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Saturday, July 9, 2011

CANADA - McCaskill promises crackdown on biker war

OFF THE WIRE
Police are pledging a crackdown on criminals and a "zero tolerance" policy in an effort to quell Winnipeg's budding biker war.

A recent string of shootings is the result of a battle between the Rock Machine and the Hells-Angels affiliated Redlined Support Crew, sources say.

"What you have is two groups that don't like each other and believe that they should have supremacy in these areas," Chief Keith McCaskill said in an interview with the Winnipeg Sun.

The situation has obviously escalated, McCaskill said, and the WPS organized crime unit, street crimes unit and other officers are now keeping close watch on those involved.

"We're trying to be in front of situations, and we're trying to disrupt whatever they're doing," he said.

What that means on the streets is a "zero-tolerance" policy when it comes to bikers and their associates breaking the law or breaching court orders, a source said, basically using any means possible to send criminals behind bars.

A 14-year-old boy was shot when bullets were sprayed into a pair of homes in the Lord Roberts area early Monday. Police said the victim was an innocent bystander. A second home was also riddled with bullets, whizzing right past the bed of an innocent mother of two who was asleep when the shooting happened in the middle of the night.

Last week, a Stranmillis Avenue home with ties to a high-ranking member of the Rock Machine is shot up and firebombed. A second property with links to the Rock Machine was also shot up.

Days earlier, a flare gun was shot into the home of a Redlined associate in a possible bid to burn the place down.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2011/07/07/mccaskill-promises-crackdown-on-biker-war