Riot charge for reputed motorcycle gang members - Friday, Jun. 4, 2010

Riot charge for reputed motorcycle gang members - Friday, Jun. 4, 2010: "Arrested so far in today's sweep and charged with riot are:
Marc Provost, 54, of 384 Coolidge Ave.;
Daniel Smith, 30, of 46 Greer St.;
Florian Daniel Pascal, 26, of 46 Harbour Ave., Nashua.
Provost is affiliated with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club while Smith and Pascal are affiliated with Milford and Company Motorcycle Club, according to Lessard.
The arrests are connected to an April 16 fight and shooting at Luigi's Pizza Bar & Grille on Valley Street. A fight broke out inside the pizzeria among Hells Angels, Milford and Company and the Outlaws motorcycle clubs and then spilled into the parking lot where shots were fired."

Robert J. Shannon, of Maple Ridge, B.C.,British Columbia man pleaded guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Seattle to drug charges

Robert J. Shannon, of Maple Ridge, B.C.,British Columbia man pleaded guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Seattle to drug and money-laundering charges for his role in selling drugs on behalf of the Hells Angels motorcycle club. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison up to life in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.According to the indictment originally filed in the case, Shannon was in charge of distributing the narcotics on behalf of the Hells Angels and others. Drugs were hidden inside hollowed-out logs on trucks, within the false walls of cargo containers and vehicles, within loads of commercial lumber and beauty bark, inside large PVC pipes, and within the interior of a propane tanker. Some loads were carried on foot across the international border between the U.S. and Canada.Last month, co-defendant Devron D. Quast, 38, of Abbotsford, B.C., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.