last original member of the Niagara Hells Angels was charged with illegally importing vehicles from the United States.

last original member of the Niagara Hells Angels was charged with illegally importing vehicles from the United States. A five-month investigation by a joint forces police auto theft team led to the seizure of five vehicles and 12 charges against Timothy Panetta of Wainfleet. The 39-year-old owns Advantage Auto Sales and Leasing on Allanport Road in Thorold, which was searched by police last month.
A police source from the auto theft team alleged salvage vehicles were purchased in the U.S. and imported into Canada. “They are being fraudulently registered with their true identities hidden and then sold to the public,” the detective said.
The vehicles included two Chevrolet Suburbans and a Porsche Carrera. One of the five vehicles contained stolen parts. Police aren’t saying where the vehicles originated or their histories. Typically, when a vehicle is fraudulently registered, its flaws are hidden in documentation to increase its sales value. Two of the vehicles had been sold, while three were for sale, police said. The auto team, spearheaded by the OPP, were assisted by the biker enforcement unit and provincial organized crime enforcement team. Panetta joined the Hells Angels in 2001, not long after a massive takeover of nearly all of Ontario’s native biker groups by the gang. While gangs around the province abandoned their own colours and adopted the grinning death’s head patch of the Hells Angels, Niagara was a special case.