Article in Goldstream Gazette says a chapter is setting up a clubhouse on Spencer Rd.Looks like Victoria isnt a sleepy little town anymore.I wonder if they will have an impact on the escort trade here?
Hells Angels comming to langford.
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They don't really have an impact in the Nanaimo escort scene so I don't see them having much of an impact here?
Think they'll have to worry more about turf wars in regards to the drug trade rather than the sp industry?
between having a friend raped on her sixteenth birthday to another forcebly confined and sex slaved out for a couple of weeks to pay a boyfriends coke debt... i'd say they're pretty fucked.
don't be a sheep. thats how they flourish. i'll be calling the cops everytime i see those fuckers. i'll make shit up. just as long as they are getting plenty of visits from LE.
don't be a sheep. thats how they flourish. i'll be calling the cops everytime i see those fuckers. i'll make shit up. just as long as they are getting plenty of visits from LE.
How Hells Angels and criminal gangs came to control much of the Vancouver docks
VANCOUVER — More than two dozen of the longshoremen unloading container ships on the docks of Metro Vancouver are Hells Angels, their associates, other gangsters or people with serious criminal records, a Vancouver Sun investigation has found.
The infiltration of gangsters and criminals into the port workforce is perpetuated by a longtime employment practice that allows existing union members to nominate friends, relatives and associates when new jobs become available.
Police say organized crime maintains this foothold on the waterfront for strategic purposes — so drugs and other contraband can be smuggled in some of the more than 1.5 million containers that pass through the four container terminals at Port Metro Vancouver every year.
Just over three per cent of containers arriving here are checked by the Canada Border Services Agency. “It is a concern to us. We feel that a lot of the illegal drugs that come into this country come in through our ports,” said Det.-Staff. Sgt. Len Isnor, the country’s top law enforcement expert on the Hells Angels.
Isnor, who works for the Ontario Provincial Police, has testified at several major B.C. cases involving the biker gang. Isnor said the Hells Angels have maintained a foothold in Canada’s three largest ports — Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax — for the past 30 years. “So as far as the ports are concerned, it’s the whole success of the Hells Angels.”
While airports have tightened security in the post-9/11 world, Metro Vancouver docks remain relatively porous, allowing people linked to organized crime, and even some convicted of international drug smuggling, to work on the waterfront.
The Sun has identified at least six full-patch Hells Angels who are active members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
More here: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/metro-vancouver-docks-special-investigation-768024
VANCOUVER — More than two dozen of the longshoremen unloading container ships on the docks of Metro Vancouver are Hells Angels, their associates, other gangsters or people with serious criminal records, a Vancouver Sun investigation has found.
The infiltration of gangsters and criminals into the port workforce is perpetuated by a longtime employment practice that allows existing union members to nominate friends, relatives and associates when new jobs become available.
Police say organized crime maintains this foothold on the waterfront for strategic purposes — so drugs and other contraband can be smuggled in some of the more than 1.5 million containers that pass through the four container terminals at Port Metro Vancouver every year.
Just over three per cent of containers arriving here are checked by the Canada Border Services Agency. “It is a concern to us. We feel that a lot of the illegal drugs that come into this country come in through our ports,” said Det.-Staff. Sgt. Len Isnor, the country’s top law enforcement expert on the Hells Angels.
Isnor, who works for the Ontario Provincial Police, has testified at several major B.C. cases involving the biker gang. Isnor said the Hells Angels have maintained a foothold in Canada’s three largest ports — Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax — for the past 30 years. “So as far as the ports are concerned, it’s the whole success of the Hells Angels.”
While airports have tightened security in the post-9/11 world, Metro Vancouver docks remain relatively porous, allowing people linked to organized crime, and even some convicted of international drug smuggling, to work on the waterfront.
The Sun has identified at least six full-patch Hells Angels who are active members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
More here: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/metro-vancouver-docks-special-investigation-768024
They been moving in for awhile now but no they wont have anything to do with the trade, black magic and others one have it taken over pretty well and black magics a very big favourite for that area and etc. Clients seem to love and adore that agency so they can try but it wont do much honestly.
Isnor said the HA have been in the ports for the past 30 years....hell man, organized crime has been running the ports much longer than that. try 50 years +.
do these reporters check there facts. As any person entering port of vancouver has to have a criminal records check and background check, or they dont get the port pass. What they check for is a fed issue. That was one of the reasons the Canary closed down as it was on the port and to get access to the restruant they had to be buzzed in. And this allowed people to enter no questions asked. THese rules have been in effect for about 10 years.
I have worked with members and hangarounds, prospects. Many have real jobs and the club is something else and may not be related to there work
I have worked with members and hangarounds, prospects. Many have real jobs and the club is something else and may not be related to there work
Hells Angel nominates fellow biker for longshore job
When full-patch West Point Hells Angels Ryan Sept wanted work as a longshoreman last year, he needed someone to get him into the union. That person appears to have been fellow West Point member Larry Amero, who’s been sitting in jail in Montreal since November 2012 awaiting trial for his alleged role in an international cocaine smuggling ring.
The Vancouver Sun obtained a copy of the list of applicants for entry into the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 502, which includes the names of their sponsors in the union. Sept’s sponsor is listed as “L. Amero.” The Sun has confirmed there is no other Amero in the local with a first name that starts with L.
Amero couldn’t sign the form in person because of his predicament. So Sept had a second sponsor listed beside his name — full-patch Hells Angel and longtime longshoreman Al DeBruyn.
Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon said it’s disturbing that one member of the Hells Angels can sponsor another Hells Angel to work on the waterfront at Port Metro Vancouver. He said the union and management should be “addressing the question of who’s working down there on the docks. From the union perspective, I’m sure you would find there is a great deal of cronyism going on — that these jobs pass from one hand to another. And as they do so, individuals who are possibly involved in organized crime are passing the jobs on to their buddies, either directly or indirectly.”
In fact, jobs can be passed down like family heirlooms. Amero’s dad was a longshoreman. Gangster Mani Buttar, who is on Local 502’s executive, also worked on the docks with his dad and brother Kelly until Kelly was killed in a targeted hit in 2001. Other union jobs go to cousins, friends or associates, even if they belong to the Hells Angels — a group that the B.C. government has identified as a criminal organization.
Andy Smith, president of the B.C. Maritime Employers Association, said all the workers for longshore jobs are provided by the union, while the BCMEA’s job is to ensure they’re competent and properly-trained. “When business requires that we need more longshore guys, we determine what that number is, we tell the Local we need another couple of hundred guys, they come up with them,” Smith said. “They then have to get through our screening process. Our screening process is based on their ability to do the job. It is not based on their personal, social, criminal or other kinds of history.”
Port Metro Vancouver vice-president Peter Xotta said many want to become longshore workers because the jobs pay well — anywhere from $39 an hour to more than $70 an hour for weekend and night shifts. “These are good jobs on the waterfront,” he said.
But outsiders need not apply.
The two largest ILWU locals in Metro Vancouver are Local 500, which provides workers to Vancouver’s two container terminals, and Local 502, whose members work at the other two container terminals, at Deltaport and Surrey-Fraser docks.
Local 500 notes on its website how elusive the lucrative jobs are: “NOTHING is open to the general public. All jobs, training, and apprenticeship information contained on these pages is strictly for registered ACTIVE longshore workers (Members and Casuals,)” the site says. “New hires are only taken in during a recruitment drive. These drives occur once every few years. We will post information regarding recruitment as it becomes available. Do not phone the office asking when the next recruitment drive will take place.”
Local 502 — the one to which both Sept and Amero belong — holds a “draw” to bolster the number of casual workers who can be dispatched to the port when necessary. Each member of the local sponsors a person whose name is entered in the draw to determine the order in which new workers will get shifts. Sept was lucky enough to get picked 69 out of more than 800 names in the hat. That means he’s already getting longshore work.
Both ILWU local 502 and the union’s national office have declined repeated interview requests from The Vancouver Sun. And Sept did not respond to an emailed interview request.
Another man entered in the Local 502 draw last year was Mauro Zuzolo. Someone with the same name was identified in court documents as an unindicted co-conspirator in a United Nations gang plot to kill the Bacon brothers. Zuzolo’s name was picked in spot 662, meaning he has not yet been called to work.
Details of the draw remained on Local 502’s website for several weeks allowing The Sun to download the information before it was removed.
Sept mentions both his ILWU and HA affiliations on his Facebook page. The main photo on the page is a bumper sticker on a motorcycle that says: “Free Larry.”
Senator Colin Kenny, who has studied the criminal problem at Canada’s ports for years, said it’s too easy for Hells Angels and others linked to organized crime to get work on the waterfront. “There is not enough of a common approach because it’s too easy for folks like Hells Angels to move around (at the ports),” he said. “Montreal is hands down the worst. It’s not Hells Angels there, it’s Westies. Not only does the union control things there, but they can put people in specific jobs.”
The Westies is the nickname for the West End Gang, also known as the Irish Mafia. Several police investigations of drug stashes in shipping containers over the last 20 years have revealed the gang’s influence at the Port of Montreal.
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/05/13/hells-angel-nominates-fellow-biker-for-longshore-job/
When full-patch West Point Hells Angels Ryan Sept wanted work as a longshoreman last year, he needed someone to get him into the union. That person appears to have been fellow West Point member Larry Amero, who’s been sitting in jail in Montreal since November 2012 awaiting trial for his alleged role in an international cocaine smuggling ring.
The Vancouver Sun obtained a copy of the list of applicants for entry into the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 502, which includes the names of their sponsors in the union. Sept’s sponsor is listed as “L. Amero.” The Sun has confirmed there is no other Amero in the local with a first name that starts with L.
Amero couldn’t sign the form in person because of his predicament. So Sept had a second sponsor listed beside his name — full-patch Hells Angel and longtime longshoreman Al DeBruyn.
Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon said it’s disturbing that one member of the Hells Angels can sponsor another Hells Angel to work on the waterfront at Port Metro Vancouver. He said the union and management should be “addressing the question of who’s working down there on the docks. From the union perspective, I’m sure you would find there is a great deal of cronyism going on — that these jobs pass from one hand to another. And as they do so, individuals who are possibly involved in organized crime are passing the jobs on to their buddies, either directly or indirectly.”
In fact, jobs can be passed down like family heirlooms. Amero’s dad was a longshoreman. Gangster Mani Buttar, who is on Local 502’s executive, also worked on the docks with his dad and brother Kelly until Kelly was killed in a targeted hit in 2001. Other union jobs go to cousins, friends or associates, even if they belong to the Hells Angels — a group that the B.C. government has identified as a criminal organization.
Andy Smith, president of the B.C. Maritime Employers Association, said all the workers for longshore jobs are provided by the union, while the BCMEA’s job is to ensure they’re competent and properly-trained. “When business requires that we need more longshore guys, we determine what that number is, we tell the Local we need another couple of hundred guys, they come up with them,” Smith said. “They then have to get through our screening process. Our screening process is based on their ability to do the job. It is not based on their personal, social, criminal or other kinds of history.”
Port Metro Vancouver vice-president Peter Xotta said many want to become longshore workers because the jobs pay well — anywhere from $39 an hour to more than $70 an hour for weekend and night shifts. “These are good jobs on the waterfront,” he said.
But outsiders need not apply.
The two largest ILWU locals in Metro Vancouver are Local 500, which provides workers to Vancouver’s two container terminals, and Local 502, whose members work at the other two container terminals, at Deltaport and Surrey-Fraser docks.
Local 500 notes on its website how elusive the lucrative jobs are: “NOTHING is open to the general public. All jobs, training, and apprenticeship information contained on these pages is strictly for registered ACTIVE longshore workers (Members and Casuals,)” the site says. “New hires are only taken in during a recruitment drive. These drives occur once every few years. We will post information regarding recruitment as it becomes available. Do not phone the office asking when the next recruitment drive will take place.”
Local 502 — the one to which both Sept and Amero belong — holds a “draw” to bolster the number of casual workers who can be dispatched to the port when necessary. Each member of the local sponsors a person whose name is entered in the draw to determine the order in which new workers will get shifts. Sept was lucky enough to get picked 69 out of more than 800 names in the hat. That means he’s already getting longshore work.
Both ILWU local 502 and the union’s national office have declined repeated interview requests from The Vancouver Sun. And Sept did not respond to an emailed interview request.
Another man entered in the Local 502 draw last year was Mauro Zuzolo. Someone with the same name was identified in court documents as an unindicted co-conspirator in a United Nations gang plot to kill the Bacon brothers. Zuzolo’s name was picked in spot 662, meaning he has not yet been called to work.
Details of the draw remained on Local 502’s website for several weeks allowing The Sun to download the information before it was removed.
Sept mentions both his ILWU and HA affiliations on his Facebook page. The main photo on the page is a bumper sticker on a motorcycle that says: “Free Larry.”
Senator Colin Kenny, who has studied the criminal problem at Canada’s ports for years, said it’s too easy for Hells Angels and others linked to organized crime to get work on the waterfront. “There is not enough of a common approach because it’s too easy for folks like Hells Angels to move around (at the ports),” he said. “Montreal is hands down the worst. It’s not Hells Angels there, it’s Westies. Not only does the union control things there, but they can put people in specific jobs.”
The Westies is the nickname for the West End Gang, also known as the Irish Mafia. Several police investigations of drug stashes in shipping containers over the last 20 years have revealed the gang’s influence at the Port of Montreal.
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/05/13/hells-angel-nominates-fellow-biker-for-longshore-job/
When one applies for these jobs they are usually hired on merit. They all go through a background check. SO I could be a rapist, ax murder or serial killer on parole. All the criminal records check does is put a star beside my name. I am hired because I can unload containers faster than joe shmow.
If I was a rapest and applied for a job with young girls THe hiring people would most likely disqualify me but for a job running a forklift i may be hired.
Smuggling in containers is done by hackers now a days. Its all about barcodes etc. All they need to do is reroute a container with tvs. SO would need to know the factory the samsungs come from and change manifest to widgets drop ship to warehouse. THis used to be a bigger problem especially when it came to booze. Buddy friend of club would call friend x and say truck leaving to Dawson creek. THey know he has to sleep in town x. Truck would loose some load then and seals added again.
If I was a rapest and applied for a job with young girls THe hiring people would most likely disqualify me but for a job running a forklift i may be hired.
Smuggling in containers is done by hackers now a days. Its all about barcodes etc. All they need to do is reroute a container with tvs. SO would need to know the factory the samsungs come from and change manifest to widgets drop ship to warehouse. THis used to be a bigger problem especially when it came to booze. Buddy friend of club would call friend x and say truck leaving to Dawson creek. THey know he has to sleep in town x. Truck would loose some load then and seals added again.
It's very well known that lots of said sponsors actually sell the right to be sponsors or sell applications to get in, the ports will always be rife with corruption
Government wants to change tactics in case against Hells Angels
May 14, 2015. 4:04 pm • Section: The Real Scoop
The B.C. government wants to change its tactics in a long-running civil forfeiture case against three Hells Angels’ chapters.
Lawyer John Hunter told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies Thursday that the government will try to prove the Hells Angels is a criminal organization and that its clubhouses should be forfeited because they would be used for further criminal activity.
Hunter asked Davies to amend the government’s pleadings to remove individual criminal allegations against several HA members that had bogged down the proceedings for years. The director of civil forfeiture had leveled allegations stemming in part from wiretaps out of police investigations where no charges were ever laid.
Hunter said Thursday that the director now wants to remove all those allegations from its case, which would end a series of challenges and allow the case to move forward. “What we propose is amendments that would drop all the allegations of specific criminal acts by individuals,” Hunter said. “So the theory becomes relatively simple and it has two parts. The first is that we have to establish that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a criminal organization in the meaning of the criminal code.”
The second part of the case would be to prove the clubhouses of the Nanaimo, East End Vancouver and Kelowna chapter “are instruments that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club use to further their criminal activity,” Hunter said.
He said that if the new pleadings are accepted, he would rely on evidence from key law enforcement experts on the biker gang. “The principal evidence I intend to call is opinion evidence that will explain….the nature of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, their purposes and operation and the role that clubhouses play in the organization as such. That’s the way I intend to prove the case,” Hunter said.
He pointed to a recent B.C. case convicting a Nanaimo angel of extortion in which the judge said that the Hells Angels is “an organization, I think it may safely be said, that is notorious throughout North America for criminal activity.”
Hells Angels lawyer Joe Arvay argued against the proposed amendments to the pleadings, saying that they were unconstitutional – just like the Civil Forfeiture Act itself. Arvay said that parliament has not made being a member of the Hells Angels a crime. Nor is it a crime for the bikers to operate their clubhouses, he said.
The attempt to seize the clubhouses is just a pretext for the provincial government’s “main purpose, which is to drive the Hells Angels out of British Columbia,” Arvay said. “It does this by what is the creation of a new offence not found in the criminal code,” Arvay said. “Clearly the province, the director, think the Hells Angels are a public evil, but that’s not their business.” Arvay urged Davies to throw out the case.
The judge, who said he would reserve his decision, made several comments about the length of time the case has taken. “I am embarrassed by the fact that after eight years on the job, I haven’t even been able to get it even close to trial,” he said.
The case began in November 2007 when police moved in and seized the Nanaimo clubhouse, launching the court battle over its ownership. Then in November 2012, the director of civil forfeiture went to court to seize the East End and Kelowna clubhouses. The Hells Angels filed a counter-suit in October 2013, seeking to have the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act declared unconstitutional.
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/05/14/government-wants-to-change-tactics-in-case-against-hells-angels/
May 14, 2015. 4:04 pm • Section: The Real Scoop
The B.C. government wants to change its tactics in a long-running civil forfeiture case against three Hells Angels’ chapters.
Lawyer John Hunter told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies Thursday that the government will try to prove the Hells Angels is a criminal organization and that its clubhouses should be forfeited because they would be used for further criminal activity.
Hunter asked Davies to amend the government’s pleadings to remove individual criminal allegations against several HA members that had bogged down the proceedings for years. The director of civil forfeiture had leveled allegations stemming in part from wiretaps out of police investigations where no charges were ever laid.
Hunter said Thursday that the director now wants to remove all those allegations from its case, which would end a series of challenges and allow the case to move forward. “What we propose is amendments that would drop all the allegations of specific criminal acts by individuals,” Hunter said. “So the theory becomes relatively simple and it has two parts. The first is that we have to establish that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a criminal organization in the meaning of the criminal code.”
The second part of the case would be to prove the clubhouses of the Nanaimo, East End Vancouver and Kelowna chapter “are instruments that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club use to further their criminal activity,” Hunter said.
He said that if the new pleadings are accepted, he would rely on evidence from key law enforcement experts on the biker gang. “The principal evidence I intend to call is opinion evidence that will explain….the nature of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, their purposes and operation and the role that clubhouses play in the organization as such. That’s the way I intend to prove the case,” Hunter said.
He pointed to a recent B.C. case convicting a Nanaimo angel of extortion in which the judge said that the Hells Angels is “an organization, I think it may safely be said, that is notorious throughout North America for criminal activity.”
Hells Angels lawyer Joe Arvay argued against the proposed amendments to the pleadings, saying that they were unconstitutional – just like the Civil Forfeiture Act itself. Arvay said that parliament has not made being a member of the Hells Angels a crime. Nor is it a crime for the bikers to operate their clubhouses, he said.
The attempt to seize the clubhouses is just a pretext for the provincial government’s “main purpose, which is to drive the Hells Angels out of British Columbia,” Arvay said. “It does this by what is the creation of a new offence not found in the criminal code,” Arvay said. “Clearly the province, the director, think the Hells Angels are a public evil, but that’s not their business.” Arvay urged Davies to throw out the case.
The judge, who said he would reserve his decision, made several comments about the length of time the case has taken. “I am embarrassed by the fact that after eight years on the job, I haven’t even been able to get it even close to trial,” he said.
The case began in November 2007 when police moved in and seized the Nanaimo clubhouse, launching the court battle over its ownership. Then in November 2012, the director of civil forfeiture went to court to seize the East End and Kelowna clubhouses. The Hells Angels filed a counter-suit in October 2013, seeking to have the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act declared unconstitutional.
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/05/14/government-wants-to-change-tactics-in-case-against-hells-angels/
Cops seizing things first and going to court later is a dangerous trend.
There are lots of greaseball cops (sorry, is that redundant?) in the US that seize everything they can with no reasonable grounds. They know for most people it is too expensive to fight a seizure in the courts. Some departments and jurisdictions expect a certain proportion of their revenue to come from seizure of assets. Which is like giving the cops a quota to steal/seize.
There was a great episode of American Justice with Bill Kurtis about this. Cops pull over a lady with kids in a minivan. Search the van -- with no justifiable grounds --- and her, and find $300. Cops declare it to be drug money and take it. She had just been paid and was on her way to buy groceries. Kurtis interviewed the DA, a truly disgusting piece of scum, who laughed and said if she wanted her money she could sue them anytime. Oh yeah...she was black.
I do not want Canadian cops doing that shit. They already worship the Americans too much. We do not need them grabbing everything they can just because they can get away with it.
There are lots of greaseball cops (sorry, is that redundant?) in the US that seize everything they can with no reasonable grounds. They know for most people it is too expensive to fight a seizure in the courts. Some departments and jurisdictions expect a certain proportion of their revenue to come from seizure of assets. Which is like giving the cops a quota to steal/seize.
There was a great episode of American Justice with Bill Kurtis about this. Cops pull over a lady with kids in a minivan. Search the van -- with no justifiable grounds --- and her, and find $300. Cops declare it to be drug money and take it. She had just been paid and was on her way to buy groceries. Kurtis interviewed the DA, a truly disgusting piece of scum, who laughed and said if she wanted her money she could sue them anytime. Oh yeah...she was black.
I do not want Canadian cops doing that shit. They already worship the Americans too much. We do not need them grabbing everything they can just because they can get away with it.
