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Longtime Hell's Angel Patch Francisco Batista Pires And 3 Others With Running A Illegal Gambling Operation At The Big Shot Cafe In Burnaby.
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Greg Carr
Nov 29, 2020, 3:36:01 AM11/29/20
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Hells Angel and three others charged after illegal gambling investigation
Kim Bolan 2 days ago
Hells Angel and three others charged after illegal gambling investigation
A full-patch member of the Hells Angels and three other men have been charged with illegal gambling after an investigation by B.C.’s anti-gang agency.
a sign above a store: B.C.'s anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searches Burnaby's Big Shot café on July 4, 2020.© Provided by Vancouver Sun B.C.'s anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searches Burnaby's Big Shot café on July 4, 2020.
The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searched Big Shots Café, at 3980 East Hastings St. in Burnaby, on July 4, area residents told Postmedia at the time. (Greg: Then why did you wait over 4 months to report it? Afraid HAMC was going to put a couple of your newspaper carriers in wheelchairs for life? The HAMC clubhouse the known seen of cocaine trafficking as proven in a court case and acknowledged by a Judge Barry Davies who did nothing is at 3598 East Georgia https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/3980+E+Hastings+St,+Burnaby,+BC+V5C+6C7/3598+E+Georgia+St,+Vancouver,+BC+V5K+5G1/@49.2796833,-123.023803,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x548670cf0ade088d:0x76cf8de598618901!2m2!1d-123.0173824!2d49.2809081!1m5!1m1!1s0x548670d0ec7fb3a5:0x3c27e47f19e51b58!2m2!1d-123.0258514!2d49.2781627 or six blocks east and 4 north of the clubhouse where Pires was convicted of selling cocaine is where the Big Shot Cafe is. )
This week, a charge of being “found in a common gaming or betting house” was laid against café owner Francisco Batista Pires, as well as New Westminster resident Jay Arnold Franco, 40, 58-year old Richard William Kosterman, of Delta, and Burnaby resident Andrew David MacFarlane, 36.
CFSEU Sgt. Brenda Winpenny said Thursday that the agency’s Joint Illegal Gaming Investigation Team began an investigation into a suspected illegal gaming house at the business in October 2019.
When the search warrant was executed in July police found “several individuals participating in activity that appeared to be that of an illegal gaming house,” Winpenny said. “Seized from the business were items such as; poker tables, slot machines, cash, poker chips and playing cards.”
Winpenny said that “Illegal gaming, and the locations that allow them, have been the root of other criminal offences that impact the safety of the public.”(Greg: Activites associatted with illegal gambling include loan sharking and often prostitution. Ont. Hell's Angels have been involved in some big time illegal gambling activities. HAMC used to run CW Agencies in Vancouver which was an illegal lottery ticket reseller when it went bankrupt suddenly. The employees weren't paid nor given their EI paperwork. LOL you skivers are lucky the 1%ers didn't pimp you out. You can search WWW or Google Groups van.general for more info.)
Pires is a longtime Hells Angel, currently with the Nomads chapter. He was not at the café Wednesday when a Postmedia reporter called for comment.
The provincial court database confirmed that Pires appeared in Vancouver provincial court Wednesday on the charge. The other three accused are scheduled to appear on Friday.
Postmedia obtained a photo of police inside the café late on July 4.
The date of the alleged offence is June 18, 2020. Sources say the charge relates to illegal gambling that, allegedly, was going on in the back of the business.
Corporate records indicate that Pires incorporated Big Shots on June 10, 2004 with another man. The second director was replaced by Pires’s fellow Hells Angel Rob Alvarez on Jan. 1, 2005, the records state. Alvarez ceased being a director on Jun 8, 2008, though the City of Burnaby 2020 business licence lists both Pires and Alvarez as café operators.
An earlier drug trafficking conviction of Pires was cited in a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling against the director of civil forfeiture’s attempt to get three Hells Angels clubhouses forfeited as instruments of criminal activity.
Justice Barry Davies accepted that Pires and others had used the East End clubhouse for trafficking on three occasions, but said that alone “does not establish that the East End Clubhouse was used in the past as an instrument of unlawful activity.” (Greg: Uhh actually it does you incompetent liar. The Hon. Barry Davies
Supreme Court of British Columbia
Justice:
Law Courts, 800 Smithe St.
Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2E1
Phone: 604-660-2735
Fax: 604-660-1723 Justice Davies used to be head of the Kelowna Law Society I guess as a defense lawyer in K- Town he met a number of HA ppl and their druggie buddies and thugs. Perhaps scared and terrorized or bought and paid for or blackmailed or a senior citizen whose mind has died off. Our tax dollars at work. Resign you disgrace. Reminds me of HA Judge Peter Leask. 18 years ago he did a good job in Peter Gill obstruction of justice Gillian Guess trial https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gill-gets-five-years-for-bedding-juror/article4137261/ also this case where a drug smugglers luggage set off the alarms at YVR security and when open showed drugs. Judge Davies aquited the man. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/man-acquitted-after-judge-throws-out-evidence-he-had-a-suitcase-full-of-drugs-at-vancouver-airport the Gangsters Out blog guy hates this Judge Davies https://gangstersout.blogspot.com/2019/03/credibility-concerns-in-hells-angels.html Don't know what to make of this case https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/judge-acquits-surrey-man-accused-of-smuggling-heroin/ )
The B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office is appealing Davies ruling, which allowed the bikers to retain control of the East End and Kelowna clubhouses and returned the Nanaimo clubhouse to the local chapter. (Greg: Good the verdict was ridiculous.)
Pires, now 57, and his fellow Hells Angel Ronaldo Lising were convicted in 2001 of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and sentenced to 4½ years in jail.
They appealed and lost, first in the B.C. Court of Appeal and in November 2005 in the Supreme Court of Canada.
At their 2001 sentencing, Justice Kenneth Smith found the two men were joint operators of a wholesale cocaine business that supplied two well-known Vancouver strip bars. (Greg: No.5 Orange owned by HAMC associattes Tony Ricci and Chuck Choo and the Marble Arch where HA frequently hung out. Bikers and strip bars they go together. Maybe the Penthouse on Seymour is different since the Mafia runs it but I haven't been there in twenty years obviously. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/inside+hells+angels+part+earning+trust+angels/7880147/story.html delves into that mileau 20 years ago.)
He said the two bikers were “criminals in the true sense” because they walked down a criminal path “deliberately and for selfish reasons.”
kbo...@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kbolan
https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/01/18/2001bcsc1891.htm goes into the full court ruling that sent Ronaldo Lising and Mr.Pires to prison for cocaine trafficking.
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BC Global 21 ran the story tonight. They left out the Hell's Angel patch part just like they do when they do stories on the No.5 Orange or Brandi's/Swedish Touch.
Kim Bolan 2 days ago
Hells Angel and three others charged after illegal gambling investigation
A full-patch member of the Hells Angels and three other men have been charged with illegal gambling after an investigation by B.C.’s anti-gang agency.
a sign above a store: B.C.'s anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searches Burnaby's Big Shot café on July 4, 2020.© Provided by Vancouver Sun B.C.'s anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searches Burnaby's Big Shot café on July 4, 2020.
The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit searched Big Shots Café, at 3980 East Hastings St. in Burnaby, on July 4, area residents told Postmedia at the time. (Greg: Then why did you wait over 4 months to report it? Afraid HAMC was going to put a couple of your newspaper carriers in wheelchairs for life? The HAMC clubhouse the known seen of cocaine trafficking as proven in a court case and acknowledged by a Judge Barry Davies who did nothing is at 3598 East Georgia https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/3980+E+Hastings+St,+Burnaby,+BC+V5C+6C7/3598+E+Georgia+St,+Vancouver,+BC+V5K+5G1/@49.2796833,-123.023803,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x548670cf0ade088d:0x76cf8de598618901!2m2!1d-123.0173824!2d49.2809081!1m5!1m1!1s0x548670d0ec7fb3a5:0x3c27e47f19e51b58!2m2!1d-123.0258514!2d49.2781627 or six blocks east and 4 north of the clubhouse where Pires was convicted of selling cocaine is where the Big Shot Cafe is. )
This week, a charge of being “found in a common gaming or betting house” was laid against café owner Francisco Batista Pires, as well as New Westminster resident Jay Arnold Franco, 40, 58-year old Richard William Kosterman, of Delta, and Burnaby resident Andrew David MacFarlane, 36.
CFSEU Sgt. Brenda Winpenny said Thursday that the agency’s Joint Illegal Gaming Investigation Team began an investigation into a suspected illegal gaming house at the business in October 2019.
When the search warrant was executed in July police found “several individuals participating in activity that appeared to be that of an illegal gaming house,” Winpenny said. “Seized from the business were items such as; poker tables, slot machines, cash, poker chips and playing cards.”
Winpenny said that “Illegal gaming, and the locations that allow them, have been the root of other criminal offences that impact the safety of the public.”(Greg: Activites associatted with illegal gambling include loan sharking and often prostitution. Ont. Hell's Angels have been involved in some big time illegal gambling activities. HAMC used to run CW Agencies in Vancouver which was an illegal lottery ticket reseller when it went bankrupt suddenly. The employees weren't paid nor given their EI paperwork. LOL you skivers are lucky the 1%ers didn't pimp you out. You can search WWW or Google Groups van.general for more info.)
Pires is a longtime Hells Angel, currently with the Nomads chapter. He was not at the café Wednesday when a Postmedia reporter called for comment.
The provincial court database confirmed that Pires appeared in Vancouver provincial court Wednesday on the charge. The other three accused are scheduled to appear on Friday.
Postmedia obtained a photo of police inside the café late on July 4.
The date of the alleged offence is June 18, 2020. Sources say the charge relates to illegal gambling that, allegedly, was going on in the back of the business.
Corporate records indicate that Pires incorporated Big Shots on June 10, 2004 with another man. The second director was replaced by Pires’s fellow Hells Angel Rob Alvarez on Jan. 1, 2005, the records state. Alvarez ceased being a director on Jun 8, 2008, though the City of Burnaby 2020 business licence lists both Pires and Alvarez as café operators.
An earlier drug trafficking conviction of Pires was cited in a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling against the director of civil forfeiture’s attempt to get three Hells Angels clubhouses forfeited as instruments of criminal activity.
Justice Barry Davies accepted that Pires and others had used the East End clubhouse for trafficking on three occasions, but said that alone “does not establish that the East End Clubhouse was used in the past as an instrument of unlawful activity.” (Greg: Uhh actually it does you incompetent liar. The Hon. Barry Davies
Supreme Court of British Columbia
Justice:
Law Courts, 800 Smithe St.
Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2E1
Phone: 604-660-2735
Fax: 604-660-1723 Justice Davies used to be head of the Kelowna Law Society I guess as a defense lawyer in K- Town he met a number of HA ppl and their druggie buddies and thugs. Perhaps scared and terrorized or bought and paid for or blackmailed or a senior citizen whose mind has died off. Our tax dollars at work. Resign you disgrace. Reminds me of HA Judge Peter Leask. 18 years ago he did a good job in Peter Gill obstruction of justice Gillian Guess trial https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gill-gets-five-years-for-bedding-juror/article4137261/ also this case where a drug smugglers luggage set off the alarms at YVR security and when open showed drugs. Judge Davies aquited the man. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/man-acquitted-after-judge-throws-out-evidence-he-had-a-suitcase-full-of-drugs-at-vancouver-airport the Gangsters Out blog guy hates this Judge Davies https://gangstersout.blogspot.com/2019/03/credibility-concerns-in-hells-angels.html Don't know what to make of this case https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/judge-acquits-surrey-man-accused-of-smuggling-heroin/ )
The B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office is appealing Davies ruling, which allowed the bikers to retain control of the East End and Kelowna clubhouses and returned the Nanaimo clubhouse to the local chapter. (Greg: Good the verdict was ridiculous.)
Pires, now 57, and his fellow Hells Angel Ronaldo Lising were convicted in 2001 of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and sentenced to 4½ years in jail.
They appealed and lost, first in the B.C. Court of Appeal and in November 2005 in the Supreme Court of Canada.
At their 2001 sentencing, Justice Kenneth Smith found the two men were joint operators of a wholesale cocaine business that supplied two well-known Vancouver strip bars. (Greg: No.5 Orange owned by HAMC associattes Tony Ricci and Chuck Choo and the Marble Arch where HA frequently hung out. Bikers and strip bars they go together. Maybe the Penthouse on Seymour is different since the Mafia runs it but I haven't been there in twenty years obviously. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/inside+hells+angels+part+earning+trust+angels/7880147/story.html delves into that mileau 20 years ago.)
He said the two bikers were “criminals in the true sense” because they walked down a criminal path “deliberately and for selfish reasons.”
kbo...@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kbolan
https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/01/18/2001bcsc1891.htm goes into the full court ruling that sent Ronaldo Lising and Mr.Pires to prison for cocaine trafficking.
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BC Global 21 ran the story tonight. They left out the Hell's Angel patch part just like they do when they do stories on the No.5 Orange or Brandi's/Swedish Touch.
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