High-profile B.C. Hells Angel Larry Amero has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to kill rivals Sandip Duhre and Sukhveer Dhak in 2012.
Amero, 40, was arrested in Ottawa by Vancouver Police officers, with the assistance of Ottawa Police and the Ontario Provincial Biker Enforcement Unit.
He will remain in custody in Ontario until he is transported to B.C. to face the conspiracy charges, Vancouver Police said in a news release issued Thursday afternoon.
(L) Larry Amero of the Hells Angels and the late (R) Randy Naicker, who founded the Independent Soldiers. Naicker was shot to death in 2012 in Port Moody.
Convicted gang hitman Dean Michael Wiwchar, 32, has also been charged with one count of murder in Duhre’s January 2012 assassination, as well as conspiracy to commit the murder of Dhak a few months later.
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Their associate Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil is already charged in the Duhre murder.
Both Wiwchar and Alkhalil were convicted of first-degree murder for the June 2012 Toronto slaying of Johnnie Raposo.
Until recently, Amero was charged in Quebec as an alleged leader of an international cocaine smuggling ring.
But his charges were stayed after his lawyer argued that the case had taken too long to get to trial.
More to come.