Outcasts MC (Hell's Angel Puppet Club) Has Clubhouse In Whalley
Greg Carr
there is a lot of it going on but many ppl say this growth has long
since outpaced hospital, library and police services and other
amnenities and that the developers need to be reigned in. In many ways
parts of the area are like the Downtown Eastside which is the poorest
neighbourhood in Canada. Needles on the ground, crack and jib dealers
as well as prostitutes and beggars. Burnt out buildings and lots of
grafitti. I can see the neighbourhood turning into a Downtown Eastside
during the next economic downturn. In many ways it is now.
At present the median income in the area is around $20,000 a year which
is the same as the national median income yet it has many of the same
social problems of the skid row of Vancouver including tuberculosis
even though the Downtown Eastside has a median income of around $7,000
a year.
Gus's Shop
13525 KING GEORGE HWY. SURREY BC V3T 2T1 604-585-1011 has been a
problem business in the area for years. There are apartments above the
business and crack huffers congregate at the rear of the building. I
have never seen anyone inside the front of the business over the course
of three years but once saw around 15 clearly excited young ppl in the
back of the business while a smiling older white couple physically
prevented them from entering the front of it. Have seen three white men
working in the garage there. There are no bars on the windows to
protect the Harleys inside (which look good) or the t-shirts and other
merchandise which is odd in that neighbourhood. Probably because of the
live in meth goon squad. Cinemazoo on the same street has tried to
clean up the neighbourhood and recieved coverage from the Surrey Now
and the the Surrey Leader but those newspapers almost always refuse to
print anything about HA in Whalley and don't even report the arsons
which occur in the area. They never break any stories on the 81 crew
which is journalistic cowardice.
The Outcasts logo is lame it looks like a reject from the defunct XFL
but I like the bottom rocker. http://www.outcastsmcmainland.com/ there
are also Outcasts MCs in Maryland and Britain.
The Hells Angels and their t-shirt and baseball cap wearing thugs do no
good for the community. They manufacture and sell meth, pimp out
prostitutes, sell cocaine and crack and engage in extortion, arson and
homicide. Liberal MP David McQuinty who sits on the House of Commons
Justice Committee is trying to get HA designated a terrorist group
which is great if it happens. If you agree send him a letter or email.
Hopefully all these new Whalley criminals will end up dead like the
unavenged ex-President of the Renegades MC, Michael Mickle, who was
forced to watch his dream home burn with his hands tied to the wheel of
his truck then shot dead. That homicide is in the 1% biker hall of
fame. Thanks for the present LORD but you know I don't celebrate my
birthdays!!
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=5a89ce62-1cb9-40a6-88c5-34acb71cfec6&k=73400
has pic of clubhouse.
Police fear club linked to Hells Angels
The Outcasts Motorcycle Club insists it has no affiliation with the
more infamous biker gang
Kim Bolan
Vancouver Sun
Saturday, May 27, 2006
The Outcasts have opened a storefront operation just east of the King
George Highway in a drug-plagued area slated for development.
Members of the Lower Mainland's newest biker club came to the door of
their Surrey clubhouse this week adorned in clothes indicating their
support for the oldest club around: The Hells Angels.
But the Outcasts Motorcycle Club insists it has no affiliation with the
more infamous biker gang, whose members have been arrested and
convicted across B.C. over the last year.
"We are not connected to them at all. It is all a bunch of lies," an
Outcast member told The Vancouver Sun as he peered through the white
metal gate protecting the entrance of the nondescript clubhouse on
Bentley Avenue just off busy King George Highway.
He refused to provide his name or explain why he was wearing a red and
white T-shirt from the Toronto chapter of the Hells Angels, with the
slogan "Support the Big Red Machine," in solidarity with the notorious
gang the police call a criminal organization.
A second Outcast member arrived in a grey Corvette minutes later,
claiming he was "just the cleaner."
"I don't know anything. I am just friends of a friend," said the
tattooed man, who was wearing a small leather cap emblazoned with the
crest of the Hells Angels East End Chapter.
Police specialists in outlaw motorcycle gangs are worried about the
close relationship that appears to be developing between the fledgling
Outcasts and the established Hells Angels, fearing it could expand the
influence of the Angels and their criminal activity.
Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello claimed again Friday that his club has
nothing to do with the Outcasts, although the new club approached some
of his members to let them know it was starting last year.
Ciarniello also said he didn't even know the Outcasts had a new centre
in Surrey, despite the fact the club has a big sign and is located next
door to Gus's Shop, a busy motorcycle business owned by Gus Berkelaar,
a member of the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
The Sun has learned that the Outcasts Surrey clubhouse was rented by
Coquitlam resident Paul Henderson about eight months ago. He confirmed
in a phone call late Thursday that he was the man wearing the East End
Hells Angels hat when The Sun visited the building earlier in the day.
But Henderson refused to say anything about the Outcasts or police
concerns about its apparent relationship with the Hells Angels.
"We have no response," he said during a brief phone interview. "That's
neither here nor there. I am sorry, I have no comment." He then hung up
and has not returned phone messages.
But the Outcasts have been increasingly on police radar in recent
months, opening their storefront operation in a drug-plagued area of
Whalley slated for redevelopment. There is a new Outcasts patch and a
website linked to the site of the Hells Angels in Toronto. The link
also allows anyone who visits the Outcasts' site to buy Hells Angels
support wear, profits from which are used to fund the Angels' court
battles.
That support wear -- like the clothes worn by Outcasts this week --
features pro-Hells Angels slogans like "Red and White supporter" and
"Support the Big Red Machine."
RCMP Chief Supt. Bob Paulson first told The Sun about the formation of
new clubs close to the Hells Angels two weeks ago, saying both the
Outcasts and the Jesters had approached the Angels to set up in the
Lower Mainland in recent months.
The Outcasts are already operational, Paulson said, while the Jesters
had just recently approached the Hells Angels White Rock Chapter to
discuss forming.
Paulson, a biker expert based in Ottawa, said the Hells Angels has
traditionally used "puppet clubs" in other provinces to distance itself
from street-level criminal activities, making the development with the
Outcasts and the Jesters troubling to police.
In fact, a major B.C. criminal investigation that ended with 10 biker
arrests in early 2005, showed the close criminal relationship between
senior members of the Vancouver Hells Angels and the Renegades puppet
club in Prince George. All those arrested ended up pleading guilty to a
range of charges, including cocaine trafficking and weapons offences.
The Outcasts first surfaced more than a year ago, showing up at Hells
Angels events such as the East End Chapters' swap meet, which takes
place every March on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition.
Sgt. Larry Butler, of the Vancouver police department's outlaw
motorcycle gang unit, said the Outcasts attended the most recent swap
meet at the Agrodome wearing their yellow and black patch of a western
outlaw with a bandana over his face.
"All the Hells Angels just show up in their colours. They just walk
in," Butler said. "The Outcasts had to line up and buy their tickets."
Butler said he saw three Outcasts just two weeks ago, along with three
patchless bikers, riding in Langley, which is where the Hells Angels
White Rock Chapter has its clubhouse.
The building housing the Outcasts' Surrey club is owned by Bishmillah
Rana, who told The Sun he has had no problem with his tenants since
they moved in several months ago.
"They just get together. They just use it as a club," Rana said, adding
that he is not troubled by the link to the Hells Angels. "Police didn't
ask me anything ... if someone wears a jacket it doesn't mean they are
Hells Angels."
Rana said he checks on the property every couple of weeks. He said he
has seen up to seven club members at one time and that they just sit
around the place. He said there is a couch, a couple of chairs, a
television and a fridge.
"They are paying the rent on time. I can take you inside, I can take
the police inside," he said. "Being a property owner, if I see anything
wrong I am the first to stand up and say vacate the property."
The close proximity between the Outcasts' new site and Berkelaar's
Whalley business is no coincidence, said RCMP Insp. Andy Richards, of
the combined forces special enforcement unit.
"Any reasonable person could draw some fairly logical conclusions from
the support wear they are wearing and the proximity to Gus's. Then you
go to the website and you get all these links to the red and white and
Hells Angels from across Canada," Richards said.
Gus's Shop, at 13525 King George Highway, proudly displays in its front
window a fancy chopper specially designed -- according to the sign --
for the Vancouver Chapter of the Hells Angels.
Full patch member Berkelaar, 58, was not there this week when a Sun
reporter and photographer arrived. The two young men working there said
they could not comment on the Outcasts, although they said it had no
affiliation with the Hells Angels.
"They are not affiliated with us. They don't even bring their bikes in
here," said the younger of the two, who was wearing an Angels support
hoodie, with "Big Red Machine" printed on it. "I work in a Hells Angels
bike shop. What am I going to say?"
The young man, who declined to give his name, told The Sun to call
Ciarniello for official comment, before adding: "Why don't you do a
story about all the good things the Hells Angels does for the
community?"
The hoodie-clad worker then slipped out the back of Gus's to run down
the alley and around the corner to let the Outcasts know The Sun was
close-by, arriving at the same time as the reporter and photographer.
"There's the guy to talk to," he said, smiling, and pointing to
Henderson.
Richards said clearly the Outcasts are aligning themselves or currying
favour with the Hells Angels.
"That is never a good thing from a policing perspective because
historically support clubs and puppet clubs are the ones that conduct
criminal activities with and for Hells Angels members," Richards said.
Ciarniello bristled Friday when told the young man at Gus's described
the business as "a Hells Angels" bike shop and referred calls to him as
the Angels spokesman. "It is not a Hells Angels bike shop. It is a bike
shop owned by a Hells Angel. I see a huge difference there," Ciarniello
said. "This really p... me off that people are speaking on behalf of
us. He should be keeping his mouth shut 100 per cent."
And he claimed Berkelaar didn't know about the Outcasts' clubhouse,
despite the close proximity and even though Gus's employees admitted
that they did.
"If Gus knew about that place, I think he would have told me about it,"
Ciarniello said. "This is so much nonsense ... I do recognize that
patch now that I see it, but it still has got nothing to do with the
Hells Angels."
Anybody can put on their support wear, Ciarniello said. Anybody can
show up at Hells Angels events. Anybody can want a piece of the action.
"Anybody can make a connection to us. Doesn't that connection have to
be made from us before they are somebody associated with us," he said.
"They are never going to be Hells Angels."
But then Ciarniello doesn't really admit an association with the
Renegades, even though police said their investigation uncovered a
clear criminal link between the Angels and the Prince George puppet
club.
"They are another motorcycle club and we do socialize with them,"
Ciarniello said of the Renegades. "There is a social arrangement there.
Those are friends of ours. I would call it a different motorcycle club.
The Outcasts are a different motorcycle club too."
The association between the Hells Angels and the other clubs is a fact,
said the RCMP's Richards, a long-time biker specialist.
"What we have seen historically in the past both here in B.C. and
elsewhere in Canada, the puppet and support clubs are where the Hells
Angels recruit from typically. It's a farm team and they're typically
controlled by a particular chapter who sort of has conduct of the group
and activities and they have to prove themselves over the course of
time," he said.
Puppet clubs have come and gone before in B.C. The Renegades in Prince
George still exist and are regrouping, police say, after high-profile
arrests and convictions of key members last year and early this year.
The Renegades evolved out of a club called the Prince George Men's
Club, the VPD's Butler said.
There were also the Regulators that existed a few years ago in south
Burnaby but are no longer around.
"A good percentage of Regulators have become Hells Angels," Butler
said.
Then there were the Vipers, operating out of Kamloops. It was first
called the Hub City Men's Club.
"They have ceased to exist as well but were a puppet club of the
Angels," Butler said. "They were subservient to Hells Angels, attending
Hells Angels functions."
Usually the puppet clubs do tasks for the Angels, Butler explained,
such as guarding their bikes, getting them coffee and riding in
formation when necessary.
"There were noticeable duties that they were doing for the Hells
Angels," Butler said. "But prior to being a puppet club, they went
through another phase initially."
So far, Butler has not seen the Outcasts doing the menial tasks
normally associated with being a full-fledged puppet club, although
there is association.
The expansion is disturbing to police. In other provinces, the Hells
Angels have used an expansive system of puppet clubs.
"I think the Hells Angels in B.C. are probably a little more careful,"
Butler said. "The formation of any new motorcycle gang in this area is
of concern."
New clubs are either going to be rivals of the Angels, meaning possible
violence, or affiliated, meaning an expansion of the criminal empire.
"Neither is good," Butler said.
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