![]() Anthony Getschel | Police in Edmonton have charged two people in the hit-and-run death of former UFC fighter Ryan Jimmo. Jimmo was fatally injured early Sunday following a verbal argument that escalated into a fight in the parking lot of a bar. Jimmo died from blunt force trauma after being run over by a vehicle. Anthony Getschel, 23, faces several charges, including second-degree murder and criminal negligence causing death. Jordan Wagner, 21, is charged with accessory after the fact to murder. | ![]() Ryan Jimmo with his mother Linda in July 2010 |
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Former UFC fighter Ryan Jimmo killed in hit-and-run - Update Arrests Made
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Hells Angels Assassin Serge Quesnel
![]() Richard Jobin | Quesnel committed his first murder at the age of 23. He and a friend killed small-time drug dealer Richard Jobin. Quesnel said he bashed the 44-year-old over the head and his accomplice then stabbed Jobin in the back with a kitchen knife. The following month, Quesnel committed his second murder. He and the same friend killed Martin Naud, who knew details about the Jobin slaying. The duo ambushed Naud at his home and Quesnel stabbed him in the eye with a pair of scissors and then slit his throat. | ![]() Martin Naud |
![]() Louis "Mélou" Roy | He earned an introduction to Louis "Mélou" Roy, the head of Hells Angels Trois-Rivieres Chapter and one of the most influential bikers in Canada. Quesnel was invited to the gang’s clubhouse, where he was asked to become a killer for the Hells Angels. At the time, a drug war raged between the Hells Angels and rival gang Rock Machine in Quebec. About 160 people were killed from 1994 until the conflict wound down in 2001. Quesnel was ecstatic. Sylvain Thiffault ordered him to kill Jacques Ferland, a PCP manufacturer who worked with the rival Rock Machine gang. Quesnel was paid $10,000 for the hit. | ![]() Sylvain "Baptiste" Thiffault |
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Ex-wife of Hells Angels Damiano Dipopolo loses YVR security clearance
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Chinese bank claims fugitive bought B.C. real estate
![]() 13097-28th Ave, Surrey | A major Chinese bank has obtained a court order in B.C. freezing the assets of a businessman accused of fleeing China and buying "luxury" Lower Mainland homes after defaulting on a $10 million loan. In an application brought before a B.C. Supreme Court judge last week, lawyers for China CITIC Bank claim Shibiao Yan and his wife bought more than $8 million worth of properties in Surrey and Vancouver over a three-month period beginning in June 2014. | ![]() |
![]() | Shibiao Yan owns three multi-million dollar properties in a Vancouver suburb and resides in a C$3 million Vancouver home owned by his wife, according to court documents. The court case comes amid speculation about the role of offshore money from wealthy Chinese in driving the out-of-control Lower Mainland real estate market. Last year, Canada's anti-money laundering watchdog FINTRAC claimed to have stepped up enforcement activities in Vancouver's real estate market |
![]() | According to the lawsuit, China CITIC Bank is seeking repayment for a line of credit worth 50 million yuan, or roughly $7.5 million, taken out by a Chinese lumber company and personally guaranteed by Yan, who was the company's majority shareholder at the time. | ![]() Housing prices have jumped 30 percent in the last year. |
![]() | China Citic Bank is controlled by the Citic Group, which in turn is directly controlled by the State Council, China's cabinet. It has been accused of facilitating the movement of currency overseas. "It is not an illegal business," said one source. It is reported to be a very lucrative business. | ![]() Under Chinese law, citizens are allowed to take only the equivalent of US$50,000 out of the country each year. |
Monday, June 27, 2016
Wages of Sin - How HA Wayne Schneider and Raphael Joseph met their Fates
![]() Wayne Rodney Schneider | One was lured to his death off a Sydney street, the other found in a shallow grave in Thailand. Now their violent ends are being linked to their dealings in multi-million dollar international drug rackets. Police now believe hours before he was abducted and murdered, Sydney gangster Raphael Joseph visited the ex-partner of former Sydney Hells Angel Wayne Schneider, who was abducted and murdered 18 months later. The two were friends who had risen through gang ranks to become major international criminals, each dealing in millions of dollars of drugs. | ![]() Raphael Joseph aka Hussony |
![]() | Raphael Joseph was a founding member of a vicious Assyrian crime gang DLAST HR while Schneider was a senior member of the Hells Angels before setting up a massive drug syndicate operating out of Thailand. Joseph received a text message on March 20, 2014 before he asked a friend to drive him to a deserted stretch of road where he got into the back seat of a waiting vehicle. He said he would be back in 30 minutes. He was never seen again. Police believe he is dead and was possibly tortured to find cash or drugs. | ![]() |
![]() | Joseph, who was previously known as Rafi Tooma and known as “Huss” or “Hussany” to his friends, was suspected of involvement in the murder of rival Bronx Boys gang member, Dimitri Debaz. Joseph said a $100,000 contract had been placed on his life and that members of Sydney’s Bronx Boys gang wanted to kill him. Police say Joseph, who was born in Iraq, was a highly sophisticated operator who worked at an international level to import drugs. | ![]() Dimitri Debaz |
![]() Wayne Schneider | Wayne Schneider began his career as a meth cook and later joined the Hells Angels in Sydney. In 2006 he was accused of shooting a bouncer outside a nightclub. In 2012 he relocated to Pattaya, Thailand. Police believe that a $1.5 billion drug bust, netting two tonnes of MDMA (ecstasy) and nearly one tonne of ice, was linked to the Hells Angels, Comancheros, and that Schneider was involved. Schneider’s naked body was found on November 30 last year in a shallow grave in eastern Thailand. Schneider's bodyguard Tony Bagnato was arrested in Cambodia days after the murder. Bagnato travelled to Thailand not long after the murder of Brad Dillon. | ![]() |
![]() | The naked body of Schneider, 38, was found buried in a two-metre-deep grave in roadside bushes near Pattaya. His neck was reportedly broken. Two security guards working at the housing estate told police they'd been threatened by a man with a gun and were warned to stay away. The guards then heard Mr Schneider calling for help and told police they saw five men with scarves tied across their faces bashing the 38-year-old. | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() American Tyler Gerard, 21, was arrested as he attempted to cross the Thai border | ![]() Truck used in Schneider's murder |
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