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KELOWNA (NEWS1130) - RCMP investigators say they're finding that more criminal biker gangs are using so-called puppet gangs to do their illegal dirty work.
Supt. Pat Fogarty, head of the organized crime branch of the BC's Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says a puppet gang is often sanctioned or endorsed by a motorcycle club such as the Hells Angels.
But what it really means, Fogarty says, is that the Hells Angels are getting old and they need the young guys to do their dirty work.
Fogarty says the criminal biker gangs "don't have the testosterone or the desire to muscle their way around these young guys.''
He says a 55-year-old member of the Hells Angels isn't going to peddle dope, and instead makes the younger men from the sanctioned club do the work.
The drug trade is one of the primary sources of funding for gangs, and Fogarty says they're arresting a lot of people and putting them before the courts, but the system is very bureaucratic.
"The system is what it is," he says. "We do our part of the system. We provide the evidence and it's up to the judges to do what they do and the law to do what it does.''
Fogarty declined to share his thoughts on the court system.
"We do the best we can, but we do work in the framework of the law. We're not gangsters. We arrest them and then the court process takes over. We'll leave it at that.''