seen two levels of Hells Angels develop: "You're seeing the original old-timers, some of whom are 9-to-5ers who have legitimate jobs driving a truck."
A lot of the old guys are in it for camaraderie and brotherhood, he said, but most of the younger guys are in it for the money, the power and the respect that the Hells-Angels patch commands. "The younger guys see it as a real entrepreneurial activity to get into the club, to have that protective layer around you, to make money," Richards said.
But not all the old-timers are members just for the camaraderie. Some are masters of setting up shell companies to manipulate the stock market in what are called "pump and dump" schemes -- buying shares to drive up price, then selling before the price begins dropping, police say.
The Hells Angels have also been allowed to grow and prosper in B.C. since members of Vancouver's Satan's Angels motorcycle gang originally became Hells Angels in a "patch over" in 1983. For years, there were very few successful prosecutions against full-patch members.
Paulson points to the East End chapter, a wily bunch of individuals who successfully have eluded convictions, despite a number of charges that ended up in stays or acquittals.
"They've long been held up to be the seminal chapter, not just in B.C. but in Canada," he said. "They're wealthy, they're influential and they're successful at avoiding us."
Only in the last decade has B.C.'s patchwork-quilt of municipal and RCMP police forces reorganized their attack on the Hells Angels. They now point to a dozen or so recent successful prosecutions to show police are finally making inroads.
The RCMP for the second-straight year has identified five priority organized-crime groups to target. Outlaw motorcycle gangs -- essentially the Hells Angels and its puppet clubs -- are in the No. 1 spot for the second time.
The Mounties in B.C. have also developed a list of the top-20 organized-crime figures in B.C. and nearly half are Hells Angels members.
"Prosecutions are tough," Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham said in an interview. But he pointed out: "We're working smarter than we ever have before."
Some officers feel their superiors blew two rare chances in the past decade to turn insiders into informants and bust some top-level Hells Angels and other high-echelon gangsters.
One of the most shocking examples of how police dropped the ball was the Western Wind debacle, detailed in the recent book The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada. Written by Julian Sher and William Marsden, the book explains how the RCMP in B.C. had a chance to nail drug-dealers for $330 million worth of cocaine when a Vancouver Island fisherman offered to help the Mounties intercept a drug shipment between Colombians and the Hells Angels aboard the vessel Western Wind, which was headed for Victoria.
The fisherman wanted to be paid $1 million and be placed in witness protection, but the RCMP declined the offer; U.S. authorities intercepted the boat loaded with more than two tonnes of cocaine, but no one was ever charged, says the book, which contains sharp criticism of the RCMP's handling of the botched case.
One of those who worked on the Western Wind file was former RCMP officer Pat Convey, now an inspector with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit. Convey was among those critical in the book of the handling of the case. "It happened and I'm not going to go into it again," he said in an interview. "Yes, I got my knuckles rapped [for speaking out in the book]. I'm not in the RCMP any more."
Could the same problem arise again? "We're human beings and human beings make mistakes," replied Convey. "I think it's unlikely it would happen again."
Meanwhile, the prospect of a fifth-anniversary party for the Angels' Mission chapter appeared to raise little interest in the Fraser Valley town on Friday. Staff-Sgt. Jack Robinson of the Mission RCMP detachment said extra members will be on duty over the weekend to keep an eye on the party.
He said previous anniversary parties at the clubhouse had been without incident.
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Dailynews,Halifax
Threats, security dominate murder case
Suspect under heavy guard as witness describes bloody shooting of drug kingpin, brother at hearing
SYDNEY — Police armed with MP5 assault rifles surrounded the Sydney Justice Centre on Thursday during a preliminary hearing for a Glace Bay man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a former Vancouver drug boss and Hells Angels associate.
Nelson MacPhee, 41, of Dominion was brought to court under heavy guard to witness just one man give details of a bloody Dec. 30 shooting in a rundown Glace Bay neighbourhood known as the Hub.
Nelson MacPhee is led out of the Sydney Justice Centre last January after his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting of a Glace Bay man and attempted murder of another.
"I can’t comment whether there was a threat received," Staff Sgt. Paul Jobe of Cape Breton Regional Police said of the presence of armed officers in riot gear. "We’re assisting major crime and this is their call.
"It’s a high-profile case we’re dealing with here."
No weapons were found on anyone entering court, a sheriff’s department spokesman said.
"Everything went smooth," he said.
After the gunfire ended in Glace Bay on that cold night last December, Kenneth Seymour, 39, a former associate of outlaw biker gangs in Ontario and Vancouver, lay dead outside his home and his younger brother Donald, 38, was critically injured inside. Mr. MacPhee is also charged with attempted murder in that shooting.
Donald Seymour has recovered and sat among his brothers and associates in the locked-down courtroom Thursday. He is refusing to give any evidence to identify his assailant and his brother’s killer.
"Sleep tight, Nelson," one of the Seymours shouted as Judge Brian Williston ordered Mr. MacPhee back into custody until Dec. 4, when a date will be set for his trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
As the gallery emptied, another Seymour brother from Glace Bay threatened a television journalist with his cane. Police are investigating.
Mr. MacPhee, who has a lengthy record for drug offences, assaults and theft, was a known associate of the Seymour brothers, who were on parole when they were shot. They served time for drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic for heading the crack cocaine trade in downtown Vancouver’s east side for five years beginning in the late 1990s. Drugs were also bused to dealers in Cape Breton.
According to the Vancouver Sun, the Glace Bay brothers headed a gang that earned $10,000 to $20,000 a day selling crack in Vancouver’s East Hastings area and intimidated rivals with gunfire and beatings.
The weapon used in the Seymour shootings hasn’t been found but police suspect it was among eight handguns stolen that month from a Wadman Street home in Glace Bay. The home belonged to a fishing boat captain who had employed Mr. MacPhee as a deckhand over the years.
Days after the Seymour shootings, the captain, Bert
Simms, killed himself with a long-barrelled gun inside his home.
The 45-year-old fisherman was also the owner of a fishing boat that was set on fire in Dingwall Harbour in the fall of 2004.
A Cape Breton Regional Police officer checks for bombs under a sheriff’s van used to transport accused killer Nelson MacPhee to and from court Thursday
Police suspected cocaine and other drugs were moving from port to port in Cape Breton and Mr. Simms, who had no criminal record, may have become involved.
Court records show that since October 1999, Vancouver RCMP have been investigating the activities of the Seymour group, a suspected criminal organization involved in trafficking cocaine and marijuana in Vancouver, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
The Seymours are known associates of the Hell’s Angels and other outlaw biker groups based in Ontario.
Kenneth Seymour, the target of the RCMP investigation, bought a $38,000 bungalow in Nova Scotia in 1999 using $20 bills, then spent $40,000 on renovations, court documents say.
That same year, he reported a net income of $13,356, of which $9,756 was in employment insurance benefits.
From 1993 to 1998, he never declared more than $16,000 in net income, the documents say.
In December 2000, RCMP from Nova Scotia and British Columbia arrested Kenneth and Donald Seymour and their cousin Earl Stephen Seymour of Bible Hill.
In raids on homes and businesses during a two-year investigation, RCMP seized or restrained about $339,000 in cash, plus homes, Corvettes, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, jet-skis, ATVs, trailers, SUVs and antique furniture worth more than $1.5 million.
Kenneth and Donald Seymour were charged with first-degree murder in April 2000 in the beating death of Ontario drug dealer Michael Raymond Bath, 29, whose body was found in January 1999 in a lake near Squamish, B.C.
Days later, the charges were stayed.
The brothers pleaded guilty to drug charges in September 2001 and were sentenced to eight and six years respectively, minus credit for time served while awaiting trial.
A Cape Breton Regional Police officer in full tactical gear stands guard as accused killer Nelson MacPhee rushes into a waiting sheriff’s van Thursday.
Earl Seymour was sentenced to six years in prison for cocaine trafficking, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and arson for bombing the home of a Cape Breton Regional Police officer’s grandparents as police were investigating the drug case.
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2006/11/21
Safety issue spurs alleged killer’s move
MacPhee tranferred to federal penitentiary in N.B. due to concerns about retaliation in Dartmouth jail
SYDNEY — The accused killer of a former Hells Angels associate was moved to a more secure federal penitentiary from a provincial jail Monday to await trial.
Nelson MacPhee, 42, of Dominion was granted the transfer after safety concerns were cited in Nova Scotia Supreme Court, where Mr. MacPhee will be tried next year.
He is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 shooting death of Kenneth Seymour, 39, a Glace Bay resident and former Vancouver drug boss who was associated with outlaw biker gangs, and attempted murder for wounding Mr. Seymour’s younger brother. Donald Seymour, 38, has since recovered.
"It’s to deal with prisoner safety," Justice David MacAdam said Monday in ordering the move.
Mr. MacPhee, a former associate of the Seymour brothers, was not present. He is scheduled to return to court Dec. 4 to have a date set for his trial to begin.
He is believed to have been moved Monday afternoon to the federal prison in Renous, N.B., from the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth.
Crown attorney John MacDonald told the court Monday that extreme security measures have been required to protect Mr. MacPhee since Cape Breton Regional Police arrested him Jan. 2.
"The two persons who were shot are connected to the drug trade," Mr. MacDonald told the court. "There are people who may retaliate on their behalf.
"(Police) perceive a very real risk to Mr. MacPhee."
Snipers were positioned on the roof of the five-storey Sydney Justice Centre before daybreak last Thursday to await Mr. MacPhee’s arrival for his preliminary hearing. Officers on the street were dressed in full riot gear and carried MP5 submachine-guns.
Inside the building, an entire floor was closed to the public, and everyone entering the courtroom was searched for weapons.
Mr. MacPhee’s legal aid lawyer, Allan Nicholson, said Monday his client was more concerned about preparing for his trial and accessing better services in a federal institution than about any security threat.
"My client is pretty happy-go-lucky," Mr. Nicholson said. "He never appears to be afraid; he’s pretty cool, pretty confident.
"But everyone is just as happy if he is in federal custody."
Mr. Nicholson is hoping to get permission for Mr. MacPhee to skip the five-minute hearing on Dec. 4 to set a trial date. Justice MacAdam said it was "ridiculous" for Mr. MacPhee to come all the way back to Sydney just for that.
The Seymour brothers were on parole when a lone man shot them near their Glace Bay home last winter. They had been convicted in 2001 of drug trafficking and conspiracy for heading a gang that the Vancouver Sun said earned $10,000 to $20,000 a day selling crack in downtown Vancouver. The brothers also moved drugs by bus to Ontario and Nova Scotia, evidence showed.
Two other accused murderers, both from the North Sydney area, are also in federal custody awaiting trial.
David MacKeigan, 35, of Florence was charged after the burned remains of his girlfriend turned up on a beach in Little Pond. Herbie Hawkins, 30, of North Sydney is charged with killing a mentally handicapped strawberry picker July 9 and robbing him of a few hundred dollars.
Nelson MacPhee of Dominion, Cape Breton, is accused of killing a former Hells Angels associate.
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Man who died in fire worried that biker gang would get him
November 22, 2006
GRAND BAY-WESTFIELD - A 52-year-old man who died in a house fire Monday night told area neighbours that a biker gang he used to be affiliated with was eventually going to come after him.
Grand Bay-Westfield firefighters who arrived at the home of David Gunn at 7 p.m. that night were warned by police to be on the lookout for booby traps.
"We had gotten word that there was a booby trap," said Grand Bay-Westfield fire chief Dan McCoy. "There was nothing found."
Kennebecasis RCMP spokesman Sgt. Greg Grant denies knowing anything about booby traps at the modest, but well-kept home, which was heavily damaged but still standing.
An autopsy Tuesday showed that Gunn died of smoke inhalation, and while the Mounties don't suspect foul play, they won't rule it out until the investigation is complete.
At least one neighbour says the victim feared for his life.
Greg Hutchinson lives a few doors down from the house at 54 Campbell Road. While Gunn pretty much kept to himself, Hutchinson, an EMT with the Grand Bay-Westfield Volunteer Ambulance Service who was at the fire that night, responded to Gunn's home on more than one occasion.
"He'd get on the phone and say the right things and get the ambulance there," said Hutchinson, adding that he just wanted someone to talk to.
"He was quite a character. He was a little paranoid."
On more than one visit, Hutchinson said he'd listen as Gunn, who lived alone with his dog, would say "they're coming to get me. They're coming to get me."
Gunn, though, never said exactly which biker gang was coming to get him.
Steve Gordeau, an RCMP expert on bike gang activity in the province, said the victim was not known as a bike gang member. A Bacchus Motorcycle Gang source also denied knowing Gunn.
According to Hutchinson, he never saw any sign of booby traps when he was in the house.
"A lot of him was all talk," said Hutchinson.
"In a word he was a biker, but he was a good guy."
Hutchinson's girlfriend, Angie Ring said the victim "seemed like a nice fellow
"He pretty much just stuck to himself," said Ring.
While Gunn enjoyed the biker lifestyle and looked the part, Hutchinson said he was as "gentle as a kitten.
"He was as scruffy as hell or looked like he just came out of church, there was no in between."
Tuesday morning police and fire officials were combing through the debris. The chard and twisted front door of the home leaned against a bush outside the white, vinyl-sided home. On one side of the home a pile of debris lay on the ground including a scorched fuse box. A charred gash sliced through the home where the main part of the house joined what appeared to be a single-storey addition.
Over the front door was scrawled valhallah - the hall of Odin into which the souls of heroes slain in battle and others who have died bravely are received - beside a tiny Norwegian flag tacked to the house. A blackened and soaked grey t-shirt and bits of pink insulation were strewn down the front concrete steps. Signs warning of a dog were also scattered throughout the property - he at one time owned a Rottweiler cross. There were also "Harley-Davidson" parking and "redneck" parking signs posted on the side of the house along the driveway.
"He'd rip up and down the road on his loud motorcycle and we'd all wave," said Hutchinson.
Gunn also had a sense of humour. A big rock on the lawn had the words pet rock printed on it in red paint. A few feet away, a tire swing dangled on a rope from the limb of a tree. A number of well-kept vehicles were parked in the laneway.
Hutchinson, who said Gunn was waging a battle with the bottle, said he's surprised that it was fire that took the man's life.
"I thought David would drink himself to death, but never like this," Hutchinson said.
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No appeal for Hells Angel Mom Boucher
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2006/11/23
Top court won't hear appeal by former Hells Angel's boss
Canadian Press
Ottawa — The Supreme Court of Canada says it will not hear an appeal by former Hells Angel boss Maurice (Mom) Boucher of his first-degree murder conviction in the slaying of two prison guards.
Mr. Boucher was found guilty in 2002 of having ordered the murders of Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau in 1997.
He was also convicted of attempted murder involving another guard.
The Quebec Court of Appeal unanimously rejected Mr. Boucher's appeal arguments last May, prompting his defence team to turn to the country's highest court.
After 11 days of deliberations, a Quebec jury convicted an alleged leader of the Hells Angels, Maurice (Mom) Boucher, of all charges Sunday in the shooting deaths of two prison guards.
Boucher, 48, grinned as the verdict was read out. He was found guilty of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree murder.
The jury of eight men and four women concluded that Boucher had masterminded the killings of Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau in 1997. The Crown accused him of ordering the killings in a plot to destabilize the justice system.
Boucher got an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
In a trial notable for its security measures, the jury was shielded from public view by an opaque screen. They received their final instructions from Superior Court Justice Pierre Beliveau on April 25.
He told the jurors they had to convict Boucher if they were convinced he had "incited, counselled or brought about" the guards' deaths. He also said they had to find him guilty of all three charges, or not guilty of all three charges.
This was Boucher's second trial on the same charges. He was acquitted in 1998, but the Crown successfully appealed that ruling last year – challenging the judge's instructions to the jury.
Lavigne was shot and killed while driving home from work in June 1997.
In September of the same year, Rondeau was killed when the prison bus he was driving was ambushed. Robert Corriveau was also working on that bus and escaped injury.
The Crown based its case on wiretaps, video surveillance, documents seized from Boucher when he was arrested and on the testimony of two former bikers.
The key witness for the prosecution was Stephane Gagne, who was involved in both murders. He testified he was ordered to carry out the killings by Boucher lieutenants Andre (Toots) Tousignant and Paul (Fon Fon) Fontaine and was later congratulated by Boucher himself.
Crown prosecutor France Charbonneau contended that the killings were intended to destabilize the justice system by making targets of guards, police, prosecutors and judges.
Charbonneau argued that Boucher wanted crimes committed by bikers that would be so serious that prosecutors wouldn't want to make deals to turn bikers into informants.
Defence lawyer Jacques Larochelle didn't call any witnesses and challenged the credibility of Gagne and Serge Boutin, the Crown's other key witness. He said the men were career criminals and habitual liars trying to get deals from justice officials.
He argued Gagne worked alone to kill the guards.
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Alleged Hells Angels among 13 suspects arrested in organized-crime bust
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EDMONTON -- A two-year joint police investigation targeting drug trafficking and organized crime in Alberta led to the arrests of 13 people yesterday, including two members of the Edmonton Hells Angels chapter.
Using intelligence and wiretaps to intercept 58,000 private communications over 23 months, Mounties from Alberta, B.C. and Newfoundland, as well as police from Edmonton and Calgary, charged 18 people with a number of offences.
Five of the 18 remain at large.
"Any time we're able to take illegal substances off the street, we view that as a success," said RCMP Cpl. Wayne Oakes.
Cops seized 20 kg of cocaine, 3 kg of cannabis marijuana, methamphetamine, a number of guns and prohibited weapons and more than $2 million in money, cars, trucks, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, jewelry and homes.
Oakes said the operation was a good example police forces working together.
Among those charged is Edmontonian Alan Peter Knapczyk, 32, who faces drug charges. Cops say he's a member of the Hells Angels.
John Reginald Alcantara, 34, of Edmonton, also a member of the Hells Angels according to cops, faces drug and weapons charges.
Edmontonian John Norman Caines, 60, faces drug and weapons charges.
Vanessa Crawford, 21, Sean David Critch, 24, Curtis James Ebeltoft, 32, Nicholas James Roberts, 23, and Beau Michael Yakimishyn, 24, all of Edmonton, face drug charges.
Kamran Sattar, 30, of Calgary, Farhan Sattar, 27, of Calgary, Jeffrey Mark Caines, 33, of Fort McMurray, Holly Ann Dyck, 30, of Edmonton, and Derek Albert Ezekiel, 25, of Edmonton, remain at large.
Other people charged are from B.C. and Newfoundland.
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Alleged Gangster Shot in Face
He may have walked away from the first attempt on his life unscathed, but a man who was shot numerous times wasn't so fortunate the second time around, police said yesterday.
The alleged gang member was sitting in a vehicle in the 3300 block of Catalina Dr. N.E. about 3:45 a.m. Sunday, when a dark minivan pulled up and a gunman shot the victim several times, said Staff Sgt. Martin Schiavetta.
"He was struck three times in the back and once in the facial area ... resulting in life-threatening injuries," he said.
"We believe a white colour SUV may also be involved."
The man, in his early 20s, has been in and out of surgery since the shooting, complicating efforts to nail down facts about the attack, said Schiavetta. He is expected to survive.
The victim was the target of a shooting Sept. 19, 2003, outside Central Landmark mall, but the bullets missed, Schiavetta said.
"There are only three ways to get out of the gang lifestyle," he said.
"You die, you go to jail or you contact the gang unit and we help you."
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Chronicle Herald -Halifax
Drug bust includes four from metro
More than 100 charges laid in P.E.I. operation
Four Nova Scotians, including one convicted of manslaughter, face a slew of drug charges after a 17-month investigation into a P.E.I. biker.
Officers travelled to metro Halifax this week to arrest Shannon Irene Huntington, 35, of Halifax; Jason David Conrad, 38, of Lower Sackville; Earl Spencer Allan Power, 44, of Timberlea; and Sham Jaggi of Halifax, who turned 24 the day he was picked up.
They were among 18 people charged in Operation Legalize, an investigation into the alleged trafficking of cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana and prescription drugs in P.E.I.
Police there allege that three of the Nova Scotians charged supplied and sometimes ferried drugs.Joint forces drug officers broke into the drug ring using wiretaps and evidence seized from the May 2006 raids on a Charlottetown shop selling Hells Angels merchandise and a number of homes.
Over 100 charges have been laid, but RCMP and local police launched the investigation with a specific target in mind: Derreck Dean Huggan.
"Mr. Huggan, being a member of a motorcycle gang, the investigation stemmed from that and looking at his activities," Cpl. Reg Campbell, RCMP spokesman in P.E.I., said.
Mr. Huggan, a former Hubbards resident, was arrested by Tantallon RCMP in April 2000 on three counts of possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking, possessing a restricted weapon and unsafe storage of a firearm.
The 41-year-old became a member of the Bacchus motorcycle club when the New Brunswick-based chapter took over the Forerunners, Cpl. Campbell said.
He is the only club member living in P.E.I., the officer said, and is now the only former Forerunner with the Bacchus club.
Mr. Huggan and other Bacchus members have been "seen in association with members of the East Coast Riders (Motorcycle) Club," Cpl. Campbell said.
Some members of the Halifax-based club and Bacchus members have been seen together "at various functions hosted by other motorcycle groups," he said.
The East Coast Riders may have a link to the Hells Angels on their website, but the club has not been publicly identified as an outlaw motorcycle gang.
Around the same time the Bacchus appeared in P.E.I., a Hells Angels support store set up shop in Charlottetown.
Route 81 – reportedly named to represent H, the eighth letter of the alphabet, and A, the first — opened in early 2005 and was raided by police in May as part of Operation Legalize.
The store, owned by Ms. Huntington, has since closed down.
CBC news reported in 2005 that Ms. Huntington was the girlfriend of a man about to become a biker.
Her co-accused, Mr. Power, received a five and a half year prison term for his role in the March 1984 slaying of Stephen Peebles.
The Halifax man was hacked to death with a meat cleaver by Dennis Warren Smith after he and Mr. Power promised to sell him cheap heroin, this newspaper reported.
Mr. Power pushed Mr. Peebles down, and Mr. Smith repeatedly struck him with the cleaver. Stab wounds to his body were never explained.
Ms. Huntington was released from custody on conditions, while the remaining Nova Scotians were remanded to the Sleepy Hollow Correctional Centre in Charlottetown.
Mr. David, who has a criminal record for drug charges, is scheduled to return to court on Friday, while Mr. Power and Mr. Jaggi, a graduate of Holland College’s culinary arts program, are expected to return next Tuesday.
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Suspect allegedly biker-gang affiliate
By SUN MEDIA
WINNIPEG -- Daniel Ian Anderson is no Al Capone.
According to a source, the 21-year-old suspect accused of shooting three Winnipeg police officers Thursday night is a minor, peripheral affiliate of the Hells Angels puppet club, the Zig Zag Crew.
He is not a full-fledged member of any gang. He has no prior record in Manitoba provincial court and the National Parole Board has no record of him, either.
Yet, police Chief Jack Ewatski said yesterday he is known to Winnipeg cops, although police declined to say how he was known.
Anderson's brother, Darren Anderson, is no stranger to Winnipeg police, according to another source.
Darren Anderson was charged last January for allegedly intimidating a witness set to testify against a man involved in a dispute that saw bullets from a Second World War-era Sten submachine-gun fired outside a Charleswood nightclub.
A man who lives near Anderson's Jubilee Avenue home said the family has lived there for a long time, and Anderson is one of three brothers whom he believed are all in their 20s.
Drug raiders ambushed
Three Winnipeg officers hit in attack
SUN MEDIA
WINNIPEG -- A 12-year veteran of the Winnipeg Police Service lay in a hospital bed yesterday with a shotgun wound to the abdomen after he and two other officers were apparently ambushed during a drug raid in Fort Rouge.
The alleged shooter, 21-year-old Daniel Ian Anderson, was charged with attempted murder.
He was treated in hospital for non life-threatening injuries.
Police would not say how Anderson was injured.
All four people were hurt as a dozen officers went looking for drugs at 723 Jubilee Ave., just before 11 p.m. Thursday.
Once inside the house, three of the officers were shot at with what a source said was a shotgun.
One was hit in the abdomen, another in the hand and wrist, and the third in the leg.
All were wearing body armour.
Fellow-officers said the three injured members are good cops with lots of experience who fell victim to the element of the unexpected.
"One thing you can't prepare for is an ambush," a source told the Sun.
"And you can't train for an ambush. Those guys were ambushed.
"They were ambushed, 100 percent."
Another source said police had no idea they were walking into a potentially volatile situation because the suspect wasn't someone known to be violent or possess weapons.
"Nobody expected this kind of problem," said the source, who noted the warrant was issued by a different police unit than the one that executed it.
During a morning news conference yesterday, Chief Jack Ewatski was tight-lipped about how the incident unfolded, saying everything is still under investigation.
Ewatski did say 12 officers, a combination of plain clothes and uniformed cops, went to the home to execute a warrant for a drug investigation.
Once inside, the cops were fired upon.
He did not say how many people were in the house at the time or where the suspect was eventually caught.
But forensic identification cops were at the rear of the house yesterday taking measurements and examining an evidence trail that ran from the home's back door, through the yard and back lane and into a street, where it ended.
Ewatski declined to say whether police seized the gun, or if they found any drugs in the house.
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Chronical Hearld/ Halifax Daily News
James Bernard Melvin was released by police when he presented a false ID.
(Halifax Regional Police)
Melvin as he appeared in court on Tuesday.
Melvin is considered a person of interest in the June 20 shooting death of Wayne Nicholas Marriott in Beechville.
The man made headlines this summer after police issued a warrant for his arrest days after Marriott's murder. Melvin, police said, was wanted on a breach of recognizance. He'd been released from prison in May: the man had served a five year sentence for drug and weapons charges.
Marriott was shot to death in a Beechville driveway June 20. Eight days after the 21-year-old was gunned-down, a pawnshop run by Melvin's father was firebombed. Days later, a Spryfield home was rocked by gunfire: the duplex and a parked car were littered with bullet holes.
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