CANADA - Ottawa Hells Angels boss Paul ‘Sasquatch’ Porter gets back his vintage Cadillac

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OTTAWA — Hells Angels Nomads president Paul “Sasquatch” Porter is getting back his vintage wheels.

Federal prosecutors agreed to return Porter’s 1964 Cadillac Deville on Thursday as part of a plea deal with the once-imposing president of the outlaw biker club. But first Porter must pay Ottawa police $2,500, the cost of storing the vehicle since Porter’s arrest in September 2009 on drug charges.

Porter, 49, was riding with his girlfriend Debbie Brennan when the Biker Enforcement Unit, acting on a tip, followed him to a Navan house.

When Porter and Brennan emerged and drove off four minutes later, police stopped the car and found nearly a quarter of a kilogram of cocaine in a purse on the front seat. The cocaine had a street value of about $14,000, police said.

The car and the drugs were both seized.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Kane questioned why the Cadillac had been in Ottawa police storage since 2009 when the drugs were found in the purse.

Federal prosecutor Pam Larmondin explained that the car was seized as offence-related property.

“As part of the plea negotiations, we would return the car,” said Larmondin.

Larmondin said Porter — who is expected to be sentenced next Friday to two years in prison — wants the car out of police storage and into a storage facility of his choosing.

Larmondin said Porter will need to bring the judge’s signed order to the police storage facility and they’ll release the car.

A much-slimmed-down Porter, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to possession for the purpose of trafficking, declined to comment outside of court.

Porter, who earned the nickname Sasquatch for his 6-foot-7 height and frame that once carried 400 pounds, is a survivor of a bloody biker war in Quebec in the 1990s that claimed 160 lives, including that of an 11-year-old boy. He is originally from Montreal.

He was a close friend of Maurice “Mom” Boucher, the Montreal Hells Angels boss now serving three life sentences in prison for attempted murder and two counts of first-degree murder after ordering the killing of two prison guards in a campaign to destabilize Quebec’s justice system.

Porter broke with Boucher and became a founding member of the rival drug gang the Rock Machine, which waged the 1990s’ biker war against the Hells Angels.

In late December 2000, Porter orchestrated a mass defection of more than 160 rival outlaw bikers to his archrivals the Hells Angels, securing him the powerful position of president of the Ontario Nomads, a key chapter in the international crime corporation.

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