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Truck Linked To Drug-Smuggling Conspiracy Should Be Forfeited: B.C. Gov't. Lawrence Edward Dwyer And Jason Cyrus Arkinstall Were Allegedly Spotted In Idaho With Close To Five Duffel Bags Of Cocaine And Meth Worth More Than US$ 2 Million.
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Truck linked to drug-smuggling conspiracy should be forfeited: B.C. gov't
Lawrence Edward Dwyer and Jason Cyrus Arkinstall were allegedly spotted in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and meth worth more than US$2 million.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
Publishing date:Aug 25, 2021 • 1 day ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Idaho seized cocaine and meth that was abandoned by smugglers as they fled to Canada, near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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The B.C. government wants to keep a truck belonging to a man arrested with a B.C. Hells Angel last fall, alleging the vehicle was used in a drug-smuggling operation.
The truck’s owner, Lawrence Edward Dwyer, and Hells Angel Jason Cyrus Arkinstall were arrested near Creston on Oct. 23, 2020, and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and importing a controlled substance.
Both men are due back in provincial court next week.
The two were allegedly spotted south of the border in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and methamphetamine worth more than US$2 million.
U.S. Border Patrol agents had been tipped to suspicious activity on a remote forest service road near the Canadian border and “located two individuals who were concealing themselves,” agency press officer Jason Givens said at the time.
As the agents approached them, the men ran back across the border into Canada, Givens said. The drugs were found near where the suspects had been hiding.
A lawsuit filed this month by the B.C. director of civil forfeiture said Dwyer’s 2016 GMC Sierra had been parked north of the border near Kidd Creek on Oct. 23, 2020. And the director said in his statement of claim that “Dwyer used or intended to use the vehicle for the purpose of possessing, importing, possessing for the purpose of trafficking and/or trafficking in controlled substances or otherwise facilitating the possessing, importing, possessing for the purpose of trafficking and/or trafficking in controlled substances.”
The suit said the truck had a two-way radio inside, as well as $1,880 in Canadian cash, two prepaid credit cards worth $350, a rifle magazine, ammunition, a pair of binoculars and Dwyer’s driver’s licence, among other things.
The court documents said that after Dwyer and “another individual” crossed the border into Canada in a remote location near Creston they “did not immediately present themselves at a customs controlled area upon crossing the border” in violation of the Customs Act.
Duffel bags were found to contain 84 pounds of cocaine, valued at about US$1.2 million and 198 pounds of meth, valued at about US$960,000.
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The suit alleged that Dwyer “fled northbound towards East Kidd Creek on foot when approached by United States Border Patrol officers.”
Seized by the officers were “89.9 kilograms of methamphetamine, bundled or packaged in a manner consistent with drug trafficking, and 118.5 kilograms of cocaine, bundled or packaged in a manner consistent with drug trafficking,” the claim said.
Two days later, the RCMP received a report that the vehicle had been abandoned on East Kidd Creek, near Kitchener, B.C., and seized the truck. The director said the truck should be forfeited because it had been used “to engage in unlawful activities” including possession for the purpose of trafficking, drug smuggling, conspiracy and wilfully obstructing a police officer.
“Some or all the funds used to acquire and/or maintain the vehicle were proceeds of the unlawful activity,” the director also claimed.
No statement of defence has yet been filed.
Dwyer, a 48-year-old Cranbrook resident, has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
Arkinstall, of the Hells Angels’ Mission chapter, was arrested in Spain in 2013 and charged with attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine into the country aboard a boat that sailed from Colombia. He was later convicted and returned to Canada.
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High-profile Hells Angel arrested and charged with drug smuggling
Jason Cyrus Arkinstall, of the Mission chapter of the Hells Angels was arrested with another man near Creston Friday and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
Publishing date:Oct 27, 2020 • October 27, 2020 • 3 minute read • 6 Comments
A high-profile Hells Angel was arrested with another man near Creston Friday and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
Jason Cyrus Arkinstall, of the Mission chapter of the notorious biker gang, will appear in a Cranbrook courtroom Tuesday, along with his co-accused — Lawrence Edward Dwyer.
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The two men allegedly ran back into Canada after being spotted south of the border in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and methamphetamine worth more than US$2 million.
The U.S. Border Patrol had been alerted to suspicious activity on a remote forest service road near the Canadian border.
“An agent responded to the area and located two individuals who were concealing themselves,” border patrol agency press officer Jason Givens said in a news release.
“As the agent approached the individuals, they fled into Canada. The agent located the duffel bags near the location where the individuals were hiding.”
The duffel bags were found to contain 38 kilograms of cocaine and 90 kilograms of methamphetamine.
The border agents gave Idaho State Police a description of a dark-coloured Range Rover “observed leaving the area of the smuggling event.”
“Idaho State Police quickly located the suspect vehicle along Highway 95. The driver was taken into custody in connection with the narcotics smuggling and the vehicle was seized by Border Patrol,” Givens said.
Sgt. Kris Clark, of the RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime branch, confirmed Monday that police on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border “have initiated respective investigations into a significant seizure of drugs.”
He said that RCMP Border Integrity Team investigators based in Osoyoos arrested Arkinstall and Dwyer with the assistance of the police dog services and RCMP officers from both the Creston and Cranbrook detachments.
“This investigation is in its infancy and no further details are available at this time,” he said.
Arkinstall and Dwyer, both 47, have each been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and two of importing/exporting a controlled substance.
Acting Chief U.S. Border Patrol Agent David BeMiller said that “cocaine and methamphetamine are ravaging our communities.”
“Border Patrol agents are committed to preventing dangerous drugs and associated crime from destroying families and communities on both sides of the border,” he said.
Arkinstall is well-known to police on this side of the border.
In 2013, the former Cranbrook resident was charged in Spain with Hells Angel Chad Wilson and two associates for attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine into the country aboard a boat that sailed from Colombia. They were later convicted and returned to Canada.
Wilson was shot to death under the Golden Ears Bridge two years ago.
Arkinstall was acquitted in Calgary in 2011 of uttering threats against police. The judge in the case said Arkinstall was “physically abused” by officers during his arrest and that an anonymously recorded video contradicted the testimony of the cops.
Two officers were later charged. One was acquitted and the charges against the second were stayed.
But the case led to an inquiry over how the Calgary Police Service handled Arkinstall’s complaint of excessive force. That inquiry concluded in 2018 that while there was “no evidence of deliberate attempts” to derail the disciplinary process for the officers, the “CPS failed to diligently and conscientiously handle the Arkinstall matter.”
In B.C., Arkinstall also successfully challenged a law that allowed city electrical inspectors to search houses for illicit cannabis grow operations without warrants.
Surrey city inspectors and police first attempted to enter his house back in 2005, but Arkinstall refused to let them in. They tried again in 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the high power consumption could mean pot was growing inside and put the neighbourhood at risk.
B.C. Hydro later cut off the family’s electricity, leading to a three-year court battle.
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Hells Angels involved in recent drug smuggling attempt
Mugshot of Jason Cyrus Arkinstall
By VICTOR CORRAL MARTINEZ
Staff Writer | October 29, 2020 3:05 PM
Hells Angel member Jason Cyrus Arkinstall was busted with Lawrence Edward Dwyer near Creston by Royal Mounted Canadian Police and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
In 2013 Arkinstall was charged in Spain with fellow Hells Angel member Chad Wilson for smuggling half a ton of cocaine into the country. They were convicted and returned to Canada. Wilson was shot to death in 2018.
Arkinstall has been arrested but released due to mistreatment by law enforcement in a ruling by a Canadian judge. He was also involved in a multi-yearlong court battle over heavy electricity usage that law enforcement suspected was part of an illegal marijuana grow operation.
Click [HERE] for Video of Arkinstall busted in Spain.
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Calgary
Cop accused of assaulting Hells Angels member says he felt use of force necessary
Calgary police Const. Brant Derrick is charged with assault causing bodily harm
CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2017 7:44 PM MT | Last Updated: November 8, 2017
A screenshot of a video showing the arrest of Jason Arkinstall. (Supplied)
A Calgary police officer on trial for assaulting a member of the Hells Angels who'd become abusive and threatening during an arrest testified in his own defence on Wednesday.
Const. Brant Derrick told provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes he believed, based on his training, he was entitled to use the force necessary to get Jason Arkinstall into a police vehicle when he began aggressively resisting the officer.
Calgary officer on trial for assault while arresting Hells Angel who was threatening to kill him
Derrick and Sgt. Les Kaminski — president of the Calgary police union — were arresting Arkinstall following a traffic stop in 2008 because they believed he was breaching his release conditions. The officers didn't know at the time that the charge against Arkinstall had been withdrawn by B.C. authorities.
As soon as the officers tried to arrest Arkinstall — who was wearing a Hells Angels T-shirt at the time — he began cursing at them. Derrick said he feared for his safety at the time.
Once out of the truck Arkinstall immediately began resisting being placed in handcuffs, said Derrick.
"He's swearing, 'f--k you, you're f--king dead, my lawyer's going to get you,'" Derrick explained in court.
'Physical control tactic'
Once Arkinstall was cuffed, he was escorted to the back of the police van. Derrick said he had a hand on the back Arkinstall's neck as they walked.
Once there, Arkinstall began pushing back against the officer, which Derrick said caused him to stumble backward a couple of steps.
At that point, Derrick said he felt Arkinstall was resisting arrest and believed, based on CPS policy, he was entitled to use the force necessary to gain control over the arrest.
Derrick said he used a single open-hand palm strike to the back of Arkinstall's head as a "physical control tactic."
He then pushed Arkinstall toward the back of the police van's prisoners' cage. At that point Arkinstall dove into the back of the van, according to Derrick.
"He actually stops his backward resistance and as I push, he propels himself sideways into that vehicle."
An excerpt from a video of a 2008 arrest that led to a man's acquittal in 2011 after a judge decided evidence presented by officer Les Kaminski was not credible. The judge said the video, taken by bystanders, contradicted Kaminski's testimony. 0:39
Derrick denied shoving the suspect into the van, as the video appeared to show.
"I don't think I could take a 210-pound man and throw him like that," Derrick
The video also shows Derrick slamming the cage door two or three times on Arkinstall's legs, which the officer explained was because the suspect was kicking at the gate.
Arkinstall was charged following the incident but was acquitted of uttering threats in 2011, in part because the judge did not find Derrick or Kaminski to be credible witnesses. Their accounts of the arrest contradicted the video, which was played by the Hells Angel's lawyer.
Calgary police conducted a review after Arkinstall's trial but determined an investigation was not required, which they've since called a "mistake."
Arkinstall convicted in Spain
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) became involved in 2014 but that investigation faced several delays; first investigators had trouble getting the video because Arkinstall's lawyer wouldn't tell them where he got it and then because Arkinstall was arrested overseas.
Arkinstall and Scott Smitna — who was driving during the 2008 traffic stop — were convicted of smuggling 300 kilograms of cocaine in Spain in May 2015, which also complicated the matter.
Instead of serving their four-year, seven-month sentence the pair paid an $8-million fine and were kicked out of the country. They immediately returned to Canada.
Charges against Derrick and Kaminski were laid in January.
Kaminski's assault charge was withdrawn and he faces a trial for perjury stemming from the same incident.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-officer-assault-trial-derrick-testifies-1.4394260 has a 39 second video of the Hell's Angel full patch being arrested don't blame him for being pissed since the conditions of his undertaking had expired. Instead of serving their four-year, seven-month sentence the pair paid an $8-million fine and were kicked out of the country. They immediately returned to Canada. They could pay a 8 million dollar fine but can't help the crippled niece of the Haney chapter Pres. who begs for money online. Hadden’s niece Leah Hadden-Watts was in a vehicle on Aug. 14, 2011, when a masked gunman fired into it leaving her a quadriplegic and killing Red Scorpion gang member Jonathan Bacon, and injuring Hells Angel Larry Amero, and Independent Soldier James Riach. Another woman, Lyndsey Black, was also injured in the shooting.(Greg: Always a good news day when a Bacon Bros. gets offed and a H.A.M.C. scuz female is left a quad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5re1gVbNveg shows the shootings. https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/224989/Gang-slaying-on-video
https://voiceonline.com/jonathan-bacons-killer-mcbride-sentenced-to-life-jones-and-khun-khun-get-18-years-each/ another of the killers was murdered in 2013 in Surrey he was an informant. https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/maple-ridge-woman-paralyzed-in-shoot-out-sues-gangsters/ Has a picture of the lying, skank be amusing if her eyes were cut out and she was set on fire. Go for a walk or dance a jig in her honour today. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-paralyzed-in-gangland-style-shooting-files-lawsuit-1.1416792/comments-7.426445 https://www.flickr.com/photos/106607178@N03/albums/72157636941237284/ hope a molotov gets thrown into the losers living quarters. https://twitter.com/guiltless_glam Tina Hadden-Watts is also part of this crime family .https://www.facebook.com/groups/400493760008294/ the wheelchair bound lowlife begs for charity H.A.M.C. doesn't care if you get shot cocaine and biker and SUVs are more important than family guess her lawsuit was laughed out of court which is good. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/tragic-details-of-woman-shot-during-killing-of-jonathan-bacon-revealed-in-court-document Ms. (Leah) Hadden-Watts was shot once in the back of the neck and sustained horrific injuries,” the ruling says. “As a result of her injuries, Ms. Hadden-Watts has no voluntary motor or sensory function below the C5 in her spinal cord. As such, she has no functional capacity in her legs and only limited capacity in her upper extremities.
“Since the shooting, she has developed severe osteoporosis and experienced a spontaneous fracture of her lumbar spine. Due to the severity of her osteoporosis, it is likely that spontaneous fractures will reoccur. Her life expectancy has been reduced to approximately 70 per cent of that of a person without a spinal cord injury.” Nothing tragic about it. Hey you slut ask your rich HA relatives for financial help LOL LOL LOL. Why doesn't your sister Tara help you out ? https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/b-c-gangsters-could-face-life-in-prison-after-manila-drug-bust
Former Cranbrook men among Hell’s Angels arrested in Spanish bust
Two former Cranbrook residents are among the four Hells Angels accused of attempting to distribute 500 kilograms of cocaine in Spain.
Sep. 17, 2013 4:00 p.m.NEWS
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Jason Arkinstall
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Two former Cranbrook residents are among the four Canadian Hells Angels accused of attempting to distribute 500 kilograms of cocaine in Spain.
Two full-patch members — Jason Cyrus Arkinstall (formerly of Cranbrook, now of Mission) and Chad John Wilson of Haney — were among the men arrested in a coffee bar by Spain’s National Police. The othermen facing charges in Spain are Scott Smitna (formerly of Cranbrook) and Michael Dryborough, associates of the Hells Angels in Mission and Haney.
Spain’s Interior Ministry revealed details of the investigation Saturday and released a video of the arrests of the four, but did not identify them by name or hometown. The video shows police running into the café, wrestling the men from their chairs to the ground and handcuffing them. Police did not say when the arrest happened.
The Spanish government said the four were involved in an attempt to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to the Galician coast of Spain on a sailboat. One of the B.C. bikers was on the vessel, while the others were waiting in Spain.
The Canadian bikers were arrested in Pontevedra, a port in the northwest of Spain.
Officials alleged the drug conspiracy was linked to a member of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels, of which Wilson is a former member.
Police had been aware of the conspiracy for several weeks and had been watching since July 30 as the operation unfolded. Officers searched two vans loaded with cocaine and then arrested the Canadians. Police also seized encrypted smartphones. Two other people were arrested at another location.
Spain’s National Police worked with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and French officials on the investigation. The Sun has learned the RCMP was contacted after the arrests to provide information on the four men.
Arkinstall has been a high-profile Hells Angel. He was most recently in court in Calgary, where he was acquitted in 2011 of uttering threats against police. The judge in the case said Arkinstall was “physically abused” by officers during his arrest and that an anonymously recorded video contradicted the testimony of the cops.
In B.C., Arkinstall also successfully challenged a law that allowed city electrical inspectors to search houses for marijuana grow operations without warrants.
Surrey city inspectors and police first attempted to enter his house back in 2005, but Arkinstall refused to let them in. They tried again 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the high power consumption could mean pot was growing inside and the neighbourhood at risk.
Arkinstall agreed to allow inspectors in, but not Surrey RCMP. The inspectors would not go in unescorted. BC Hydro later cut off the family’s electricity, leading to a three-year court battle.
Arkinstall, 40, has an extensive criminal record and has been convicted of offences ranging from assault causing bodily harm to trafficking in cocaine, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in jail on July 28, 2005.
Wilson, the other full-patch Angel arrested in Spain, pleaded guilty in South Dakota in 2009 of being an alien in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
Wilson was earlier acquitted, along with fellow HA member John Midmore, of attempted murder for an Aug. 8, 2006 gunfight with members of the rival Outlaws biker gang. Wilson and Midmore claimed they acted in self-defence when they wounded five people linked to the Outlaws.
At the time, Wilson was a member of the San Diego chapter, but he returned to B.C. and joined the Haney group.
https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/news/former-cranbrook-men-among-hells-angels-arrested-in-spanish-bust/
Lawrence Edward Dwyer and Jason Cyrus Arkinstall were allegedly spotted in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and meth worth more than US$2 million.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
Publishing date:Aug 25, 2021 • 1 day ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Idaho seized cocaine and meth that was abandoned by smugglers as they fled to Canada, near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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The B.C. government wants to keep a truck belonging to a man arrested with a B.C. Hells Angel last fall, alleging the vehicle was used in a drug-smuggling operation.
The truck’s owner, Lawrence Edward Dwyer, and Hells Angel Jason Cyrus Arkinstall were arrested near Creston on Oct. 23, 2020, and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and importing a controlled substance.
Both men are due back in provincial court next week.
The two were allegedly spotted south of the border in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and methamphetamine worth more than US$2 million.
U.S. Border Patrol agents had been tipped to suspicious activity on a remote forest service road near the Canadian border and “located two individuals who were concealing themselves,” agency press officer Jason Givens said at the time.
As the agents approached them, the men ran back across the border into Canada, Givens said. The drugs were found near where the suspects had been hiding.
A lawsuit filed this month by the B.C. director of civil forfeiture said Dwyer’s 2016 GMC Sierra had been parked north of the border near Kidd Creek on Oct. 23, 2020. And the director said in his statement of claim that “Dwyer used or intended to use the vehicle for the purpose of possessing, importing, possessing for the purpose of trafficking and/or trafficking in controlled substances or otherwise facilitating the possessing, importing, possessing for the purpose of trafficking and/or trafficking in controlled substances.”
The suit said the truck had a two-way radio inside, as well as $1,880 in Canadian cash, two prepaid credit cards worth $350, a rifle magazine, ammunition, a pair of binoculars and Dwyer’s driver’s licence, among other things.
The court documents said that after Dwyer and “another individual” crossed the border into Canada in a remote location near Creston they “did not immediately present themselves at a customs controlled area upon crossing the border” in violation of the Customs Act.
Duffel bags were found to contain 84 pounds of cocaine, valued at about US$1.2 million and 198 pounds of meth, valued at about US$960,000.
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The suit alleged that Dwyer “fled northbound towards East Kidd Creek on foot when approached by United States Border Patrol officers.”
Seized by the officers were “89.9 kilograms of methamphetamine, bundled or packaged in a manner consistent with drug trafficking, and 118.5 kilograms of cocaine, bundled or packaged in a manner consistent with drug trafficking,” the claim said.
Two days later, the RCMP received a report that the vehicle had been abandoned on East Kidd Creek, near Kitchener, B.C., and seized the truck. The director said the truck should be forfeited because it had been used “to engage in unlawful activities” including possession for the purpose of trafficking, drug smuggling, conspiracy and wilfully obstructing a police officer.
“Some or all the funds used to acquire and/or maintain the vehicle were proceeds of the unlawful activity,” the director also claimed.
No statement of defence has yet been filed.
Dwyer, a 48-year-old Cranbrook resident, has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
Arkinstall, of the Hells Angels’ Mission chapter, was arrested in Spain in 2013 and charged with attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine into the country aboard a boat that sailed from Colombia. He was later convicted and returned to Canada.
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High-profile Hells Angel arrested and charged with drug smuggling
Jason Cyrus Arkinstall, of the Mission chapter of the Hells Angels was arrested with another man near Creston Friday and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
Publishing date:Oct 27, 2020 • October 27, 2020 • 3 minute read • 6 Comments
A high-profile Hells Angel was arrested with another man near Creston Friday and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
Jason Cyrus Arkinstall, of the Mission chapter of the notorious biker gang, will appear in a Cranbrook courtroom Tuesday, along with his co-accused — Lawrence Edward Dwyer.
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The two men allegedly ran back into Canada after being spotted south of the border in Idaho with close to five duffel bags of cocaine and methamphetamine worth more than US$2 million.
The U.S. Border Patrol had been alerted to suspicious activity on a remote forest service road near the Canadian border.
“An agent responded to the area and located two individuals who were concealing themselves,” border patrol agency press officer Jason Givens said in a news release.
“As the agent approached the individuals, they fled into Canada. The agent located the duffel bags near the location where the individuals were hiding.”
The duffel bags were found to contain 38 kilograms of cocaine and 90 kilograms of methamphetamine.
The border agents gave Idaho State Police a description of a dark-coloured Range Rover “observed leaving the area of the smuggling event.”
“Idaho State Police quickly located the suspect vehicle along Highway 95. The driver was taken into custody in connection with the narcotics smuggling and the vehicle was seized by Border Patrol,” Givens said.
Sgt. Kris Clark, of the RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime branch, confirmed Monday that police on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border “have initiated respective investigations into a significant seizure of drugs.”
He said that RCMP Border Integrity Team investigators based in Osoyoos arrested Arkinstall and Dwyer with the assistance of the police dog services and RCMP officers from both the Creston and Cranbrook detachments.
“This investigation is in its infancy and no further details are available at this time,” he said.
Arkinstall and Dwyer, both 47, have each been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and two of importing/exporting a controlled substance.
Acting Chief U.S. Border Patrol Agent David BeMiller said that “cocaine and methamphetamine are ravaging our communities.”
“Border Patrol agents are committed to preventing dangerous drugs and associated crime from destroying families and communities on both sides of the border,” he said.
Arkinstall is well-known to police on this side of the border.
In 2013, the former Cranbrook resident was charged in Spain with Hells Angel Chad Wilson and two associates for attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine into the country aboard a boat that sailed from Colombia. They were later convicted and returned to Canada.
Wilson was shot to death under the Golden Ears Bridge two years ago.
Arkinstall was acquitted in Calgary in 2011 of uttering threats against police. The judge in the case said Arkinstall was “physically abused” by officers during his arrest and that an anonymously recorded video contradicted the testimony of the cops.
Two officers were later charged. One was acquitted and the charges against the second were stayed.
But the case led to an inquiry over how the Calgary Police Service handled Arkinstall’s complaint of excessive force. That inquiry concluded in 2018 that while there was “no evidence of deliberate attempts” to derail the disciplinary process for the officers, the “CPS failed to diligently and conscientiously handle the Arkinstall matter.”
In B.C., Arkinstall also successfully challenged a law that allowed city electrical inspectors to search houses for illicit cannabis grow operations without warrants.
Surrey city inspectors and police first attempted to enter his house back in 2005, but Arkinstall refused to let them in. They tried again in 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the high power consumption could mean pot was growing inside and put the neighbourhood at risk.
B.C. Hydro later cut off the family’s electricity, leading to a three-year court battle.
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Hells Angels involved in recent drug smuggling attempt
Mugshot of Jason Cyrus Arkinstall
By VICTOR CORRAL MARTINEZ
Staff Writer | October 29, 2020 3:05 PM
Hells Angel member Jason Cyrus Arkinstall was busted with Lawrence Edward Dwyer near Creston by Royal Mounted Canadian Police and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and drug smuggling.
In 2013 Arkinstall was charged in Spain with fellow Hells Angel member Chad Wilson for smuggling half a ton of cocaine into the country. They were convicted and returned to Canada. Wilson was shot to death in 2018.
Arkinstall has been arrested but released due to mistreatment by law enforcement in a ruling by a Canadian judge. He was also involved in a multi-yearlong court battle over heavy electricity usage that law enforcement suspected was part of an illegal marijuana grow operation.
Click [HERE] for Video of Arkinstall busted in Spain.
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Calgary
Cop accused of assaulting Hells Angels member says he felt use of force necessary
Calgary police Const. Brant Derrick is charged with assault causing bodily harm
CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2017 7:44 PM MT | Last Updated: November 8, 2017
A screenshot of a video showing the arrest of Jason Arkinstall. (Supplied)
A Calgary police officer on trial for assaulting a member of the Hells Angels who'd become abusive and threatening during an arrest testified in his own defence on Wednesday.
Const. Brant Derrick told provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes he believed, based on his training, he was entitled to use the force necessary to get Jason Arkinstall into a police vehicle when he began aggressively resisting the officer.
Calgary officer on trial for assault while arresting Hells Angel who was threatening to kill him
Derrick and Sgt. Les Kaminski — president of the Calgary police union — were arresting Arkinstall following a traffic stop in 2008 because they believed he was breaching his release conditions. The officers didn't know at the time that the charge against Arkinstall had been withdrawn by B.C. authorities.
As soon as the officers tried to arrest Arkinstall — who was wearing a Hells Angels T-shirt at the time — he began cursing at them. Derrick said he feared for his safety at the time.
Once out of the truck Arkinstall immediately began resisting being placed in handcuffs, said Derrick.
"He's swearing, 'f--k you, you're f--king dead, my lawyer's going to get you,'" Derrick explained in court.
'Physical control tactic'
Once Arkinstall was cuffed, he was escorted to the back of the police van. Derrick said he had a hand on the back Arkinstall's neck as they walked.
Once there, Arkinstall began pushing back against the officer, which Derrick said caused him to stumble backward a couple of steps.
At that point, Derrick said he felt Arkinstall was resisting arrest and believed, based on CPS policy, he was entitled to use the force necessary to gain control over the arrest.
Derrick said he used a single open-hand palm strike to the back of Arkinstall's head as a "physical control tactic."
He then pushed Arkinstall toward the back of the police van's prisoners' cage. At that point Arkinstall dove into the back of the van, according to Derrick.
"He actually stops his backward resistance and as I push, he propels himself sideways into that vehicle."
An excerpt from a video of a 2008 arrest that led to a man's acquittal in 2011 after a judge decided evidence presented by officer Les Kaminski was not credible. The judge said the video, taken by bystanders, contradicted Kaminski's testimony. 0:39
Derrick denied shoving the suspect into the van, as the video appeared to show.
"I don't think I could take a 210-pound man and throw him like that," Derrick
The video also shows Derrick slamming the cage door two or three times on Arkinstall's legs, which the officer explained was because the suspect was kicking at the gate.
Arkinstall was charged following the incident but was acquitted of uttering threats in 2011, in part because the judge did not find Derrick or Kaminski to be credible witnesses. Their accounts of the arrest contradicted the video, which was played by the Hells Angel's lawyer.
Calgary police conducted a review after Arkinstall's trial but determined an investigation was not required, which they've since called a "mistake."
Arkinstall convicted in Spain
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) became involved in 2014 but that investigation faced several delays; first investigators had trouble getting the video because Arkinstall's lawyer wouldn't tell them where he got it and then because Arkinstall was arrested overseas.
Arkinstall and Scott Smitna — who was driving during the 2008 traffic stop — were convicted of smuggling 300 kilograms of cocaine in Spain in May 2015, which also complicated the matter.
Instead of serving their four-year, seven-month sentence the pair paid an $8-million fine and were kicked out of the country. They immediately returned to Canada.
Charges against Derrick and Kaminski were laid in January.
Kaminski's assault charge was withdrawn and he faces a trial for perjury stemming from the same incident.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-officer-assault-trial-derrick-testifies-1.4394260 has a 39 second video of the Hell's Angel full patch being arrested don't blame him for being pissed since the conditions of his undertaking had expired. Instead of serving their four-year, seven-month sentence the pair paid an $8-million fine and were kicked out of the country. They immediately returned to Canada. They could pay a 8 million dollar fine but can't help the crippled niece of the Haney chapter Pres. who begs for money online. Hadden’s niece Leah Hadden-Watts was in a vehicle on Aug. 14, 2011, when a masked gunman fired into it leaving her a quadriplegic and killing Red Scorpion gang member Jonathan Bacon, and injuring Hells Angel Larry Amero, and Independent Soldier James Riach. Another woman, Lyndsey Black, was also injured in the shooting.(Greg: Always a good news day when a Bacon Bros. gets offed and a H.A.M.C. scuz female is left a quad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5re1gVbNveg shows the shootings. https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/224989/Gang-slaying-on-video
https://voiceonline.com/jonathan-bacons-killer-mcbride-sentenced-to-life-jones-and-khun-khun-get-18-years-each/ another of the killers was murdered in 2013 in Surrey he was an informant. https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/maple-ridge-woman-paralyzed-in-shoot-out-sues-gangsters/ Has a picture of the lying, skank be amusing if her eyes were cut out and she was set on fire. Go for a walk or dance a jig in her honour today. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-paralyzed-in-gangland-style-shooting-files-lawsuit-1.1416792/comments-7.426445 https://www.flickr.com/photos/106607178@N03/albums/72157636941237284/ hope a molotov gets thrown into the losers living quarters. https://twitter.com/guiltless_glam Tina Hadden-Watts is also part of this crime family .https://www.facebook.com/groups/400493760008294/ the wheelchair bound lowlife begs for charity H.A.M.C. doesn't care if you get shot cocaine and biker and SUVs are more important than family guess her lawsuit was laughed out of court which is good. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/tragic-details-of-woman-shot-during-killing-of-jonathan-bacon-revealed-in-court-document Ms. (Leah) Hadden-Watts was shot once in the back of the neck and sustained horrific injuries,” the ruling says. “As a result of her injuries, Ms. Hadden-Watts has no voluntary motor or sensory function below the C5 in her spinal cord. As such, she has no functional capacity in her legs and only limited capacity in her upper extremities.
“Since the shooting, she has developed severe osteoporosis and experienced a spontaneous fracture of her lumbar spine. Due to the severity of her osteoporosis, it is likely that spontaneous fractures will reoccur. Her life expectancy has been reduced to approximately 70 per cent of that of a person without a spinal cord injury.” Nothing tragic about it. Hey you slut ask your rich HA relatives for financial help LOL LOL LOL. Why doesn't your sister Tara help you out ? https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/b-c-gangsters-could-face-life-in-prison-after-manila-drug-bust
Former Cranbrook men among Hell’s Angels arrested in Spanish bust
Two former Cranbrook residents are among the four Hells Angels accused of attempting to distribute 500 kilograms of cocaine in Spain.
Sep. 17, 2013 4:00 p.m.NEWS
Jason Arkinstall
Jason Arkinstall
Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun
Two former Cranbrook residents are among the four Canadian Hells Angels accused of attempting to distribute 500 kilograms of cocaine in Spain.
Two full-patch members — Jason Cyrus Arkinstall (formerly of Cranbrook, now of Mission) and Chad John Wilson of Haney — were among the men arrested in a coffee bar by Spain’s National Police. The othermen facing charges in Spain are Scott Smitna (formerly of Cranbrook) and Michael Dryborough, associates of the Hells Angels in Mission and Haney.
Spain’s Interior Ministry revealed details of the investigation Saturday and released a video of the arrests of the four, but did not identify them by name or hometown. The video shows police running into the café, wrestling the men from their chairs to the ground and handcuffing them. Police did not say when the arrest happened.
The Spanish government said the four were involved in an attempt to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to the Galician coast of Spain on a sailboat. One of the B.C. bikers was on the vessel, while the others were waiting in Spain.
The Canadian bikers were arrested in Pontevedra, a port in the northwest of Spain.
Officials alleged the drug conspiracy was linked to a member of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels, of which Wilson is a former member.
Police had been aware of the conspiracy for several weeks and had been watching since July 30 as the operation unfolded. Officers searched two vans loaded with cocaine and then arrested the Canadians. Police also seized encrypted smartphones. Two other people were arrested at another location.
Spain’s National Police worked with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and French officials on the investigation. The Sun has learned the RCMP was contacted after the arrests to provide information on the four men.
Arkinstall has been a high-profile Hells Angel. He was most recently in court in Calgary, where he was acquitted in 2011 of uttering threats against police. The judge in the case said Arkinstall was “physically abused” by officers during his arrest and that an anonymously recorded video contradicted the testimony of the cops.
In B.C., Arkinstall also successfully challenged a law that allowed city electrical inspectors to search houses for marijuana grow operations without warrants.
Surrey city inspectors and police first attempted to enter his house back in 2005, but Arkinstall refused to let them in. They tried again 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the high power consumption could mean pot was growing inside and the neighbourhood at risk.
Arkinstall agreed to allow inspectors in, but not Surrey RCMP. The inspectors would not go in unescorted. BC Hydro later cut off the family’s electricity, leading to a three-year court battle.
Arkinstall, 40, has an extensive criminal record and has been convicted of offences ranging from assault causing bodily harm to trafficking in cocaine, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in jail on July 28, 2005.
Wilson, the other full-patch Angel arrested in Spain, pleaded guilty in South Dakota in 2009 of being an alien in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
Wilson was earlier acquitted, along with fellow HA member John Midmore, of attempted murder for an Aug. 8, 2006 gunfight with members of the rival Outlaws biker gang. Wilson and Midmore claimed they acted in self-defence when they wounded five people linked to the Outlaws.
At the time, Wilson was a member of the San Diego chapter, but he returned to B.C. and joined the Haney group.
https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/news/former-cranbrook-men-among-hells-angels-arrested-in-spanish-bust/
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