A full-patch member of the White Rock Hells Angels pleaded guilty in Surrey Provincial Court Tuesday to possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Brent Douglas Milne, 51, will remain on bail pending a sentencing hearing on Sept. 23.
And his freedom may not be the only thing Milne loses — the B.C. government has filed a lawsuit to seize his home, three vehicles and the cash found by officers. Milne is fighting that
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The looks on bystanders’ faces in the Sheraton Wall Centre lobby when the shots rang out said it all.
“You can see on the video the reaction of terror of the patrons in the hotel,” Vancouver Police Supt. Mike Porteous said of Jan. 17, 2012 – the night gangster Sandip (Dip) Duhre was publicly executed.
“They are all fleeing or hitting the ground – things that people would normally do when there was multiple gunshots.”...
B.C. gang enforcement cops have uncovered another sophisticated underground pot growing bunker believed to be linked to the Hells Angels.
Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, said investigators executed a search warrant at the property in the 27000-block of 56th Avenue in Langley over the weekend.
Houghton said the growers had concealed five underground shipping containers with a little hobby farm above that housed three sheep, a pig and a dozen ...
Criminal charges against a high-ranking member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels have been stayed by a B.C. Supreme Court judge, who ruled his Charter rights were violated because the case was taking too long to get to trial.
Fred Widdifield and three others linked to the notorious biker gang were charged in November 2010 with extortion after allegations they pressured a man to turn over $250,000 in cash and property to settle a 1994 debt....
Would-be pot growers looking to set up an underground bunker like the one police raided in Langley this week have several places to purchase used shipping containers.
At least five Lower Mainland companies sell large steel containers like the five that had been turned into an interconnected growing chamber with 430 marijuana plants inside.
And there were also several listed for sale in local Craigslist ads Wednesday ranging in price from less than $2,000 up
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the B.C. government to rewrite some of its claims against the Nanaimo Hells Angels in a long-running civil suit over the bikers’ clubhouse.
Justice Barry Davies agreed with some of the Hells Angels’ concerns that the pleadings of the director of civil forfeiture were too vague or over-reaching, making it difficult for the bikers to defend themselves when the case finally goes to trial next March.
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A young Abbotsford man gunned down Sunday was an associate of one of the accused killers of Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon.
Harpreet Singh Chahal, 25, was critically wounded in a targeted shooting on South Fraser Way at Emerson about 5:15 p.m. Sunday and died less than an hour later in hospital.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed Monday that Chahal was well-known to them and that the murder is gang-related.
IHIT’s Sgt. Jennifer Pound ...
The last East End Hells Angel serving time for convictions stemming from the massive E-Pandora investigation has been paroled.
John Virgil Punko, 47, was let out on statutory release last month, according to Parole Board of Canada documents just released to The Vancouver Sun.
The documents say that Punko, who was serving time for trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine, must reside in a halfway house or approved residence because of his risk of reoffending.
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I just got back into town and thought I would update you on a number of news stories from the past week.
The Hells Angels are celebrating 30 years in the province this weekend with a gathering at the Langley property that serves as the White Rock chapter clubhouse.
Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, said police are monitoring the event which winds up Sunday morning.
I have heard that people
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A Saskatoon Hells Angel was in hospital with serious head injury Sunday after riding his motorcycle off the highway and into a rock wall near Hope Sunday while driving home from three chapters’ 30th anniversary party in Langley.
Some of his fellow bikers then rode to New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital after the man was sent there in an ambulance, according to the spokesman for the RCMP’s anti-gang unit Sgt. Lindsey Houghton.
“(He’s) expected to ...
A B.C. Supreme Court ruling released this week demonstrates the viciousness with which some Hells Angels attempt to intimidate members of the community.
We learned last month that Kelowna full-patch Joseph Bruce Skreptak received a 26-month jail sentence for aggravated assault after attacking the father of a teen he believed had robbed him.
But the reasons for judgment of Justice Allan Betton provide much more detail about the disturbing Nov. 1, 2010 assault.
Skreptak’s stepson ...
A Hells Angels associate charged in a massive cocaine smuggling case has been denied bail in B.C. Supreme Court.
Justice Gregory Bowden read his decision Monday morning, denying Kevin Van Kalkeren his release pending a trial scheduled to begin in September 2014.
Bowden’s reasons, as well as submissions at the two-day bail hearing, are covered by a publication ban.
Van Kalkeren’s relatives in the public gallery expressed dismay after Bowden denied Van Kalkeren bail.
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A young woman paralyzed in a Kelowna shooting two years ago is suing three gangsters charged in the case.
Leah Hadden-Watts filed the suit against Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, Michael Kerry Jones and Jason Thomas McBride on Aug. 14 – the second anniversary of the deadly shooting that left Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon dead.
Hadden-Watts says that before she was wounded, she “was a healthy young woman who had just completed a course in insurance ...
Four Canadian Hells Angels are in custody in Spain after allegedly attempting to smuggle 500 kilos of Colombia cocaine into the country on a sailboat.
Details of a multi-national drug investigation that ended in the arrests were provided Saturday in a news release by Spain’s interior ministry.
Neither the names nor chapters of the Canadians were provided.
The cocaine had been transported from Colombia to the Galician coast, under the supervision of one of ...
B.C. Hells Angels have filed a legal challenge of the government’s civil forfeiture law, claiming it violates their constitutional rights.
A lawyer for seven men connected to the East End Chapter filed the suit Tuesday as a counterclaim to a one by the director of civil forfeiture last fall to seize Hells Angels clubhouses in East Vancouver and Kelowna.
Lawyer Joe Arvay said the government has been going after clubhouses owned by the notorious biker ...
Former B.C. Mountie turned cocaine smuggler Rapinder (Rob) Sidhu was handed an eight year sentence in Seattle Friday for his leadership role in a massive cross-border drug ring.
U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said Sidhu “desired to get money and be part of a major drug conspiracy and be of use to criminals.”
Sidhu, 46, pleaded guilty last October in the drug conspiracy involving the Hells Angels that saw millions of dollars worth of ...
Ottawa police targeted former Surrey resident Hisham (Terry) Alkhalil in a drug investigation to head off a gang war in the country’s capital like the one that has plagued Metro Vancouver in recent years, a senior officer said Thursday.
Acting Insp. Mike Laviolette told The Vancouver Sun that the Ottawa Police Service targeted Alkhalil and his associates “to avoid the violence we have seen in other municipalities such as Vancouver and the City of Toronto.”...
The day before Dain Phillips was fatally beaten by two Kelowna Hells Angels, his son Kody was confronted by accused killer Daniel McRae over a “rude” Facebook comment, B.C. Supreme Court heard Tuesday.
Kody Phillips’ former girlfriend Hayley Spencer testified about partying in a bush area called the Postill on the evening of June 10, 2011, leaving the popular spot about 2:30 the next morning.
She and Kody stopped at McDonalds to get some food, ...
The B.C. government has no plans to follow Manitoba and declare the Hells Angels a criminal organization in this province.
In a statement issued in Victoria Friday, the Justice Ministry said: “B.C. does not have plans at this time to implement the legislation or process that Manitoba has adopted, but will be watching to see what impact it has on organized crime.”
Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swan announced Friday that his province would become the ...
Kody Phillips described in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday how he watched his dad Dain kicked and stomped by four men charged with manslaughter, right after two Hells Angels struck the Kelowna man with bats and hammers.
Kody told Justice Mark McEwan that Hells Angel Rob Thomas ran towards his dad on a Kelowna road on June 12, 2011 armed with a Louisville slugger and a ball peen hammer.
“He was yelling: `you want to f—k ...
