[180] By 1995, Satan's Choice were again the largest biker gang in Ontario with 118 members in 7 chapters compared with the Para-Dice Riders that had 61 members in 2 chapters; the Vagabonds that had 70 members in 1 chapter; the Outlaws that had 68 members in 7 chapters; the Loners with 62 members in 2 chapters and the Last Chance that had 20 members in 1 chapter. [168] As the Kitchener chapter was the most powerful and wealthiest chapter, Wattel had an oversized say in the running of Satan's Choice. [80] One of the first Satan's Choice members to be murdered was John Foote, who was killed on 4 November 1976 by another member, John Harvey. [21] One policeman stated about Satan's Choice in the 1960s: "They were rough guys, for sure. [93], On 5 December 1977, the Popeyes of Montreal "patched over" to become the first Hells Angel chapter in Canada. [149], Starting in 1981, Kevin Roy Hawkins worked as an anti-biker police detective in Kitchener who spent much time pursuing the Kitchener chapter of Satan's Choice. edition (July 31, 2014), Language Satan's Choice's power began to diminish during the late 1970s, with some of the club's chapters "patching over" to the Outlaws in 1977. Satan's Choice: Directed by Donald Shebib. [2] To mark the change, a ceremony was performed at Crystal Beach where the Satan's Choice chapter presidents burned their jackets with the Satan's Choice patches while putting on new jackets with the Outlaw patch. [207] The Outlaws would later find their Ontario operations crippled by Project Retire of 25 September 2002, an undertaking by Ontario police targeting the club. [191] When the bikers continued to try to enter the Solid Gold, the police were called. ", which inspired Dub to shout "fuck yeah!" [201] Gault sold information to the police, first about Satan's Choice and then the Hells Angels, until 2006. [164] On the same night, he was beheaded in his bed by a member of the Loners gang, Frank Passarelli, with his body not found until the next day, being partially devoured by the dogs belonging to another boarder. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1996, which ruled these statements could be used as evidence. [51] The drug network for selling the PCP ranged as far as Florida, and the police estimated Guindon was making at least $60 million per month in sales. [146] By the 1980s, Satan's Choice had moved into selling cocaine, and a pipeline was opened to move cocaine from Toronto to Alberta, where many oil workers used cocaine to ease the tedium of their jobs. Dbe was born in and grew up in Sudbury, a mining city in northern Ontario. [188] This impression was further increased by Dub's erratic and irascible behavior. Furthermore, the Outlaws gained a way to challenge the supremacy of the Hells Angels in Quebec through access to the Montreal chapter of Satan's Choice. [170] The decision to open a chapter was regarded as an insult to Mario Parente, the president of the Outlaws' Hamilton chapter. [53] The American journalist Mick Lowe wrote that, starting in 1973, Hall "had inhabited a strange nether region on the fringes of Canadian law enforcement" as he went after bikers via very ruthless and often illegal means, making him into a "black legend among Canadian bikers" who feared him as a policeman who did not follow the law. [174] The net day three Molotov cocktails were dossed at Bazooka Jacks bar in Markham that was popular with Satan's Choice members. [182] As a result of Project Dismantle, the level of screening for new members fell off, and the Oshawa chapter accepted Steven "Hannibal" Gault. [21] Satan's Choice members were the suspects in the murder of a Vancouver businessman, believed to have been a case of murder for hire.[21]. [204] A total of 168 bikers "patched over" on that day. , Macmillan; Main Market Ed. [221] The group seems to have disbanded as nothing have been heard of the gang since 2017. [176] On 25 August 1995, Lenti was badly wounded by a bomb planted in his car. Satan's Choice agreed to sell drugs to the Diablos and offered the possibility of joining Satan's Choice, which angered the Loners, who were buying their drugs from the Hells Angels. [70] McEwen wanted Guindon out of the way in order to pursue his plans for "Yankeeization". [172], On 18 July 1995, a Diablo threw a homemade bomb at a tow truck owned by a Loner. Meanwhile, the Outlaws gained a strong ally in Ontario, precluding any expansion by the Hells Angels into the region. [17], In Satan's Choice, Guindon together with the rest of his club professed to reject materialism as they maintained that the only possessions they held dear were their motorcycles. [195] Isnor then dispatched "Ed" to Sudbury, where he befriended Russell Martin of the Sudbury chapter and accompanied him on several cocaine buys. [169] By 1995, the Satan's Choice chapters in northern Ontario were buying the majority of their cocaine from the Hells Angels' Montreal chapter as well as the Hamilton chapter under Croitoru. [52], Kirby concluded that Satan's Choice "had the upper hand in Toronto because we had the best intelligence network around. He's faced off police out to get him, taken revenge on men who betrayed him, and gone to extreme lengths to protect his honour and his club. [164] The gruesome nature of Beaucage's murder led it to take on a legendary reputation within biker circles, being known inaccurately as the "Fifty Whacks with an Ax". [85] In March 1977, McEwen arranged for the Windsor and St. Catherine's chapters to secretly join the Outlaws. the best motorcycle club around in Ontario we always had each other's backs and we never judged people not like today how sad. [70] Lowe described McEwen as suffering from "the classic Canadian-American love-hate relationship, a distinctly Canadian malady, since Americans never thought enough about Canada to either love or hate their northern cousins one way or the other". It was a good way of avoiding trouble and getting rid of rival gang members. Mark traded in his Satan's Choice patch for one more godly. [6] Guindon received permission from Norris to use the name and patch of the former Satan's Choice. Police say about 12 members of the Golden Hawk Riders and Satan's Choice were out to get even with a musician after he fought with a Golden Hawk Friday and kicked over his motorcycle". When they got out in 1971, they decided that running around alleys with shotguns wasnt profitable so they reorganized and got into more profitable things like drugs. offers that would have allowed them to re-establish their lives. [178] The Choice set an absurdly high price for the clubhouse, which caused much controversy in Toronto when Hall indicated her willingness to pay it. Satan's Choice MC. [216] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of the Toronto Star stated that Berry had indeed retired, but was living in hiding as of 2015. [21] One of the first reports in the media about Satan's Choice was a story in the Toronto Star on 29 August 1966, reporting "Five arrested in motorcycle rumble". For aiding in the new beginning, I was presented with a new set of colors". [21] Reports such as this were typical of the media reports about Satan's Choice in the 1960s, which rarely mentioned serious crimes. [198], Croitoru was convicted of trafficking in steroids and for having the bomb built while Dub, who was facing charges of two counts of murder plus charges relating to the bombing, hanged himself in jail on 22 September 1998. [195] After Cunningham was arrested, he promptly turned Crown's evidence in exchange for immunity. [52], In 1973, the Ontario government decided to put all the outlaw biker clubs out of business, and had the Intelligence Branch of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) set up a Special Squad with the unfortunate acronym of the SS dedicated entirely to pursuing outlaw bikers. [16] Shebib said of Satan's Choice in 1965: "It was a lot of booze, broads, and bikes. [122] Comeau and Sauv were convicted of first-degree murder while the other four were convicted of second-degree murder. [167], In November 1993, in what appeared to be an attempt to undermine Guindon's leadership of Satan's Choice, Stadnick met in Thunder Bay with several Satan's Choice chapter presidents, most notably Andre Wattel of the Kitchener chapter. [163] Although no promises were given about joining the Angels, it was made clear that the Angels wanted an alliance. [164] On 5 September 1992 in Sudbury, the local Satan's Choice chapter was involved in a brawl with the Black Diamond Riders at a baseball park that put eight of the Riders into the hospital. [108] While Sauv and Blaker drove west to Port Hope, several members of the Toronto chapter abandoned drinking and watching a hockey game at their clubhouse to head east to Port Hope. [38] Guindon was forced to disband the Vancouver chapter after drug use of its members became too excessive even for him. [21] Police raids in the 1960s discovered that Satan's Choice members possessed guns, brass knuckles and marijuana, the latter which were as much for their own use as to sell. [169] One policeman stated: "Oh, they hated Parente. [37] In the end, the judge fined Satan's Choice a thousand dollars, most of it in the form of $10 dollars fines for each individual for being present in a place where alcohol was being illegally served plus $3.50 fine for court costs. [44] The remoteness of northern Ontario made it possible to hide drug labs and to manufacture drugs on a scale that was difficult in the more populous region of southern Ontario. [173] On 1 August 1995, the Toronto clubhouse of Satan's Choice on Kintyre Avenue which was backing the Diablos was hit by a rocket fired from a military rocket launcher by the Loners. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2015. Michel Alexandre Dub (23 November 1958 - 22 September 1998) was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster. This ain't hurting me". The Satan's Choice have maintained a presence in Sudbury in the 20 years since the bombing, but police say they are more careful to stay out of the public eye. [145] Between 1985 and 1988, Guindon opened up four new chapters in Ontario, adding about 95 new members. [184], Ion Croitoru, a thuggish professional wrestler and the president of Satan's Choice Hamilton chapter, was involved in a plot to bomb a police station in Sudbury on 15 December 1996. Movies. [122] Two of the accused, Armand Sanguigni and Gordon van Haarlem, were acquitted. in agreement; the assembled Satan's Choice bikers then attempted to enter the Solid Gold wearing jackets with their Satan's Choice patches, where the bouncers promptly refused them all entrance. [102] In the aftermath of the split of 1977, relations between the Outlaws and Satan's Choice were very unfriendly. [193] "Ed" ended up obtaining an impression of Isnor's American Express credit card and went on a lengthy spending spree before Isnor had him arrested. After a lengthy investigation, the charges were dropped in June 2006 because of insufficient evidence. It grew to more. [161] The feud with the Outlaws led Guindon and his deputy Campbell to look with approval upon the Hells Angels who had driven the Outlaws out of Quebec with much ruthlessness. [12] In the 1960s, it was common for young people to Toronto to embrace a "hip" image, choosing ways of life that were quite contrary to the traditional Anglo-Protestant Victorian values that had previously defined Toronto, which were viewed by the young people as conformist, dull and stifling. [216] Wattel, the president of Satan's Choice Kitchener chapter, became the president of the Hells Angels Kitchener chapter. Under pressure from the Hells Angels, the Loners came into conflict with the Diablos in the summer of 1995, who called upon Satan's Choice for help. They make money big time". At this point, Satan's Choice still maintained the position of the second largest motorcycle club in the world behind only the Hells Angels. : [22] By contrast, Sergeant John Harris of the Hamilton police believed that Satan's Choice were always involved in organized crime, saying: "Guindon had a right-hand man named Arnold Kelly, who was never a member, never wanted to be. 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