JUDGE THROWS OUT BIKER GANG DRUG CASE

Vancouver Prosecutors and police were dealt a blow yesterday when a
judge threw out criminal-organization charges against a member of the
Hells Angels in B.C. and two associates of the notorious motorcycle
gang. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Anne Mackenzie found the case against
David Francis Giles, a full-patch member of the East End chapter of
the club, was "weak" and cited "unreliable" intercepts gathered by
police.

The judge found that the two associates, David Roger Revell and
Richard Andrew Rempel, were also not guilty of dealing cocaine for the
benefit of, or in association with, a criminal organization. But she
found Revell and Rempel guilty of lesser offences including possession
for the purpose of trafficking cocaine. Mr. Giles was found not guilty
of these charges. The charges relate to the seizure by police of eight
kilograms of cocaine in the Kelowna, B.C., area In 2005.