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Thursday, May 17, 2012

CANADA - Full-patch Hells Angel gets day parole

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Ronaldo Lising granted six-month trial period despite maintaining ties to notorious gxxgFull-patch Hells Angel Ronaldo Lising has been granted day parole, despite concerns from parole board members about his ongoing membership in the notorious biker gxxg.
Lising, 49, had been serving an 11-year, nine-month sentence for a series of convictions including conspiracy to traffic, gun possession and assault.
He had been denied earlier bids for both full parole and day parole because of negative associations and bad behaviour in jail.
But on May 3, Lising was granted a six-month day parole trial after improving his conduct on the inside and taking courses to better his chances of rehabilitation, according to parole board documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun. Lising's life was under threat in prison last year, the documents said, and he was put in segregation for his own safety.
After he was sent back to the general population, he was found unresponsive in his cell on April 16, 2011 with a large amount of methadone in his system.
There was no explanation in the documents about how he ingested the drug beyond a comment that: "The Security Intelligence Officer investigated the incident to determine if there was a link which resulted in your being segregated for your safety."
At Lising's hearing this month, some Corrections officials expressed concern that he had not yet left his position with the elite Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels.
"When asked why you had not yet resigned from this organization, you said this particular Hells Angels motorcycle club required the resignation to be done in person with a formal handing over of colours and other Hells Angels paraphernalia and could not be done by sending a letter from prison," the parole board members noted.
Lising told them he would "resign from the Hells Angels as soon as [he] could do so in a manner acceptable to the club." Lising was grilled by board members about the biker gxxg and its links to organized crime. "You basically described this club as a group of men who like to ride motorcycles together," the parole board said.
"When asked, you estimated that the Hells Angels have a majority of its members not engaged in crime, but a significant minority of its members are engaged in crime."
Lising told the board that "club business" was not criminal and that drug trafficking and other crimes were the "personal business" of members.
The board said Lising was minimizing the activities of the Hells Angels and that "it's clear to the board that your continued membership and/or association to this motorcycle club would expose you to individual members of the club engaged in crime."
Some of Lising's convictions stem from the special under-cover probe dubbed E-Pandora that used agent Michael Plante to infiltrate the Hells Angels.
When Lising's house was raided in July 2005, police found "handguns, ammunition, a pen gun capable of single-shot fire, body armour, brass knuckles and what was described as an abduction kit, which contained a balaclava, gloves, walkie talkies and plastic zap straps," the parole documents noted.
Board members Ulf Konrad Ottho and Laura Hall imposed special conditions on Lis-ing's release into a community facility.
He can't associate with any Hells Angels or hang-arounds and prospects in their program. He can't wear his Hells Angels colours or other items with the gxxg insignia or indicating sup-port for the organization. And he can't attend clubhouses or Hells Angels events.
"The special conditions are considered reasonable and necessary to protect society and assist in your reintegration as a law-abiding citizen," they said.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Full+patch+Hells+Angel+gets+parole/6628926/story.html