 | Neil 'Nitro' Cantrill and crew are looking at a custodial sentence and will be sentenced March 16, 2021. The sentencing comes almost three years since the trial was set to start in April 2018.
Hope resident Richard Houle grew pot for Edmonton Hells Angel Neil Cantrill for over a dozen years. When Houle told Cantrill in December 2014 that he wanted to get out of the business, he didn’t think there would be a problem. There was a problem on Aug. 1, 2016, when Houle was grabbed by Cantrill, his son Stephan and associate Robert Lowry. Houle was brutally beaten and told he would have to sign his house over. All three were convicted of aggravated assault, kidnapping, extortion, forcible confinement and overcoming resistance. Cantrill was a member of the Alberta Nomads chapter but joined Edmonton's Westridge chapter.
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