Sebastien Comtois, Devils Ghosts boss, shot

Sebastien Comtois, president of the HA farm team the Devils Ghosts MC has been shot in his home. He is in non-life threatening condition. Comtois has a long criminal record with respect to assault with a weapon, fraud, obstruction, breaking and entering and impaired driving. In November 2016, he was arrested along with others in an operation to dismantle a drug smuggling ring operating on the South Shore of Montreal, under the Hells Angels South.

Comtois benefited from a stay of proceedings in March 2018.

Paul Fontaine shuns association with the Hells Angels

Paul 'Fon-Fon' Fontaine, 51, says emails from the Hells Angels support his view that he retired in March 2014. But officials at the Drummond Institution say that nothing shows he has left the biker club. Fontaine killed prison guard Pierre Rondeau during the biker war. He went on a seven-year run before being arrested in 2004. In 2009, he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Fontaine has been increasing requests, grievances and formal notices against correctional services.

Affiliation to the Hells Angels is detrimental to his efforts. His security classification, a possible transfer to a penitentiary with minimum security and access to rehabilitation programs is at stake. Fontaine sees as "hypothetical and unsupported" fears that he will re-enter the ranks of the Hells Angels after announcing his departure. Observations made behind walls show that Fontaine still has clear and obvious links with Hells Angels. In one case he wanted to incorporate a wing with bikers at Drummond Penitentiary. A Federal Court judge will hear the case in two weeks.

Hamilton Cop Craig Ruthowsky

The judge called the disgraced cop the "author of his own misfortune" and "a man of profoundly flawed character."

The Hamilton cop convicted in a massive pay-for-protection scheme with a crew of drug dealers is now facing the prospect of an additional three years being tacked onto his sentence because he did not pay a fine. Craig Ruthowsky was sentenced to 12½ years in a federal penitentiary last year, and he was also ordered to pay $250k — the amount the judge said Ruthowsky took in bribes. If Ruthowsky doesn't pay the fine in a year, three more years could be tacked on to his sentence.

"The conduct for which he must now answer was motivated by sheer, unbridled greed"

The sentencing marks the final step in a lengthy and intricate trial that lasted much longer than anticipated. While sentencing was being pushed back, Ruthowsky continued getting paid. He was first suspended in June of 2012. He made over $104,000 last year, $107,000 in 2015, and $109,000 in 2012.

See -----> Hamilton cop Craig Ruthowsky sold police info to drug dealers

HA Kenneth Wagner pulls 42 months

In 2008 Kenneth Wagner was found guilty of directing others to act for a criminal organization. Gerald Ward's right-hand man was the first in Ontario convicted of the charge.

Niagara Hells Angels Kenneth Wagner has been sentenced to three and a half years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to several offences including uttering a threat to cause bodily harm and possession of a prohibited weapon. The 54-year-old had been in custody since his arrest in March.

Based on pre-sentence custody he must now serve an additional 31 months in jail.

His lawyer said he resigned from the outlaw motorcycle club after he was sentenced to the equivalent of 11 years in prison in 2008 for cocaine trafficking. A search warrant at his Port Colborne home however found Hells Angels colors and a belt buckle that read AFFA. Police also discovered a handgun, cocaine and prescription pain killers, digital scales, a debt list and more than $18,000 in cash.

B.C.’s Court of Appeal smacks dial-a-doper

Cocaine dealer Cheung Wai Wallace Li was not entrapped when police used a telephone number to order drugs from his 'dial-a-dope' operation, B.C.’s Court of Appeal has ruled. He will return to provincial court for sentencing. The court had initially stayed charges due to a finding of entrapment. Cops made 22 drug buys as part of their investigation. Li was involved in 16 of those transactions. The court said officers didn’t act improperly in calling the number and arranging to meet the accused for the purposes of a drug transaction.

“In any event, the call itself was, in the circumstances, a reasonable investigation, and the resulting drug transaction did not amount to entrapment,” the ruling said.

HA connected drug dealer David Roger Revell to be deported

David Roger Revell, 55, faces removal to England after his application for judicial review of a decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board was denied. The IRB had deemed him inadmissible to Canada because of serious criminality. Revell came to Canada from the U.K. in 1974 when he was 10 years old. He was an associate of the East End Hells Angels chapter in Kelowna and was busted for trafficking in 2008 and sentenced to five years.

In 2013 Revell pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

In his appeal, Revell argued that being kicked out of Canada could cause "exceptional psychological harm" and would be grossly disproportionate to his crimes, thereby violating his charter rights. He further argued he couldn't get adequate medical attention in the U.K. The judges weren't buying it and Revell is outta here.

Mexican Meth production, purity up, price down

97% of the meth seized by the US occurs along the Mexican border. In 2012, agents seized 8,460kg of meth headed into the United States from Mexico; in 2017 that figure was 30,081kg. In August, Mexican cops raided four drug labs in Sinaloa. One had allegedly been producing three tons of methamphetamine every week. The DEA says that over the past 5 years the purity of the drug increased from 87.9 to 93.2% while the price per gram decreased from $81 to $70. Profit margins on a kilogram of meth is much higher than it was for a kilogram of cocaine. With access to precursors, it's possible to produce the drug anytime, anywhere. Producing meth is also far less labor-intensive than either heroin or cocaine.

Mexican cartels' meth production increased dramatically in the mid-2000s after the US shut down super labs in California's Central Valley and passed laws restricting access to the required chemicals. Guadalajara-based Sinaloa cartel lieutenant Ignacio "El Nacho" Coronel Villarreal became known as the "King of Crystal" due to the huge quantities of methamphetamine his organization produced.

Today, nearly every cartel in Mexico is either manufacturing methamphetamine or buying and smuggling the drug to sell at a profit in the United States.