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Thursday, January 12, 2012

CANADA - Outlaws biker gets six months for role in crash that led to discovery of restricted handgun

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A provincial judge gave an apparent Outlaws member a little more than six months in jail Tuesday, sentencing the 30-year-old on a charge of impaired driving causing bodily harm.
Mark Cleary popped a few oxycodones before he got in the driver's seat of his girlfriend's Chevrolet Malibu car with two of his biker friends March 11, court heard.
After falling asleep at the wheel, Cleary drove the car into a telephone pole at the intersection of Hunter St. E. and Burnham Rd. outside the Quaker Oats office building in East City.
The collision resulted in a hefty prison sentence for his gun-toting passenger and resulted in the broken pelvis, hip, ribs, nose and teeth of his front passenger.
Police arrived at the collision just after 8 p.m. and found two men, including Cleary, lying beside the car.
Wayne Neil Crowell, one of the passengers, was bleeding from the nose and mouth and would spend weeks in hospital.
Cleary wore a belt buckle reading Support Your Local Outlaws while Crowell wore a probationary member Outlaws patch on his vest.
Footprints in the snow led police to the third man — Keith Harry Nolan, of Richmond Hill — and a loaded restricted handgun buried in the snow under a tree.
Cleary was also sent to hospital where his blood was taken and later seized by police. Investigators at the Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto found evidence of both oxycodone and marijuana in his sample, court heard.
Nolan pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to four years in a federal prison for possession of the gun and obstructing justice for trying to pass a note to a co-accused in jail offering to take the fall in exchange for cash for him and his family. Crowell also pleaded guilty in May to possessing hashish and got time-served and probation.
Cleary pleaded guilty Dec. 8.
Mr. Justice Rhys Morgan accepted a joint position calling for a nine-month jail sentence minus 85 days time-served. That amounted to a sentence from Tuesday of six months and five days.
Morgan has prohibited Cleary from driving for two years.
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