{"id":405268,"date":"2025-11-26T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/405268\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:38:27","slug":"organized-crime-motorcycle-gang-busted-while-trying-to-set-up-in-edmonton-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/405268\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized crime motorcycle gang busted while trying to set up in Edmonton: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

An organized crime<\/a> group that was setting up in Edmonton, after already being established out east, has been disrupted and charges have been laid following a year-long investigation involving several policing agencies.<\/p>\n

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The Edmonton Police Service<\/a> said it began an investigation last October into the One Order Motorcycle Club<\/a> establishing roots in the city and the case involved hundreds of officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are well-established in Eastern Canada. They have chapters in Peel, Toronto, (elsewhere in) Ontario and in Halifax,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Marco Antonio, head of the EPS drug and gang enforcement unit, at a news conference showing off some of the seized goods on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were starting to move here, they were in the process of starting to set up. I think they were in the initial phases when this investigation began.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The One Order chapter setting up in Edmonton was identified as a one-per cent outlaw group with ties to violence and is closely aligned with the Hells Angels, police said.<\/p>\n

The term \u2018one-per cent motorcycle club\u201d is commonly used to describe outlaw motorcycle clubs such as the Hells Angels.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s derived from the idea that 99 per cent of motorcyclists are law-abiding citizens, and the outliers have a mentality that they do not conform\/follow the rules or laws of society, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe assessed that the presence of this club in Edmonton would pose a threat to our city,\u201d said EPS organized crime branch Insp. Darrin Gordon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese are criminal organizations that are associated with trafficking and firearms and in drugs, to the detriment of the safety of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\t\t\t\t\tA One Order Motorcycle Club vest on display at an Edmonton Police Service news conference onTuesday, November 25, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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The EPS police drug and gang enforcement section led the investigation that stretched across the Edmonton region and into B.C., with support from the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) and RCMP.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCrime today is not confined by borders, jurisdictions, or sectors. It moves quickly, adapts rapidly, and exploits every gap it can find,\u201d said RCMP Chief Supt. Allan Lai.<\/p>\n

The 11-month investigation uncovered criminal activity that included firearms trafficking, conspiracy to traffic firearms, commit extortion, robbery, assaults, and organized crime involvement by the One Order MC and its members.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGuns, which were seized during an investigation into the One Order Motorcycle Club setting up a chapter in Edmonton, on display on Tuesday, November 25, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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On Sept. 23, police said 200 officers from EPS, RCMP and ALERT descended upon 40 locations in Alberta and B.C. to carry out a \u201cvery complex arrest operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Simultaneous arrests took place in several places that morning, including Sherwood Park, Ardrossan, Edmonton, Alberta Beach and Kelowna.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich ultimately resulted in 19 individuals being arrested, including one full-patch member of the Hells Angels and numerous search warrants being executed,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n

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Police seized 19 firearms, numerous prohibited weapons and replica firearms, more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition, a pair of bulletproof vests, over 240,000 contraband cigarettes and over 9,000 contraband cigars, $118,000 in cash, and a steroid manufacturing and pill-pressing operation with more than 82,000 pills in Sherwood Park.<\/p>\n

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The street value of the seized steroids alone was worth, conservatively, about a million dollars.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur focus is fentanyl and the synthetic opioids, but we do come across (steroids) from time to time,\u201d Antonio said, adding it was an extensive operation and at the news conference only a fraction of the seized items were put on display.<\/p>\n

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During the raids in September, police said there were coordinated arrests of One Order MC members and their associates, including a full-patched Hells Angels member and an identified firearm supplier.<\/p>\n

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