https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2019/06/28/neuf-ans-de-taule-pour-un-emule-de-22-ans-des-hells-1Nine years of jail for a 22-year-old emulator of the Hells
A youngster from the Hells Angels in Gatineau has just been sentenced to nine years in jail for being involved in a gun-smuggling ring that fueled violent street gangs in Ottawa.
"These offenses deserve an exemplary sentence," Judge Julianne Parfett ruled in sentencing Miles Kempffer-Hossack on June 20 in the federal capital.
Kempffer-Hossack, who posted on Facebook wearing a "Support 81" jersey as a sign of support for the Hells Angels, was among 16 people arrested in December 2017 in Operation Sabotage, led by Ottawa police with assistance from the Gatineau Police and the Sûreté du Québec.
The police also pinned a member of the Red Devils, the official Hells world club, and several street gang members.
That year, Ottawa was shaken by a record 75 shootings, including seven fatalities, most of which were attributable to gang-related gangs.
"A portion of the firearms in question was presumably illegally obtained from individuals like Mr. Kempffer-Hossack," the judge recalled, referring to the shootings.
The 22-year-old, who played an intermediary role in the smuggling ring, was first tricked by a civilian undercover officer in police pay.
An arsenal at home
He sold him three firearms on three separate occasions at a restaurant in Gatineau.
Then, on December 14, 2017, the police stormed his home on St. Helena Street where they had to defuse four homemade explosive devices that the suspect had installed in certain areas of his home to protect his commando arsenal and drugs.
The police found a dozen prohibited or restricted weapons, including Cobray machine pistols - the weapon of choice of the Hells during the deadly war they waged in Quebec against the Rock Machine during the 1990s - and Skorpion, as well as a Sovietov Simonov semi-automatic rifle with high capacity magazine.
Several drugs
The trafficker was also in possession of 27 grams of crystal meth, a hundred speed tablets and $ 7900 in cannabis.
In all, the investigation resulted in the confiscation of 24 firearms, a baton made of a baseball bat in which nails had been inserted, and large quantities of methamphetamine and even fentanyl, the opioid of the same name. origin of thousands of fatal overdoses in the country.
♦ Judge Julianne Parfett said she took into account the "remorse" expressed in court by Miles Kempffer-Hossack, a young drug user who dropped out of school before completing high school.
