CITY police were to bring fugitive outlaw biker Billy Bowden back to Winnipeg last night following his arrest last Friday by RCMP in Whistler, British Columbia, sources say.
The ex-Hells Angel had been on the run since Jan. 10 when an arrest warrant was issued against him for failing to appear in court on drug and gun charges.
A source said city police found Bowden in B.C. by secretly following his girlfriend west from Winnipeg to meet him.
"As soon as she met him, the cops were everywhere," the source said.
Police would not comment on the case.
Bowden disappeared shortly before he was to begin his preliminary hearing after being charged in January last year with possessing a loaded nine-millimetre semi-automatic Glock handgun and a small quantity of ecstasy.
The Crown stayed its charges against Bowden's co-accused, Ken Houston -- a former Winnipeg police officer. It has a year to re-lay the charges.
Houston and Bowden were nabbed in a back lane in the 500 block of Corydon Avenue when officers with the organized crime unit stopped Houston's Dodge Durango.
At the time, Bowden was a member of the Manitoba chapter of the Hells Angels. Last fall he was kicked out of the gang for undisclosed reasons. However, sources said the vote by other gang members to expel him was unanimous. Bowden had been a Hells Angel since July 2004.
One of the last times Bowden was seen in public in Winnipeg was last Nov. 18 at the Empire Cabaret, the same night Jeff Engen was fatally stabbed at the club.
-- Staff
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