Hells Angels associate sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 20/04/2010 (5663 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

A Hells Angels associate has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of charges from his arrest in an undercover police sting operation.

Allen Morrison, 38, was one of 18 people targeted during Project Drill, in which a secret agent was paid $625,000 plus expenses to conduct a series of drug deals which were captured by police audio and video surveillance.

Morrison was caught in 2007 arranging four major cocaine deals in which he sent a lower-level “courier” to meet with the agent at various city locations, including Polo Park Shopping Centre, Shoppers Drug Mart, Burger King and A&W in which cash and drugs changed hands.

Morrison was a longtime biker associate, officially deemed a “Hangaround”, who was slowly climbing the criminal ladder at the time of his arrest, court was told.

Morrison also pleaded guilty Tuesday to obstruction of justice for his actions at a December 2007 sentencing hearing on drug offences from 2003. At the time, Morrison and his lawyer told court he had walked away from his gang affiliations, moved out of Winnipeg with his wife and children and was looking forward to living a life on the straight and narrow.

In fact, Morrison had just spent the past few months practically begging to be made a full-patch Hells member and deliberately misled the court in an attempt to get a more lenient sentence, court was told.

Morrison apologized for his actions Tuesday and spoke of a “new way of thinking” which including living crime-free once he is released from prison. A cynical Queen’s Bench Justice Brenda Keyser wasn’t buying it.

“I have great difficulty believing there’s any truth to that,” she said. “It’s not the first time he has tried to con the court.”

Morrison was given single-time credit for 28 months of pre-trial custody, meaning he has six years and two months left to serve. He was also ordered to pay back $50,000 he received in exchange for the drugs he supplied to the agent and will have to spent another year behind bars if he can’t come up with the cash.

www.mikeoncrime.com