METRO VANCOUVER -- A full-patch member of the White Rock Hells Angels
is expected to be charged with trafficking after Abbotsford Police
found almost a kilogram of cocaine in his Langley home.
Abbotsford police executed a search warrant at the home of 50-year-old
Brent Douglas Milne Wednesday after an investigation into cocaine
trafficking in the city.
Const. Ian MacDonald said the drug enforcement unit was helped by the
Abbotsford police department's Gang Suppression Unit, the Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit's Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Unit and the
Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team.
Investigators are preparing their report to Crown counsel, MacDonald
said. Charges are expected to follow.
Police also found $26,000 in the house at 27019 — 28A Avenue in
Aldergrove.
Milne has no criminal record and is listed on land title documents as
a trucker and mechanic.
MacDonald said police obtained information earlier this year about the
alleged involvement of the Hells Angels in the Abbotsford drug trade.
"People who are involved in gangs and organized crime are always on
police radar," he said.
Investigators gathered additional information that could support a
search warrant, said MacDonald.
"I am really proud of the officers involved in this," he added. "We
believe the seizure and arrest improves public safety for the citizens
of Abbotsford, Langley and beyond."
The White Rock chapter of the Hells Angels has been in turmoil in
recent months.
Member Larry Amero was seriously wounded last August in a Kelowna
shooting that left Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon dead and Independent
Soldier James Riach wounded.
Former Sergeant at Arms in the White Rock chapter, Mike Robatzek, was
recently thrown out of the club.
And Trevor Jones, the twin of White Rock member Randy Jones, was
indicted in the U.S. in a massive cross-border drug smuggling
operation that American prosecutors allege was done for the benefit of
the White Rock chapter.
MacDonald said police are aware of "flux and instability" among Hells
Angels and other gangs active in the Lower Mainland.
And as some of the gangs try to consolidate, they are ramping up their
drug trafficking to increase profits, MacDonald said.
"When you go into that mode, you obviously take more risk and you make
more mistakes," he said
kbo...@vancouversun.com
METRO VANCOUVER -- A full-patch member of the White Rock Hells Angels
is expected to be charged with trafficking after Abbotsford Police
found almost a kilogram of cocaine in his Langley home.
Abbotsford police executed a search warrant at the home of 50-year-old
Brent Douglas Milne Wednesday after an investigation into cocaine
trafficking in the city.
Const. Ian MacDonald said the drug enforcement unit was helped by the
Abbotsford police department's Gang Suppression Unit, the Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit's Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Unit and the
Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team.
Investigators are preparing their report to Crown counsel, MacDonald
said. Charges are expected to follow.
Police also found $26,000 in the house at 27019 — 28A Avenue in
Aldergrove.
Milne has no criminal record and is listed on land title documents as
a trucker and mechanic.
MacDonald said police obtained information earlier this year about the
alleged involvement of the Hells Angels in the Abbotsford drug trade.
"People who are involved in gangs and organized crime are always on
police radar," he said.
Investigators gathered additional information that could support a
search warrant, said MacDonald.
"I am really proud of the officers involved in this," he added. "We
believe the seizure and arrest improves public safety for the citizens
of Abbotsford, Langley and beyond."
The White Rock chapter of the Hells Angels has been in turmoil in
recent months.
Member Larry Amero was seriously wounded last August in a Kelowna
shooting that left Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon dead and Independent
Soldier James Riach wounded.
Former Sergeant at Arms in the White Rock chapter, Mike Robatzek, was
recently thrown out of the club.
And Trevor Jones, the twin of White Rock member Randy Jones, was
indicted in the U.S. in a massive cross-border drug smuggling
operation that American prosecutors allege was done for the benefit of
the White Rock chapter.
MacDonald said police are aware of "flux and instability" among Hells
Angels and other gangs active in the Lower Mainland.
And as some of the gangs try to consolidate, they are ramping up their
drug trafficking to increase profits, MacDonald said.
"When you go into that mode, you obviously take more risk and you make
more mistakes," he said
kbo...@vancouversun.com
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/White+Rock+Hells+Angel+facing+drug+charge+after+Langley+home/6638779/story.html
The slow decline of the Hells Angels in Canada continues. The HOC
should outlaw this criminal organization with terroristic elements.