AN Arizona stockbroker-turned Hells Angel who is wanted in the 2001 torture-murder of a 44-year-old mother of six may be hiding in Canada with the help of fellow Hells Angels, the United States Marshals Service says.
Phoenix Deputy U.S. Marshal Eric Brown said Paul Merle Eischeid crossed into Canada sometime after 2003 and is believed to have found shelter from Hells Angels chapters across Canada, including in Winnipeg.
"We've had reports he's been in Vancouver and Calgary and other spots from the west to the east, pretty much anywhere there's a Hells Angels chapter."
Brown added it's possible Eischeid has left Canada as the manhunt intensifies. An arrest warrant was issued by Canadian Immigration Services for illegal entry.
The muscular, heavily-tattooed Eischeid was recently added to the Marshals' Most-Wanted list of top 15 fugitives and has been featured on the popular America's Most Wanted television show.
In 2001, police say he worked by day at a stock brokerage firm in Phoenix and at night he shed his suit to show off his tattoos at the gang's clubhouse - living as an outlaw biker.
The 35-year-old has "Hell 666 bound" tattoo on his lower back and his last name and Hells Angels tattoo on his stomach.
Police say on Oct. 25, 2001 Eischeid was hanging out at the Mesa Hells Angels clubhouse with a group of gang members when a decision was made to send somebody out to look for some women to bring back for the party.
Cynthia Garcia happened to be out that night and got invited.
At the clubhouse a drunk Garcia began "mouthing off'' to some of the Hells Angels. They told her to keep quiet, but she didn't.
A confidential informant has told police that he, Eischeid and another biker began beating and kicking Cynthia until she was bleeding and unconscious.
Police believe she was they thrown into a car trunk and driven out to the desert were she was murdered.
Eischeid was arrested in 2003 as part of major undercover operation against Arizona bikers. Though he was charged with Garcia's murder, a judge released him on bail because he was not viewed as a flight risk.
The next day Eischeid cut off his court-ordered ankle monitoring bracelet and fled.
Eischeid is also believed to have traveled to Germany and London.
bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca
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