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Franks Biker News June9th archive

Putting the heat on the Hells - Toronto Sun -  Police are lobbying law-makers to help push the Hells Angels further down the road as part of an increasingly successful clampdown on the outlaw motorcycle gang.
Two days before raids in Quebec targeted their drug trade and members last Wednesday, the Ontario government seized the Niagara chapter's clubhouse.
"This is just another blow to them," said OPP Det.-Sgt. Len Isnor, head of Ontario's multi-police force Biker Enforcement Unit.
On May 26, the 14-year anti-biker investigator joined a B.C. colleague before a parliamentary committee which was debating whether to name the Hells Angels an organized crime group in the Criminal Code.
"If they schedule them as a criminal organization, we won't have to go through the five-month process (to prove the mot0rcycle gang is a criminal group), tying up the courts," Isnor told the Sun, comparing the current lengthy court process to concluding "water is wet."
At present, each time a Hells Angel is convicted, police and prosecutors must prove -- under a 1997 law -- that he operated for the gang's benefit, plus the gang's ranking as an organized crime organization.
Once found guilty, however, the law requires longer, consecutive prison sentences.
But Isnor predicted if Parliament approves the change, it will face a constitutional challenge, "since it involves a person, not a substance like cocaine."
Revving up charges against organized crime has been a big factor in keeping Hells' membership almost stagnant, he said. Criminalizing the gang will be the first big change to federal organized crime laws in 12 years.
Seizing the Welland clubhouse June 1 -- the fourth taken over under Civil Remedies for Illicit Activities (CIRA) legislation -- was the latest blow in the province.
The Hells have about 170 "full-patch" Ontario members plus countless associates in biker and non-biker gangs eight years after gaining their first foothold, Isnor said. "Most of them are in the Toronto area," with four chapters here -- in Oshawa, Woodbridge, Keswick and Simcoe County.
Other CIRA seizures since 2006 included Oshawa, Thunder Bay and London clubhouses.
A court ruled last year the Oshawa property on Ortono Ave. could be sold, Isnor said. It remains on the market. Police arrested 30 members in the Oshawa raid.
In April 2007, police seized the Hells' downtown Toronto chapter clubhouse on Eastern Ave. as an offence-related property, $500,000 cash, nine kilos of cocaine, over 80 weapons and 500 litres of the date-rape drug GHB.
Isnor said the building's status "is still before the courts" until it is ruled as an asset of crime, and several chapter members pleaded guilty to crimes; others still face trials.
Criminologist Stephen Schneider, author of the recent book Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada and a Saint Mary's University professor in Halifax, said police have done a better job targeting bikers in recent years. Focusing on undermining chapters, investigators "learned their lesson."
In his book, experts say police and the justice system "dropped the ball" 20 to 30 years ago by letting bikers -- especially the U.S.-founded Hells -- spread their dark wings.
There are numerous motorcycle gangs, but the Hells "are the biggest in the world," with about 3,000 members in 248 chapters based in 30 countries, plus a network of associates. Isnor said.
More than one-quarter of Canada's 450 Hells are in Ontario, Schneider said.
For decades, the gang nibbled at the province's lucrative drug, prostitution, loan-sharking and auto-theft underworld, succeeding only after recruiting arch-rivals.
Boasting about 100 Hells, the "highest concentration of Hells Angels in the world," Schneider said Toronto "was always the jewel in the crown for every biker gang."
With police recruiting informers and officers keeping a close eye on chapters, some spurned the Hells, but Isnor said the gang moves members to bolster ranks reduced by arrests -- as they did in Niagara.
Eroded by members being jailed, that chapter became leaderless this March when founder and clubhouse part-owner Gerald "Skinny" Ward, 61, was sentenced to the equivalent of nine years and his lieutenant, Ken Wagner, 43, was sentenced Oct. 7 to the equivalent of 11 years.
They orchestrated delivery of four kilos of high-grade cocaine in 2005 and 2006 to Oshawa member Steve Gault, who became a police informant.
More important, they got stiffer terms after Justice John McMahon agreed the Hells fit the description of a criminal organization. Five-to eight-year terms were also meted out to 15 other Hells, including three Niagara members.
In court, Gault warned the Hells controlled Niagara's drug trade and "they'll kill ... pointblank" anyone trying to cut in.
Officials said Wagner's sentence was the first in Canada for directing others in activities to benefit a biker organization.
When Steven "Tiger" Lindsay and Ray Bonner of the Woodbridge chapter were convicted of extortion, their sentencing in 2005 recognized for the first time that a Hells committed a crime as part of a gangster group, Schneider wrote.
The law required the judge to order consecutive sentences instead of normal concurrent terms, ensuring longer jail time. Lindsay got six years instead of four, Bonner got three instead of two.
Within six months, police targeting major drug trafficking raided Hells and associate clubhouses in B.C., arrested three in Manitoba, plus 27 in Northern Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. Five were Thunder Bay members, including Cambridge restaurateur Andre Watteel, an ex-Satan's Choice member who later led the Hells in Kitchener.
After paying a fine and being granted jail time already served, Watteel recently moved to Niagara to help keep its required six-member chapter status secure, Isnor said.
"The Hells Angels are unprecedented in the annals of Canadian organized crime in that they are the first truly national criminal organization, with cells and/or associates in every province and territory," Schneider writes. "Canada has become somewhat of an international stronghold for the motorcyle club."
The cops are increasingly watching, ready to move when their intelligence networks yield sufficient evidence to unseat a chapter, he said.
In the first of two days of raids in Quebec last Wednesday, which resulted in 46 arrests of mostly Hells and associates, more than 600 officers seized a suspected gang-linked cocaine and tobacco fortress on the Kahnawake reserve that served the streets of Montreal. Police seized cocaine, pot, Ecstasy, tobacco, cash, plus a dozen guns.
Suspects included an Ontario-based Hells living in Montreal, plus Salvatore Cazetta, 55, co-founder of the Rock Machine gang -- who joined the rival Hells after the Quebec war.
Cazetta was associated with Maurice "Mom" Boucher, 66, later the Hells' brutal boss in Quebec, who masterminded the bloody gang war after Cazetta was jailed in 1994.
Rounded up in a Hells sweep of 150 gang members in April, Cazetta was awaiting a bail hearing on drug trafficking charges when arrested in jail last Wednesday and accused of ties with several associates in the Kahnawake warehouse.
On the lam for importing 11 tonnes of cocaine until arrested in Fort Erie in 1994, he was extradited to the U.S. and sentenced in 1999 to 12 years after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.
Montreal police Insp. Bernard Lamothe told a news conference the Hells set up "business links" with two arrested Kahnawake residents and ran a drug network "in several places throughout Quebec." 

Today's bikers moving toward business suits, author says - Toronto Sun - Since a deadly war with rival gangs left 160 people dead in Quebec several years ago, the leaders of the Hells Angels have transformed their organization into a more business-savvy, lower-profile gang, says a criminologist and author.
Biker dress-up and prerequisite rallies, such as a Keswick party on Saturday -- which the province's Biker Enforcement Unit (BEU) monitored, stopping all-comers on the road leading to the Shirlea Dr. clubhouse -- still require "full-patch" members to don the outlaw garb inside.
But fewer hit the road regularly on motorcycles, preferring cars, business suits or street clothes instead of logo-emblazzoned leather jackets, Stephen Schneider writes in his recent book, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada.
Such emblems "are like a big bullseye for police and other bikers to target," the Saint Mary's University, Halifax, professor wrote. The Hells are more focused on money-making "criminal entrepreneurships."
Schneider said the Hells also set up better-organized record-keeping and networks to import and ship drugs around the world, while retaining hit teams to enforce strict rules about sharing profits, paying tribute percentages and the ultimate penalty for betrayal.
'More sophisticated'
The Hells "are a lot more sophisticated than they were in the 1980s and 1990s," during the deadly Quebec turf war with the Rock Machine, Bandidos and other gangs, OPP Det.-Sgt. Len Isnor, the BEU's head, said in an interview.
In Ontario, where there are about 170 members, Isnor said they used "diplomacy" and got numerous rivals to "patch over" to their gang, Isnor said. The recruiting worked, mostly, and "there were no murders."
For decades, the Hells tried to get a foothold in this province, but only succeeded after recruiting the other gangs -- including some arch-rivals, Isnor said.
The invitations to join often carried subtle but nonethless deadly alternatives, usually carried out by their network of associated "support and friends" groups like the Red Line, Foundation, Eights and Aces, Isnor said.
When it comes to murder, "Hells Angels operate at arms length," he said. "They use these gangs as isolation, to do their dirty work." 


Motorcycle crash hurts 3 - The Springfield News-Leader - Three people were injured Saturday after two motorcycles collided in Vernon County, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.
Harley Funk, 41, of Nevada suffered minor injuries. His passenger, Velva Funk, 41, suffered moderate injuries.
The driver of a Honda, Lee's Summit resident Daniel Larsen, 34, suffered moderate injuries.
All three were wearing helmets, according to a patrol report.
All were taken to Nevada Regional Medical Center.
The accident occurred around 5:45 p.m. on Route M, five miles west of Shell City while both bikes were eastbound.
Funk's bike struck loose gravel as it hit a curve, then Larsen's vehicle collided with Funk's, the report said. Both left the road. Larsen's vehicle then hit Velva Funk.


Ride bike for D.A.R.E. - The Springfield News-Leader - The eighth annual motorcycle ride to benefit the D.A.R.E program and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield will take place Saturday, an e-mail from the Greene County Sheriff's Office said.
The D.A.R.E. program educates students about drugs and how to resist pressure to take them.
Registration for the benefit ride begins at 2 p.m. at Reliable Imports and RV, at Chestnut Expressway and U.S. 65.
Bikers will ride to the Lucas Oil Motor Speedway in Wheatland.
Registration costs $10, which includes a ticket to the raceway.
For more information, call 829-6284.


Riders to remember corrections officer - Akron Beacon Journal - A memorial motorcycle ride for William ''Bill'' Hesson, 39, the Army veteran and state juvenile corrections officer killed on the job April 29, will be held June 14, with registration beginning at 11 a.m. and the first bike out at 1 p.m.
The ride will raise funds for Hesson's pregnant wife, Julia, and children, Brandi, 19, Skyler, 17, and Riley, 20 months. Hesson had not worked at the juvenile facility long enough to qualify for death benefits.
The ride begins at the Gala Commons, 2215 E. Waterloo Road, Akron, in the rear lot, and ends at the National Veterans Cemetery in Rittman, where Hesson is buried. His family will be there to meet the bikers.
Cost for the ride is $10. Donations are also being accepted by the Warthogs Rubber City Chapter, which is sponsoring the event. The Warthogs are a national motorcycle club for police, fire, corrections and court employees.
To donate, send a check to Treasurer Bill Muncy, 1177 Woodland St., Hartville, 44632. For details, call Muncy at 330-685-2899 or Jeff at 330-714-4822.
A 17-year-old inmate from Erie County has been charged with Hesson's death during an assault at the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility.


Couple in hospital after motorcycle crash - Baltimore Sun - A husband and wife who crashed while riding a motorcycle on Route 29 in Columbia on Saturday afternoon remain hospitalized, authorities said. Shortly before 2 p.m., Timothy Danaher, 55, was operating a BMW R75/6 motorcycle with his wife, Diana Danaher, 52, as a passenger in the southbound lanes of the highway, near Seneca Drive, according to Howard County police. For an unknown reason, Danaher veered to the left and struck a guardrail. Both he and his wife were thrown off the bike, police said. Paramedics took them to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The husband remained in critical condition Sunday, while his wife was in fair condition, a hospital official said Sunday. The department's traffic enforcement section is investigating the collision.


Police identify victim of fatal motorcycle crash as Atwater man - Merced Sun-Star - A man killed Friday in a motorcycle accident on West North Bear Creek Drive has been identified as 46-year-old Joe Mello of Atwater, according to Tom MacKenzie, spokesman for the Merced County Coroner's Office.
Investigators said Mello lost control of his motorcycle going around a bend in the 1500 block of West North Bear Creek Drive and ran into a tree.
The accident was reported around 3:30 p.m. and investigators said no one else was hurt in the crash. 


West Milford motorcyclist dies in collision - The West Milford Messenger - Jefferson - William Saettler, 46, of West Milford, died on Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle crossed into oncoming traffic on Cozy Lake Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Jefferson Township police Lt. Eric Wilsusen said the cause of the accident is not known. The driver of the car that was hit, 49-year-old Yousef Amro of Jefferson, was the only witness to the accident. He was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital by helicopter. Wilsusen said Amro has since been released from the hospital.
Lt. Wilsusen said the cause of the accident has not been determined. Authorities are awaiting toxicology results, which could take up to six weeks, and autopsy results.
Mr. Saettler had lived in West Milford for 12 years, moving here from Montague, and owned Bill Saettler Plumbing and Heating. He was a member of the New Jersey Plumbers Association.
He is survived by Lorie Saettler, his former wife, two children, son Chad and daughter Michelle, his brother Robert, and sisters Bridget Papienuk, Bobbie Jo Zeim, Lisa Gormley, and Ginger.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater North Jersey Chapter, 1 Kalisa Way, Suite 205, Paramus, NJ 07652. Arrangements were made through the Richards Funeral Home.


Bloomington man dies in Golden Valley crash - Brooklyn Park Sun-Post - Michael McFarland, a 48-year-old man from Bloomington, was killed in a crash in Golden Valley just before noon on Friday, June 5.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the victim was traveling northbound on the Highway 100 ramp to eastbound I-394 when his motorcycle hit a wall. He was thrown from the overpass onto the roadway below.
Officials say the victim was not wearing a helmet.


Annual ride honors U.S. veterans - Chambersburg Public Opinion - The annual God Bless America Motorcycle Ride for Veterans has become a family affair for Bob and Bettie Cordell of Chambersburg.
The couple, along with their son and daughter-in-law, daughter and son-in-law and five friends turned out early Sunday to register and join about 2,500 other riders for the 19th annual 48-mile trek by bikers from Greencastle to the Martinsburg, W. Va. Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Event organizers called the ride the most successful since it began nearly two decades ago.
"We are always amazed at the support," said Mary Ann Davenport, who along with her husband, A.J., coordinated this year's ride.
The Davenports said the event grows every year. Over the past 18 years, the event has raised $270,000 to be used for the needs of disabled veterans at the West Virginia facility.
This year's ride brought in $62,000.
The Cordell group bought a large number of 50-50 drawing tickets before leaving the Truck Wash and Chrome Shop, where registration was taking place.
Bettie Cordell said they would hand the tickets out to veterans when they arrived at the center, giving them a chance to win half the pot.
Like others participating in the fundraising ride, the Cordells said they do it for the veterans.
"We are most honored to be part of this," said Don Devor of Fayetteville, who rode with his wife Kim for the fifth time.
The Devors said they do it because they want to be part of something that recognizes the sacrifices the nation's veterans have made for the cause of freedom, and help wounded veterans coming back from war.
Karen Provost, a West Virginia resident who came up to Greencastle Sunday morning just to ride in the event, said she will make her first solo ride on the Greencastle-Martinsburg route because she feels the cause is important.
"It is a great cause," she said. "Our veterans are everything - have given everything for us, and I would like to give a little bit of something back to them."
Bikers went through Greencastle, down U.S. 11 to Interstate 81, where they picked up a police escort to the Maryland line. In Maryland, state police troopers escorted the bikers to the West Virginia line, where troopers from that state provided an escort into Martinsburg.


Motorcyclist injured in Covington accident - St. Tammany News - Covington police spokesman Capt. Jack West said a passing motorist called police early Saturday at 1:54 a.m., and told police he had found Mike Bennett, 37, 22229 Fen St., Ponchatoula lying on the shoulder of the road at the intersection of U.S. Highway 190 and 21st Avenue.
At first police thought that Bennett had been hit by another vehicle and was involved in a hit and run. However, Bennett told police that he had been riding his 2006 Suzuki GSXR bike and had failed to make the curve in the road.
An allegedly drunk motorcyclist took a curve too fast Saturday night and wrecked his bike, according to Covington police.
Police found the motorcycle in a large field on the west side of the intersection. West said it had come to rest about 300 feet from the scene of the accident meaning Bennett had been traveling at a high rate of speed. Upon further questioning, Bennett said he managed to crawl away from the wreck to the roadway. Officers said that Bennett appeared intoxicated when they talked to him.
Bennett was taken to St. Tammany Parish Hospital with severe injuries.
West said that DWI charges are pending, depending on the results of a blood alcohol test given to Bennett.


Official: BikeFest helps put Millville on the map - Daily Journal - MILLVILLE -- The air was heavy with the smell of gasoline and oil and the rumble of nearly 200 thundering motorcycle engines as hundreds gathered in Millville's Art District to celebrate BikeFest 2009.
Michele Smith, former host of SPEED Channel's "American Thunder," was back for the fifth annual event Saturday. Smith, a 15-year motorcycle rider who has helped ring in the festivities at BikeFest for the past three years, said she loves seeing how the event has grown and helped support Millville.
"You know, this is a small town, but, for being so small, there are just so many people who come out and support the event," said Smith, who spent the day posing for pictures with fans and signing autographs.
She also took part in the event's 80-mile Tour de Swamp Poker Run, a route the bikers traveled that included five stops around the region.
At each stop, riders were given a playing card, with the biker with the best poker hand at the finish receiving a cash prize of $150.
In addition to the Poker Run, BikeFest's free admission included live music from The Mudpuppies and Last Call, food, vendors, exhibitors, and a Custom Bike Show contest with categories such as Best Chrome, Best Lady Biker, Best Paint and Best in Show.
And for $20, participants could purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a 2009 Harley-Davidson "Fat Bob" bike worth about $15,000.
The lucky winner was biker Chris Verrchia of Sewell, who sold his motorcycle about a year ago and had been thinking about buying a new one.
"I always buy tickets at events because it's for a good cause," Verrchia said. "But to win -- oh my God, I can't believe it."
Proceeds from the Poker Run, raffle and other events will be donated to the Millville Army Air Field Museum and the city's Arts Creates Excellence Youth Summer Program, which is run by the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts.
The ACE program is the key that ties BikeFest to Millville's ongoing efforts to redefine its downtown as an arts community.
Millville Development Corporation sponsors BikeFest. The event is an opportunity to show visitors what Millville has to offer, MDC Executive Director Marianne Lods said.
As for whether the city will host a sixth annual BikeFest next year, Lods says it's a definite go.
"We sure are," she said. "I can't imagine what could stop it, and we're delighted to be able to say that."
Bikers Mike Vaniman of Milmay and his wife, Jean, have been among BikeFest's revelers for the past three years. The couple agree that Millville is the perfect place to hold the event.
"Southern Jersey seems to be bike country, with its country roads and low traffic," Jean said.
"And," Mike added, "I don't think most towns would shut down their main street for a biker event either."


Beaver County woman killed in motorcycle crash - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A 46-year-old Beaver County woman was killed and a man was injured Saturday night in Darlington when the motorcycle they were riding left the road and crashed.
Martha Nye, of Fombell, died of blunt force trauma to the head, the Beaver County coroner's office said.
Pennsylvania State Police said the cycle was headed eastbound on Taggert Road near Valley Road in Darlington at 11:30 p.m., when it left the roadway for unknown reasons. Both Ms. Nye and the other rider, 38-year-old Troy Gower of New Castle, were thrown from the cycle.
Mr. Gower was flown to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. Ms. Nye was pronounced dead at the scene.


Wilburton man dies from motorcycle crash injuries - Tulsa World - A Wilburton man died at a Tulsa hospital Sunday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident the day before.
Floyd Kirk, 46, was northbound on his motorcycle at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Oklahoma 2 in Latimer County when he lost control and ran off the right side of the road and was thrown from the vehicle, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report stated.
He was flown from the scene to St. John Hospital in Tulsa in critical condition.
Kirk was not wearing a helmet, the report stated.
The accident occurred about nine miles south of Wilburton. 


Two motorcyclelist killed in crash - FOX 35 Orlando - APOPKA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) - Emergency crews are investigating an accident that killed a couple on a motorcycle. Mike White lives off Ponkan Road where the crash happened, "I was inside the house and heard one big bang. No screeching or horns blowing just one hit and then silence," White said.
White said he then immediately ran outside to help. He says the 17-year-old driver of the pickup truck was hysterical, "She was just screaming to someone on the phone. Obviously with emergency services telling the guy to shut up, obviously I hit somebody." White says he then turned his attention to the others involved. "I went over to the two people on the motorcycle. It wasn't a good scene."
Troopers say 43-year-old Wendy Ash and 54-year-old John Ash were killed. The teen was not injured, but we're not identifying her because she's a minor. Trooper Raymond Koenig says weather did played a role in this accident. "It was raining. She applied her brakes, lost control. The truck spun around into the path of the motorcycle," but White says it wasn't pouring down. "The rain had stopped, but it was wet. There was a lot of water on the road."
White says accidents on this curvy road are becoming all too common, "I've had a dump truck laid on the side of the road before. I've had someone come through my fence before. Fortunately I wasn't here for that one."
He says the speed limit use to be 50 mph, but it was reduced to 35 when an elementary school was built. Whit says he wishes people would follow the speed limit before someone else is killed, "People are just driving way to fast on this road."
Troopers say the teen will most likely be charged with failure to use due care.


Bikers unite in Monmouth County toward firefighters memorial - Asbury Park Press - Roughly 300 motorcycle riders donned their helmets, kick-started their engines and roared — albeit safely — from this Bayshore town Sunday to the Morganville section of Marlboro, all in the name of charity to raise funds to build the New Jersey Fallen Firefighters Memorial at Allaire State Park.
On a picture-perfect Sunday morning, bikers poured into town in a steady stream of gleaming motorcycles of all makes, shapes and sizes to register at the Union Beach Fire Company at the corner of Union Avenue and Morningside Avenue.
Both sides of Morningside Avenue were filled with a precision line of bikes from one end of the street to the other.
"It's more of a camaraderie — everybody here to do this together," said Robert Sola, president of Chapter 3 of the Knights of the Inferno Firefighters Motorcycle Club, which took over running the annual race this year.
Registration inside the Union Beach Fire House resembled more a high school reunion for biker aficionados, who shook hands, hugged and chatted, making up for lost time with fellow club members.
The bike "poker run" itself consists of a mapped-out route where bikers must pick up a poker card at five designated spots along the way.
The biker who holds the best hand at the end of the race wins $200.
The bikers' ultimate destination: Robertsville Fire Company, Morganville, the site of a post-run party featuring live bands, bike contests and a trophy awards ceremony.
Sunday's ride offered bikers other attractive incentives too.
"I love to ride," said Eric Fields, 31, of Tinton Falls, whose 6-foot-4-inch frame dwarfed his Japanese-made speedster.
"It's a good cause," said Fields, the son of a firefighter veteran. "You don't judge guys by their bikes. It doesn't matter — as long as you ride."
"These firefighter brotherhoods are from all over the place," Sola said. "Newark (riders are here), Carlstadt — you name it."


Motorcyclist is killed in crash - San Antonio Express-News - A 45-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle crash early Sunday.
Albert Mireles was driving a 2003 Harley Davidson Sportster on South Flores Street and was struck by a Chevrolet Suburban near West Bonner Avenue, police reported.
Witnesses said Mireles was speeding. He was wearing a helmet.
The 22-year-old driver of the Suburban was cited for not having a driver’s license.

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