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ROCHESTER - A federal grand jury in Rochester has indicted Hell’s Angels with drug-trafficking, racketeering and other charges. (Democrat and Chronicle) MORE: Hells Angels accused of dealing meth

Mortgage fraud

SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond Foakes, 48, a former president of the Sonoma County Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has been sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to 5 years and 10 months in prison for his role in a $10M mortgage fraud scheme. (San Francisco Appeal) MORE: Hells Angel sentenced

Drug charge

Ottawa Hells Angels president Paul "Sasquatch" Porter has long avoided prison time, but his luck may run out this spring when he goes on trial for trafficking. (PostMedia)

60 years

CHICAGO - Mark Polchan - a high-ranking member of the Outlaws motorcycle club who was also the right-hand man to a Chicago mob boss - was sentenced to 60 years in prison. (Chicago Sun-Times) MORE: 60 year sentence Outfit on trial

Collecting child support

TORONTO - How do you collect child support from someone who has a secret identity and address? (Toronto Star)

Hells Angels under attack

LONDON - The Hells Angels in Ontario are under attack by an unexpected new foe - bureaucrats. (QMI)

2nd woman alleges assault

PRINCE GEORGE - For the second time in less than a year, a woman has alleged to police that she was raped inside the Renegades clubhouse in Prince George. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: 3 charged

Biker gang rebuilding

PETERBOROUGH - The Outlaws seem to be setting up in an area typically associated with the Hells Angels. The Peterborough area in eastern Ontario has traditionally been associated with Satan’s Choice. But in the mid-1990s, the gang folded into the Hells Angels, which has been weakening in the region over recent years. (QMI) MORE: Bikers scuffle

Wave of shootings

MALMO - A wave of execution-style shootings and a police station bombing in Sweden's third largest city have sparked fears that gangster violence is taking hold in a Nordic country widely seen as one of the world's safest places. (AFP)

Clubhouse burns down

CALGARY - Firefighters rushed to an acreage east of Calgary and found the home, confirmed by police as a Hell's Angels clubhouse, engulfed in flames. (CTV)

4th suspect nabbed

LONDON - After 10 days on the lam, the fourth suspect wanted in the shooting of a Hells Angels member and a woman in London, Ont., is in custody. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Gang war brewing 3 arrested 2 shot near clubhouse Feud

Murder trial begins

VANCOUVER - 7 Okanagan men, including 2 full-patch Hells Angels, made their first appearance in a Vancouver courtroom for the June beating death of Kelowna resident Dain Phillips2. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Bail Hells Angel surrenders 7 charged

Bikers building in Thailand

Bikie Inc Australia is spreading its wings overseas. Local Hells Angels and Bandidos club members own nightspots in Thailand tourist centres that have become popular haunts for bikies worldwide. (Courier Mail AU)

Biker bust

SAN ANTONIO - Almost 40 members and associates of the Bandido Outlaw Motorcycle Gang have been arrested on a variety of federal drug and weapons charges. (AP) MORE: USDJ press release Undercover MC shop arrests

Bikers threaten to charge cop

CHATHAM - The owners of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club aren't happy with scrutiny from the Chatham-Kent Police Service's biker enforcement officer. They notified police that if Const. Yancy Eddie is spotted in or around the clubhouse premises at 27 Degge St in Chatham, they want him charged with trespassing. (QMI)

Infiltrator can pursue contract case

The government may have breached its settlement with a former federal agent who claims the Hell's Angels burned down his house in retaliation for his successful infiltration of their motorcycle gang, the US Court of Federal Claims ruled. (Courthouse News) Jay Dobyns

Bodies found

PITTSFIELD - District Attorney David Capeless says Adam Lee Hall, 34, David Chalue, 44, and Caius Veiovis, 31, were arrested and are being charged with murder, kidnapping, and witness intimidation. The 3 are accused of killing David Glasser, 44, Edward S. Frampton, 58, and Robert T. Chadwell, 47. Adam Lee Hall is the sergeant-at-arms of the Berkshire County chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. (Fox) MORE: 3 charged with murder 3 missing men Missing men

Driver charged

SAN LEANDRO - The driver of a paratransit van was charged with murder after police said he admitted to intentionally swerving into Hells Angels motorcycle club members on Interstate 580 in San Leandro, killing one of them. Alameda County prosecutors said they had charged Eddie Hall, 31, of Oakland with murder and felony hit-and-run in the Saturday crash that killed George Lopez Jr., 51, of Stockton. (San Francisco Chronicle) PREVIOUS: Hit and run Bus-motorcycle crash Road rage

Crackdown without informants

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg police relied on some old-fashioned detective work - rather than utilizing the services of a sneaky snitch - in their latest attack against the Hells Angels. (Winnipeg Free Press)

Prez arrested

Bikers dealt body blow

Prez arrested

Raids target Hells Angels, Redlined Support Crew

Police seize show bike

Firebombings linked to bikers

Rock Machine calls CTV

Biker war brews

Boy shot in home

OC unit investigating

Biker granted bail

Gang tensions

Biker gangs in 'active war'

Puppet biker clubs spreading

VANCOUVER - New biker clubs with links to the notorious Hells Angels are sprouting up all over BC, much to the concern of police specialists in outlaw motorcycle gangs. (Vancouver Sun)

Sentence cut

2 Hells Angels get 1 more day in jail

'Unrepentant criminal'

Not a criminal organization

Prosecutor should take the rap

Drug labs busted

Police agent says he collected cash

It's not a crime to be a Hells Angel

Don't prejudge Angels

Crown wants Hells Angels outlawed

Jury will decide

Jury selection underway

Blanket publication ban lifted

Video shows attack

Hells Angels share a laughs

No longer 'rolls with the club'

Payment for 'lost' marijuana

'We are the Hells Angels'

Police agent knocked out at nightclub

Hells Angels, UN Gang meeting

Biker jailed

SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP - Dennis "Rooster" Katona, 45, was arraigned on charges of possession and possession with intent to deliver and held on $750,000 bond in the Westmoreland County Prison. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Pagans Motorcycle Club

RIVERSIDE - The Vagos specialize in methamphetamine sales, weapons trafficking and violence, particularly toward law enforcement officers. (AP) MORE: Vagos MC New gang in town

Grow op blitz

CALGARY - Authorities from the AlLERT have shut down 9 Calgary area marijuana grow ops and seized an estimated $17M worth of pot. (CTV) MORE: Bikers tied to grow ops Guilty of trafficking painkillers

Charges withdrawn

LONDON, Ont. - Mario Parente, 60, former president of the Outlaws motorcycle club who faced 17 charges and Luis Ferreira, 33, facing nine charges, walked out of the Middlesex County court house free men. (Hamilton Spectator) MORE: Lack of witness sets free bikers Big show never took place Project Retire's targets and results

Bikers backed coke ring

EDMONTON - Two Hells Angels from the Edmonton chapter allegedly partnered up with a Fort McMurray drug kingpin to ensure his cocaine-trafficking operation ran smoothly. The full-patch Hells Angels are Alan Peter Knapczyk, 35, and John Reginald Alcantara, 37, and the head of the Fort McMurray drug gang is Jeffrey Mark Caines, 36. (Sun Media)

Drug dealers sentenced

EDMONTON - John Reginald Alcantara, Nicholas James Roberts, and Sean David Critch were found guilty earlier this year of conspiracy to traffic cocaine in 2005 and 2006. (Edmonton Journal) MORE: Prison for cocaine conspiracy

Arrests made

HAMILTON - A year-long OPP investigation resulted in the arrests of seven suspected bikers Tuesday and the seizure of more than $1 million worth of drugs, properties and vehicles. (CityNews)

Hells in Paradise

CABARETE - Up until last spring, when an international posse of cops possibly slowed down the Quebec Hells Angels’ various rackets as a result of a multi-year investigation labelled Operation SharQc, anyone obsessed with the biker gang’s various chapters need only head to Cabarete, on the impossibly beautiful North Coast of the Dominican Republic, to get up close and maybe even personal with their outlaw heroes. (Montreal Mirror)

Appeals court quashes challenge

BARRIE - Two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club have lost their challenge of Ottawa's anti-gang law in an appeals court ruling that upholds their conviction for extortion as well as the constitutionality of stiffer sentences for gangsters. (National Post) JUDGMENT: 2009 ONCA 0532 Court upholds 'anti-gang' law Angels' appeal gang law Hells Angels criminal organization, judge rules Hells Angels declared a criminal organization

'Tech guy' jailed

OTTAWA - Lloyd MacDonald, a 39-year-old PEI native with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to 24 charges, including conspiring with more than a dozen people to traffic cocaine. (QMI)

10 years for dealer

EDMONTON - Beau Yakimishyn, 27, had pleaded guilty to trafficking earlier this month. Seventeen other people were charged during the same sweep, including two members of the Edmonton Hells Angels. (Edmonton Journal)

Biker raid

OTTAWA - Police raided at least three homes early Wednesday morning, including a Hell's Angels clubhouse. A search warrant was executed at 5418 Eighth Line Road in Carlsbad Springs, the Hell's Angels clubhouse. (Ottawa Citizen) MORE: Branch dismantled Police take down drug ring Violence behind raids

Closed hearing

LOS ANGELES - n the summer of 2009, buried in court documents filed by federal prosecutors was the revelation that Ruben "Doc" Cavazos, the former national president of the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. (AP) Ruben Cavazos

Feds want name & logo Mongols MC

Skipper nabbed

VANCOUVER - John Philip Stirling, 60, has been arrested twice before nearer BC, on vessels containing tens of millions of dollars worth of marijuana and cocaine, but charges have never proceeded to court. (Vancouver Sun)

Drug smuggler held

Shipper posed beside pile of cash Bust proving a hollow victory

Fishing for cocaine with the Angels

Guilty plea

20 years in US jail

Trucker pleads guilty

The hit that failed

'Old school gangster'

Man pleads guilty

Canadian pleads guilty

14 years

Federal way man sentenced

Not criminally responsible

SOREL - A man who drove a petrol tanker truck into a Hells Angels bunker last October has been found not criminally responsible because he was delusional and off his medication at the time. (CTV)

I was held at gunpoint

QUEBEC CITY - Hells Angels boss Richard Hudon was released from jail on a technicality in May, but he didn't stay free for long. (QMI)

Arrests in 'Project Decepticon'

Ex-wife arrested

11th suspect arrested

Biker confesses to 27 murders

Operation Baladeur underway

Informer helps police solve slayings

Life in prison for biker hit man

Guilty verdict

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Ablett, 39, was convicted by a jury in US District Court in San Francisco of murder in aid of racketeering and three gun charges in the 2008 slaying of Mark "Papa" Guardado, head of the Hells Angels' "Frisco" chapter. (San Francisco Chronicle)

'Polite' surrender

Bombing linked to rival biker gangs

Bombs explode at home of Mongols

Leader gunned down

Hells Angel shot

Hells Angels leader gunned down

Hells Angel shot dead in fight

Shorter terms for dealers

KELOWNA - The judge handed Richard Andrew Rempel, 25, a four-year term and gave David Roger Revell, 44, five years in prison. But the judge also gave Rempel 39 months credit for more than 500 days served in pre-trial custody, effectively reducing his sentence to nine months. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Silence nets Hells Angels short jail terms

Too dangerous to be freed

KINGSTON - The corrections system has given up on Gregory Wooley. The 36-year-old, reputed to be a killer for the Hells Angels, was denied statutory release after the National Parole Board ruled he was too high a risk to "kill or cause serious harm to another person" before his sentence ends on Dec. 26, 2009. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Syndicate

Patch carries a lot of weight

In December 1999, years of diplomatic efforts and arm-twisting by the Angels in Ontario paid off. In a ceremony in Sorel, Que., nearly all of Ontario's 13 outlaw motorcycle gangs buried their own colours for the winged death's head of the Angels. (St. Catharines Standard)

Reign is over

Drugs lead to downfall of Hells Angels

Guilty of criminal organization charge

Hells Angels trafficked drugs

'Thank you'

WHITBY - Two senior Hells Angels quietly said "thank you" to a jury after they were acquitted yesterday of hiring a hit man to kill a fellow biker. (Toronto Star)

'We're not criminals'

Didn't plot hit, Angel insists

Snitch asked for help

Witness objected to vest on deceased

Bizarre twist

Bikers suspected 'a rat'

Perfect 'hitman'

Biker boss gets 36-year term

PHILADELPHIA - Four years out of prison, John Napoli took a "scruffy, disorganized" outlaw biker gang and turned it into a well-organized $6 million crystal-meth-trafficking organization. (Philadelphia Daily News) MORE: Breed leader gets 36 years

Hells Angels plotted to kill Mick

Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones singer was the target of an assassination attempt which only failed because the boat the would-be killers were using was swamped in a storm. (Telegraph UK) MORE: BBC Radio 4: The FBI at 100 Jagger murder plot

Ailing biker gets break

PHILADELPHIA - US District Judge Harvey Bartle III sentenced Frederick "Panhead" Freehoff, 51, to a 15-year prison sentence and a lifetime on supervised release, instead of 22 to 27 years in prison, which included a 20-year mandatory minimum, under federal advisory sentencing guidelines. (Philadelphia Daily News) PREVIOUS: Police nab, Fuzzy, Chains, Scary Movie, Tommy Trash, Etc.

Bikers' secrets

OSHAWA - If the walls could talk, they'd be in a witness protection program. The squatty, red-and-white Hells Angels clubhouse at 487 Ortono Ave in Oshawa, was once one of the toughest-to-enter addresses in the Greater Toronto Area, until heavily armed police barged in and seized it in September 2006. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Inside the clubhouse Province seizes clubhouse

Attempted murder nets 5 years

SASKATOON - A Saskatoon man who last month dragged a woman more than 30 metres with his truck, then went to a man's house and shot him three times, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

Biker jailed over fatal crash

PENTICTON - Aaron Lardner, 35, was convicted of criminal negligence causing death and impaired driving causing death in the crash that killed his passenger, 22-year-old Lindsay Paulson. (CanWest) PREVIOUS: Biker found guilty in fatal crash

Cocaine-trafficking case collapses

BURLINGTON - The Crown has dropped its case against four men charged in a massive cocaine trafficking ring allegedly linked to organized crime because the investigating RCMP drug officers were on sick leave. (Hamilton Spectator) PREVIOUS: RCMP faces new charges

Not a criminal organization

REGINA - A charge against a member of the Regina chapter of the Hells Angels fell apart because authorities couldn't prove the notorious motorcycle club is actually a criminal organization, says the man's lawyer. (CanWest) MORE: Withdrawal of charge won't affect other cases: prosecutor

Fugitive captured

BUENOS AIRES - A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club charged with murder and other crimes in Arizona was captured in Argentina, ending an eight-year search for one of the US Marshals Service's most wanted fugitives. (Arizona Republic) MORE: Most wanted arrested Paul Eischeid

Biker charged for wearing 'colours'

MOOSE JAW - A member of the Hells Angels was charged by Moose Jaw police for wearing gang colours in a licensed establishment. The charge was laid under The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act. (Regina Leader-Post) PREVIOUS: Moose Jaw's $400K traffic stop Law unconstitutional

Former boss sentenced

WINNIPEG - Nearly 6 years and 2 high-profile drug trials later, former Hells Angels boss Ernie Dew finally knows his fate. (QMI)

Guilty, again

Ex leader again found guilty

Deals a bid to help friend

Snitch under heavy security

Trial could free ex-prez

2nd drug trail begins

Bikers' had a mortgage

Peek inside the clubhouse

Province seizes clubhouse

Clubhouse raided, seized

Clubhouse seized

Associate right back into crime

Prison terms

Gang leader heading to prison

Family business

9 years for Hells Angel

Project Divide nets 2

'Agent 22' was divided man

Former Mountie swept up

Insider set up bust

More arrests

Fast trial

Traffic stop drug bust

Drug sting

Plea deal

Guilty plea in triple homicide

8 years

Another gangster arrested in sting

Hells Angel tried to have brother killed

Crackdown on bikers spreads

Arrests in raids on Hells Angels

Winnipeg club house raids

Cross country 'Project Drill' raids

Seized firepower shocking to police

Rapper turns away SWAT team

Gang leader shot dead in Thompson

Pilot couldn't resist dream

Plane used to deliver drugs

Dead pilot accused of 2 murders

Perspective: Drugs, bikers and death

Hells Angel, ex-cop charged

Hells Angel sentenced

Hells Angel, former cop arrested

Court documents reveal details

Defense lawyers seek funding

Crown drops charges

Charges stayed against bikers

Project Divide arrests

1st Project Drill target pleads guilty

Hells Angel brother vs. brother

Guilty plea

Associate charged

Thompson's turf war

Biker charged with conspiracy

Police listened as plot hatched

Gang leader shot dead

Rare move

'Merchant of misery' gets 10 years

'Merchant of misery'

RCMP arrest Bowden in BC

Contempt charge

Manitoba expanding gang case

Proceedings begin in biker mega-trial

Hells Angels a tough target, trial told

Crown argues biker gang is OC

First Project Defence trial opens

Biker nabbed

Police tracked girlfriend to biker

Trial to focus on nightclub violence

Murder plot thickens

Murder plot

New charges

Triple murder linked to underworld

Weapons linked to Jerome found

RCMP arrest three suspects

Guilty in stabbing death

PRINCE ALBERT - A penitentiary inmate has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a Hells Angels contract killer turned police informer. Christopher Robert Cluney, 33, held Amie Simard in a cell on July 18, 2003, while another inmate, Alvin Vern Starblanket, stabbed him more than 150 times. (CanWest)

Cluney takes the stand

Witness changes his story

Crown tries to link Cluney to murder

Accused killer with Hells Angels leader

Hells Angels link suggested at murder trial

Starblanket gets life sentence

2 charged with 2003 prison murder

Inmate's death raises alarm over prison violence

Drug trade attracts Hells Angels

KELOWNA - Having a Hells Angels chapter in Kelowna is a sign of Kelowna's thriving drug trade, says an expert on the biker gang. Julian Sher says the bikers are smart businessmen. "They go where they know the drug trade is flourishing or where they can make it flourish." (Province)

Residents want rid of crack shacks

Kelowna cracks down on crackheads

Trickle-down effect

Hells Angels not welcome

Hells Angels open new chapter

Hells Angels open new chapter in BC

Hells Angel busted

Rules

TORONTO - “Criminals don’t have rules - they have a code,” ex-Hells Angel turned police agent David (Shakey) Atwell testified, although it turns out his former biker outfit did have rules. (Toronto Star)

'Persecution'

2 more sentenced

Hells Angels sentenced

Rat inside the clubhouse

Hells Angels square off

Exclusive pleasure club

Rat in their midst

No rips and no rats

9 years

'An uninterrupted life of crime'

A 'life of crime'

Guilty of drug trafficking

Witness labelled a liar

Guilty in date-rape drug bust

Rock Machine recruiting in GTA

Rock Machine

11 years

Gang run like a business

Patch allows members to 'intimidate

Bikers had secret police documents

Bikers admit selling drugs

Not the same old gang

Hells Angels beat OC charges

Blogger leaked order to raid

Bikers won't get back bling

Angels in court

Healthier food ordered

Hells Angel gets prison

Ex-president jailed

Biker 'rat' opposed giving tour

Lawyer shocked by biker raid leak

Biker ordered deported in 1999

Incongruity thy name is Hells Angels

Angels in court

OPP praise informant's help

Angel spied for cops in BC

Club rules: No wives and no murders

Bad time to be a biker

Ex-biker guilty in slaying

Associate pleads guilty

Biker's son snubbed by military

Biker gets 6 years

Ailing biker

Biker verdict causes uproar

Logo battle

Hells Angel charged

Rock Machine threw party

Hells Angel sues strip club

SCC to decide

OTTAWA - Canada's highest court will decide whether a BC chapter of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang can be labelled a criminal organization under Canadian law. (PostMedia)

Hells Angels lose appeal

Angels accused

Extortion charge

Heavy hand of Justice Canada

2 plead guilty

Bail denied

3 years

Hells Angel caught in raid, again

Hells Angel member arrested

Lawrence Dean Bergstrom

Hells Angel sought after raid

Man acquitted on appeal

Kidnapping, extortion trial

Ex-wife loses lawsuit

Jailed for refusing to testify

RCMP bag bikers in cocaine bust

Nanaimo Angles post bail

Hells Angels lose one

Six years

BC wins court victory

2009 BCCA 124

Police remove signs

BC Civil Forfeiture Act

Province wins court battle

And justice for all . . . to not see

Acquittal in key test of anti-gang law

Hells Angel pleads not to lift ban

Hells Angel asks court to keep ban

Hells Angels on trial

Lawyer denies accused was czar

Prosecutor alleges joint venture

In business for Hells Angels

Judge grills Crown during trial

E-mail flurry followed cocaine loss

Flurry of messages sent

The 'power of the patch' in court

Ban lifted on secret trial

Hells Angel pal pleads guilty

Hells Angels must be tackled

BC wants ban on gang colours

Slain associate sought protection

Acquittal stands

Court upholds Hells Angel's acquittal

Missing Hells Angel

Crown urges stiff term

Another clean sweep for BC bikers

Secret signals

Hells Angel in jail

6 years

Details of drug sting unveiled

Guilty plea

Smuggling operation busted

'Family man' accused

Local arrests

Feds break up 'BC Bud' ring

Abbotsford man arrested

Stakes huge for public

Tapes reveal Hells Angels plot

Hells Angel's Legacy sparks fight

Hells Angel dies on flight to Maui

Wife seeks 'hidden riches'

3 alleged associates plead guilty

18 months of house arrest

Bike gangsters

Clubhouse Langley, BC

'Uneventful'

Untouchable no more

The real scoop

2 raids on one house in Kelowna

RCMP bust 'Angels' grow operation

Hells Angels victory

Hells Angels lose round in court

Government selling pimped-out rides

Seizure of clubhouse

Clubhouse seized

Province seizes Angels clubhouse

Nanaimo Hells Angels clubhouse

Police seize Nanaimo biker lair

Province grabs clubhouse

Safety of police considered

Judge upholds secrecy

Pot case ends with jail terms

Six year probe shines light on gangs

Judge pulls plug on Hydro defence

No Charter violation, court says

R. v. Terezakis 2007 BCCA 384

Hells Angels associate in court

Hotel owned by Hells Angel

Disingenuous or Dumb?

Son of Hells Angels boss still 'guilty

Hells Angel petition not valid

Angel says people are rude to him

Hells Angel challenges OC law

Winning the PR war

Missing man 'probably' not dead

Bulletin Board firm linked to Angel

45 Hells Angels

Losing the war on bikers

Angels' BC holdings are extensive

Behind the patch: Angels ABCs

Hells Angels member jailed

Hells Angels face sentencing

Court backs RCMP

Biker gets jail for punching Mountie

Fired, Re-Hired

Border guard partied with Angels

Hells Angels set up new base

Hells Angels case rests on mole

Mounties' informant out of control

Man taped secret talks

Informant admits assault on accused

Mounties' informant out of control

RCMP agents committed crimes

No-fault laws undermine system

Police agree to pay $1M to informer

Trial hears cries of man beaten

Hells Angel guilty of trafficking...again

Meth dropped off at city deli

Exotic nightclub fights for survival

Taxman targeting BC's rich Angels

BC police outline raids

Police raid two BC clubhouses

Probe findings a PR win for Angels

Hells Angels use billboard for image

Two Angels sentenced to four years

RCMP Press Release

Hells Angels president gets 4 years

Hells Angels handed sentences

Angles declared criminal organization

Angels claim they are 'nice guys'

Hells Angels' trial delayed

Dead man was associate

Trio charged with Abbotsford arsons

Three face arson charges

Police visit Hells Angel's clubhouse

Hells Angels' guilty pleas

Third suspect to go to trial

Delta officer on stand in 'Angels trial'

They’re no Angels

Hells Angel gets 6 years

Six-year sentence for prospect

Angels' prospect found guilty

Hells Angel guilty; Police respond

Judge refuses criminal label

Suspect raid acquitted

Hells Angels ruling has impact

BC's Hells Angels: Rich and Powerful

BC police forces stun Hells Angels

Police raid Hells Angels clubhouses

Hells Angels chief's son pleads guilty

Hells Angels arrest in extortion case

Rival biker gang war looming in BC

18 charged in Hells Angels bust

Cops & Angels

Hells Angel arrested

Police fear club linked to Hells Angels

Biker clubs deny links to Hells Angels

Hells Angels expand their empire

Bikers 'stunned' by YVR gun bust

Biker bust reveals truth

Member of Hells Angels arrested

Suicide breeds skepticism

MONTREAL - "Healthy skepticism" is being raised over the reported suicide of Hells Angel Jeff Lynds in a Quebec jail cell, a defence lawyer says. (Truro Daily News)

Hells Angel found dead

Inmate found dead

3rd murder charge

Brothers plead guilty

Life sentence

Arrested

Setback

MONTREAL - A judge has rejected a Crown motion to streamline five complex megatrials of 124 Hells Angels charged with 22 murders. The decision by Superior Court Justice James Brunton represents a failure by prosecutors to apply new federal initiatives aimed at speeding up the costly mass hearings. (QMI)

Quebec defends its justice system

Raids target alleged Hells Angels

Tories to hit rewind on 'mega-trials'

Mega trials are here to stay

New scanner used

Potential large murder trial

Trials to start June 10

Hells Angels drug cases dropped

Operation SharQc fiasco

Justice fails

Judge frees bikers

Judge orders release

QC justice minister disappointed

Crown to appeal stay of charges

Judge defended James Brunton

Hells Angels linked cases thrown out

Maurice 'Mom' Boucher

No more charges for Mom

Tobacco trafficking targeted

Bail

Hells Angels could wait

6 years left to serve

Properties are from crime

Hells Angel among arrests

Cazzetta among those charged

Operation Machine targets drugs

TV mobster nabbed

Ottawa restaurateur

Drug raid

Lawyer challenges memory

Killing and yard work

Trial under tight security

Explosives seized

Explosives found

Gang trials will be the hard part

Who will step into the big boys shoes

4th arrest made

RCMP sweep

Guilty

MONTREAL - Louis Cartier, 45, was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of two men, one of whom was a father with no biker ties. (QMI)

We're back

Rock Machine

'L'animal' reported nabbed

Canadian walked the beaches

Canadian murderer in Coronado

'L'animal' to face Panama judge first

Taxpayers fund defence

Biker to get house arrest

19 still on the lam RCMP

Hells Angels round-up

Brothers plead guilty

Bikers turned informants

Life sentence

Gang leader pleads guilty

Gang boss pleads guilty

56 months for lawyer

Lawyer guilty of gangsterism

Lawyer found guilty

Gunsmith gets 8 years

Police bust puppet club

SQ nabs alleged dealers

Arrest made

Massive police raids

City police arrest 17

Hells Angel arrested

Unescorted leave

Hells Angel's parole revoked

Kingpin strikes out with SCC

Bosses sentenced to 20 years

Devil 'n Angels

Police probing prison biker murder

Hells Angels drug ring smashed

Hells Angels were flying in coke

Hells Angels resurface in Quebec

Police keep heat on bike gangs

Highway to Hell

15 years in prison

Operation SharQc

Witness against lawyer

Defence won't call witnesses

Police surveillance video

Judge blisters cops for illegal taping

Police raids nets Hells Angels lawyer

Find a job after leaving prison

Associate gets 2 life sentences

2 life sentences

Guilty verdict

Hells Angels conspired to jam system

Trial begins 11 years after shooting

Prison guard recalls attack

Angel charged in guard's death

Arrest in murder of 2 guards

Power vacuum

MONTREAL - Organized crime experts say the resurfacing of the Rock Machine motorcycle gang in Montreal last week is another sign of a power vacuum in the city’s underworld that could lead to another biker war. (QMI)

New biker war coming

They're back

Jury convicts biker

Takin' care of outlaw biker business

West End Gang turned down

Gerald (Gerry) Matticks

Crimes pays

Hit man rolls over on gang suspect

Police raids target drug traffickers

Hells Angels members face charges

Hells Angel denies crime connection

Fugitive arrested

Day parole

Biker wanted to be feared

Informer testifies on bombings

Rejean 'Zig-Zag' Lessard

Bikers' freedom within sight

Deal gave gangsters too much

Mole helps police

Clash of the titans

Quebec Hells Angels bunker raided

Police attack gangs' PR efforts

Hells Angels heading to jail

Sweep of Angels resulted in charges

RCMP: Investigation results in arrests

Lawyer says Hells Angels have jobs

Biker cleared in slaying

Police arrest suspected Hells Angels

Cops arrest dozens in biker sweep

Uneasy riders

Parole board frees 'Apache' Trudeau

Yves (Apache) Trudeau

'Apache' Trudeau on sex charges

Patch over

HALIFAX - Police say an outlaw biker gang with close ties to the Hells Angels has established itself in Nova Scotia. Eight members of the East Coast Riders were "patched over" by the Bacchus motorcycle club Saturday night at the Bacchus main clubhouse in Albert County, NB. (CBC)

Halifax MC cements ties with Angels

3rd man charge

Charges laid

Remains may be biker's

Hells Angel killed former biker

Suspect named

Search for former Hells Angel

Ears

$150K reward for Gregory Brushett

Sentenced to life

ALBANY - Richard (Rick) Vallée, a longtime member of the Hells Angels, now has a lifetime membership in the Bighouse Crew. The former founding member of the biker gang's Quebec-based Nomads chapter was sentenced to life in prison in Albany, NY, as a result of his conviction for murdering Lee Carter, a police informant, in 1993. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Life for killing informant Hells Angel gets life Angel with bloody hands Hells Angel fugitive extradited

Indiana man in biker shooting case

PIERRE, SD - A judge erred by having closed meetings with defense attorneys and allowing secret defense testing of evidence from a shooting spree by motorcycle gang members last summer, state lawyers argue. The flap, which is expected to be decided by the high court in January, arose in a case involving Chad Wilson, 32, a member of the Hells Angels chapter in San Diego, and John Midmore, 34, prospect of the Hells Angels chapter in British Columbia. (AP)

Hells Angels acquitted

SIOUX FALLS - After deliberating over most of three days jurors acquitted two Hells Angels bikers of attempted murder for a 2006 gunfight that injured rival Outlaws Motorcycle Club members. (AP) PREVIOUS: Indiana man indicted Biker violence erupts Sturgis 66th Anniversary

Hells Angels charged after fight at Windsor strip club

WINDSOR - A national Hells Angels meeting was cut short for four men after they got into a brawl outside a Windsor strip club early Saturday. (Detroit Free Press) PREVIOUS: Police wary as 500 Hells Angels meet in Windsor Bikers, police gather in Windsor

Worlds collide at funeral

WOODBRIDGE, Ont. - More than 200 outlaw bikers gathered before the outstretched arms of a large statue of Jesus Christ yesterday for the funeral of a popular young enforcer with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. (National Post)

One Hell of a sendoff

Hundreds of bikers gather at funeral

Slaying not likely to spark biker war

Arrest made in fatal shooting

A Brief Overview Of The Hells Angels

Ottawa Hells Angels linked heist

OTTAWA - Three months after as much as $35 million was stolen from a Securicor truck outside of Montreal, Quebec police have linked the heist to the Ottawa-based Ontario Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels. The Sept. 7 holdup is the largest of its kind in Canadian history. (Ottawa Citizen)

Hell's Angels drug debt paid

KENORA, Ont. - The second police officer involved in the undercover operation that produced a murder confession from James Kakegamic said one of the reasons Kakegamic’s drug debt to the Hell’s Angels was paid was to ensure officer safety. (Kenora Daily Miner)

Biker boss gets life in prison

TOLEDO - James "Frank" Wheeler, the former leader of the Outlaw motorcycle club who prosecutors said oversaw a highly organized operation that sold drugs and engaged in violence with rival gangs, was sentenced to life in prison. (Toledo Blade)

Hells Angels arrested in drug raids

Police are claiming a partial but significant victory over the Hells Angels and their lucrative drug trade. After a two-year investigation dubbed "Operation Dante," heavily armed tactical units swept into areas of Eastern Ontario and western Quebec on Monday. (CTV)

Unwanted light

SAN FRANCISCO - The Hells Angels have had a rough year in California. Three Northern California members have died violently in the last month amid a turf battle with a rival biker gang. (Washington Post)

Search on

Suspect alive

Biker feud

Private funeral planned

Investigation being foiled

Biker slain at funeral

Biker arrested

Chapter president killed

Biker brawl

Slaying prompts state of emergency

35 years

DOJ press release

Highwaymen MC

Killing was a mistake

Ok to not serve Hells Angels

Former Hells Angels gets 14 years

Ex-Pink Poodle bouncer slain

Anatomy of a murder

Hells Angels win suit

Hells Angels in court

Hells Angels headquarters raided

FBI Searching for leader

Agencies prepare for Hells Angels

Cody cops tell of Hells Angels tactics

Hells Angels leave Cody

Police, locals differ on enforcement

Hells Angels appear in court

SPOKANE - Court documents show the judge in the trial of Hells Angels member Ricky Jenks has restricted the use of certain words and phrases during Jenks’ upcoming trial. (KREM)

Arrest in clubhouse raid

Hells Angels gets 7-1/2 years

"Enforcer" sent to prison

Jury convicts 3 of 4

Witnesses are 'rats'

Hells Angels' trial begins

State Hells Angels trial under way

Hells Angels leaders on trial

Arrest made

SAN JOSE - Police tracked Steve Ruiz, 38, to a Days Inn Motel in Fremont where he surrendered and was arrested on Saturday. According to police, Ruiz gunned down fellow gang member Steve Tausan, 52, on October 15, 2011, at the funeral of local Hells Angels president Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew, who was slain during a brawl with a rival gang at a Nevada casino in September 2011. (Reuters)

Hells Angel arrested

Beaten before pulling gun

Suspect identified

Hells Angels killed at biker's funeral

Final three Hells Angels sentenced

Judge strikes word of witness

Lawyers confront witness

Happy 60th Anniversary

Solidarity showing cracks

Former chapter president testifies

11 start trial for Biker Brawl

Bikers brawl in casino, three killed

Deaths extend 20-year 'power play'

Security video captures melee

Hells Angels to Stand Trial

2 plead guilty to crimes during run

Informer links top Hells Angel

State trial to follow federal trial

Hells Angels ride it out

Hells Angels get sweetheart deal

Six of 42 Hells Angels facing prison

Trial postponed in Las Vegas

Police gatecrash birthday party

AUCKLAND - 11 members of the Hells Angels were stopped by police, Immigration and Customs from attending the motorbike gang's 50th anniversary celebrations in Auckland this weekend. (TVNZ)

Celebrations disrupted

$6M for members

Great bikie defection

13 Bikies to stand trial

11 bikies charged with murder

Funeral crash

Gang rivalries persist despite laws

Court bungle 'put lives at risk'

Real and present danger

Bikie drug link to top company

Visy distances itself

Shoot on sight

United in protest

Expert warns of relentless violence

US heat falls on fallen Hells Angels

NSW bikie laws rushed through

Bikie bans drive clubs underground

Bikie lawyer committed suicide

Back to the drawing board

Police blast entry to biker fortress

Hells Angels challenge anti-bikie laws

Raid uncovers cache of weapons

Secret meeting to avoid violence

Sydney bloodbath

Bomb found outside house

'Come on boys, let's go'

Bikie brawl watched by security men

Gang boss weeps for brother

Bikies seek peace talks

Police double gang squad size

Hells Angel killed in airport attack

Bikie war terrorises travellers

Deadly brawl

Terror thrives on crime world links

Biker linked to rocket launcher theft

Man arrested over supplying weapons

Flag hidden from Biker mourners

Biker gangs wage violent turf war

Silent enforcer

Hells Angels implicated in murder

Death dealers

3rd Hells Angel charged

Bikie chief charged

Bikies rally to oppose laws

Life for 7

BIRMINGHAM - Seven members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang were sentenced to life in prison at Birmingham crown court today for the murder of Hells Angel Gerry Tobin. (Guardian UK)

The fatal bullet

Planned execution

Guilty plea

Man pleads guilty to biker murder

Angels flock to biker's funeral

Video: Funeral of a murdered biker

In pictures: Bikers funeral

4th arrested in UK biker slaying

4th arrest made

Arrests made over murder of biker

3 held over M40 biker death

Last image of slain biker

Biker and the Bible

No Angels

Biker sentenced

COPENHAGEN - Lengthy prison sentences were handed out to 15 members of the biker community, all with connections to the Hell's Angels. (Copenhagen Post)

Convictions

Hells Angels on trail

9 years

Expansion in the fast lane

Hells Angel on murder rap

Cop killed by biker

Kids club AK81

Viking Defence League

Hells Angels attacked

Mass biker defection

Something violent in Denmark

Danish minister calls for anti-gang measures