Re: Battle Over Nanaimo HAMC clubhouse Drags On

[Rum Runner]

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Greg Carr <gregca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The near decade-old battle between Hells Angels and B.C.’s government
> for possession of an alleged criminal clubhouse in Nanaimo has inched
> closer to trial.
>
> In 2007, B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture moved to seize the Hells
> Angels Nanaimo clubhouse because it was allegedly used for drug
> dealing and violent crimes. The case has bounced between various
> courts as the lawyers for the Hells Angels have sought to make the
> government specify alleged crimes and evidence. The case will focus on
> the government’s ability to prove specific crimes are directly related
> to the actual property.
>
> In 2011, the RCMP was ordered to show defence lawyers evidence
> documents. In a B.C. Supreme Court ruling issued Thursday, B.C.’s
> director of civil forfeiture has been ordered to slightly amend
> criminal claims that the Hells Angels argued were “vague and
> sweeping.”
>
> The court ruled that the word “including” must be deleted in relation
> to a number of allegations, or else the expected 16-week trial could
> ramble into issues not connected to the Nanaimo clubhouse.
>
> The government alleges that the clubhouse was connected to assaults
> and extortion, and used in schemes for cocaine and marijuana
> trafficking, and for building and marketing a marijuana harvesting
> machine called the “Big Red Shredder.”
>
> Prostitution was also arranged at the clubhouse in connection to a
> business called the “Blue Moon Massage Parlour” the government
> alleges.
>
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.theprovince.com/news/Battle+over+Hells+Angels+Nanaimo+clubhouse+step+closer+trial/8496127/story.html#ixzz2WD9LvWOj

Karen Gordon worked at the ho' house.

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