Ex-Cop Who Became Bandidos MC Charged With Two Others In Ontario Mass Killings
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By Steve Lambert
WINNIPEG (CP) - Three Winnipeg men with links to the notorious Bandidos
biker gang - including a former police officer - have been charged with
first-degree murder in the deaths of eight members and associates of
the gang in Ontario.
The charges were announced Friday at a joint news conference with the
Ontario Provincial Police and the Winnipeg Police Service.
Dwight Mushey, 36, Marcello Aravena, 30, and Michael Sandham, 36, all
longtime Winnipeg residents, each face eight murder charges.
Police described Mushey and Sandham as full-patch members of the
Texas-based Bandidos gang and Aravena as a "prospect," meaning he is
not yet a full-fledged member.
Sandham is also a former constable with Manitoba's East St. Paul Police
Service, a fact Winnipeg police Deputy Chief Menno Zacharias conceded
is a concern.
"As a police officer, naturally, he would have been exposed to training
materials relative to motorcycle gangs and organized crime," Zacharias
said. "And as a working officer, he would have access to a variety of
related information."
"It's a concern, but I don't know what actual part that may have played
in any of this."
The bodies of eight Bandidos members and associates were discovered
April 8 in a rural area in Shedden, Ont. Two days later, Wayne
Kellestine, a full-fledged member of the gang, and four others were
charged with first-degree murder. Another two people were charged with
accessory after the fact.
"As far as the Bandidos go, obviously the internal cleansing that's
occurred, for whatever reason they have deemed, has caused a great deal
of problems for them in Ontario area," said Det. Supt. Ross Bingley of
the OPP.
"And now with the indictment of Manitoba members, obviously it's going
to have impact on Manitoba Bandidos."
The accused were scheduled to appear in court in St. Thomas, Ont.,
Friday evening.
Police were thankful, and perhaps lucky, that word of the searches and
arrests did not leak out beforehand.
In April, a man walking by Winnipeg's main police station noticed
documents blowing in the wind.
He looked at the papers, which contained details of the investigation,
and brought them to a TV station.
Zacharias thanked the TV station for not reporting the details of what
they had seen, and said steps are being taken to ensure sensitive
information will never again be blowing in the wind.
"We are fairly confident that we now understand what happened there,
and we will be dealing with that internally," he said.
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The Winnipeg Police Service seems to have numerous problems. Losing
paperwork, refusing to wear name tags because of intimidation by
criminals, having the Hell's Angels mega-trial thrown out of court,
framing Tom Sophonow. Hopefully they have a good case this time. The
homicide of Bandido MC member Joseph Robert Campbell, aka Joey Morin a
Surrey resident who was killed in Edmonton has yet to be solved.
Chili Finger
assholes. Didn't the Chief resign last year? Bet it's full of bad seeds.
CF
Mr Frederick
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> Friend of mine who lives in East St. Paul says the cops there are all
> assholes. Didn't the Chief resign last year? Bet it's full of bad seeds.
>
> CF
>
but, surprisingly, they were all speeding in East St Paul, an area known for
the giving out of speeding tickets.
t
the dark of night down the highway!
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