several stints<\/a> behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn 2007, he was convicted of assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement and extortion with a firearm, and sentenced to five years of prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2012, Harley was swept up in Project Kingfisher, an OPP biker enforcement unit operation in conjunction with local police. He was arrested on charges of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
In northern Ontario, one of the most well-known clashes between Satan\u2019s Choice and law enforcement was in December 1996. A bomb exploded in a walkway beside the Sudbury police station. No one was injured, but it blew a hole in the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two Satan\u2019s Choice members were convicted of making the bomb and a Sudbury biker was found guilty of obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
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It was in this walkway next to the former Sudbury police station that a bomb was detonated on Dec. 15, 1996. (Erik White\/CBC)<\/p>\n
The main suspect, Michael Dube, a Sudbury member of Satan\u2019s Choice, died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the station was targeted after members of the gang were refused service at a local strip club, leading to a standoff with officers. The bomb was originally meant for the club, but was redirected to the police station at the last minute.<\/p>\n
OPP monitoring for potential turf war\u00a0<\/p>\n
Social media posts show new chapters for Satan\u2019s Choice popping up in cities including Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Oshawa and Hamilton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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An example of a social media post by Satan’s Choice leader Harley Guindon, depicting new chapter locations. (Facebook\/Harley Guindon)<\/p>\n
OPP Det.-Insp. Wade confirmed several outlaw motorcycle gangs are operating in the north.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He explained that outlaw motorcycle gangs tend to be most active in larger northern centres and can be found in cities like Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins and North Bay.<\/p>\n
Wade said police are aware of Satan\u2019s Choice\u2019s resurgence and the potential for conflict with rival clubs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will prioritize our focus as it\u2019s needed,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there\u2019s violence \u2014 especially violence affecting the public \u2014 police are going to be all over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy suggestion would be that our motorcycle gangs would like to avoid that attention so they can operate their crimes underground quietly. So by and large, I would suggest that we’re well prepared to curb violence if it does start up.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said outlaw biker gangs often recruit new members within the criminal underground by targeting a specific area and identifying someone who\u2019s active in crime in that area. Family and friends of current members are also often targeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOutlaw motorcycle gangs have a one per cent mentality, which means they\u2019re the one per cent of society that does not follow the rules or laws of society, and they do not conform. That\u2019s something they wear proudly on their vests.”<\/p>\n
He added these groups will also look to recruit people who hold similar views.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see the patches. I mean, we know they’re doing rides and having events, as well as involved in crime that we’re investigating,\u201d Wade said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stressed not everyone who wears a patch or a vest is in an outlaw motorcycle gang.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s when they use that patch to commit crimes, when they use that patch as a display of power to claim an area and claim territory, and then conduct crime in that area.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Motorcycle gangs often sell merchandise \u2014 like patches or other support gear \u2014 depicting their respective logos, something Wade said people mistake to be as harmless as wearing a shirt to support a local sports team, without understanding the real risks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve had instances of … members of the public wearing support shirts, or sweaters or jackets, and they get attacked for it violently,\u201d Wade said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you wear something like that, know what you’re doing and know the risk you’re taking, and also that you’re supporting organized crime by your purchase.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ryan Ferry is a sergeant for the Edmonton Police Service and serves as the western director on the board of the Organization for National Gang Information and Awareness. (Edmonton Police Service )<\/p>\n
Across the country, law enforcement agencies are watching similar trends. <\/p>\n
Sgt. Ryan Ferry of the Edmonton Police Service has more than 20 years of experience dealing with gang-related crime.<\/p>\n
He also serves as the western director for the Organization for National Gang Information and Awareness \u2014 a non-profit network that brings together police, educators and policy experts to share intelligence and best practices on gang activity nationwide.<\/p>\n
Ferry said outlaw motorcycle gangs \u2014 often referred to as OMGs \u2014 remain a national policing priority.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re very prevalent, and their presence is well established across just about every province nationwide,\u201d he said. \u201cLaw enforcement agencies consider outlaw motorcycle gangs to be a top threat to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferry said outlaw motorcycle gangs distinguish themselves from recreational riding clubs by their structure, criminal ties, and use of fear and intimidation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe threats of harm and creation of an atmosphere of fear, intimidation and violence \u2014 that\u2019s what separates them from people who just like to ride motorcycles.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said that depending on the region, biker gangs are linked to a wide range of criminal activity, including \u201chuman trafficking, drug trafficking, firearms trafficking, economic crimes of various sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferry said those relationships often extend to street-level and neighbourhood gangs \u2014 something that\u2019s becoming more common in provinces like Ontario.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are finding more and more frequently that yes, there is both a social and a criminal connection to other criminal networks.”<\/p>\n
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Det.-Insp. Scott Wade with the Ontario Provincial Police says not everyone who wears a patch or a vest is in an outlaw motorcycle gang. (Harley Guindon\/Facebook)<\/p>\n
Ferry said many people underestimate the dangers of associating with outlaw motorcycle clubs, mistaking the lifestyle for harmless rebellion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want people to understand that outlaw motorcycle gangs are a very particular group of people that are certainly continuing criminality and violence. And people getting involved with them are subjecting themselves to being caught up in some of that criminality and violence.”<\/p>\n
He added these groups are not immune from violence themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite what the media depictions are that the outlaw motorcycle gangs and the bikers are big and bad and tough, they have their own enemies too. And we’ve heard it directly from some of them,\u201d Ferry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see examples and histories of edged weapon attacks or attacks with firearms,” and “the use of incendiary devices and explosives against personal property or club property.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferry said people drawn to the social side of biker culture \u2014 the ideas of freedom and brotherhood \u2014 can easily get caught in criminal networks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen time and time again people get stuck in that social side and then becoming victims of extortion or threats, or being used by individuals in these clubs to further the aims and the criminality of those clubs.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ferry said most people who join the biker lifestyle eventually regret it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vast majority of individuals I\u2019ve spoken to at one point or another end up hating the lifestyle,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey become either broke or paranoid, or they lose friends along the way, or law enforcement finally catches up to their criminality, or they alienate friends or family. It is a very hard lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are keeping vigilant about an outlaw motorcycle gang that once dominated northern Ontario streets and appears to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-212295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Satan\u2019s Choice was absorbed into the Hells Angels in the early 2000s before re-emerging this past summer. (Graham Hughes\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n![\"Black](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760444780_271_default.jpg\")
Bernie Guindon was 22 when he became the president of the Satan’s Choice Motorcycle Club. (Penguin Random House Canada)<\/p>\n