OPP OFFICER'S LIES WRECK CASE AGAINST ALLEGED DRUG DEALERS

TORONTO - Charges against four men accused of supplying drugs to the
Satan's Choice biker gang were dismissed yesterday after a judge found
an OPP officer took the law "in his own hands" and lied under oath to
get wiretap authorizations. As a result, the wiretap evidence was
excluded from the trial and without it, the Crown was unable to
prosecute further.

Athanasios Bogiatzis, Thomas Christodoulou, Paul Cusato and Reginald
Churchill were accused of membership in a criminal organization,
multiple conspiracies to traffic or cultivate narcotics, possession of
prohibited and restricted weapons and other drug and weapons offences.

Justice John MacDonald ruled the wiretaps never should have been
authorized because affidavits included lies by OPP wiretap expert Det.
John Cavanaugh, who he said misled the authorizing judges, lied under
oath at a preliminary inquiry and destroyed documentary evidence.