The Sûreté du Québec issued more than 300 tickets and one man was arrested in an otherwise uneventful weekend as hundreds of members of the Hells Angels gathered in the small community of St-Charles-sur-Richelieu southeast of Montreal for the biker gang's annual Canada Run meeting.
The Sûreté du Québec issued more than 300 tickets and one man was arrested in an otherwise uneventful weekend as hundreds of members of the Hells Angels gathered in the small community of St-Charles-sur-Richelieu southeast of Montreal for the biker gang’s annual Canada Run meeting (link is external).
Hells Angels members ride along 84 Street SE towards the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Friday, July 21, 2017 in Calgary. Britton Ledingham / Airdrie Echo
About 500 people, including between 300 and 325 members of the Hells Angels, were observed or asked for identification, the SQ said. One man, a 52-year-old biker from Ontario, was arrested for threatening a police officer during a routine road check.
The tickets handed out were for minor infractions, such as driving on the shoulder of the road, non-conforming motorcycle equipment or not wearing a helmet.
SQ spokesman Guy Lapointe told the Canadian Press that the weekend went well. “The objective was to make sure that everything unfolded in an orderly way, that the law was respected — the Criminal Code as well as the Highway Safety Act — and that there be as little inconvenience as possible for the residents.”
“The great majority of individuals who participated in the event cooperated,” he said.
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Hells Angels members ride along 84 Street SE towards the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Friday, July 21, 2017 in Calgary. Britton Ledingham / Airdrie Echo
About 500 people, including between 300 and 325 members of the Hells Angels, were observed or asked for identification, the SQ said. One man, a 52-year-old biker from Ontario, was arrested for threatening a police officer during a routine road check.
The tickets handed out were for minor infractions, such as driving on the shoulder of the road, non-conforming motorcycle equipment or not wearing a helmet.
SQ spokesman Guy Lapointe told the Canadian Press that the weekend went well. “The objective was to make sure that everything unfolded in an orderly way, that the law was respected — the Criminal Code as well as the Highway Safety Act — and that there be as little inconvenience as possible for the residents.”
“The great majority of individuals who participated in the event cooperated,” he said.
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