Thursday, February 12, 2009

Mongol motorcycle gang member Ezekiel Lujan, 31, of Glendora on suspicion of dealing methamphetamines all over the San Gabriel Valley.

Glendora Police arrested Ezekiel Lujan, 31, of Glendora on suspicion of dealing methamphetamines all over the San Gabriel Valley. Lujan is also is suspected of possessing handguns as a felon.Police say they have arrested another Mongol motorcycle gang member, this time on drug charges.Officers watched Lujan for a month before pulling him over and detaining him Tuesday near a West Covina house he frequented, said Lt. Joe Ward of the Glendora Police Department.In the house on the 200 block of North Garvey Avenue, police found four pounds of meth, $46,000 and two hand guns, Ward said."He was dealing meth all over the San Gabriel Valley," Ward said. The drugs had a wholesale value of $100,000, Ward said.Police also found a helmet and a jacket emblazoned with Mongols symbols.Lujan lived in a Glendora apartment, where the investigation started. No one else was arrested in connection with the case, Ward said.In October, a nationwide, federal sweep targeting members of the outlaw motorcycle gang led to 61 arrests in Southern California, concluding a three-year undercover investigation.Many of the arrests in "Operation Black Rain" were made in the San Gabriel Valley. Everyone arrested in that sweep is a suspected member or associate of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, an organization that originated in Montebello in the 1970s, but is now headquartered in West Covina.Ward said the investigation into Lujan was not related to the federal sweep, but he suspected federal agencies were paying attention, he said.
"In law enforcement, everybody knows pretty quick when you make an arrest like this," he said.The investigation into Lujan was carried out in conjunction with the La Verne and Irwindale police departments, Ward said.Lujan bailed out of jail for $200,000, Ward said.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Silverwater Street and Custom Motorcycle Show man was shot in broad daylight behind bushes on the outskirts of the event.

Hundreds of people were in attendance at a show run by a Christian motorcycle club in Sydney's west as a man was shot in broad daylight behind bushes on the outskirts of the event.The 33-year-old man was shot in the leg about 2.50pm (AEDT) on Sunday and taken to Liverpool Hospital in a serious condition.The organiser of The Silverwater Street and Custom Motorcycle Show, Greg Hirst, told AAP few people were aware of the incident."We were running the show at the time."There was an incident here over in the bushes behind the show."I got called over. There were paramedics in attendance and an ambulance.''Mr Hirst said the show, held at Clyde Street, Silverwater, did not normally attract trouble."We've never had an incident in 15 years,'' he said."It's a family show.''About an hour after the shooting Mr Hirst said a man was giving a "God talk'' before trophies were awarded to motorcycle owners.It is not known if the shooting was related to an explosion outside the Hells Angels clubhouse on Crystal Street in the inner west suburb of Petersham early on Wednesday morning.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Finks member Travis Lemm, 28, of Trott Park, and Frank Borg, 51, of Semaphore Park, appeared in court on January 6 charged with blackmail.

Salisbury man, 32, suspected to be a Finks bikie associate, was arrested on Tuesday at a Golden Grove house and charged over five alleged serious criminal tresspass incidents and associated thefts in the southern suburbs the same day.
Police said a search of a house uncovered a stolen Holden Statesman sedan and two firearms.Crime Gangs Task Force later charged the man with the alleged $100,000 blackmail attempt and several firearm offences. He remains in custody and will appear in Holden Hill Magistrates Court on March 12.Finks member Travis Lemm, 28, of Trott Park, and Frank Borg, 51, of Semaphore Park, appeared in court on January 6 charged with blackmail.Adelaide Magistrates Court heard the victims of the alleged blackmail attempt were in danger of assualt while the third man remained at large.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Hells Angel Fontaine Found Guilty

Hells Angel Paul Fontaine has been on trial for the 1997 murder of Pierre Rondeau and attempted murder of Robert Corriveau. Members of the jury began deliberating last Tuesday, but their deliberations were put on hold while judge Marc David considered motions put for the by Fontaine’s lawyer to have the case ruled a mistrial.Carole Beaucage, lawyer for Fontaine, filed a myriad of motions. The most prominent arguments made were: the crown repeatedly sent incomplete evidence in an untimely fashion; Fontaine’s efforts to get a lawyer of his choice were blocked; and most seriously, the latest incident where two jurors were caught playing detective outside of jury deliberations (the two scrambled onto the bumper and hood of a prison bus trying to recreate the shooting ambush of prison guards Pierre Rondeau and Richard Corriveau). Beaucage says that action risked contaminating the jury.Regardless, judge Marc David ruled that the defense failed to prove there was a real danger of prejudice against Fontaine or a risk of judicial error. He also called some of the defense’s arguments unfounded or speculation, and others coming too late at this point in the trial.
Deliberations resumed on Saturday and by Sunday the jury had come back with a guilty verdict. You will recall that on Sept. 8, 1997, Rondeau and Corriveau’s van was sprayed with bullets as they stopped on their daily route to a Montreal detention centre to collect prisoners. Former Hells Angel leader Mourice “Mom” Boucher as an attempt to destabilize the justice system and intimidate informants supposedly masterminded the attack.

The Crown’s primary witness in the trial was Hells Angels informant Stephane Gagne, who was with Fontaine when the crime was committed.
It’s now up to Quebec Superior Court Judge Marc David to decide Fontaine’s sentence.

Hells Angels biker gang ,Jørn Jønke Nielsen, is back in court today charged with gross bodily harm.


Hells Angels’ most prominent member, Jørn Jønke Nielsen, was in court today charged with gross bodily harmThe spokesman for the Hells Angels biker gang ,Jørn Jønke Nielsen, is back in court today charged with gross bodily harm. Jønke was remanded in custody in December 2007 after stabbing a man in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. Jønke remained in custody for months after he refused to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, before being released in October 2008.On his return to court today he was joined by around 50 biker supporters. Jønke and a member of the Hells Angels support group, AK 81, are charged with the attack but continue to maintain that they acted in self-defence.A third man involved in the dispute, identified only as Mr. S., also appeared in court charged with attacking Jønke and the AK 81 member. Mr. S. was brought to the courthouse wearing a bullet proof vest and surrounded by armed police guards.All three have pleaded not guilty to charges and the case could be finished as early as Friday. Jønke was one of the founding members of the first Danish Hells Angels chapter. He came to prominence in 1984 when he killed the head of the rival biker gang Bullshit. The 24-year-old fled the country to Canada and returned four years later to face a 16 year jail sentence.During the height of the biker warfare between the Hells Angels and Bandidos in 1996, Bandidos members tried to assassinate Jønke while he was serving his sentence in Jyderup state prison. He was shot with a machine gun but survived the attack. Hand grenades were also thrown in front of his cell.The biker was involved in the death of a man during a 2001 fight at an Aalborg disco, which saw him receive a four year jail term.

Massive explosion has blown the front off the Hells Angels bikie clubhouse

Massive explosion has blown the front off the Hells Angels bikie clubhouse at Petersham this morning, damaging surrounding homes and businesses.Residents say the force of the blast shook them from their beds, with a massive bang around 2am this morning.The front of the Hells Angels bikie clubhouse on Crystal Street is now rubble. Shattered glass from nearby businesses and homes lies across the street.
The force of the blast even blew the awning off the solicitors’ building across the road.Two men in a black four-wheel drive were seen fleeing the scene. The damage to the Hells Angels clubhouse appears contained to the front of the building. A solid brick protects the inside, which remains intact.

Monday, February 2, 2009

The gang war between bikie gangs the Rebels and the Bandidos is being linked to as many as 13 shootings on Sydney streets in the last two weeks.

The gang war between bikie gangs the Rebels and the Bandidos is being linked to as many as 13 shootings on Sydney streets in the last two weeks.A new elite police unit, originally set up to investigate the night-time shooting of a gang member in Seven Hills last month, is widening its net to examine the outbreak of violence among the outlaw gangs.first Sydney arrests in relation to the feud occurred on Wednesday night, when police pulled over four men in a Holden Commodore for a routine check and discovered two semi-automatic rifles, one loaded.Half an hour before the road stop, a house in Sadlier, believed to be linked to the Rebels, had been shot at. The four men, aged 21 to 46, are understood to be Bandidos associates.
Codenamed Highcro and made up of gangs squad officers, the strikeforce will examine the series of shootings in western Sydney.On November 28, a 25-year-old was shot several times in the head and chest while a passenger in a car driving on the Prospect Highway. The car was hit by about 19 bullets fired from at least two high-powered rifles. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
The Highcro detectives are using that incident as a springboard to look at 12 other shootings they believe may be linked to the warring bikie gangs, who have a history of enmity that often boils over into street warfare.A prominent Bandido was murdered in Melbourne in October and rumours of a planned "hit" marred the Friday extradition hearing in New Zealand of a Rebel member accused of a vicious bashing in Queensland last year.Only four days after the Seven Hills shooting, a Gypsy Joker was shot and knocked from his bike as he rode on the Great Western Highway before midnight.
In the early hours of the same day, December 2, a tattoo parlour in Belmore and a Bass Hill house were fired at. No one was injured in either shooting. Since then there have been nine shootings across Sydney's west.The NSW violence comes on the back of a flare-up between the two gangs in Victoria. On October 22, a Bandidos enforcer, 51-year-old Ross Brand, was shot dead outside the gang's Geelong clubhouse.
Two brothers, both members of the Rebels, have been charged with his murder.
The continuing gang violence has also led to high security during an extradition hearing for New Zealander and Rebel member Peter Douglas Rauhina, 37.The first Sydney arrests in relation to the feud occurred on Wednesday night, when police pulled over four men in a Holden Commodore for a routine check and discovered two semi-automatic rifles, one loaded.Half an hour before the road stop, a house in Sadlier, believed to be linked to the Rebels, had been shot at. The four men, aged 21 to 46, are understood to be Bandidos associates.
THE CLUBS REBELS MC The Rebels, with 29 chapters, are the largest outlaw motorcycle club in Australia. They are seen as a more traditional club and are run by former light-middleweight boxer and founding member, Alex Vella. GYPSY JOKER MC The Gypsy Joker MC are another Australian-formed club and are most notorious for the 2001 car-bomb murders of West Australian police senior investigator Don Hancock and Lawrence Lewis. BANDIDOS MC The Bandidos, whose motto is: "God forgives, Bandidos don't", are one of the "Big Four" gangs identified by the US FBI, and have 19 chapters across Australia. One of the clubs that has actively recruited from ethnic groups in recent years.