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Niagara police continue to pressure biker gangs

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Niagara police have been waging a war against biker gangs for decades now. It’s one battle that police admit they can never let up on. And while ‘The Outlaws’ and ‘Hells Angels’ have been broken up in Niagara. New criminal gangs are always trying to fill the void.
The latest conviction among gang members is four years for drug trafficking by Black Pistons associate, 27-year old Justin Keniry back on January 9th.
Staff Sgt. Shawn Clarkson: “We ran a six month probe into the activities and identified each member and associate, and the amount of heroin, cocaine and other drugs they were dealing on the street here in Niagara.”
In 2013, police raided the Black Pistons St. Catharnes clubhouse, and arrested
31 people.
Staff Sgt. Clarkson: “At the end of it, we had information The Outlaws would have established a chapter here by November 2013 and we stopped that by taking down the organization on November 6th, 2013.”
The Niagara chapter of The Outlaws was broken up in 2002 police targeted their members their clubhouse was demolished.
Their members were imprisoned and their clubhouse was destroyed. A decade later, police intelligence officers were learning The Outlaws were trying to regain a foothold in Niagara through their puppet club the Black Pistons.
Police first set their sights on The Outlaws Niagara chapter in the 1990’s. The Hells Angels then filled the void. In 2006, police launched Project Tandem, a series of province wide raids against the Hells Angels. In Niagara, chapter president Skinny Ward and other members were arrested-eventually imprisoned.
The Welland clubhouse seized.
Months ago, cocaine kingpin and Hells Angels associate Nick Nero was sentenced to
22 years for being a ringleader in a organization that conspired to import a ton of cocaine into Canada every month.
Nick Nero, The Outlaws, the Hells Angels in Niagara have all been brought to their knees.
Clarkson says: “There’s a continued sharing of information across the province with various policing agencies that keep an eye on this. It’ll happen again but we’ll be waiting for it.”