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Secret Family And Wife Battle In Court Over Dead Hells Angels Prospect Michael Widner's Assets.
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Secret family and wife battle in court over dead Hells Angels prospect's assets
Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017, with two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
Publishing date:Mar 02, 2021 • 1 day ago • 3 minute read • comment bubble12 Comments
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The girlfriend of a Hells Angels prospect murdered in 2017 qualifies as a spouse even though he was still married and also living with his wife at the time, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.
Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017 — two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
Sabrina Widner married Michael at a destination wedding in Mexico in 2008, attended by high-profile Hells Angel Bob Green, himself murdered years later. Their kids were born in 2005 and 2006.
Sara Boughton hooked up with Michael in 2009. He promised her he was going to leave his wife though he never did. They also had two children, in 2014 and 2015.
While Boughton knew of Widner, Widner only learned of her husband’s “secret household” after his death, Duncan said.
During her marriage, Widner was listed as the sole owner of three Sooke properties that she said her husband had no interest in.
But Boughton sued Widner, saying Michael “told her many times over the course of their relationship that he paid for several properties which were registered in his wife’s name.”
She asked the court to declare that his estate should include “half of the value of the property held in Ms. Widner’s name” including the proceeds from one house that was sold.
Duncan ruled that both women qualified as the dead biker’s spouses, so both should be entitled to half his estate. And she agreed with Boughton that the estate should include some of the cash that the late Hells Angel had contributed to his wife’s mortgages over the years.
She ordered Widner to pay $150,000, plus interest, into the estate, which will be split between the two families.
Michael was a 39-year-old prospect with the Nanaimo Hells Angels when his body was found near Port Renfrew four years ago. His murder remains unsolved.
“The deceased was able to maintain two separate households because he told Ms. Widner he was working part of the week on the other side of Vancouver Island from the Widner household, when he was actually spending time with Ms. Boughton,” Duncan said. “The deceased kept up a regular schedule, alternating between the two households.”
Michael Widner’s parents testified that they knew about Boughton and the second family but never told his wife or the older children. None of Michael’s siblings knew of Boughton and the younger kids, who were living in a rented house in Shawnigan when he was killed.
His mother, Reta Acorn, testified that her son was involved in cocaine deals with Green, the Hells Angel killed in 2016, and that he paid for the Sooke properties with the proceeds from the drug trade.
“Ms. Acorn said her son was afraid of civil forfeiture, so he put everything in Ms. Widner’s name, although she conceded that she never saw any purchase or financing documents for the properties,” Duncan said, though she later rejected Acorn’s testimony as unreliable.
Widner testified that she was unaware her husband was involved in any illegal activity or in the Hells Angels.
She “said the deceased worked at a variety of enterprises, including fishing charters, cutting and delivering wood, and working with bailiffs to buy closed businesses and then selling the contents.”
He later rented out a workshop at one of the Sooke properties “for a legal medical-marijuana grow operation,” Widner said.
Duncan heard that Rick Alexander, the president of the Devil’s Army biker club, was also involved in the pot operation. Alexander is awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge.
Widner said that after her husband’s body was found, “she met a man called Shawn in a parking lot with another individual.”
“They talked to her about Mike’s affiliation with the Hells Angels and how he was going through the program’ and they wanted to `vest’ his casket. If she allowed them to do that, the Hells Angels would pay for the funeral,” Duncan said. “Ms. Widner told them she would do her own thing but they could attend the service.”
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Hell's Angels To Have Memorial Run For Dead Prospect
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B.C.’s anti-gang police say that up to 200 people, including full-patch Hells Angels members, could ride on Vancouver Island this weekend in honour of a prospect murdered earlier this month.
Sooke man Michael Gregory Widner, 39, went missing earlier this month, and his remains were discovered days later along the Pacific Marine route near Port Renfrew.
RCMP later confirmed that Widner had known connections to the motorcycle gang and that his death was being investigated as a homicide.
B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the memorial ride is expected to take place Saturday afternoon.
Riders will start in Nanaimo and end up at a known Hells Angels clubhouse on Spencer Road in Langford.
CFSEU-BC says activity at the home has been quiet recently, but it’s still considered a gang lair.
Rides like this are as much about reminding the public and rivals that the gang is around as they are about paying respects to the deceased, according to CFSEU-BC.
They say Mounties and gang unit members will monitor the ride from start to finish, ensuring public safety.
Motorists travelling on the Island Highway should expect delays Saturday afternoon due to the ride, CFSEU-BC said.
Vancouver Island’s Integrated Major Crime Unit is leading the homicide investigation into Widner’s death, and is asking anyone with information to call them at 250-380-6211 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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The man reported missing in Sooke last week is a prospect for the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang, sources told Postmedia News on Monday.
Michael Gregory Widner, 39, was last seen March 8 in Sooke and was reported missing the following day.
His wife posted a message on Facebook over the weekend saying police had since told her that Widner’s body had been found.
“It is with a broken heart and overwhelming sadness I share that the police have informed me that my husbands body has been found,” she wrote in a comment that has since been made private. “I am with our children holding them tight and keeping them safe and removed from all the attention. His children know that he is in heaven with his brother Steve and at peace.”
Neither Sooke RCMP nor E Division headquarters responded to requests for information Monday about the status of the case and whether it was now a murder investigation.
Hells Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello told Postmedia News that Widner was a prospect and that his body had been found Sunday.
Earlier, Sooke Staff Sergeant Jeff McArthur said in a news release that Widner’s vehicle, a 2003 black Volkswagen Golf, was found abandoned at Poirier Lake, in William Edmonds Park in Sooke.
Widner has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
But he was the subject of a suit by the B.C. Civil Forfeiture director in 2012 after being stopped by Sooke RCMP a year earlier with $4,980 cash, 25 grams of marijuana, a hunting knife and four cellphones in his vehicle.
“Mr. Widner either directly participated in the selling of illegal drugs or obtained the money directly or indirectly from the sellers of illegal drugs,” the suit alleged.
Widner later agreed to forfeit the money, though most was sent to his lawyer to cover his bill.
Widner’s isn’t the only recent missing person case linked to the Hells Angels.
Surrey RCMP is trying to locate Rickey Sandor Mandi, a former prospect for the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
Mandi was last seen on January 27th, near 96th Avenue and King George Boulevard in Surrey, Sgt. Alana Dunlop said Monday.
Originally a relative reported Mandi missing to Chilliwack RCMP and said he hadn’t been seen since New Year’s Eve.
But given that Mandi is known to frequent Surrey and Langley, Surrey Mounties made inquiries and learned of the sighting in late January, Dunlop said.
In 2004, Mandi was sentenced to more than six years in jail for a violent assault and kidnapping.
He later told the parole board he wanted to change his life and went on to work with people struggling with addiction.
However he left the job a few years ago and appeared to be dealing with his own addiction troubles.
Last September he posted on his Facebook page that he was coming off “a four-year brutal relapse.”
He said he had got clean again “like a Phoenix raising out from the ashes of a long period of my life filled with painful memories, of heartaches and disappointments.”
Ciarniello, who was in the same Hells Angels chapter as Mandi, said he wasn’t aware the former prospect was missing.
“I haven’t seen Mandi in 10 years or so,” Ciarniello said.
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HAMC Nanaimo Propect Found Dead. Former Hell's Angel Prospect Rick Mandi Missing.
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The man reported missing in Sooke last week is a prospect for the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang, sources told Postmedia News on Monday.
Michael Gregory Widner, 39, was last seen March 8 in Sooke and was reported missing the following day.
His wife posted a message on Facebook over the weekend saying police had since told her that Widner’s body had been found.
“It is with a broken heart and overwhelming sadness I share that the police have informed me that my husbands body has been found,” she wrote in a comment that has since been made private. “I am with our children holding them tight and keeping them safe and removed from all the attention. His children know that he is in heaven with his brother Steve and at peace.”
Neither Sooke RCMP nor E Division headquarters responded to requests for information Monday about the status of the case and whether it was now a murder investigation.
Hells Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello told Postmedia News that Widner was a prospect and that his body had been found Sunday.
Earlier, Sooke Staff Sergeant Jeff McArthur said in a news release that Widner’s vehicle, a 2003 black Volkswagen Golf, was found abandoned at Poirier Lake, in William Edmonds Park in Sooke.
Widner has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
But he was the subject of a suit by the B.C. Civil Forfeiture director in 2012 after being stopped by Sooke RCMP a year earlier with $4,980 cash, 25 grams of marijuana, a hunting knife and four cellphones in his vehicle.
“Mr. Widner either directly participated in the selling of illegal drugs or obtained the money directly or indirectly from the sellers of illegal drugs,” the suit alleged.
Widner later agreed to forfeit the money, though most was sent to his lawyer to cover his bill.
Widner’s isn’t the only recent missing person case linked to the Hells Angels.
Surrey RCMP is trying to locate Rickey Sandor Mandi, a former prospect for the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
Mandi was last seen on January 27th, near 96th Avenue and King George Boulevard in Surrey, Sgt. Alana Dunlop said Monday.
Originally a relative reported Mandi missing to Chilliwack RCMP and said he hadn’t been seen since New Year’s Eve.
But given that Mandi is known to frequent Surrey and Langley, Surrey Mounties made inquiries and learned of the sighting in late January, Dunlop said.
In 2004, Mandi was sentenced to more than six years in jail for a violent assault and kidnapping.
He later told the parole board he wanted to change his life and went on to work with people struggling with addiction.
However he left the job a few years ago and appeared to be dealing with his own addiction troubles.
Last September he posted on his Facebook page that he was coming off “a four-year brutal relapse.”
He said he had got clean again “like a Phoenix raising out from the ashes of a long period of my life filled with painful memories, of heartaches and disappointments.”
Ciarniello, who was in the same Hells Angels chapter as Mandi, said he wasn’t aware the former prospect was missing.
“I haven’t seen Mandi in 10 years or so,” Ciarniello said.
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A former prospect of the Hells Angels biker club says today's young gangsters should follow his path -- hit bottom in prison and build their life back up, free of crime.
Rick Mandi said he lived a good life as a Hells Angels prospect -- one step short of a full patch member -- because he was a big guy willing to throw his weight around.
"I was involved in kidnapping, extortion, drug debts," said Mandi in an interview with CTV News.
"I was in the mindframe that I was untouchable, that I was smarter than everybody," said Mandi, who now works to rehabilitate chronic offenders.
Mandi wouldn't talk specifically about his exploits with the bikers, but they ended with a botched kidnapping -- and he found guilty in 2003 in BC Supreme Court, and sent to prison for five years.
At first, gang affiliations mattered in jail, he said -- but then things changed.
"I ran out of money, I ran out of dope, and I ran out of friends," he said. "When you're in that place a lot of people turn on you."
It was jail that allowed him to isolate himself from gang connections and turn his life around, he said, adding that today's gangsters need the same tough treatment.
When he got out of jail, the Angels offered him a chance to rejoin the gang, but he said he turned it away in favour of working for a living.
When Mandi was released, he joined Vision Quest Recovery Society, a rehabilitation centre for chronic offenders, run by an old friend, Jim O'Rourke.
"We don't give up on anyone," said O'Rourke. "We give up on them when they're dead."
O'Rourke says the people at his society are often into organized crime -- but that can be a death sentence.
"There's no old gangsters," he said. "Ever noticed that? Their retirement plan is the thirty-cent solution. If you want to live long and prosper you have to get out of gang life."
Now, Mandi is staff at Vision Quest and runs his own recovery house. If anyone there is thinking of returning to the gang lifestyle, he has one message.
"I would say take a look at where you're going -- it's just a matter of time. Jails, institutions, death," he said. "Sooner or later it's your turn."
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Judge acquits accused kidnapper
Man charged in connection with Hells Angels-linked abduction and
torture goes free.
VANCOUVER SUN-Friday-January 7/05.
VANCOUVER- Hells Angels hangaround Danny Anderson was acquitted
Thursday of all charges relating to the kidnapping, beating and
extortion of Langley gambler and small-time drug dealer Kirk Cooley.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein ruled that while some
of the evidence against Anderson was believable, it was not reliable.
The three major witnesses against Anderson - his former Hells Angel
companion and club prospect Chad Proctor, Cooley, and Cooley's partner
in crime, Robert Nicholson -gave their evidence in exchange for being
placed in the witness protection program. They have been given new
identities and moved to locations outside of the Lower Mainland for
their safety.
Outside court, Crown counsel Anne Clark said the Crown has 30 days to
consider an appeal.
Asked if she was disappointed at the verdict, Clark replied: "It's not
my job to be disappointed. It's a fact-driven decision."
Anderson said only: "I've got no comment."
His father, who attended every day of the trial, also refused to
comment, but an unidentified woman who was with them called out she
was "delighted" as the trio left the Robson Street courthouse in a
snowstorm.
Two other men convicted in connection with Cooley's kidnapping are now
in prison.
Hells Angels prospect Rick Mandi is serving six years, while Ladner
resident and bookmaker Daniel Laybourn is serving a lesser sentence
after pleading guilty.
The case, which provoked the largest police operation in B.C. against
the Hells Angels motorcycle club, began in November 2001 when Cooley
and Nicholson stole eight kilograms of marijuana from the home of one
of Cooley's friends while the friend was away.
At the time, Cooley had run up almost $100,000 in gambling debts and
was being pursued by bookies -among them Laybourn -for payment.
According to evidence, the marijuana belonged to Hells Angel member
Hal Porteous.
A week after the theft a group of Hells Angels led by Mandi arrived at
Cooley's townhouse, apparently intent on kidnapping him. But Cooley
was with his children and Nicholson at the time, so arrangements were
made for both parties to meet the next day in the Willowbrook Mall.
Again the intent was to kidnap Cooley but he managed to escape Mandi's
crew after he called the RCMP.
On Nov. 29 -against the advice of Langley RCMP officers -Cooley went
to a house in the 6600-block of Ladner Trunk Road with Laybourn, who
had enticed him there on the pretext of showing him a possible site
for a marijuana-grow operation.
Once inside, he found Mandi and a large, thick-set male he identified
as Anderson waiting for him.
He said he was beaten and tortured, had a hood placed over his head
and was bound with zip-straps and duct tape.
He was then dumped into a car that the Crown alleged was driven by
Anderson.
However, he managed to kick open the trunk and escape from the car in
Surrey.
While police were engaged in investigating the kidnapping, Delta
officers began receiving anonymous e-mails originating from a
Coquitlam library providing them with information concerning Mandi's
part.
They traced the e-mails to Proctor, who was told that his part in
providing information to police would eventually come out in court.
Fearing for his life, Proctor agreed to testify provided he was placed
in witness protection. He had sent the information because he hated
Mandi and wanted to see him kicked out of the Hells Angels.
The information was enough for Delta police to obtain a search warrant
and the Hells Angels clubhouse in Coquitlam was raided by officers,
who seized records and computers.
In her decision, Stromberg-Stein said that while Proctor's evidence
was believ-
able, it was not reliable because there was no corroborating evidence
to back up the story of Anderson's part in the affair.
And while Anderson was probably involved, probability was not enough
to justify a guilty verdict, she said.
Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017, with two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
Author of the article:Kim Bolan
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The girlfriend of a Hells Angels prospect murdered in 2017 qualifies as a spouse even though he was still married and also living with his wife at the time, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.
Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017 — two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
Sabrina Widner married Michael at a destination wedding in Mexico in 2008, attended by high-profile Hells Angel Bob Green, himself murdered years later. Their kids were born in 2005 and 2006.
Sara Boughton hooked up with Michael in 2009. He promised her he was going to leave his wife though he never did. They also had two children, in 2014 and 2015.
While Boughton knew of Widner, Widner only learned of her husband’s “secret household” after his death, Duncan said.
During her marriage, Widner was listed as the sole owner of three Sooke properties that she said her husband had no interest in.
But Boughton sued Widner, saying Michael “told her many times over the course of their relationship that he paid for several properties which were registered in his wife’s name.”
She asked the court to declare that his estate should include “half of the value of the property held in Ms. Widner’s name” including the proceeds from one house that was sold.
Duncan ruled that both women qualified as the dead biker’s spouses, so both should be entitled to half his estate. And she agreed with Boughton that the estate should include some of the cash that the late Hells Angel had contributed to his wife’s mortgages over the years.
She ordered Widner to pay $150,000, plus interest, into the estate, which will be split between the two families.
Michael was a 39-year-old prospect with the Nanaimo Hells Angels when his body was found near Port Renfrew four years ago. His murder remains unsolved.
“The deceased was able to maintain two separate households because he told Ms. Widner he was working part of the week on the other side of Vancouver Island from the Widner household, when he was actually spending time with Ms. Boughton,” Duncan said. “The deceased kept up a regular schedule, alternating between the two households.”
Michael Widner’s parents testified that they knew about Boughton and the second family but never told his wife or the older children. None of Michael’s siblings knew of Boughton and the younger kids, who were living in a rented house in Shawnigan when he was killed.
His mother, Reta Acorn, testified that her son was involved in cocaine deals with Green, the Hells Angel killed in 2016, and that he paid for the Sooke properties with the proceeds from the drug trade.
“Ms. Acorn said her son was afraid of civil forfeiture, so he put everything in Ms. Widner’s name, although she conceded that she never saw any purchase or financing documents for the properties,” Duncan said, though she later rejected Acorn’s testimony as unreliable.
Widner testified that she was unaware her husband was involved in any illegal activity or in the Hells Angels.
She “said the deceased worked at a variety of enterprises, including fishing charters, cutting and delivering wood, and working with bailiffs to buy closed businesses and then selling the contents.”
He later rented out a workshop at one of the Sooke properties “for a legal medical-marijuana grow operation,” Widner said.
Duncan heard that Rick Alexander, the president of the Devil’s Army biker club, was also involved in the pot operation. Alexander is awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge.
Widner said that after her husband’s body was found, “she met a man called Shawn in a parking lot with another individual.”
“They talked to her about Mike’s affiliation with the Hells Angels and how he was going through the program’ and they wanted to `vest’ his casket. If she allowed them to do that, the Hells Angels would pay for the funeral,” Duncan said. “Ms. Widner told them she would do her own thing but they could attend the service.”
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Hell's Angels To Have Memorial Run For Dead Prospect
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B.C.’s anti-gang police say that up to 200 people, including full-patch Hells Angels members, could ride on Vancouver Island this weekend in honour of a prospect murdered earlier this month.
Sooke man Michael Gregory Widner, 39, went missing earlier this month, and his remains were discovered days later along the Pacific Marine route near Port Renfrew.
RCMP later confirmed that Widner had known connections to the motorcycle gang and that his death was being investigated as a homicide.
B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the memorial ride is expected to take place Saturday afternoon.
Riders will start in Nanaimo and end up at a known Hells Angels clubhouse on Spencer Road in Langford.
CFSEU-BC says activity at the home has been quiet recently, but it’s still considered a gang lair.
Rides like this are as much about reminding the public and rivals that the gang is around as they are about paying respects to the deceased, according to CFSEU-BC.
They say Mounties and gang unit members will monitor the ride from start to finish, ensuring public safety.
Motorists travelling on the Island Highway should expect delays Saturday afternoon due to the ride, CFSEU-BC said.
Vancouver Island’s Integrated Major Crime Unit is leading the homicide investigation into Widner’s death, and is asking anyone with information to call them at 250-380-6211 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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The man reported missing in Sooke last week is a prospect for the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang, sources told Postmedia News on Monday.
Michael Gregory Widner, 39, was last seen March 8 in Sooke and was reported missing the following day.
His wife posted a message on Facebook over the weekend saying police had since told her that Widner’s body had been found.
“It is with a broken heart and overwhelming sadness I share that the police have informed me that my husbands body has been found,” she wrote in a comment that has since been made private. “I am with our children holding them tight and keeping them safe and removed from all the attention. His children know that he is in heaven with his brother Steve and at peace.”
Neither Sooke RCMP nor E Division headquarters responded to requests for information Monday about the status of the case and whether it was now a murder investigation.
Hells Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello told Postmedia News that Widner was a prospect and that his body had been found Sunday.
Earlier, Sooke Staff Sergeant Jeff McArthur said in a news release that Widner’s vehicle, a 2003 black Volkswagen Golf, was found abandoned at Poirier Lake, in William Edmonds Park in Sooke.
Widner has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
But he was the subject of a suit by the B.C. Civil Forfeiture director in 2012 after being stopped by Sooke RCMP a year earlier with $4,980 cash, 25 grams of marijuana, a hunting knife and four cellphones in his vehicle.
“Mr. Widner either directly participated in the selling of illegal drugs or obtained the money directly or indirectly from the sellers of illegal drugs,” the suit alleged.
Widner later agreed to forfeit the money, though most was sent to his lawyer to cover his bill.
Widner’s isn’t the only recent missing person case linked to the Hells Angels.
Surrey RCMP is trying to locate Rickey Sandor Mandi, a former prospect for the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
Mandi was last seen on January 27th, near 96th Avenue and King George Boulevard in Surrey, Sgt. Alana Dunlop said Monday.
Originally a relative reported Mandi missing to Chilliwack RCMP and said he hadn’t been seen since New Year’s Eve.
But given that Mandi is known to frequent Surrey and Langley, Surrey Mounties made inquiries and learned of the sighting in late January, Dunlop said.
In 2004, Mandi was sentenced to more than six years in jail for a violent assault and kidnapping.
He later told the parole board he wanted to change his life and went on to work with people struggling with addiction.
However he left the job a few years ago and appeared to be dealing with his own addiction troubles.
Last September he posted on his Facebook page that he was coming off “a four-year brutal relapse.”
He said he had got clean again “like a Phoenix raising out from the ashes of a long period of my life filled with painful memories, of heartaches and disappointments.”
Ciarniello, who was in the same Hells Angels chapter as Mandi, said he wasn’t aware the former prospect was missing.
“I haven’t seen Mandi in 10 years or so,” Ciarniello said.
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HAMC Nanaimo Propect Found Dead. Former Hell's Angel Prospect Rick Mandi Missing.
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The man reported missing in Sooke last week is a prospect for the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang, sources told Postmedia News on Monday.
Michael Gregory Widner, 39, was last seen March 8 in Sooke and was reported missing the following day.
His wife posted a message on Facebook over the weekend saying police had since told her that Widner’s body had been found.
“It is with a broken heart and overwhelming sadness I share that the police have informed me that my husbands body has been found,” she wrote in a comment that has since been made private. “I am with our children holding them tight and keeping them safe and removed from all the attention. His children know that he is in heaven with his brother Steve and at peace.”
Neither Sooke RCMP nor E Division headquarters responded to requests for information Monday about the status of the case and whether it was now a murder investigation.
Hells Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello told Postmedia News that Widner was a prospect and that his body had been found Sunday.
Earlier, Sooke Staff Sergeant Jeff McArthur said in a news release that Widner’s vehicle, a 2003 black Volkswagen Golf, was found abandoned at Poirier Lake, in William Edmonds Park in Sooke.
Widner has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.
But he was the subject of a suit by the B.C. Civil Forfeiture director in 2012 after being stopped by Sooke RCMP a year earlier with $4,980 cash, 25 grams of marijuana, a hunting knife and four cellphones in his vehicle.
“Mr. Widner either directly participated in the selling of illegal drugs or obtained the money directly or indirectly from the sellers of illegal drugs,” the suit alleged.
Widner later agreed to forfeit the money, though most was sent to his lawyer to cover his bill.
Widner’s isn’t the only recent missing person case linked to the Hells Angels.
Surrey RCMP is trying to locate Rickey Sandor Mandi, a former prospect for the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.
Mandi was last seen on January 27th, near 96th Avenue and King George Boulevard in Surrey, Sgt. Alana Dunlop said Monday.
Originally a relative reported Mandi missing to Chilliwack RCMP and said he hadn’t been seen since New Year’s Eve.
But given that Mandi is known to frequent Surrey and Langley, Surrey Mounties made inquiries and learned of the sighting in late January, Dunlop said.
In 2004, Mandi was sentenced to more than six years in jail for a violent assault and kidnapping.
He later told the parole board he wanted to change his life and went on to work with people struggling with addiction.
However he left the job a few years ago and appeared to be dealing with his own addiction troubles.
Last September he posted on his Facebook page that he was coming off “a four-year brutal relapse.”
He said he had got clean again “like a Phoenix raising out from the ashes of a long period of my life filled with painful memories, of heartaches and disappointments.”
Ciarniello, who was in the same Hells Angels chapter as Mandi, said he wasn’t aware the former prospect was missing.
“I haven’t seen Mandi in 10 years or so,” Ciarniello said.
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A former prospect of the Hells Angels biker club says today's young gangsters should follow his path -- hit bottom in prison and build their life back up, free of crime.
Rick Mandi said he lived a good life as a Hells Angels prospect -- one step short of a full patch member -- because he was a big guy willing to throw his weight around.
"I was involved in kidnapping, extortion, drug debts," said Mandi in an interview with CTV News.
"I was in the mindframe that I was untouchable, that I was smarter than everybody," said Mandi, who now works to rehabilitate chronic offenders.
Mandi wouldn't talk specifically about his exploits with the bikers, but they ended with a botched kidnapping -- and he found guilty in 2003 in BC Supreme Court, and sent to prison for five years.
At first, gang affiliations mattered in jail, he said -- but then things changed.
"I ran out of money, I ran out of dope, and I ran out of friends," he said. "When you're in that place a lot of people turn on you."
It was jail that allowed him to isolate himself from gang connections and turn his life around, he said, adding that today's gangsters need the same tough treatment.
When he got out of jail, the Angels offered him a chance to rejoin the gang, but he said he turned it away in favour of working for a living.
When Mandi was released, he joined Vision Quest Recovery Society, a rehabilitation centre for chronic offenders, run by an old friend, Jim O'Rourke.
"We don't give up on anyone," said O'Rourke. "We give up on them when they're dead."
O'Rourke says the people at his society are often into organized crime -- but that can be a death sentence.
"There's no old gangsters," he said. "Ever noticed that? Their retirement plan is the thirty-cent solution. If you want to live long and prosper you have to get out of gang life."
Now, Mandi is staff at Vision Quest and runs his own recovery house. If anyone there is thinking of returning to the gang lifestyle, he has one message.
"I would say take a look at where you're going -- it's just a matter of time. Jails, institutions, death," he said. "Sooner or later it's your turn."
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Judge acquits accused kidnapper
Man charged in connection with Hells Angels-linked abduction and
torture goes free.
VANCOUVER SUN-Friday-January 7/05.
VANCOUVER- Hells Angels hangaround Danny Anderson was acquitted
Thursday of all charges relating to the kidnapping, beating and
extortion of Langley gambler and small-time drug dealer Kirk Cooley.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein ruled that while some
of the evidence against Anderson was believable, it was not reliable.
The three major witnesses against Anderson - his former Hells Angel
companion and club prospect Chad Proctor, Cooley, and Cooley's partner
in crime, Robert Nicholson -gave their evidence in exchange for being
placed in the witness protection program. They have been given new
identities and moved to locations outside of the Lower Mainland for
their safety.
Outside court, Crown counsel Anne Clark said the Crown has 30 days to
consider an appeal.
Asked if she was disappointed at the verdict, Clark replied: "It's not
my job to be disappointed. It's a fact-driven decision."
Anderson said only: "I've got no comment."
His father, who attended every day of the trial, also refused to
comment, but an unidentified woman who was with them called out she
was "delighted" as the trio left the Robson Street courthouse in a
snowstorm.
Two other men convicted in connection with Cooley's kidnapping are now
in prison.
Hells Angels prospect Rick Mandi is serving six years, while Ladner
resident and bookmaker Daniel Laybourn is serving a lesser sentence
after pleading guilty.
The case, which provoked the largest police operation in B.C. against
the Hells Angels motorcycle club, began in November 2001 when Cooley
and Nicholson stole eight kilograms of marijuana from the home of one
of Cooley's friends while the friend was away.
At the time, Cooley had run up almost $100,000 in gambling debts and
was being pursued by bookies -among them Laybourn -for payment.
According to evidence, the marijuana belonged to Hells Angel member
Hal Porteous.
A week after the theft a group of Hells Angels led by Mandi arrived at
Cooley's townhouse, apparently intent on kidnapping him. But Cooley
was with his children and Nicholson at the time, so arrangements were
made for both parties to meet the next day in the Willowbrook Mall.
Again the intent was to kidnap Cooley but he managed to escape Mandi's
crew after he called the RCMP.
On Nov. 29 -against the advice of Langley RCMP officers -Cooley went
to a house in the 6600-block of Ladner Trunk Road with Laybourn, who
had enticed him there on the pretext of showing him a possible site
for a marijuana-grow operation.
Once inside, he found Mandi and a large, thick-set male he identified
as Anderson waiting for him.
He said he was beaten and tortured, had a hood placed over his head
and was bound with zip-straps and duct tape.
He was then dumped into a car that the Crown alleged was driven by
Anderson.
However, he managed to kick open the trunk and escape from the car in
Surrey.
While police were engaged in investigating the kidnapping, Delta
officers began receiving anonymous e-mails originating from a
Coquitlam library providing them with information concerning Mandi's
part.
They traced the e-mails to Proctor, who was told that his part in
providing information to police would eventually come out in court.
Fearing for his life, Proctor agreed to testify provided he was placed
in witness protection. He had sent the information because he hated
Mandi and wanted to see him kicked out of the Hells Angels.
The information was enough for Delta police to obtain a search warrant
and the Hells Angels clubhouse in Coquitlam was raided by officers,
who seized records and computers.
In her decision, Stromberg-Stein said that while Proctor's evidence
was believ-
able, it was not reliable because there was no corroborating evidence
to back up the story of Anderson's part in the affair.
And while Anderson was probably involved, probability was not enough
to justify a guilty verdict, she said.
Loose Cannon
Mar 3, 2021, 8:54:13 AM3/3/21
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On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 7:17:40 AM UTC-5, gregca...@gmail.com wrote:
> Secret family and wife battle in court over dead Hells Angels prospect's assets
> Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017, with two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
>
He had TWO wives and FOUR kids, while you have NOTHING. You are both a homo and a loser.
> Secret family and wife battle in court over dead Hells Angels prospect's assets
> Justice Jennifer Duncan said that Michael Widner “left a complicated legacy” when he was killed in March 2017, with two women claiming to be his spouse, each with two children and each claiming a right to his assets.
>
Greg Carr
Mar 3, 2021, 3:40:05 PM3/3/21
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He is dead I am alive. I am glad he is dead. His wives were bimbo morons, holes with the morals of prostitutes. The slags didn't know each other. All the money should be seized by civil forfeiture since the dead HA biker prospects own Mom testified in court it came from illegal drug trafficking. Let the HA nation take care of the sluts and children. Probably end up doing serious time and addicted to drugs like Tom Strenja and the son of the murdered Joel Stanton.
Son of notorious murdered ex-Hells Angel from Burnaby sentenced for crime spree
Dillon Juel Stanton, 29, told the court he robbed small businesses to fuel drug addiction sparked by unresolved trauma from witnessing his father's 2010 murder.
Cornelia Naylor / Burnaby Now
JULY 8, 2019 07:58 AM
(Interesting. The police have said in the past that the murder of Stanton was not witnissed. He was killed at his home on the day he was to go to court for a trial. The murder is unsolved. Stanton had been kicked out of the East End HAMC for being too violent. For some reason he used to terrorize patrons at the Ivanhoe Hotel for no reason. Instead of doing drugs and violently attacking store clerks maybe Dillon could track down the killer of his Dad and kill the dude or dudes. Be nice if he gave the public a description of the killer of his Dad.)
Coquitlam RCMP Insp. Bryon Massie (left) and Cpl. Michael McLaughlin show some of the stolen items seized from a Coquitlam storage locker after Dillon Stanton and Nicholas Traviss were arrested.
Photograph By FILE PHOTO/TRI-CITY NEWS
The link is at the bottom of this post.
Nineteen-year-old Dillon Juel Stanton, son of notorious ex-Hells Angel Juel Ross Stanton, was at home the day his father was gunned down in the family’s backyard in 2010.
The teen would inherit $500,000 from his biker dad but blew through it in six or seven years after turning to oxycodone to dull his unresolved trauma and grief from that day.
By early 2017, he had moved on to heroin and was desperately trying to keep his spiraling addiction from his wife.
To get the drugs he needed, he and a friend and fellow addict, 20-year-old Nicholas Lenard Traviss, terrorized a string of small stores across the Lower Mainland.
That was the story that emerged in B.C. Supreme Court last Thursday before Stanton and his partner in crime were sentenced to nearly four more years in jail for their 2017 crime spree.
Lives threatened
Stanton and Traviss, both of Burnaby, pleaded guilty in April to six robberies, five counts of using an imitation firearm to commit a serious offence, one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of possessing an illegal firearm.
Between Feb. 20 and March 13 in 2017, Stanton, who was 26 at the time, and Traviss, who was 20, robbed small businesses from Burnaby to Abbotsford, grabbing thousands of dollars’ worth of cash, cigarettes, vape products and lottery tickets.
They were also caught with a stash of stolen property from break and enters as far away as Mission.
Crown prosecutor Georgia Clark said the robberies traumatized victims, some of whom had had their lives threatened.
At Hoys Market in Coquitlam, Stanton hit a female clerk with a hockey stick after she tried to resist the men with a stick of her own.
At Hemp Hemp Hooray in Port Coquitlam, Traviss pistol-whipped a male clerk who broke free after his arms were zap-strapped behind his back.
The man was left with a concussion, and his scalp had to be stapled, Clark said.
End of the road
Police caught up with Stanton and Traviss on March 13, 2017, after an SUV Stanton was renting was identified during a robbery that day at the Red Apple Food Store in Abbotsford.
Police located the vehicle and followed it to Langley, where Stanton and Traviss went to separate gas stations to check their stolen lottery tickets.
robbery
Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin shows the filed-off serial number on a stolen gun.
After their arrest, a search of a Coquitlam mini-storage locker rented out in Stanton’s name turned up stolen goods from numerous robberies as well as a treasure trove of property reported stolen from homes across the Lower Mainland, including at least three guns that had gone missing in Mission.
In total, police found 11 firearms, including some with the serial numbers filed off.
In a joint submission, Clark, Stanton’s lawyer, Colleen Elden and Traviss’s lawyer, Gloria Ng recommended a total sentence of seven years and five months jail.
Traviss, who is now 22 years old, did not have a criminal record at the time of the robberies.
Like Stanton, he had been in the grips of addiction, using cocaine on the daily basis.
He said he had been high during each of the robberies and that that was the only way he could bring himself to commit the crimes, according to a pre-sentence report.
Stanton, who is now 29 and has a young son, had 12 previous convictions, but Elden noted only one of those was for a “crime of violence.”
‘Cowardly’
B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams concluded the sentence proposed by the lawyers was appropriate but that a longer sentence could also reasonably have been imposed given the circumstances.
“Harm was done to many,” he said, calling the robberies “terrifying.”
“The victims, in effect, had their lives threatened; they were brutalized by the conduct of these offenders, and it is not unfair to say that the conduct of these two offenders in these offences was cowardly.”
As mitigating factors, however, Williams noted Stanton and Traviss had pleaded guilty, Traviss had had no previous criminal record, both are taking rehabilitative steps in custody, both have family support and both have shown “genuine remorse.”
(Greg:Family support. Stanton no doubt was being raised as a criminal biker maybe even HA by his family. His Mom refused to cooperate with police when Juel Stanton was murdered. Sal Jonathon Bryce and Tom Strenja had the same type of family support. In these cases family support = organized crime family.
With time-and-a-half credit for time served since their arrest, that means Stanton and Traviss will be in jail for nearly four more years.
Both men read out letters of apology before being sentenced.
“Nobody deserves to be put through the events that were caused by me on those days,” Stanton said. “That is not the kind of person I am or was ever raised to be. I was at a very big low of my life, suffering from substance abuse and untreated trauma and depression from witnessing the assassination of my father. I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
(Greg:His Dad had so many enemies that police had no end in suspects. Some speculated that the club was worried he would spill the beans to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.)
https://www.burnabynow.com/news/son-of-notorious-murdered-ex-hells-angel-from-burnaby-sentenced-for-crime-spree-1.23878564
https://studylib.net/doc/8781704/overview-of-the-vancouver-gang-war
You are despised by your fellow nazis because you are a Slav and that is not acceptable to the nazis anymore than the Jews. You have no money and you are a buffoon with no relevant education.
Son of notorious murdered ex-Hells Angel from Burnaby sentenced for crime spree
Dillon Juel Stanton, 29, told the court he robbed small businesses to fuel drug addiction sparked by unresolved trauma from witnessing his father's 2010 murder.
Cornelia Naylor / Burnaby Now
JULY 8, 2019 07:58 AM
(Interesting. The police have said in the past that the murder of Stanton was not witnissed. He was killed at his home on the day he was to go to court for a trial. The murder is unsolved. Stanton had been kicked out of the East End HAMC for being too violent. For some reason he used to terrorize patrons at the Ivanhoe Hotel for no reason. Instead of doing drugs and violently attacking store clerks maybe Dillon could track down the killer of his Dad and kill the dude or dudes. Be nice if he gave the public a description of the killer of his Dad.)
Coquitlam RCMP Insp. Bryon Massie (left) and Cpl. Michael McLaughlin show some of the stolen items seized from a Coquitlam storage locker after Dillon Stanton and Nicholas Traviss were arrested.
Photograph By FILE PHOTO/TRI-CITY NEWS
The link is at the bottom of this post.
Nineteen-year-old Dillon Juel Stanton, son of notorious ex-Hells Angel Juel Ross Stanton, was at home the day his father was gunned down in the family’s backyard in 2010.
The teen would inherit $500,000 from his biker dad but blew through it in six or seven years after turning to oxycodone to dull his unresolved trauma and grief from that day.
By early 2017, he had moved on to heroin and was desperately trying to keep his spiraling addiction from his wife.
To get the drugs he needed, he and a friend and fellow addict, 20-year-old Nicholas Lenard Traviss, terrorized a string of small stores across the Lower Mainland.
That was the story that emerged in B.C. Supreme Court last Thursday before Stanton and his partner in crime were sentenced to nearly four more years in jail for their 2017 crime spree.
Lives threatened
Stanton and Traviss, both of Burnaby, pleaded guilty in April to six robberies, five counts of using an imitation firearm to commit a serious offence, one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of possessing an illegal firearm.
Between Feb. 20 and March 13 in 2017, Stanton, who was 26 at the time, and Traviss, who was 20, robbed small businesses from Burnaby to Abbotsford, grabbing thousands of dollars’ worth of cash, cigarettes, vape products and lottery tickets.
They were also caught with a stash of stolen property from break and enters as far away as Mission.
Crown prosecutor Georgia Clark said the robberies traumatized victims, some of whom had had their lives threatened.
At Hoys Market in Coquitlam, Stanton hit a female clerk with a hockey stick after she tried to resist the men with a stick of her own.
At Hemp Hemp Hooray in Port Coquitlam, Traviss pistol-whipped a male clerk who broke free after his arms were zap-strapped behind his back.
The man was left with a concussion, and his scalp had to be stapled, Clark said.
End of the road
Police caught up with Stanton and Traviss on March 13, 2017, after an SUV Stanton was renting was identified during a robbery that day at the Red Apple Food Store in Abbotsford.
Police located the vehicle and followed it to Langley, where Stanton and Traviss went to separate gas stations to check their stolen lottery tickets.
robbery
Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin shows the filed-off serial number on a stolen gun.
After their arrest, a search of a Coquitlam mini-storage locker rented out in Stanton’s name turned up stolen goods from numerous robberies as well as a treasure trove of property reported stolen from homes across the Lower Mainland, including at least three guns that had gone missing in Mission.
In total, police found 11 firearms, including some with the serial numbers filed off.
In a joint submission, Clark, Stanton’s lawyer, Colleen Elden and Traviss’s lawyer, Gloria Ng recommended a total sentence of seven years and five months jail.
Traviss, who is now 22 years old, did not have a criminal record at the time of the robberies.
Like Stanton, he had been in the grips of addiction, using cocaine on the daily basis.
He said he had been high during each of the robberies and that that was the only way he could bring himself to commit the crimes, according to a pre-sentence report.
Stanton, who is now 29 and has a young son, had 12 previous convictions, but Elden noted only one of those was for a “crime of violence.”
‘Cowardly’
B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams concluded the sentence proposed by the lawyers was appropriate but that a longer sentence could also reasonably have been imposed given the circumstances.
“Harm was done to many,” he said, calling the robberies “terrifying.”
“The victims, in effect, had their lives threatened; they were brutalized by the conduct of these offenders, and it is not unfair to say that the conduct of these two offenders in these offences was cowardly.”
As mitigating factors, however, Williams noted Stanton and Traviss had pleaded guilty, Traviss had had no previous criminal record, both are taking rehabilitative steps in custody, both have family support and both have shown “genuine remorse.”
(Greg:Family support. Stanton no doubt was being raised as a criminal biker maybe even HA by his family. His Mom refused to cooperate with police when Juel Stanton was murdered. Sal Jonathon Bryce and Tom Strenja had the same type of family support. In these cases family support = organized crime family.
With time-and-a-half credit for time served since their arrest, that means Stanton and Traviss will be in jail for nearly four more years.
Both men read out letters of apology before being sentenced.
“Nobody deserves to be put through the events that were caused by me on those days,” Stanton said. “That is not the kind of person I am or was ever raised to be. I was at a very big low of my life, suffering from substance abuse and untreated trauma and depression from witnessing the assassination of my father. I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
(Greg:His Dad had so many enemies that police had no end in suspects. Some speculated that the club was worried he would spill the beans to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.)
https://www.burnabynow.com/news/son-of-notorious-murdered-ex-hells-angel-from-burnaby-sentenced-for-crime-spree-1.23878564
https://studylib.net/doc/8781704/overview-of-the-vancouver-gang-war
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