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Wild Fire
Neezar and Company impressed audiences at the 14th annual Illuminaria festival on Saturday, Sept. 14 with their Wild Fire show at Fraser River Heritage Park. Thousands of people participated in the event, organized by Mission Association for Community Living. There were 1,000 lanterns available for a donation and were sold out early in the eventing, and many people brought their own. Illuminaria was created 14 years ago to celebrate inclusion in the community. BOB FRIESEN PHOTO
Mission Hells Angels link to Spain bust Monisha Martins BLACK PRESS
Four men arrested in Spain on allegations of smuggling cocaine have links to the Mission and Haney chapters of the Hells Angels. B.C.’s anti-gang unit confirmed that Mission full-patch member Jason Cyrus Arkinstall and Haney full-patch member Chad John Wilson were arrested by Spain’s National Police along with associates Scott Smitna and Michael Dryborough. “We have provided information as it’s been requested through the RCMP to Spanish authorities,” said Sgt. Lindsay Houghton, with B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit. Spanish police allege the men were involved in smuggling 500 kilograms of cocaine into the country.
A statement from Spanish police said the forcement Agency, Canada’s mounted police, investigation began after authorities were EUROPOL and France’s tax authority. tipped off about a group of Canadian Hells “Arkinstall and Wilson are very well-known Angels who were planning to ship cocaine to police,” said Hougthon. from Colombia to Spain by sailboat. “They’ve been in the news quite a bit for Police began tracking the operation on July various crimes.” 30 and followed three of the He added he was not Hells Angels to Madrid and aware of Smitna and DryMore online at Galicia, where they allegedly missioncityrecord.com borough. finalized details of the transHoughton was not suraction. prised that Canadian Hells The men were arrested in a Angel were involved in an international drug café in Pontevedra in a dramatic take-down smuggling operation. filmed on camera and released by Spanish “It’s not limited to just Hells Angels,” he authorities. said. Two vans filled with cocaine, an SUV, mo“We’ve seen other Canadian nationals arbile home, four mobile phones and two enrested in other parts of the world. Look at crypted smartphones were seized by police. the example of Clay Rouche [United Nations The arrests were the result of collaboration gang]. He’s spending 30 years in a U.S. penibetween Spanish police and the U.S. Drug Ententiary.”
Wilson was charged with attempted murder in 2006 after he and an associate shot at rival gang members at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Wilson was a member of the San Diego Hells Angel chapter at the time, but police said he now belongs to the Haney chapter, based in Maple Ridge. Wilson was sentenced to two years in prison for pleading guilty to being a non-immigrant alien in possession of a firearm, according to U.S. court documents. Arkinstall has a lengthy criminal record that includes convictions in B.C. for mischief, causing a disturbance and assault with a weapon. He successfully challenged the constitutionality of a Surrey bylaw that allows firefighters and police to enter homes believed to contain marijuana grow-ops without warrants.
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