OFF THE WIRE
A full-patch member of the White Rock Hells Angels is expected to be charged with trafficking after Abbotsford Police busted him with almost a kilogram of cocaine in his Aldergrove home.
Abbotsford police executed a search warrant at the home of 50-year-old Brent Douglas Milne Wednesday after an investigation into cocaine trafficking in the city.
Const. Ian MacDonald said the drug enforcement unit was helped by the Abbotsford police department's Gang Suppression Unit, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit's Outlaw Motorcycle Gxxg Unit and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team.
Investigators are preparing their report to Crown counsel, MacDonald said. Charges are expected to follow.
Police also found $26,000 in the house at xxxxx - xxx Avenue in Aldergrove.
Milne has no criminal record and is listed on land title documents as a trucker and mechanic.
MacDonald said police obtained information earlier this year about the alleged involvement of the Hells Angels in the Abbotsford drug trade.
"People who are involved in gxxgs and organized crime are always on police radar," he said.
Investigators gathered additional information that could support a search warrant, said MacDonald.
"I am really proud of the officers involved in this," he added.
"We believe the seizure and arrest improves public safety for the citizens of Abbotsford, Langley and beyond."
The White Rock chapter of the Hells Angels has been in turmoil in recent months.
Member Larry Amero was seriously wounded last August in a Kelowna shooting that left Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon dead and Independent Soldier James Riach wounded.
Former Sergeant at Arms in the White Rock chapter, Mike Robatzek, was recently thrown out of the club.
And Trevor Jones, the twin of White Rock member Randy Jones, was indicted in the U.S. in a massive cross-border drug smuggling operation that American prosecutors allege was done for the benefit of the White Rock chapter.
MacDonald said police are aware of "flux and instability" among Hells Angels and other gangs active in the Lower Mainland.
And as some of the gangs try to consolidate, they are ramping up their drug trafficking to increase profits, MacDonald said.
"When you go into that mode, you obviously take more risk and you make more mistakes," he said
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