Showdown by Jerry Langton
Author:Jerry Langton
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-19T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 9
The U.S. Bandidos Make Their Move
Hells Angels knew that the Outlaws wouldn’t leave Ontario without a fight, and they, too, prepared for war. They had routed the Outlaws before in Montreal, but this was a very different situation. In Montreal, the Outlaws were far outnumbered and far away from help. They had inadequate leaders and little will to fight.
It was different in Ontario, where the Outlaws (and Satan’s Choice before them) had been entrenched for decades. Although Hells Angels now had more chapters and official members in Ontario, the Outlaws could probably recruit as many men, most of them of better quality than the also-rans Hells Angels had recently brought into their tent. They also had the potential for top-notch reinforcements — the Outlaws’ international headquarters was in Detroit, and they were said to be enraged by the fact that Hells Angels had managed to establish a chapter just a few miles away in Windsor. And they had Mario Parente, who — both police and bikers have told me — was considered the most feared biker on either side of the divide.
But these weren’t the same Hells Angels either. While they didn’t have a killing machine on par with Yves “Apache” Trudeau anymore, they did have a corps of veterans battle-hardened after winning a much larger and bloodier war against the Rock Machine. And they had dozens of chapters throughout the country. They handled hundreds of millions of dollars of drugs and other products and services every year. They had friends all over the country: in the Mafia, in law enforcement, in the military, in the legal business, on First Nations reserves and in many other places the Outlaws didn’t. And they had veteran leadership that included the strategic brilliance of Walter Stadnick.
But it wasn’t the Outlaws who attacked. Instead, on the early morning of March 28, 2001, it was more than 200 police officers from more than a dozen forces who descended upon every single one of the Hells Angels and puppet club clubhouses in Quebec, as well as hundreds of homes and businesses of members, prospects and associates.
In all, 142 arrests were made, including 80 of Quebec’s 106 full-patch Hells Angels. Though most of the charges were for drug-related offenses, plenty more were for murder, the result of the war against the Rock Machine. Seized were 20 buildings, 41 vehicles (including 13 motorcycles, all but one a Harley), 70 guns, a stick of dynamite, 10 kilograms of cocaine, 120 kilograms of hashish, $12.5 million in Canadian currency and a further $2.6 million in U.S. currency.
Particularly hard hit were the Nomads. All of them — except for Maurice “Mom” Boucher, who was already behind bars awaiting a second trial for masterminding the 1997 murders of two prison guards and David “Wolf” Carroll, who miraculously escaped and has not been conclusively seen since — were arrested. Stadnick was taken down by the Jamaican military the day after everyone else. He and his wife were vacationing in Ocho Rios. The police checked flight records and he was spotted by an RCMP officer stationed in Kingston.
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