Dbe was born in and grew up in Sudbury, a mining city in northern Ontario. [35] Arrested together with Guindon at the barn were his second wife Barbara Ann and his right-hand man Howard Berry. [169], In 1995, Satan's Choice made an alliance with the Diablos, a club led by a former Choice member, Frank Lenti, resulting in a biker war in the summer of 1995 with the Loners, a club which Lenti had founded before he was expelled from it the previous year. [67] Berry was living under the assumed name Tim Jones, and the Florida police did not realize that Berry was living illegally in the United States. [184] The chapters that suffered the most from Operation Dismantle were the ones in Hamilton, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Milton, while the other chapters escaped relatively unscathed. [137], Although Satan's Choice was not as powerful as it once been before 1977, the club was described as still having a "cocky attitude" in the 1980s and 1990s, being the second most powerful club in Ontario after the Outlaws. [10]Charismatic and handsome, Guindon was the "star" of the documentary. The Satan's Choice have maintained a presence in Sudbury in the 20 years since the bombing, but police say they are more careful to stay out of the public eye. [141] Another set of raids in 1984 seized two small-caliber handguns, marijuana and marijuana oil, and a small amount of cocaine from four private residences in Scarborough. [103] Several members of Satan' Choice warned the Golden Hawk Riders, including their sergeant-at-arms, Bill "Heavy" Matiyek, who had a reputation as a hothead, not to go through with the planned "patch over", a demand that Matiyek rejected. [131] Hoffmann was indicted for murder as a way to pressure him to turn Crown's evidence and testify against his club. [99] On 8 September 1983, Guy "Frenchie" Gilbert of Satan's Choice Kitchener chapter was having lunch at Le Petit Bourg restaurant in Longueuil, Quebec with Yves Buteau, the national president of the Hells Angels, to discuss "patching over" to join the Hells Angels. Meanwhile, the Outlaws gained a strong ally in Ontario, precluding any expansion by the Hells Angels into the region. Well worth the read! There was a problem loading your book clubs. , Macmillan; Main Market Ed. [99] In the summer of 1978, at a general meeting, Satan's Choice debated about whatever to move into selling heroin. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. (Nathan Denette/CP) The. [165], Campbell, after his release from prison in March 1993, recalled that Satan's Choice was "making money hand over fist". [138] Satan's Choice ambushed three Loners in Woodbridge, shooting three of them, who all survived their wounds. [6] Bernie Guindon of the Phantom Riders decided to use the name and patch of the disbanded club because he knew it would enrage the Black Diamond Riders. Information and translations of satan's choice mc in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. [171] Both the Hamilton chapter and the Sudbury chapter purchased the vast majority of their drugs from Richard "Rick" Valle of the Angels Nomad chapter. Be a stand-up guy. [155] Beaucage was known for his violent hatred of the Outlaws, once travelling to London to try to pull off the sign of the Outlaws' London clubhouse, causing the Outlaws to shoot him. The product of a violent childhood, with a hair-trigger temper and fearless nature, he just wanted a place to belong. [156] He was wearing a bulletproof vast and survived. This book really is a fascinating look into a World few get to experience or even taste. [87] Lowe wrote that the chapters "began to fall like dominoes" as, once Mario Parente of the Hamilton chapter decided to go over to the Outlaws, the Montreal chapter did likewise, which caused the Ottawa chapter to "patch over". [96] By 1980, it was estimated that the AngelsOutlaw biker war had caused about 20 murders in Quebec and Ontario since 1978, while between 1981 and 1984 another 42 were killed. [166], Throughout the 1990s, Satan's Choice was the subject of unsolicited offers of a friendly take-over by the Hells Angels. [188] Juretta was a former soldier in the Canadian Army and was an expert with explosives. He's faced off police out to get him, taken revenge on men who betrayed him, and gone to extreme lengths to protect his honour and his club. . They make money big time". [208], However, many former members of Satan's Choice would remain active criminals after the club was dismantled, such as the former president of the Hamilton chapter Ion Croitoru, who would be charged but not convicted of the murder of Lynn and Fred Gilbank in January 2005. [194] The cellmate turned out to be Gordie Cunningham of Satan's Choice Hamilton chapter, who had been arrested for drug possession in Barrie. [113] Campbell claims that Matiyek had reached for his gun first, leading him to open fire. I loaned them my old chest as a sample and told them where they could be made. On 15 December 2009, the OPP launched Project Manchester against the Hells Angels, and Watteel was charged with one count of gangsterism, 28 counts of narcotics trafficking and 27 counts of the possession of the proceeds of crime. [65], Reflecting the new alliance, Berry started to work for the Outlaws in Florida, where his willingness to perform any task together with his anonymity made him useful as an enforcer. [178] The Choice set an absurdly high price for the clubhouse, which caused much controversy in Toronto when Hall indicated her willingness to pay it. [139], In 1983, a Satan's Choice-turned-Outlaw, David Eugene Squin, stormed into the clubhouse of the Chosen Few in Emeryville, where he killed three people and wounded three more. : [113] Campbell had heard that Matiyek had a gun and he brought along a gun to the Queen's Hotel. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. We were able to move on the other gangs faster than they could move on us because we had such good sources and good information on the habits of the other gangs". [6] In the outlaw biker subculture, using the name and patch of a former club without permission is seen as very disrespectful. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. [18]That Guindon and his followers were rigidly conforming to the code of outlaw biker subculture that originated in California in the late 1940s apparently escaped them. [154] One policeman, Don Andrews, said of Beaucage: "You always knew Brian wasn't going to die a natural death". The possibility of Satan's Choice "patching over" to join the Hells Angels ensured that through the OutlawsSatan's Choice relationship was tense and always difficult, the Outlaws never wanted to apply too much pressure against the Choice least they join the Hells Angels. [172] Langton wrote: "So desperate were the big biker gangs for every square inch of southern Ontario especially prime real estate like Woodbridge the Diablos were immediately courted". There was no pulling heavies. [55], In 1975, Satan's Choice began an alliance with the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, one of the largest international outlaw biker clubs. [50] The Special Squad was later renamed the Anti-Biker Unit. Dbe became the president of the Sudbury chapter of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club. [62] Kirby recalled in a 2015 interview: "If there was trouble anywhere, they'd sent Howard Berry out to take care of it. Satan's Choice grew to more than 400 members by 1970,[2] making it the second largest outlaw motorcycle club in the world, behind only the Hells Angels.[3]. [2] The campaign waged by Hall and other Special Squad members failed in its purpose as the number of outlaw bikers in Ontario went from about 500 in 1973 to about 800 in 1978 as the profits from organized crime led more men to join outlaw biker clubs. [85] O'Reilly and Arksey both agreed to McEwen's plans to have Satan's Choice "patch over" to the Outlaws, while Lacombe remained non-committal for a time. [36], On Sunday morning as those arrested were taken into the Don Jail, there were a number of journalists from the local television stations present and the bikers blew kisses to the cameras. [122] Two of the accused, Armand Sanguigni and Gordon van Haarlem, were acquitted. [51] Guidnon later recalled: "I couldn't do anything about it. [54], One consequence of the "reverse intimidation" campaign was to reduce Satan's Choice membership from the all-time high of about 400 members in 1969 to about 110 in 1977. In March 1987, Graham contacted the police, alleging that Hawkins was physically abusive and was involved with Satan' Choice. [66] In the 1970s, the San Francisco-based Hells Angels were seeking to expand from California into Florida, leading to a biker war with the Chicago-based Outlaws. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. As such, the Satan's Choice Sudbury chapter became a Hells Angels chapter. [146] By the 1980s, Satan's Choice had moved into selling cocaine, and a pipeline was opened to move cocaine from Toronto to Alberta, where many oil workers used cocaine to ease the tedium of their jobs. Satan's Choice Title and statement of responsibility area Title proper Satan's Choice General material designation Graphic material Level of description File Reference code SCA98-GA68-1969-69-1304 Dates of creation area Date (s) June 25, 1969 (Creation) Creator Kitchener-Waterloo Record Physical description area Physical description b&w ; 35 mm The Kitchener chapter was generally considered to be the strongest Satan's Choice chapter that had a firm arm-lock on organized crime in the "Tri Cities" of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo from the early 1970s onward. [5] This club would disband in 1962, but went on to serve as the namesake for a group of four other motorcycle clubs which came together as the new Satan's Choice in 1965, namely the Phantom Riders of Oshawa, the Canadian Lancers of Scarborough (modern Toronto), the Throttle Twisters of Preston (modern Cambridge), and the Wild Ones of Port Credit (modern Mississauga). [52], Kirby concluded that Satan's Choice "had the upper hand in Toronto because we had the best intelligence network around. [194] The manager gave "Ed" Isnor's American Express number from the registry, which allowed "Ed" to use the number to spend thousands of dollars at Isnor's expense. [187] As a result of Project Dismantle, Satan's Choice membership fell from 135 in 1995 down to 70 in September 1998. Alex. [87] McEwen brought over a number of American Outlaws from their Detroit chapter to provide intimidation at the Crystal Beach meeting. [16] Shebib said of Satan's Choice in 1965: "It was a lot of booze, broads, and bikes. [1] [132], The Port Hope case became the subject of a best-selling 1988 book, Conspiracy of Brothers by the American journalist Mick Lowe, and the 1990 protest song "Justice in Ontario" by the American singer Steve Earle. [109] The members from Toronto who went to Port Hope that night were Garry "Nutty" Comeau, Jeff McLeod, Larry Hurren, Lorne Campbell and Armand Sanguigni. [160] In October 1989, when the leaves were falling, a policeman arrested the member for the possession of a banned weapon. [37] By the end of the 1960s, Guindon had emerged as something of a folk hero in Toronto while Satan's Choice had become the most best known and largest outlaw biker club in Canada. [59] The Popeyes had targeted the Devil's Disciples biker gang, who were allies of Satan's Choice. [160] By late 1989, both Guindon and Campbell were growing dissatisfied with the low quality of incoming recruits into Satan's Choice, feeling that the new members were of abysmally low intelligence and were too "soft". [73] Edson was arrested in Kitchener on 27 August 1976 and deported to the United States. [188] The bomb was handed over by Croitoru and Juretta to Dub and vice-president Brian Davies of the Sudbury chapter at a Tim Horton's where Highway 69 and Notre Dame Avenue intersected in the Lockerby district of South Sudbury. [134] The last of the "Port Hope 6" to be acquitted was Comeau, who was freed on 8 September 2000. Stool pigeon motherfucker". [221] The group seems to have disbanded as nothing have been heard of the gang since 2017. When he eventually made bail, Mark eagerly jumped at the centre's offer. When they got out in 1971, they decided that running around alleys with shotguns wasnt profitable so they reorganized and got into more profitable things like drugs. [190] The bomb was planted by Neil Passenen, a friend of Dub's. [147] In August 1985, a biker war in Hamilton led to the murder of two Satan's Choice members, Allan Kinloch and Brent Roddick; an Outlaw, James Lewis; and a member of the Red Devils, Michael Carey. [5] He had promoted the merger of the four clubs to end the attacks of the Black Diamond Riders, arguing if the four clubs were united, it would have such an overwhelming numerical superiority that it would ensure that the Black Diamond Riders would not dare attack them anymore. [74] He was not extradited to Canada as he was instead convicted in North Carolina for his involvement in an Outlaw auto theft ring. [140] As Gilbert, Buteau and another Hells Angel, Ren Lamoureaux, were leaving the restaurant, they were ambushed in the parking lot by an Outlaw, Gino Goudreau, who gunned down all three men. [212] Lorne Campbell also joined the Hell Angels in 2000, and served as the president of the Hells Angels' Sudbury chapter. [33] At about 4:00 am, the enraged police returned with a greater force of 84 officers who engaged in a fierce brawl with the bikers. Despite crackdowns by authorities, the club still maintained a membership of over 350 in 1977, across thirteen chapters in Ontario and Quebec. I started this book with an open mind, and finished it rather confused of my feelings about Mr Campbell. One of the very best true accounts of a man who must be seen as a true biker, loyalty and respectful. [202] Gault, who once bit off a man's ear in a bar fight, was described by his ex-wife Linda Sebastiao: "After he got his full patch he thought he was king of the world. The Satan's Choice MC had branches in Keswick, Kitchener, Oshawa, Sudbury, Simcoe County, Thunder Bay and Toronto but nothing outside the province. [177] With Lenti in the hospital, the Diabos collapsed which marked the end of the war. [147] The day after Roddick's murder, Satan's Choice disbanded their Hamilton chapter with its members relocating to the Kitchener chapter. [108] While Sauv and Blaker drove west to Port Hope, several members of the Toronto chapter abandoned drinking and watching a hockey game at their clubhouse to head east to Port Hope. [186] Many of the members of these chapters found themselves in prison or otherwise leaving the club, with the Sudbury chapter being reduced to just three full members from the peak of eight members and two "hangarounds". edition (July 31, 2014), Language Did Mike Dube kill Alex Stretenovich? And they knew it would piss him off to have another club in what he considered to be his town". [188] This impression was further increased by Dub's erratic and irascible behavior. In July 2017, a new motorcycle club identifying themselves as Satan's Choice emerged using the same patch, but otherwise not connected to the original club. As pawns. Riders a href= '' https: //www.bing.com/ck/a . [48] The decision to use Satan's Choice members in the film had been approved by "Big" Jack Olliffe, who had replaced McEwen as the interim president. [48] The first day of filming, 3 October 1970, was highly chaotic owing to unruly behavior of the bikers who refused to take direction, and matters continued to decline thereafter. [189] It was apparently Croitoru's intention to blow up the Solid Gold strip club because he and Dub had been refused admittance earlier that year, but Dub diverted the plan into blowing up the police station instead. [52] Kirby stated that there was one clerk who had access to the most classified information and: "Club members carried her number in their wallets. [104] Matiyek, who was drunk and high on marijuana and amphetamines, was talking about shooting the Satan's Choice members in the Queen's Hotel bar-room, causing Lorne Campbell of the Choice's Toronto chapter to come to their aid. [49] When a group of bikers dropped their pants and underwear with the aim of shocking a script girl, "Pigpen" Berry felt overshadowed, which inspired him to bite off the head of a live snake to shock her even more. [120] People in Port Hope were so outraged by Mayiyek's murder that it was deemed impossible to find an impartial jury in that town, so the trial was held in London, Ontario. [157] In December 1986, the Kitchener chapter ran a full-page Christmas advertisement in the Kitchener Record reading: "Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the Waterloo Region a very Merry Christmas and let you know that we are still here and will always be here. [152] As Hawkins was deeply in debt owing to the costs associated with his divorce, the police allege that he began to sell information to Morin. [78] In 1976, a member of the Hamilton chapter, James "Wench" Kellet, ran for the mayor of Hamilton under the slogan "A Choice in the Right Direction". Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2020. Through the majority of Satan's Choice members favored an alliance with the Hells Angels, Guindon made the decision that individual members of Satan's Choice were free to do business with the Hells Angels, but there would be no official alliance nor a "patch over" to the Angels. [172] The Canadian journalist Yves Lavigne wrote the explosion caused by the rocket "tore a large in the dooor and blew windows out of three neighboring houses, but did not injure the five bikers inside the building". [156] On 16 January 1987, Beaucage during a visit to London was shot by an Outlaw with .45 calibre handgun, taking a bullet to the heart, but again survived the shooting. [53] The American journalist Mick Lowe wrote that, starting in 1973, Hall "had inhabited a strange nether region on the fringes of Canadian law enforcement" as he went after bikers via very ruthless and often illegal means, making him into a "black legend among Canadian bikers" who feared him as a policeman who did not follow the law. The Satan's Choice MC had branches in Keswick, Kitchener, Oshawa, Sudbury, Simcoe County, Thunder Bay and Toronto but nothing outside the province. [89] Lorne Campbell stated: "The split never would have gone down if Bernie was still out. [30], On 25 September 1967, Guindon held the first national convention of Satan's Choice at a farmhouse in Markham Township just outside of Toronto, which was also attended by the Vagabonds club. [21] Reports such as this were typical of the media reports about Satan's Choice in the 1960s, which rarely mentioned serious crimes. [181], In 1996, Guindon retired as Satan's Choice national president, although he remained a member of the club. [180] By 1995, Satan's Choice were again the largest biker gang in Ontario with 118 members in 7 chapters compared with the Para-Dice Riders that had 61 members in 2 chapters; the Vagabonds that had 70 members in 1 chapter; the Outlaws that had 68 members in 7 chapters; the Loners with 62 members in 2 chapters and the Last Chance that had 20 members in 1 chapter. , ISBN-10 Former Satan's Choice member Cecil Kirby wrote in his 1986 memoirs Mafia Enforcer that Satan's Choice members specialized in seducing the female clerks who operated the Ontario Provincial Police's computers and were always willing to share information from the computers with their boyfriends. [219] McEwen, the second Satan's Choice president, died as a forgotten man on 27 January 2012 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, still working as a humble dishwasher. [184] The club's rules required that a new member be sponsored by a member who had known him for at least five years; Gault's sponsor William Lavoie had only known him for five months and had been bribed in the form of $20,000 by Gault to say otherwise. If you have any interest in Biker lifestyle or this area of underworld activity then you'll enjoy it. [191] When the bikers continued to try to enter the Solid Gold, the police were called. In 1983, Hoffmann was acquitted on an appeal, with a judge ruling that the Crown had acted badly by not disclosing to Hoffman's lawyer that it had the audio tapes proving he was in Kitchener the night of the murder. [112] Sauv sat down with Matiyek and quickly learned that he did not want to see him as he instead flashed his gun and said he had "nine friends", which was interpreted to mean that he had nine bullets in his gun. [183] In May 1996, the OPP launched Project Dismantle, charging 161 people associated with Satan's Choice with 1,192 violations of the criminal code, mostly relating to narcotics, while seizing drugs with a street value of $1.05 million together with two marijuana labs capable of producing crops with an annual yield worth $13.8 million. [69], In August 1975, Guindon went to a hunting lodge at Oba Lake in northern Ontario owned by Alain Templain, the president of the Oshawa chapter of Satan' Choice. He was the Choice hitman and everybody knew it". [117] Corporal Terry Hall of the OPP's Special Squad, who took charge of the investigation on 27 October 1978, seems to have decided to use Matiyek's death as a chance to cripple Satan's Choice by convicting as many bikers as possible of his murder. [147] When Roddick's body was found on 25 August 1985, it was the fourth murder of a biker in Hamilton that month. [50] Guindon later stated: "Drugs were the ruin of many a good club member and many a good club". [31] Attending the convention were the members from the chapters from Oshawa, Ottawa, Guelph, St. Catherines, Windsor, Montreal, Preston, Kingston, Peterborough, and Hamilton. [73] William "Gatemouth" Edson of the Outlaw chapter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida had been convicted of multiple offenses such as murdering three Hells Angels; torturing a woman for two days because she wore a jacket with an Outlaw patch without permission; and almost beating another woman to death because she was the girlfriend of a Bandidos Motorcycle Club member. After being kicked out of a strip club for wearing the Satan's Choice gang colors, he and several friends toyed with bombing the club, but instead bombed a police station in Sudbury, Ontario, causing over $100,000 in damage. [151] The police allege that Hawkins told Morin about a police raid planned in Hamilton and based on the information he is said to have provided, Morin was able to deduce the identity of the informer, whom he promptly had killed. [94] On 15 February 1978, Trudeau, who was now with the Hells Angels, shot two Outlaws outside of a Montreal bar, killing one of them, Robert Ct. [15] The Ontario outlaw biker subculture was violent, but in the 1960s the violence was usually limited to brawls and it was most unusual for bikers to kill each other. The names they a. 8 people are taken to hospital after the attack, including one member of the Black Diamond Riders who had been shot in the abdomen. [7] Ever since a brawl in 1962 known as the "Battle of Pebblestone" that saw the Black Diamond Riders defeat the Golden Hawk Riders that Guindon belonged to at the time, it has been his mission to seek vengeance on the Black Diamond Riders. Satan's Choice MC was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club that was once the dominant outlaw club in Ontario, and at the peak of its power in 1977, had 12 chapters based in Ontario, with one in Montreal, Quebec. [93], On 5 December 1977, the Popeyes of Montreal "patched over" to become the first Hells Angel chapter in Canada. [176] On 25 August 1995, Lenti was badly wounded by a bomb planted in his car. [86], Guindon's imprisonment soon led to the fracturing of Satan's Choice when, on 1 July 1977, the Ottawa, St. Catharines, Windsor, London and Montreal chapters fully abandoned Satan's Choice in favour of the much larger Outlaws. Sarah May - did Mike Dube kill Alex Stretenovich a cold-blooded gangland-style execution as. [126] Several witnesses mentioned that the man who killed Matiyek was a tall man with long blonde hair, described as a "big, blonde, bearded guy". For aiding in the new beginning, I was presented with a new set of colors". [20], Although Guindon and his gang were often into trouble with the law owing to their frequent brawling with other outlaw bikers, in general Satan's Choice were not involved in organized crime in its early years, engaging only in petty crime. [162] Furthermore, the style of the Hells Angels were much to the taste of both Guindon and Campbell, who admired the type of men that the Hells Angels attracted. [129], The lawyers for one of the Satan's Choice members convicted of Matiyek's murder, David "Tee Hee" Hoffmann, were able in 1981 to prove on the basis of police intercepts of Hoffmann's telephone calls that he was making phone calls in Kitchener on the night of 18 October 1978 and thus was not in Port Hope as the prosecution had claimed at the trial. [21] The report stated: "A policeman had a guitar smashed over his head during a brawl in a local hotel cocktail lounge Saturday after two motorcycle clubs ganged up on a musician. Norris recalled: "I could hardly contain my enthusiasm. [101] In 1980, McEwen abandoned biking to become a dishwasher, which was felt to be sufficient punishment by Satan's Choice. [32] Amid much riotous drinking in a barn where the convention was being held, 23 police officers raided the barn about midnight, but came under a shower of empty beer bottles, forcing them to retreat. [74] James "Blue" Starrett of the Outlaws was found to be living in St. Catherine's on 22 July 1976 under the name Charlie Brown, where he ran a painting business and was a member of the local Satan's Choice chapter. The club was involved in the first major outlaw biker conflict in Canadian history, when it engaged the country's second largest club, the Popeyes, from 1974 to 1976. [90] When Guindon was released early from prison for good behavior in 1984, all Satan's Choice had left were the chapters in Thunder Bay, Kitchener, Oshawa, Toronto and Richmond Hill. [220] Sauv later became a noted prisoners' rights activist who, in 1993, won a decade-long legal fight ending at the Supreme Court of Canada to give prisoners the right to vote.[133]. According to his associate, Todd Petahtegoose, Dbe murdred a 13-year old boy in 1986, which he was able to pass off as a suicide. [183] The police forces also seized a variety of firearms, including twelve handguns, five non-restricted rifles, and seven restricted weapons such as automatic pistols, sawed-off shotguns, and even machine guns such as a World War II-era Bren gun and tripod.
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