MASSACRE A DRUG RIPOFF

The night started with the transfer of $400,000 worth of cocaine to
Wayne Kellestine's farmhouse and it ended with Ontario's largest mass
murder.

Hours before Ontario's largest mass murder, Durham Region police
officers followed three of eight Bandidos from the Toronto area to a
southwestern Ontario farmhouse belonging to the man now charged with
killing them, sources have told the Toronto Star.

Suspecting a major drug deal could be in the works, investigators
tailed the trio west along Highway 401. But they were unaware the men
were transporting a cargo of 200 kilograms of cocaine that night to
fellow Bandido Wayne (Weiner) Kellestine's London-area farm, law
enforcement sources say.

After watching the three men enter the farmhouse, the officers left,
assuming the bikers were there for a party, the source said.

What transpired was a deadly drug ripoff that left the three Bandidos
shot dead, their bodies stuffed into cars that were driven into a
field. It's believed five other Bandidos arrived separately later
that night, only to be systematically killed and their bodies
similarly disposed of.

It's unclear whether the ripoff of $400,000 worth of cocaine was
planned. It's believed the killings were going to be justified to
fellow bikers as punishment for refusing to participate in a national
"run," an outlaw motorcycle tradition involving members riding in
formation according to club hierarchy.

Four others, including a woman, were each charged with eight counts
of first-degree murder. They were to appear in a St. Thomas courtroom
today.

More details, meanwhile, are emerging about Kellestine, who relished
playing the role of a dangerous man.

The 56-year-old loved to pose in front of his collection of Nazi
memorabilia in his rundown farmhouse, near Dutton, about a 20-minute
drive from where police discovered the bodies of eight Toronto-area
members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang on the weekend.

"His reputation is being an absolute renegade," said someone from the
area who knows him well. "A dangerous, dangerous guy. He's always had
that reputation."

Michael Simmons, who worked undercover for the Mounties and the OPP
against motorcycle gangs 15 years ago, said he purchased cocaine and
guns from Kellestine on several occasions and that his work helped
put away 18 bikers, including his own brother, Andrew "Teach"
Simmons -- onetime president of the Outlaws.

"I witnessed him shoot his girlfriend in the back with an air pistol
just for a joke," said Simmons, who entered the witness protection
program in 1992. "He pointed a .45-calibre at my big toe and asked me
if I could blow it off, when I was trying to buy some cocaine off
him."

On another occasion, Simmons said he witnessed Kellestine "come
flying down the stairs" in a combat arctic suit, armed with an Uzi,
after a motion detector was set off on his rural property during a
party.

"There was a big party and he freaked out, went upstairs, and he was
down and ready for full combat, and that scared the s--- out of me,"
Simmons recalled.

Before Kellestine was sentenced to two years in prison in 2000 for
weapons offences and running a marijuana operation, the court was
shown photos of him posing with his personal arsenal, which included
machine guns and Luger pistols like those the Nazis used.

"He always had lots and lots and lots of guns," the person who knows
him well said. "He had quite an arsenal of guns."

Kellestine loved to dress the part of a dirty biker, with lots of
leather. But in court, he tried to dress like former New York City
mobster John (the Dapper Don) Gotti.

"He always wore a three-piece suit to court," said the person who
knows him well. "When he came to court, he presented himself as a
professional gangster."

Kellestine was president of his own local bike gang, the
Annihilators, which evolved into the Loners and was affiliated with
Toronto-area Loners.

That group eventually evolved into the Bandidos, and Kellestine
remained a member.

While considered a dangerous force in southwestern Ontario, he wasn't
on the level of those in bigger bike gangs such as the Outlaws and
Hells Angels, the person who knows him well said.

"He was never in with them," the person said. "He stuck with his own
crowd. ... He's always been a renegade kind of guy."

Billy Miller, who was once part of the Loners with Kellestine, went
on to become president of the London Hells Angels.

Kellestine's houseguest, Frank Mather, 32, is a far different man. He
has a lengthy criminal record that includes eight break-and-enters
but no violence. He served a three-year term in prison in his native
New Brunswick and was on parole for possession of break-and-enter
tools when arrested while trying to steal a truck.

He has never been a biker, and his consistent record of arrest
suggests he would be a liability to any organized-crime group.

"He'd be a follower, not a leader," said someone from the area who
knows him.

He did land a six-month sentence in 2002 for growing marijuana near
London, and was convicted again in 2005 for possession of
break-and-enter tools.

The person who knows Mather's criminal activity well said he can't
see him taking the lead in any kind of organized-crime hit.

"It's not his play," the person said. "Frank Mather is no biker."

Guy Ouellette, a retired Quebec Provincial Police biker expert, said
the Bandidos were irritating for the Hells Angels in southwestern
Ontario.

He said it's too easy to pronounce the Bandidos dead, even though
they have only a dozen members in Toronto -- who meet in a Parkdale
social club -- and five members in Manitoba with a puppet club called
Los Montoneros.