[3] The journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden noted that in no province has the Crown consistently lost cases against the Hells Angels as much in British Columbia.
[4] Sher and Marsden wrote: "Plagued by rivalries, incompetence, and a general underestimation of the threat posed by the bikers, the police in B.C.-especially the RCMP-did little to take on the Hells Angels until their power made them virtually impregnable.
In an interview with Carol Volkart of the Vancouver Sun, Jeanne stated her belief that her son had killed himself after shooting Swartz because he feared the Hells Angels would avenge his death and he did not want his family to become targets of retaliation.
[12] A gangster with the vor v zakone ("Thieves in law", i.e. Russian organised crime), Sergey Filonov, was heard to boast that he had killed Ginnetti as a way to strike at the Angels, whom he had stolen $250,000 worth of cocaine from.
[17] Pat Convey, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) based in Victoria told Sher and Marsden: "They're baby boomers, they've come up in the criminal game.
[18] The majority of the British Columbia Hells Angels live upper-middle lifestyles and associate with lawyers, accountants and businessmen who launder their drug profits.
Securities Commission in charge of regulating the Vancouver Stock Exchange complained that many wealthy businessmen are quite willing to do business with the Angels and that "We understand the biker gangs are behind a lot of stuff [fraud] we've seen.
[22] Langton wrote that Canadians are far from the law-abiding people that they liked to pretend to be and are quite willing to break the law when it is in their own interests, using as an example the occasion in 1994 when the government of Jean Chretien increased cigarette taxes.
[27] In 1989, Robinson was arrested on charges of second degree murder after Hilmar Suessmaier, the owner of the Metro nightclub, tried to expel an unruly Hells Angel, which led to him being beaten to death.
[28] In 1997, another of Robinson's internet companies, Starnet Communications, set an on-line sports betting website allegedly based in Antigua, but in fact run from Vancouver.
[25] The Hells Angels have invested heavily in Lower Mainland real estate, owning numerous apartment buildings, restaurants, supermarkets and houses as well as construction and garbage firms.
[25] Kim Harmer of the Mission chapter, owned 81 Transport, which supplied vehicles to Hollywood production companies shooting films and TV shows in the Lower Mainland.
[29] Ernie Ozolins of the Haney chapter was involved in a major stock fraud on Howe Street (the financial district of Vancouver) in 1997 by selling shares worth millions in a bogus gold mining company.
[33] Molsberry was told that the Marble Arch was "East End territory" and that he would have to buy his cocaine from two Hells Angels, Francisco "Chico" Pires and Ronaldo Lising.
[33] After his cocaine was stolen, Molsberry was threatened by Lising and Pires, which led him on 6 July 1996 to contact Detective Andy Richards of the Vancouver police service with an offer to turn Crown's evidence.
[40] Starting in late 1997, Ryan investigated Robinson's Starnet Computer Communications company as he believed that the sports gambling website was not based in Antigua, but rather in Vancouver.
[32] In the stormy waters of the Strait of Jan de Fuca, Convoy boarded the Western Wind and told Stirling that he could turn Crown's evidence or be imprisoned again for cocaine smuggling.
[49] On 9 March 2001, Roming was at the Bar None nightclub on Hamilton street where he was involved in a brawl with a rival drug dealer, John "Slick J" Rogers that turned into a shoot-out.
[60] In an infamous incident, a drug dealer in Prince George, Patrick Patriquin, staggered into a convenience store bleedingly badly as the clerk noticed he was missing his left hand.
[73] At a "townhall meeting" on 6 October 2010, Angela Marie MacDougall of the Battered Women's Support Services stated that the Hells Angels were responsible and that: "The rape and beatings are standard punishment.
[83] In 1995, a report by the Criminal Intelligence Section of B.C stated: "Hells Angels have numerous members in the longshoremen’s union, employed in a variety of port jobs.
"[84] In 1994, Toddington grew concerned when a woman who was the first cousin of a Hells Angel who started to work as a receptionist for Ron Longstaffe, the president of the Vancouver Ports Corporation.
[85] On 4 March 1997, Toddington was phoned by Sidney Peckford, the director of the Ports Police, who told him to cease his investigation, which had angered many powerful people in both Vancouver and Ottawa.
[86] Damiano Dipolpolo, a "full patch" member of the East End chapter visited the waterfront of the port of Vancouver in early 2002 despite not being a longshoreman and was confronted by a security guard over his unauthorized presence.
[20] The next day, the security guard was confronted by a Hells Angels "support crew" who told him: "The next time Mr. Dipolpolo comes, don't you dare think about dropping the boom gate down.
Organized Crime Agency stated that the Hells Angels control not only the longshoremen union, but also the trucking, maintenance, laundry and garbage services at the Port of Vancouver.
[84] A number of Hells Angels such as Larry Amero, Vince Brienza, Norm Krogstad, John Bryce, and Gino Zumpano work at the Port of Vancouver.
She further stated that the Crown prosecutors had failed to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt the group was working to the "benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a criminal organization, to wit: the East End charter of the Hells Angels".
[99] Wallace instead turned Crown's evidence and made a plea bargain where the charges of murder were dropped in exchange for him pleading guilty to manslaughter and for police protection for his family.
[99] Damion Patrick Ryan and Adam Richard Pearson, Hells Angels members in Vancouver were hired by Iranian Drug Lord Naji Sharifi Zindashti to assassinate two dissidents on American soil.