Fourth arrest in Brockville biker raids

Brockville Police have arrested a fourth man in connection with two biker-gang-related raids in the city earlier this month.

Officers arrested the 30-year-old man on Tuesday “in relation to the investigation,” police reported Wednesday.

Police, who had not released the latest accused’s name as of Wednesday afternoon or specified the charges, held him in custody pending a bail hearing.

The latest arrest relates to two search warrants carried out on Dec. 6 by the Brockville Police Service, with the help of the Ontario Provincial Police Biker Enforcement Unit, the Belleville Police Service and Kingston Police Service.

The Joint Forces Team raided two Brockville residences, at 283 Park Street and Apartment 17 at 16 Cartier Court, in relation to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and an Outlaws support club, the Dead Eyes Motorcycle Club.

Thomas Bell, Norman Cranshaw Rosbottom and his son, Norman Stanley Rosbottom, were charged in connection with crimes that began in March, police noted. The charges include kidnapping, robbery, assault with a weapon, assault, and two separate offences relating to organized crime groups, said police.

City police say they have been aware of the Outlaws in the area for nearly two years, but there has been a “drastic increase” in their activity over the past summer.

The twin raids Dec. 6 were the city police force’s second biker gang operation this fall. In September, police arrested two people in connection with drug and weapons offences with biker gang links following a raid at 21 Sevenoaks Avenue in Brockville.

Four other people were initially sought after that raid, one of whom later turned himself in in Kingston. Two of the remaining suspects turned themselves in to Brockville police, while the other also did so in Kingston.


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