ROUGH RIDE FOR JUSTICE

'JUST A MATTER OF TIME'

The victims of bike gangs are many.

Some are innocent victims - such as Daniel Desrochers, the 11-year-old
Montreal boy killed by a Hells Angels' bomb while playing in a Montreal
schoolyard in August 1995.

But many, unfortunately, are the authors of their own misfortune or
foolishly got mixed up with bike gang members.

One man who agreed to talk to The Sun anonymously said he doesn't care if
he's wanted by the Hells Angels for stealing 3.5 kilos of cocaine from one
of their Montreal associates in 1999.

It's a remarkable lack of emotion considering he said they came looking for
him at his father's home, at his in-laws' place and at another relative's
house.

He sold the coke for the bargain basement price of $2,300.

He doesn't know if it was pure or cut, but a Toronto drug officer did the
math - the wholesale price of a pure kilo is between $28,000 and $40,000.

The street value of pure cocaine is $100 a gram, making the kilo worth
$100,000. If the cocaine is cut to 50% purity, the value soars to $200,000 a
kilo.

"I had to catch a midnight bus to get out of Quebec, didn't I?" the man said
of the quick, cheap sale.

He blamed the Montreal man he was staying with for leaving the dope out in
the open in a stash house.

That Montreal man was trying to work his way up the Hells Angels' ladder, he
said, but is now in prison.

"I did the odd drug run for him," the man admitted in a conversation with
The Sun that included his wife and father.

"The big guys kept it there. They'd come in, cut it and do whatever, and
then split and leave the rest at his place.

"I snatched it," the man said. "The one guy who knows everything about me
can't touch me for a while. He's not that bad of a guy. You won't have to
worry about him when he gets out.

"They know where I am," he said. "They have connections.

"It's a small world, right?" he said, basically conceding that he'll
eventually be caught, "but I'm not going to worry about it."

And when he is found, the man doesn't think he'll be killed, just suffer
broken bones. "A lot of broken bones," he said.

His wife doesn't believe the Angels will be so forgiving.

"They'll find you, and they won't break bones," she said. "They'll cap your
a--."

His father kept reminding his son, "they don't forget."

The Toronto police officers assigned to the case have also warned him what
to expect.

But the man has brushed off the warnings.

His father recalled the night there was a knock on his door and when he
looked through the peephole he saw a man stuff a handgun into a waistpouch.

The father opened the door and the man tried to enter, demanding to know the
whereabouts of his son.

The visitor was kept out of the home.

"I wasn't about to give my kid to the guy," the father said. "No way. If
they want to get him, they get him somewhere else. I'm not going to turn him
over."

Police were called and the man's home was put under surveillance for a short
time.

"He doesn't care. I don't know why," the father said. Turning to his son, he
asked: "How come you don't care?"

"I can't put it into words," the son replied. "I don't know."

His father is convinced he will be burying his son soon.

"As soon as they grab him," he said. "It's just a matter of time. The
attitude he's got, it's like, 'f--k it.'

In the fall of 1999, the Calgary Sun ran an exclusive interview with a woman
who feared bikers had killed her son.

Paul Daniel Resvick, 19, of Calgary, has been missing since March 1999, just
days after he broke into a home and raided a Hells Angels pot-growing
operation.

The morning after the ripoff, a group of people approached Resvick's
roommates, and told them to make sure Resvick contacted another man.

Resvick complied and was told to return the "product" to an unknown
location.

Resvick did as he was told, but kept some of the pot.

Police later confirmed Resvick did meet with two people, one in a truck and
one in a car.

Despite a massive police effort - which included a videotaped re-enactment
meant to jog potential witnesses' memories - he has not been found.

Soon after that story appeared, another Calgary mother came forward to say
she believed her son died at the hands of the world's fiercest outlaw
motorcycle club.

The body of Jason Kumbier, 21, was found in the frigid mountain waters of
the Cascade River near Mission, B.C., a city of 35,000 about 60 km southeast
of Vancouver.

"I can't sleep at night without thoughts of wondering how long he was beaten
before he died," said Melanie Kumbier, 39.

She said Jason was murdered after a cellphone scam he was involved in with
the Angels went awry.

"He worked with Cantel and the police to get the bikers," Kumbier said. "He
turned a couple of bikers in, then they put a contract out on his life."

Dana Merkl, a youth worker with Lethbridge Family Services, had known Jason
for years.

"He called me about a week before he died and said he feared for his life
because he squawked on a couple of Hells Angels," Merkl said.

B.C. Mounties said it's suspicious but won't point the finger at the Angels.

In June last year police in Calgary and B.C. were on alert when the
common-law wife of a full-patch Angel disappeared from Hosmer, B.C.

In early March, Lynn Kemps, 24, a mom of a two-year-old boy, moved from
Calgary to the Fernie area, about 160 km away, to be with her boyfriend.

She disappeared soon after, but it wasn't reported for nearly two months.

"The information we have from her boyfriend was she was going to the Kelowna
area on March 25," said Fernie RCMP Sgt. Stephen Robertson.

Kemps' beau told police that she left home with another woman of the same
age in a small red car. While police don't buy his story, they won't point
the finger at him as a suspect.

"These people are being killed by somebody," Calgary Police Chief Jack
Beaton said.

"Person after person killed, people disappearing who you can't find and no,
we can't prove it was an organized motorcycle gang, but somebody is making
these people disappear."