22-year-old Danish man, suspected of mowing down a prominent member of the AK81 motorcycle gang with his vehicle last year, has been arrested in Egypt.
Egyptian police received tips about the man from Copenhagen Police and following the arrest, Danish officers have gone to Egypt to retrieve the suspect. The police say the young man is a member of one of the city’s immigrant gangs, who have been battling the motorcycle gangs for control of the city’s drug trade.
The 22-year-old man will reportedly be charged with attempted murder, after he allegedly ran down the AK81 member on Jagtvej, a road in the city’s Nørrebro district in April 2009. The victim, who according to police has connections to leading Hells Angels member Jørn ‘Jønke’ Nielsen, suffered fractures to his pelvis and both arms.
Since the incident, police had been looking for ‘two foreigners’ who witnesses say were in the vehicle. An 18-year-old man, who was allegedly the passenger in the car, was arrested not long after the incident and charged with complicity to attempted murder.

The alleged driver is expected to arrive in Denmark on Tuesday night and will face a preliminary hearing for the charges on Wednesday.

Comanchero chief Mahmoud "Mick" to have a $100,000 contract on his head issued by the Hells Angels. Police are also seeking to find Hawi and question him over a fatal brawl with rival Hells Angels at Sydney airport. Police have been unable to find Hawi. Instead, they have been involved in negotiations with his lawyers to have him present himself to police for questioning. Hawi's laywer Lesly Randle said Hawi had arranged to meet gangs squad detectives at a police station yesterday but that this did not go ahead because his barrister "became unavailable". Negotiations over a meeting were continuing. Hawi was not at the two properties in Sydney's south linked on the public record to the 28-year-old Comanchero national president. His large family home in southern Sydney had mail piled up at the front gate and no one answered the door. There was also no answer at another address, also in southern Sydney, a housing commission unit linked to one of Hawi's companies.
bikie and law enforcement and that Hawi's life is at risk. "He'll be holed up in a hotel somewhere," one said. A source said he was informed the bounty had been issued from the "cashed-up" Hells Angels, whose Guildford sergeant-at-arms Peter Zervas, 32, is in hospital after being shot on Sunday night at Punchbowl. No charges have been laid over the shooting. Zervas' brother Anthony, 29, was killed in the airport brawl allegedly between the Hells Angels and Comanchero seven days before. The Comanchero are strongly suspected of being behind Peter Zervas' shooting, as a "pre-emptive" strike against a revenge attack over his brother's murder. "There's no doubt if the Angels found out where Hawi was, in my view, they'd go after him, whether there was a price or not," one source said.

Prosecutor Barbro Joensson was driving to work when a bomb exploded at the front door of her house, rocking her whole neighbourhood and sending shockwaves through traditionally serene Sweden."It is very hard to describe how I felt when I heard what happened. I think I still haven't grasped how serious it was," Joensson, 53, told AFP more than a year after the attack.She was prosecuting a high-profile case against a violent criminal gang called the Wolfpack Brotherhood and had just left her home in the southwestern town of Trollhaettan on November 20, 2007, when the blast ripped off the front door and shattered the hallway.Two young gang members were remanded in custody just over a month ago on suspicion they planted the bomb, which could have killed Joensson had she been at home.The bombing -- one of the first overt attacks on a Swedish prosecutor -- prompted calls to root out the swelling criminal gangs that have smashed the Scandinavian country's tranquil image.
The gangs have caused a spike in a number of crimes, including extortion and loan-sharking -- a gang specialty -- which have jumped from 740 cases reported in 2003 to 1,715 last year, according to preliminary statistics from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.Police say it is difficult to estimate the number and size of criminal gangs in Sweden since membership can vary from day to day, but media reports indicate around 1,000 people are actively involved in at least six large criminal gangs with numerous branches across the country.Gangs make headlines almost daily with stories of drug busts, brutal attacks on business owners unable to pay off debts and bloody gang wars.
"This is a serious problem that has grown in recent years," Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask told AFP."We used to be fairly sheltered in the Nordic countries, but unfortunately this problem has surfaced and we must react very forcefully now or else this could be extremely serious in say 10 years," she cautioned.
Police also think that attacks like the one on Joensson constitute a novel and dangerous twist in Swedish gang activity."Attacks on the judiciary are a rather new and very serious phenomenon," said Klas Friberg, the police chief in the Vaestra Goetaland region that comprises Trollhaettan and Gothenburg.Joensson, who moved after the attack on her home and joined a police unit in Gothenburg working to fight gang crime, agreed."We risk having judges who don't dare to judge, prosecutors who are afraid to prosecute and police who refrain from making arrests," she said, adding that "if that happens the first bastion against these groups will fall."

Just four months after the Trollhaettan bombing, shots were fired at the home of another prosecutor in the region, Mats Mattsson, who had worked extensively on cases involving criminal motorcycle gangs like Bandidos.

Gregory Wooley, 37, an associate of the Hells Angels who's alleged to have created the Syndicate, appeared before a judge via a video link-up with the Collins Bay Institution in Ontario, where he's already serving a 13-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes.A new date was also fixed in the case of Pasquale Mangiola, who became the centre of media attention last week when it was revealed he was close friends with Canadiens players Sergei and Andrei Kostitsyn.Mangiola, who is facing drug-trafficking and conspiracy charges but is not considered to be part of the major conspiracies uncovered by Project Axe, was released on conditions last week.entire week of court time has been set aside for bail hearings for some of the reputedly hard-core Montreal gang members arrested in a police roundup this month.
More than 50 people have been arrested since the Montreal police launched Project Axe on Feb. 12. The operation targeted three criminal organizations. The arrests were the result of a three-year-long investigation into drug trafficking in Montreal.
Many have since been released on conditions, but at least seven men, known for their ties to the Syndicate street gang, remain in custody. They include Emmanuel Zephir, 36, and his younger brother Jean-Ismarl.During an appearance at the Montreal courthouse Friday, their bail hearing, along with those of five other men, was scheduled to begin March 30.

two members of the Hells Angels acquitted of attempted murder in connection with a gunfight in a South Dakota park pleaded guilty today in Rapid City to a federal weapons charge.Chad Wilson of San Diego and John Midmore of Valparaiso, Ind., were earlier found not guilty of attempted murder for their part a 2006 gunfight at Custer State Park that injured five Outlaws Motorcycle Club affiliates.
Wilson is a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty in federal court to being a non-immigrant alien in possession of a firearm.He's scheduled to be sentenced April 21.Midmore pleaded guilty Wednesday in Sioux Falls to having cocaine in his system and received credit for the 27 months he served in jail.Prosecutors have dropped a charge of conspiracy to commit murder against both men.

Rodrigo Requejo, 34, of Westminster, is charged with felony counts of gang-related assault and battery and one count of street terrorism for joining at least two other men in a fight inside Blackie’s By The Sea, a bar off the Newport Pier frequented by old-school surfers.Requejo, along with John Lloyd, 41, and Brian Heslington, 35, both of Costa Mesa, is accused of being part of the Hells Angels biker gang and fighting with members of the Set Free Soldiers, a rival group of bikers that claims to be a Christian ministry.Heslington is accused of possessing cocaine, Ecstasy pills and a loaded gun.At about 1 p.m. July 27, several members of the Set Free Soldiers, including leader Phillip Aguilar, walked into Blackie’s displaying their “gang colors” and waited near the back, prosecutors said. Requejo, Lloyd and Heslington came soon after and the two rival groups began arguing, then punches were thrown and two people were stabbed, police said. Five Set Free Soldiers and two Hells Angels have been charged so far.Requejo is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

William (Billy) Bowden, 33, pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg courtroom today to carrying a firearm in a careless manner in January 2007 and skipping out on his preliminary hearing about a year later. Other drug and weapons charges related to the 2007 incident were stayed as part of a plea bargain securing the two convictions.
Bowden remains in custody though, charged with manslaughter in relation to the November 2007 killing of Jeff Engen, who was fatally stabbed at the Empire Cabaret, prompting the club to close. That charge remains before the courts.
Bowden has been in custody since he was arrested Feb. 14 in Whistler, B.C., and returned to Manitoba. The Crown and defence jointly recommended that time be noted in his sentence for carrying the firearm. That crime occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2007, as Bowden was leaving the NV lounge in a truck with friend Ken Houston, court heard. Police discovered a Glock 9mm handgun loaded with 18 bullets in a pile of garbage close to where they arrested Bowden and Houston in a back lane off Corydon Avenue. Bowden admitted today to having carried the gun, which his lawyer Sheldon Pinx told court was "for his own protection." Bowden had also been charged with ecstasy possession and other weapons offences in relation to the same arrest, but those five charges were stayed. Pinx told court the plea bargain was partly a result of "exigencies with evidenciary issues" related to the case and a potential Charter challenge related to the way Bowden was arrested that night.
Bowden, once a full-patch member of the local Hells Angels chapter, was apparently asked to leave the gang last year, according to a source

Police have today arrested 12 outlaw motorcycle gang members on a range of drugs and weapons charges in the second phase of Operation Golf Cyclone.Two women and 10 men were nabbed on a total of 20 charges after police found drugs including cannabis and methylamphetamines, as well as weapons including two batons and a pellet paint gun.
The arrests in the Redcliffe, Caboolture, Sunshine Coast, Maryborough, Gympie and Bundaberg districts bring to 24 the total number of gang members charged during the Operation.A police statement said officers from Task Force Hydra targeted places known to the Hells Angels, Rebels, Bandidos, Black Uhlans, Outcasts and Finks groups.
North Coast regional crime coordinator Superintendent John Maloney said officers would continue to crackdown on organised crime within the region."Through the ongoing commitment of local police to keep their communities safe, operations such as these will continue to be conducted, ensuring those who are involved in criminal activities will be located and prosecuted," Mr Maloney said.The 12 alleged offenders will all face local courts next month

Joseph Andrew Farnsworth was arrested at a residence on Rheem Avenue in Richmond after Marin detectives arrived with a search warrant, said sheriff's Sgt. Keith Boyd. Investigators seized a 9mm handgun and are conducting ballistics tests to determine whether it was used in the killing.19-year-old El Cerrito man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of shooting a Hells Angels associate to death on Highway 101 last weekend, joining a 20-year-old Mill Valley woman in the Marin County Jail pending a court appearance Tuesday.The second suspect, Jessica Andrea Gordon, has been in custody since her arrest early Thursday. Authorities did not immediately release her name because of security concerns and efforts to "maintain the integrity of the criminal investigation," Boyd said.The suspected motive for the shooting is road rage."This appears to have no tie to any affiliations or relationship that William Maclean may have had to the Hells Angels," Boyd said of the victim.Maclean, 25, of San Leandro, was shot to death at about 8:15 p.m. May 24 on Highway 101 near Corte Madera. Maclean and Foakes were in a pickup that was leading a procession of bikers to Sonoma County after a Hells Angels funeral in Colma.Shortly after the convoy passed Tiburon Boulevard on northbound 101, there was a conflict in traffic and someone fired at the pickup from a red sport utility vehicle described as a Dodge Durango. Maclean, riding in the passenger seat of the pickup, was struck in the upper body.
Foakes, who was at the wheel, drove the truck to the Paradise Drive exit and called 911 from the pay phone at the California Highway Patrol's office on San Clemente Drive. Maclean was taken to Marin General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Two suspects are in custody pending an initial court appearance on Tuesday. Jessica Andrea Gordon, 20, of Mill Valley was arrested early Thursday morning, and sheriff's investigators impounded a Dodge Durango from her residence.
Farnsworth was arrested Saturday afternoon after Marin detectives served a search warrant at a residence in Richmond. Investigators seized a 9mm handgun and are conducting ballistics tests to determine whether it was used in the killing.
The suspected motive for the shooting is road rage. The sheriff's department said Maclean's association with the motorcycle club does not appear to be a factor.
Investigators suspect Farnsworth was the shooter but have released no details about Gordon's suspected role in the incident. No charges have been filed.
"Ms. Gordon had no foreknowledge of the shooting, was in no way involved with the shooting, and is not guilty of murder," her attorney, Douglas Horngrad, said Sunday. "She, like everyone else, mourns the loss of life here."
As for Gordon's relationship with Farnsworth, Horngrad said: "Farnsworth, at most, is a casual acquaintance of Ms. Gordon's."
A public defender visited Farnsworth at the county jail Sunday afternoon. Public Defender Joseph Spaeth said his office had no comment on the case.

Russell Sinkis, 37, of 45 Oxford St., Auburn, was also ordered to be on supervision for three years after release from prison for his conviction for being a felon in possession of ammunition. The charge stems from Mr. Sinkis shooting a gun — with which he was not charged because, unlike the ammunition, it could not be proven to have crossed state lines — at the Boston Gun Range in Worcester on Oct. 26, 2006.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV said there were conflicting pressures on his decision to sentence Mr. Sinkis to 4 years and 9 months. The judge credited the argument of defense lawyer James J. Gribouski that illegal possession of ammunition by a felon is less serious when it is at a gun range rather than on the street or in his home, and less serious than possession of a gun. While the crime is not relatively serious, the judge said the nature of the defendant is another matter. Judge Saylor noted that restraining orders have been taken out against Mr. Sinkis by three different women. Judge Saylor said Mr. Sinkis beat a man while the man’s children were in the next room and that one of Mr. Sinkis’ victims was a 78-year-old woman.
He had been a motorcycle gang member and his most recent employment was as a disk jockey at a strip club, Judge Saylor noted. While Mr. Sinkis said that he has severed ties with his friends and his past, Judge Saylor said that was not entirely voluntary, since he has been in jail and “his fellow members of the Hells Angels kicked him out of the club.” Judge Saylor said that Mr. Sinkis’ parents, who were in court yesterday, are supportive, but that is insufficient to reduce his sentence.
Judge Saylor said he did not take into account two charges of statutory rape, which are still pending against him in Dudley District Court. A hearing is scheduled Monday in that court on charges that he had sex in 2004 and 2005 with a 14-year-old girl, a family friend that he had hired to be a babysitter when he lived in Webster.
The judge rejected Mr. Gribouski’s request to sentence his client to a non-guideline sentence of 13 months, but he sentenced him at the low end of the federal advisory sentencing guidelines. The judge also denied a request from Mr. Sinkis, who has worked as a tattoo artist and body piercer, to be taken to a tattoo artist to cover his tattoos. The safety of Mr. Sinkis, who is in custody, “is in danger if his tattoos are not either removed or covered,” Mr. Gribouski said.

Denis Jerome Labossiere said the killings were connected to his involvement in the drug trade but he later retracted that suggestion, saying that linking any criminal organization to the crimes could "bring retaliation upon myself and my family.''
Joel Labossiere and other relatives had also been involved in a dispute with his cousin over the parents' will. An August 2000 will left proceeds from the estate, valued at about $1.3 million, to six nephews and nieces. A second will, dated July 2005, left all of the property to Denis Jerome Labossiere and his wife, Claudette.
He served just 18 months of a six-year sentence for trafficking cocaine for the Hells Angels before he was granted day parole. However, a short time later he was arrested and charged with breaching a court order prohibiting him from contacting any relatives.
The relatives had obtained a no-contact order. "None of us are comfortable with having him out,'' Joel Labossiere said at the time.

Jerome Labossiere is a convicted drug dealer who got caught up in one of Manitoba's largest crackdowns on the Hells Angels.He was arrested in February 2006 as part of "Project Defence" and pleaded guilty to drug charges three months later. Labossiere admitted to selling two kilograms of almost pure cocaine on separate occasions in 2005 to undercover agent Franco Atanosovic, who was paid $525,000 by police to infiltrate the Hells Angels. Labossiere was sentenced to six years in prison, but has been out on day parole since last December. He will be granted full parole next month after serving just two years of his sentence.National Parole Board documents also show his parole officer was concerned that Labossiere's release could be thwarted by the temptation to return to a life of crime. Labossiere claims he's severed his ties with the Hells.

The 36-year-old, reputed to be a killer for the Hells Angels, was denied statutory release this week after the National Parole Board ruled he was too high a risk to "kill or cause serious harm to another person" before his sentence ends on Dec. 26, 2009.
He is serving time after pleading guilty in 2005 to conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and committing an offence for a criminal organization.
Wooley had been tried three times for two different murders committed during Quebec's biker gang war but was never convicted. That, and the fact he was once Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher's personal bodyguard, have probably contributed to Wooley's notoriety among his fellow inmates at a penitentiary in Ontario.The parole board's written decision denying Wooley his release, which had been slated for June, says he wields considerable influence behind bars. He is also considered an impulsively violent man. A psychological assessment in January determined he is a high risk to reoffend.The summary of a hearing held Tuesday in Kingston, Ont., notes: "According to your case management team, no matter where you find yourself in custody, the power conferred upon you by your official status among bikers, and implicitly at the head of street gangs, is of such a scale that no (rehabilitation) program can sufficiently protect the public from the risk you represent."In 2006, Wooley beat a fellow inmate who had criticized him for using his influence to break up a brawl between two gangs inside a penitentiary. A video camera captured images of Wooley punching the man; minutes later, two other inmates were recorded stabbing the same man. The victim survived.
During the latter half of the 1990s, Wooley was a member of the Rockers, a Hells Angels puppet gang founded by Boucher. Because of his Haitian origins, Wooley was unable to join the world's biggest outlaw motorcycle gang officially, because of its policy of excluding blacks.One night in April 2000, he was caught at Mirabel airport, waiting to board a plane with a loaded .44-calibre pistol in his baggage. He was sentenced to 21/2 years. That same night, two drug dealers who worked for Wooley were shot dead outside a Montreal strip club. Wooley was never charged with the killings but police sources said Wooley is believed to have ordered the deaths.
In 2005, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but because he had served considerable time behind bars while he successfully fought a murder charge, he had only four years left to serve.The parole board is required to review its decision within a year