Anthony (Tony) Terezakis Of HA Could Be Facing More Charges
Greg Carr
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b97a8460-2c6c-49ea-81f0-83a6777e57ef&k=97607
(Comments in brackets my own.)
Jonathan Woodward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, July 19, 2007
An alleged Hells Angels associate may be on the hook again after the B.C.
Court of Appeal ruled Thursday a charge against him under Canadian anti-gang
laws did not violate the Charter of Rights.
The ruling against Anthony (Tony) Terezakis - a 43-year-old convicted drug
boss who videotaped bizarre assaults on his victims - restores the Crown's
broad powers to prosecute anyone who is a member of a criminal organization.
"When the law was ruled unconstitutional, that took a bullet out of their
gun," said Victoria criminal lawyer Kevin McCullough. "Now, that bullet has
been put back in."
Terezakis had been charged with instructing the commission of an offence for
the benefit of a criminal organization that allegedly used mobile
laboratories to supply crack cocaine and heroin to a highly organized
street-level distribution operation in the Downtown Eastside.
(This operation took place at the American Hotel in the DTES. This notorious
bar was owned by the Hell's Angels. It is interesting to note that Terezakis
had the support of the Salvation Army at his sentencing. Criminals with
lengthy prison records have been known to bully homeless ppl at their
shelters and not be reprimanded by staff. The Sally Ann of course has a red
and white motif just like HAMC.)
Instruction is the most serious offence in the organized-crime laws, and
carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The jury heard that Terezakis videotaped a series of assaults, including
bizarre scenes in which he handed out Bibles and delivered spiritual sermons
as he beat his victims.
(At one point the Vancouver Province had a story about 7 men who went
missing after being last seen at the American Hotel. Police surveillance
cameras (great work) showed six of them in obvious fear and one person with
a big smile. None of the men were ever found to my knowledge. Despite the
assaults which included being defecated on not one victim testified. The
videotapes that Terezakis made he was so obsessed with he copied over his
marriage ceremony and his children's birthdays.)
He was convicted on three counts of assault with a weapon and eight counts
of assault and sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison - largely on the strength
of those videotapes.
But Justice Heather Holmes of the B.C. Supreme Court threw out the
instruction charge on the grounds that it was too broad and therefore
violated Section 7 of the Charter, which guarantees Canadians' right to
life, liberty and security.
In her 46-page ruling, she agreed with Terezakis' defence lawyer, Matthew
Nathanson, who argued that a person who was part of any organization - not
only a criminal organization - who instructed another member to commit an
illegal act would be caught by the law.
Nathanson argued that if three members of a baseball team were growing
marijuana, the entire team could be considered part of a criminal
organization.
The federal justice department appealed, and in hearings in March argued
Judge Holmes had erred on "all key aspects of her ruling."
The three-judge appeal panel agreed with the justice department and said the
law was not so vague it would catch people who were simply part of an
organization one of whose members had committed a crime.
Using Nathanson's baseball example, Justice Mackenzie wrote that if the
infielders were growing marijuana, the outfielders could not be charged
under the law.
"The fact that both the infielders and the outfielders are members of a team
that plays baseball does not make the team the group in these
circumstances," he wrote. "The team's purpose and activity is baseball, not
the facilitation or commission of a serious offence.
"In the result, I have concluded that the instruction offence is not
constitutionally flawed," he wrote.
The ruling could mean another trial on the instruction charge for Terezakis.
McCulloch said he wouldn't be surprised if there was an appeal.
"Even the loose connection to a criminal organization is something no one
would want to have after this ruling," said McCulloch. "The message is:
don't get tangled up with those groups."
jwoo...@png.canwest.com
Excellent. This is long overdue. I have met a number of ppl lately who have
joined HA and it is time these ppl start drawing long stretches in prison.
Even if they never do anything illegal just the fact the leaders of the org
can get them to admit being part of it can be used to intimidate ppl and
further the aims of the Hell's Angels.
Anthony (Big Tony) Tony Beck of HUDD and the Transportation Group Of
Companies and Anthony (Tony sometimes Big Tony) Terezakis are not known to
have any association other than both being HA. It is useful for crime groups
to have ppl with similar names as it makes things hard to figure out. Tony
Beck aka Anthony Beck is a thief and a liar and a drunk and a rapist but he
wouldn't defecate on someone nor use drugs. Terezakis is a violent man who
defecates on ppl after beating them as well as running drugs such as cocaine
and H. Just remember HA ppl NO NEEDLES.
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POLICE BUST INTRICATE ORGANIZED CRIME RING
Vancouver Sun (14 Aug 2003)
A two-year police investigation -- Project Ecru -- has struck a major blow
against a large crack cocaine trafficking organization. Sun reporters Neal
Hall, Chad Skelton and David Hogben tell the story of murder, money and
mobile drug labs
A two-year investigation aimed at cracking down on organized crime and
motorcycle gangs in the Lower Mainland has resulted in charges against 12
men, including an alleged Hells Angels associate, police said Wednesday.
The investigation marks the first time in B.C. history that a person has
been charged under new federal organized-crime legislation.
Anthony Terezakis, 43, the alleged Hells Angels associate, has been charged
with instructing the commission of an offence for the benefit of a criminal
organization -- a drug ring -- that allegedly used mobile laboratories to
supply crack cocaine and heroin to a highly organized street-level
distribution operation in the Downtown Eastside.
Police said the arrests -- of suspects in Vancouver, Kelowna, and
Winnipeg - -- will strike a blow against organized crime.
"It is a major breakthrough in the sense that we brought an organized crime
charge against an individual," said Vancouver RCMP Inspector Bob Paulson,
the case manager of the investigation, which involved 38 officers from the
Vancouver and Abbotsford police departments, the RCMP and the Organized
Crime Agency of B.C.
Paulson said the arrests indicate the value of integrated investigations of
this kind.
"Organized crime is so complicated, that's the only way to catch these
guys," he said.
Terezakis was sentenced earlier this year to a term of house arrest for
acting as the "muscle" in a marijuana trafficking deal.
An application for a search warrant filed by Vancouver police Detective
Constable Christopher Graham, and obtained by The Vancouver Sun, alleges
that Terezakis ran a sophisticated drug trafficking operation from the
American Hotel, renting three rooms under different names.
Police had the hotel under close surveillance on Aug. 6 and 7, according to
Graham's application.
"Surveillance ... indicated that Terezakis is continuing to operate his
drug distribution network out of the hotel," Graham states. "I observed
members of his organization in and around the hotel during the surveillance,
as well as a multitude of drug addict[s] hanging around the doors of the
hotel."
According to the search warrant, the Vancouver police Emergency Response
Team arrested Terezakis Aug. 7 as he stepped out of his blue 1997 Mercedes
Benz at the back of the American Hotel.
In his affidavit, Graham says he asked for the assistance of the ERT because
he was aware of "weapons, including handguns, being in the possession of
Terezakis and other members of his group."
Following Terezakis's arrest, police searched his three rooms, where they
found a makeshift weapon -- a steel bar with a taped handgrip -- and pieces
of paper that appeared to be used to keep track of drug trafficking
business.
Terezakis's older brother, John, 45, was sentenced last summer to 12 years
in prison for playing an "executive-level" role in a deal involving 50
kilograms of cocaine.
Also charged as a result of the joint investigation are Sean Casselman, 30,
and Gus Lioudakis, 61, both of Vancouver, and Andrew Goosen, 19, of
Abbotsford, who are alleged to have conspired together to traffic in cocaine
and heroin.
The indictment against Terezakis states that he, Casselman, Lioudakis,
Goosen and others are part of a criminal organization. Casselman is also
charged with possession of an unlicensed restricted weapon -- a .357 magnum
revolver.
Lioudakis is believed to have been the hotel manager at the American Hotel
at the time the drug offences were allegedly committed.
Also charged with conspiring together to traffic in cocaine are Aviv Ciulla,
32, and Jairo Castenada, 39 of Vancouver. The charges relate to the 1995
seizure of 305 kilograms of cocaine from a vehicle in the Fraser Valley and
a home in East Vancouver.
Ciulla and Castenada are also charged with Salvatore Ciancio, 40, of
Vancouver with conspiring to traffic in cocaine. Ciancio is currently in
custody awaiting trial in the December 1995 first-degree murders of Eugene
and Michelle Uyeyama of Burnaby.
(He was acquited despite admitting to numerous murders. The Crown just
couldn't prove which ones.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=bd9246cd-771d-403b-abf4-7544120c15b9&k=53633)
Drug trafficking and conspiracy charges have also been laid against Michael
Anthony Ovsenek, 37, Sydney Dallas, 44, of Vancouver, Brent Anthony Licht,
36, of Kelowna, Salvatore Santalucia, 34, of Vancouver and Scott Andrew
Rosza, 32, of Winnipeg.
Ovsenek was recently convicted of contempt of court and sentenced to 90 days
following his refusal to be sworn as a defence witness at the trial of
Dallas, who was convicted of cocaine conspiracy charges and sentenced to 12
years in prison.
Licht is facing serious drug charges in the United States but was recently
successful in resisting an application to have him extradited to face these
charges.
Gary Bass, assistant commissioner of the RCMP in B.C. and head of criminal
operations for the region, said the latest success by police reflects the
top priority being afforded to fighting organized crime and the strong
benefit of recent federal changes to organized crime legislation.
In January of 2002 Bill C-24 came into effect giving both police and
prosecutors tough new powers to deal with organized crime.
Under the new legislation, three new offences were added under the organized
crime category, stronger sentences for organized criminals were introduced,
and much stronger protection for witnesses and jurors was brought in.
"Criminal groups rely upon intimidation and fear to stay organized," Paulson
said. "What we are finding is that our new approach to fighting organized
crime combined with the new legislation is taking away some of the fear
factor and helping to unglue the nature of organized crime."
In Quebec, police have been very successful in having charges laid against
what are termed "enhancers" of organized crime activity -- individuals not
directly involved in organized crime but who provide services or products
like leased automobiles to known organized crime elements.
(Hopefully that will happen in all the other provinces as well.)
The B.C. investigation, code-named Project Ecru, arose out of drug and
murder investigations in 1995, beginning with a 305-kilogram seizure of
cocaine worth about $9 million at the wholesale level and about $30-million
on the street.
The cocaine was seized in two places: On the Trans-Canada Highway at
McCallum Road in Abbotsford and in a home in the 2900-block of East Fifth
Avenue in Vancouver.
In the first seizure on Sept. 24, 1995, Chilliwack RCMP stopped a car and
found more than 135 kilograms of cocaine inside the vehicle, which had been
rented in Alberta. Two Quebec men were charged with possession of a
narcotic.
Then, on Sept. 29, the RCMP drug squad found 170 kilograms of cocaine along
with an AR-10 assault rifle in the Vancouver home.
After the drug busts, seven murders took place that police believe were tied
to the cocaine trade.
In December 1995, Eugene Uyeyama, 35, and his wife Michele, 30, were
tortured and killed before their home was set on fire.
It is believed the Uyeyamas were killed because they were involved with a
criminal organization importing cocaine and were considered informers who
had apparently talked to police about protection. (News reports have listed
that as a fact.)
And in September 1996, five people were killed at a rural Abbotsford
farmhouse: Raymond Graves, 70; his wife Sonto Graves, 56; their son David
Kernail Sangha, 37, and family friends Daryl Brian Klassen and his wife
Teresa Klassen, both 30.
The Graves were allegedly killed because they owed a drug debt. The
Klassens, who were also involved in the cocaine trade, had apparently
dropped by to visit.
A joint police investigation first concentrated on the drug murders, which
led to charges against three men last year.
Robert ( Bobby ) Moyes was charged with the five murders at the Abbotsford
farm along with Mark Therrien, 39. He was also charged with the murders of
the Uyeyamas along with Salvatore Ciancio, 40. (I heard that Moyes had
nothing to do with it and the media had it all wrong. Talked about it yrs
later in a bar while drunk for no reason to a total stranger and came to a
lot of unwelcome biker attention. Live and learn and a good reason to sober
up.)
Last Oct. 10, Moyes pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder
and was sentenced by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald McKinnon to a
mandatory life sentence without parole for 25 years.
Moyes was already serving a life sentence for robbery when took part in the
alleged contract killings. (He did the killings while on parole. He was
granted parole after 7 yrs despite having recieved a life sentence for
robbery. He had previously stabbed a law enforcement officer 5 times and
amassed numerous convictions. He began to use heroin again while on parole.)
Moyes and Ciancio became the targets of a police investigation after a
Richmond housewife, Tami Morrisroe, infiltrated a criminal organization in
1996 that was believed to have links with Cali cocaine cartel in Colombia.
Morrisroe said years ago that she was trying to dig up evidence to help
exonerate her father, Sid Morrisroe, who was then serving a life sentence
for murder.
Eventually, realizing she was in over her head, Tami Morrisroe, turned to
police for help.
The RCMP enlisted her as a police agent and wired her purse to transmit
conversations within the alleged criminal organization.
When police believed things had become too dangerous, Tami Morrisroe entered
the witness protection program in 1996. (Morrisroe was not found credible
by the court when she testified.)
Her father has always maintained he was not involved in the murder of
Penthouse nightclub owner Joe Philliponi.
Sid Morrisroe, a 68-year-old former boxer and plumbing contractor, was
recently granted full parole after serving 19 years in prison.
His claim of wrongful conviction is being reviewed by the Association in
Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted, which is headed by former U.S. boxing
champ Rubin ( Hurricane ) Carter, who moved to Canada after being released
from prison in the U.S., where a judge found he was wrongly convicted of
murder.
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is involved with
> extortion, homicide, kidnapping, prostitution, meth and cocaine
> dealing, rape, armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child
> pornography
> as well as phony currency and witness intimidation and obstruction of
> justice. They have been known to bribe and scare law enforcement
> officers and judges into doing their bidding. These ppl must be
> rooted
> out of the Cdn justice system. Two judges have actually done their
> job
> and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist is
> calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org. This latest court ruling
> is an excellent step forward.
> The White Rock chapter Sgt.Of Arms, Villy Roy Lynnerup, recently was
> arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR
> with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into the
> Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in exchange for
> the
> release of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned full patch members. All
> the
> Hell's Angels, their supporters, associates etc. should be imprisoned
> for twenty years,
> their children put in foster care and their assets seized.
Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you support this
then write letters to editors of local newspapers and your local MP.
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