REAL SCOOP: Hells Angel David Giles dies months after record sentence
Just three months after he was sentenced for his role in a major international cocaine conspiracy, a senior member of the Hells Angels has died. David Giles, 67, passed away Canada Day in Abbotsford...
View ArticleLongtime Hells Angel David Giles dies months after getting record sentence
Retired Vancouver Police biker specialist Brad Stephen remembers the first time he met Hells Angel David Giles in the mid-1990s. Stephen pulled him over on Dundas in East Vancouver after seeing Giles...
View ArticleLack of 'criminal' designation for Hells Angels lets gang flourish
On a recent Wednesday evening in Kelowna, a row of Harleys was parked outside the Hells Angels clubhouse on Ellis Street. The biker gang was holding its weekly “church” meeting at the clubhouse,...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: HA grows after failed attempts at criminal organization conviction
After almost three weeks in South America, I am back at work as of today and the Real Scoop is open again for commenting. My feature on the lack of a criminal organization conviction against the B.C....
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Biker clubhouse focus of murder probe
A Vancouver Island murder investigation from last year took an interesting turn Thursday when B.C.’s anti-gang police raided the Campbell River clubhouse of the Devils Army. No one has been arrested...
View ArticleHigh-profile B.C. Hells Angel released after cocaine charges stayed
For years, friends of incarcerated Hells Angel Larry Amero have pasted “Free Larry” stickers on their Harleys to demand his release. On Wednesday, they finally got their wish after a judge in Quebec...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angels Larry Amero freed after charges stayed
Even though Hells Angel Larry Amero has been in a Quebec jail for almost five years, he is still a powerful biker here in B.C. And now he could be coming back to his home province. He had major drug...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Jarrod Bacon back in jail after strip club incident
That didn’t take long. Just a few months after Jarrod Bacon was let out of prison on statutory release, he is back behind bars. While statutory release is virtually automatic for inmates who serve...
View ArticleNew 'Savages' biker club riding out of Hells Angels' Island hangout, gang...
VICTORIA — B.C.’s anti-gang unit is monitoring a new motorcycle club called the Savages operating out of the Langford clubhouse previously used by the Devil’s Army. The Savages are believed to be a...
View ArticleFormer B.C. Hells Angel gunned down outside Toronto strip mall
A former B.C. Hells Angel was shot to death over the weekend outside a strip mall in Toronto. James Clayton “Jamie” Holland, 43, was once a member of the elite Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels, then...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Former B.C. Hells Angel shot to death in Toronto
Jamie Holland was a powerful and wealthy Hells Angel before he was tossed out of the gang in 2006. He continued running a number of B.C. companies before moving to Toronto a few years ago. On Saturday...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: 856 gangsters admits guilt in Bob Green slaying
Accused killer Jason Wallace was supposed to have a preliminary hearing starting in Surrey provincial court this month on a second-degree murder charge in the Oct. 16, 2016 death of Hells Angel Bob...
View ArticleHells Angels slaying: 856 gang member pleads guilty in Langley shooting
A member of the 856 gang has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a prominent Hells Angel, Bob Green, at a party in Langley last year. Jason Francis Wallace, 28, turned himself in...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Judge suggests she feels sorry for Hells Angel killer
A Surrey provincial court judge says she can’t imagine how badly Jason Wallace feels after fatally shooting Hells Angel Bob Green in October 2016. During a sentencing hearing last month, Judge Ellen...
View ArticleDeadly dilemma: Gangster who shot Hells Angel told kill yourself, be killed...
Hours after shooting Hells Angel Bob Green, Jason Wallace found himself alone with an unimaginable choice. Devastated, drunk and high on drugs, the 856 gangster had driven to a spot near Harrison Lake...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Man who shot Angel told to kill himself or bikers would
When 856 gangster Jason Wallace pleaded guilty to killing Hells Angel Bob Green, there were a lot of unanswered questions. The Attorney General’s Criminal Justice Branch did not give the normal advance...
View ArticleMan shot dead in Maple Ridge was connected to Hells Angels
A young man shot to death in Maple Ridge last month is the son of one Hells Angel and the great-nephew of another, Postmedia has learned. Manricco “Ricco” Sansalone, 26, died from gunshot wounds on...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Identification of Maple Ridge murder victim confirmed
I have tried to get more information on the murders that happened around Christmas when I was off. There wasn’t much of an update from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team about the Dec. 22...
View ArticleHells Angel Larry Amero arrested and charged in 2012 murder plots
Notorious B.C. Hells Angel Larry Amero has been charged with conspiracy to kill gangster rivals Sandip Duhre and Sukhveer Dhak, who died months apart in targeted 2012 shootings. Amero, 40, was arrested...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angel Amero appears in Ontario court on new charges
B.C. Hells Angels Larry Amero has appeared in an Ontario courtroom after being arrested by Vancouver Police in Ottawa Thursday and charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the 2012...
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