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Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club (SCMC) was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club that was once the dominant outlaw club in Ontario, with twelve chapters based in the province, and another in Montreal, Quebec, at its peak strength in 1977. Satan's Choice grew to more than 400 members by 1970, making it the second largest outlaw motorcycle club in the world, behind only the Hells Angels. The club was involved in First Montreal biker war, the first major outlaw biker conflict in Canadian history, when it engaged the country's second largest club, the Popeye Moto Club, Popeyes, from 1974 to 1976. Satan's Choice's power began to diminish during the late 1970s, with some of the club's chapters "patching over" to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Outlaws in 1977. The remaining chapters would eventually become members of the Hells Angels, along with most of the other major outlaw clubs in Ontario, in 2000. History Early history The founding chapter of the first iteration of Satan's Choice was esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Guindon
Bernard Dieudonné Guindon (born 19 November 1942), also known as "Bernie the Frog", is an ex communicated outlaw biker, Boxing, boxer, and registered sex offender. best known as the founder and national president of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club from 1965 to 2000. He was later a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Hells Angels until his retirement in 2006. In 2017 Guindon was excommunicated from the club after his memoir revealed informative club secrets. Youth Guindon was born in Hull, Quebec, Hull, Quebec (modern Gatineau) to French Canadians, French-Canadian parents. His mother, Lucy, was an illiterate woman from rural Quebec who dropped out of school in Grade 1 while his father, Lucien, was a petty criminal from Buckingham, Quebec, Buckingham who worked as a bootlegger. The Guindon family were itinerant in his early years, living at various locations in Quebec and northern Ontario. In Ontario at the time, bars and liquor stores closed very early, and Lucien Guindon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Croitoru
Ion William Croitoru (December 7, 1963 – February 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional wrestler and outlaw biker, known to wrestling fans by his ring names Johnny K-9, Taras Bulba and Bruiser Bedlam. Croitoru worked in several Canadian wrestling promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, and later wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). He wrestled as a jobber in the WWF but was booked to win titles in several other promotions. Croitoru was notorious for his long history of legal problems. As a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club (SCMC), an outlaw biker gang, he was convicted of assault, trafficking cocaine and bombing a police station. In 2005, Croitoru was arrested for the murder of lawyer Lynn Gilbank and her husband Fred; the charges were eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence. Croitoru was then arrested in May 2009 for conspiracy to murder the Bacon Brothers, resulting in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlaw Motorcycle Club
An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of Cruiser (motorcycle), cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and chopper (motorcycle), choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, Dissent, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group. The subculture emerged in the United States in the late 1940s and has since spread globally. In the United States, such motorcycle clubs (MCs) are considered "outlaw" not necessarily because they engage in criminal activity but because they are not sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and do not adhere to the AMA's rules. Instead, the clubs have bylaws reflecting the outlaw biker culture. The United States Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice defines "outlaw motorcycle gangs" (OMG) as "organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for crimin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Van Haarlem
Gordon John van Haarlem (born 26 July 1956) is a Canadian outlaw biker who was one of the "Port Hope 8" tried in one of the most controversial trials in Canadian history. Satan's Choice Born in Peterborough into a working class Dutch-Canadian family, van Haarlem joined Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club as a teenager. He worked as a welder at construction sits. By age of 23, van Haarlem had a lengthy criminal record with convictions for assault, mischief, possession of an unregistered gun, theft, possession of narcotic, and possession of narcotics with the intention of trafficking. HIs nickname of "Dog Map" was originally "Dog Face", a moniker given in irony as "Dog Face" suggested that he was ugly, but in fact van Haarlem was considered to be handsome. The nickname became "Dog Map" as given to him by Gary Comeau in reference to his tendency to take winding routes in riding his motorcycle across the countryside. Van Haarlem was known as a fighter within Satan's Choice, and had his nos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sauvé
Richard Michael Anthony Sauvé (born 27 July 1952) is a Canadian former outlaw biker, wrongly convicted of first degree murder in the Port Hope 8 case of 1979, turned social activist. Youth Sauvé was born into a working class French-Canadian family in Cobourg, the son of Pierre and Adeline Sauvé. He obtained employment at the Davidison Rubber factory in Port Hope and in 1972 started to date a 15-year-old high school student, Sharon. Sharon became pregnant and the couple were married in a shotgun wedding in October 1973. Sauvé's bride was 16 years old and five months pregnant. Their daughter, Angela, was born in January 1974. Their marriage was a troubled one as Sauvé's teenage wife had much difficulty adjusting to being a mother and she came to feel trapped in the marriage as she felt that she no longer loved the man she called her husband. After being fired from Davidison Rubber in 1975, Sauvé obtained employment at the Chemtron factory and became the president of the Steelw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Sanguigni
Armand Sanguigni (1951-8 October 1984) was a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster, and hitman for the Cotroni family who was one of the accused in the Port Hope 8 case. Satan's Choice hitman Sanguigni was born into a family of Italian immigrants in what is now Mississauga. He joined the Toronto chapter of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club in 1969. A heroin addict, Sanguigni along with his fellow biker, Ken Goobie, was known as one of the loudest advocates of having Satan's Choice enter the business of selling heroin. The hitman Cecil Kirby recalled in his 1986 memoir ''Mafia Enforcer'': "Armand Sanguigni was Goobie's number - one guy, his trusted courier and distributor . I became his banker and sometime courier.". Sanguigni worked as a hitman for the Cotroni family of Montreal. Bernie Guindon, the president of Satan's Choice, said of Sanguigni: "I didn't have much to do with those guys. I was from Oshawa. They were trying to make a living as well". Guindon stated that he was aware of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennaro Raso
Gennaro Raso or Jimmy Raso is an Italian-Canadian outlaw biker, who is best known for co-founding the Loners Motorcycle Club with close friend Frank Lenti. He would end up retaining full leadership over the club in 1994 and currently serves as the club's International President. Early history Born in Gabella, Catanzaro, Italy on June 22, 1959, very little is known about the early years of his life, aside from when he was a young man, he and his family emigrated to Canada in February 1967. His family settled in Toronto, Ontario. In 1970, he was worked as an extra during the production of a low budget exploitation film ''The Proud Rider''. Many of the extras in ''The Proud Rider'' were members of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club who were essentially playing themselves. Raso greatly admired the Satan's Choice national president Bernie Guindon as he stated in a 2016 interview: "I met Bernie in the early 1970s. I always looked up to him. I thought he was a cool guy, a very smart man. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Parente
Mario Parente (born 1949) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, mostly noted for serving as the Canadian national president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club between 2000 and 2009. Satan's Choice Parente was born in Hamilton, Ontario into a working-class family of Italian immigrants. Parente was born and grew up in the "lower" part of Hamilton under "the Mountain" as locals call the Niagara Escarpment. "Lower" Hamilton is generally considered to be a poorer area than "upper" Hamilton. As a teenager, he joined the Hamilton chapter of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club in 1967. In a 2009 interview, Parente gave his reasons for joining Satan's Choice in 1967 as: "Be free. Ride the bike. That's it. And being with a bunch of individuals that wanted to help each other out". Despite being Italian-Canadian, Parente chose as his biker name "The Wop" in an attempt to turn a pejorative term into an affirmative one. The majority of the people in Ontario in 1967 were Protestants of British descen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff McLeod
Jeffery McLeod (born 1955) is a Canadian biker who was one of the Port Hope 8, members of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club accused of murder. McLeod's conviction for second degree murder is controversial. Satan's Choice McLeod was born into a middle-class family in Scarborough (modern Toronto). As a student at Warden Avenue Public School and at Corvette Junior Public School his grades were outstanding until his parents divorced, which caused him to fell into depression and a related decline in his grades. A talented hockey player who was abnormally tall as a child as he stood 5'11 by the age of 12, McLeod had ambitions of becoming a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League. McLeod played for the Toronto Marlboros, the junior A team for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but at the age of 15 McLeod was expelled on the account of him being too overweight to play hockey successfully. McLeod's most notable character trait was his compulsive over-eating, which led him to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lenti
Francesco "Cisco" Lenti (born 1947) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, and the co-founder of the Loners Motorcycle Club. Satan's Choice Lenti was born in Woodbridge, Ontario to Italian immigrant parents. The journalist Jerry Langton wrote in 2010 "...that even by Canadian biker standards, Lenti was a strange guy. Vain, constantly preening, and prone to violent temper tantrums, he had a habit of giving up on projects that didn't exactly go his way". The journalist Yves Lavigne wrote in 1999 about: "...that social butterfly of the biker underworld, the promiscuous Frank Lenti, who over twenty years wore the colors of nearly half a dozen Toronto gangs. The temperamental Lenti flitted from gang to gang when he didn't get his way". Lenti's frequent changes in membership of outlaw biker clubs gave him the nickname of the "Velcro biker". Lenti was never a member of the Mafia, but he had friendships with several Mafiosi over the years such as Domenic Musitano of the Musitano famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Kirby
Cecil Kirby (born 17 August 1950) is a Canadian former outlaw biker, gangster and hitman for the Commisso 'ndrina, turned police informant. Early life Kirby was born into an Irish-Canadian family in the Weston neighbourhood of Toronto on 17 August 1950, and was twice expelled from elementary school for unruly behaviour. He grew up in a working-class neighbourhood of Toronto and preferred to use violence from his childhood onward to solve problems. He was refused admission to high school for being a discipline problem. Satan's Choice Kirby began his career in organized crime as a member of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, which he joined in August 1969. At the time, Satan's Choice led by Bernie "The Frog" Guindon was the largest and most powerful outlaw biker club in Ontario. In the 1970s, Kirby specialized in auto insurance fraud and theft. Kirby rose up to become the sergeant-at-arms of the Satan's Choice Richmond Hill chapter. Satan's Choice had opened a chapter in Montreal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Hurren
Lawrence James Hurren (1 May 1955 – 30 July 1996) was a Canadian outlaw biker and one of the Port Hope 8. Satan's Choice An young man from Oshawa who worked at various times as an automobile worker or a cabbie, Hurren was a close friend of Lorne Edgar Campbell with he had boarded with as a teenager. Campbell had sponsored Hurren into the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club. Hurren fought as an amateur boxer with Campbell as his manager. Despite their friendship, Campbell once nearly shot Hurren he attempted to break into the Oshawa clubhouse after he lost his key. In the 1970s, Hurren frequently visited Florida to make contact with the Outlaws and helped to forge an alliance with the Outlaws. In June 1978, Hurren along with his fellow Satan's Choice bikers Gary Comeau, Jeff McLeod, and Gordon van Haarlem were charged with a brawl at the Alderville Indian Reserve when they gate-clashed a party at the reserve, which led to a number of fights. The Murder of Matiyek On the night of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
