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   Photo : Stan Howe   
      
   A sign announcing the Hells Angels Simcoe County charter was recently   
   added to a clubhouse on McKay Road (Conc. 10) on Barrie’s border with   
   Innisfil.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    Innisfil Journal by Rick Vanderlinde   
      
      
   The Hells Angels are letting anyone who passes by their south Barrie   
   clubhouse know they are back.   
      
   The notorious motorcycle club has added a large backlit sign to their   
   36 McKay Road (Conc. 10) clubhouse bearing the Hell Angels logo and   
   the words: “Hells Angels Simcoe County”.   
      
   “It’s not against the law to have a sign,” OPP Sgt. Peter Leon said.   
   “It’s certainly a different approach. They usually keep a low profile   
   and pretty much keep to themselves.”   
      
   It’s not clear when the sign went up on the sprawling farm property   
   that includes about a dozen house trailers, but it’s been there for at   
   least 10 days.   
      
   A long-time neighbour in the area was aware the home had been used as   
   clubhouse by bikers for several years, but hadn’t noticed the sign   
   announcing the Simcoe County charter.   
      
   “They’ve never bothered anyone in anyway that I’ve ever heard,” the   
   resident said. “They’re not going to dirty up their own backyard. I   
   know the police come by and keep an eye on them.”   
      
   Police have been aware of the location for years and have set up   
   surveillance during large parties in the summer, Leon said.   
      
   “Anyone going in and out of there would be aware that they could be   
   pulled over at anytime,” Leon said. “Our biker enforcement unit   
   monitors them and I’m sure is aware of the sign going up.”   
      
   Toronto Star reporter and crime author Peter Edwards said putting the   
   sign up is “a bit cocky and in-your-face to police”.   
      
   The author of Bandido Massacre and other organized crime books said a   
   Simcoe County Hells Angels charter was disbanded a few years ago   
   because it wasn’t considered to be “up to snuff”.   
      
   “I imagine they are trying to make a statement after losing a charter   
   before,” Edwards said. “It’s certainly unusual to see a sign being put   
   up. It’s odd.”   
      
   The clubhouse had been in the jurisdiction of South Simcoe Police but   
   is now Barrie Police’s territory after the city annexed the area from   
   Innisfil in 2010.   
      
   The Hells Angels took a big hit in 2005 when Project Tandem used a   
   full-patch member to infiltrate the criminal organization and hand   
   evidence to police and prosecutors.   
      
   Terry Pink, the former president of Simcoe County’s Hells Angels, was   
   one of the bikers caught in an OPP sting. He was sentenced to 2-1/2   
   years in prison in 2009 for trafficking in 8,340 ecstasy pills for the   
   benefit of a criminal organization.   
      
   Pink sold the pills on four occasions in 2005 at his auto detailing   
   business in Woodbridge to Steven Gault, a fellow Hells Angels member   
   who was wearing a body pack to secretly record their conversations.   
      
   Edwards said a charter must have at least six members to be recognized   
   by the Hells Angels.   
      
   In the early 2000s, the Hells Angels began “patching all kinds of   
   members” to stave off a challenge from the Bandidos, he said. But with   
   the Bandidos out of Canada following the murder of eight members in   
   2006, the Hells Angels have no real rivals.   
      
   Edwards added the bikers are usually no threat to their surrounding   
   community.   
      
   “They generally will get along with the neighbours and ignore them or   
   be friendly or maybe standoffish,” he said. “They wouldn’t want to   
   give police a reason to go in there. There are usually very few drugs   
   inside and no guns. They’ve lost clubhouses before and that can be   
   costly.”   
      
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