Hell's Angels Plead Guilty To Dealing Cocaine
Greg Carr
Broadcast News
Monday, November 07, 2005
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=094e060c-00c0-49ab-ade1-0f9669df3488
Drug charges bring four-year sentences
Broadcast News
Monday, November 07, 2005
VANCOUVER -- Two members of the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels
have been handed four-year sentences on drug charges.
Norman Edward Krogstad and Cedric Baxter Smith had pleaded guilty to
11 counts each of trafficking in cocaine.
RCMP Corporal Glenn Atkins said outside B.C. Supreme Court that the
guilty pleas that avoided a trial also mean there won't be any
information about the Hells Angels coming out in court.
The 18-month investigation by the Mounties that led to the charges
included an agent who had infiltrated the Prince George Renegades
club.
Earlier this month, a member of the Mission chapter of the Hell's
Angels was also sentenced on drug charges after pleading guilty.
David Patrick O'Hara got 34 months in jail on the drug counts and for
weapons possession.
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The judge in the case, Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm has
recommended the guilty men get sent to the minimum security Ferndale
Institution in Mission. This is the best federal facility in BC. It is
rare for the judge to tell the feds where to send their charges. Was
he paid off? Is he scared? Will his children be raped if he doesn't
say something the guilty men want to hear? Or maybe he doesn't care
that other judges have ruled the Hell's Angels a criminal
organization.
A good story on B1 of yesterday's Vancouver Sun.