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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   VANCOUVER - About 80 Hells Angels and supporters met at the biker gang’s   
   East Vancouver clubhouse Saturday for their annual memorial ride in   
   honour of a full-patch member who was murdered in 1988.   
      
   Police officers on motorcycles and in unmarked cars were also on the   
   scene monitoring the event.   
      
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   East End chapter president John Bryce said he doesn’t know why there was   
   such a big police presence.   
      
   “We don’t even need them here. We do it every year. I don’t know why   
   there are so many of them here,” Bryce said.   
      
   He said the event was to commemorate all the Hells Angels’ fallen   
   members, as well as those who’ve gone missing and presumed to have been   
   murdered.   
      
   “Every year we get together - this is the 26th year and we just go to   
   the graveyard and celebrate the life of the brothers who died,” Bryce said.   
      
   Bryce said the only thing to see was "us ride away into the sunset and   
   the rain.”   
      
   But Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said Bryce shouldn't be surprised by the   
   presence of officers from Vancouver Police, Burnaby RCMP and the   
   Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit.   
      
   "Every year the police are present at that event. Bryce and all the   
   others know the police are going to be there," said Houghton, CFSEU   
   media officer. "It should be no surprise. They are Hells Angels after   
   all...and 18% of all B.C. HA's have recent convictions."   
      
   The annual ride is in memory of full-patch East End Angel Dave (Screwy)   
   Swartz, who was gunned down in Surrey on April 6, 1988, by a friend   
   after an all-night drinking party. The friend then killed himself with   
   the same gun.   
      
   (Greg-At the funeral for the friend who killed himself the service was   
   disrupted by HAMC women's auxilary. The Mom of the friend who killed   
   himself phoned Rafe Mair on his talk show on CKNW but he refused to put   
   her on the air you could hear the nervousness in his voice.)   
      
   The bikers gathered outside the clubhouse at 3598 East Georgia St. all   
   morning before leaving in formation at about 12:30 p.m. to a Burnaby   
   cemetery. Police followed them. They returned to the clubhouse later in   
   the afternoon.   
      
   Bryce and other members of the East End chapter have filed a court   
   challenge of the constitutionality of the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act   
   after the government used it to freeze the assets of three biker chapters.   
      
   In November 2012, the B.C. government filed a civil forfeiture   
   application to seize the East End clubhouse, as well as one in Kelowna.   
      
   And the Nanaimo chapter has been battling the B.C. government over the   
   ownership of its clubhouse since 2007.   
      
   The government suits allege all three clubhouses have been used in   
   criminal activities and should therefore be forfeited.   
      
   Police raided the East End clubhouse in July 2005 after a major   
   undercover investigation dubbed E-Pandora that made use of agent Michael   
   Plante. It led to convictions of 12 Angels and associates   
      
      
      
   Read more:   
   http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Hells+Angels+meet+annual+memori   
   l+ride+amid+strong+police/9705368/story.html#ixzz2yFaFqonh   
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