East Van Hells Angels president gets 4 years
Last Updated: Monday, November 7, 2005 | 5:02 PM PT
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The president and a senior member of the East Vancouver Hells Angels chapter have been sentenced to four years in prison.
Norman Krogstad and Cedric Smith both pleaded guilty to 11 counts of trafficking cocaine.
In court, Crown prosecutors described how a former member of the Prince George Renegades agreed become an agent and work for the police inside the organizations.
Cedric Smith, and Norman Krogstad on the right
Over the course of a year the biker-turned-agent bought more than nine kilograms of cocaine from Angels' member Cedric Smith at his Langley residence.
The cocaine was supplied to Smith by chapter president Norman Krogstad.
RCMP superintendent Bob Paulson says new police techniques are paying off against the gangs.
"We recruited from within," Paulson said. "We couldn't infiltrate them. We couldn't send undercover police officers in because of some of their practices. So we had to go and target them and look at some of the people inside the groups who we could recruit to come and work with us."
In all, ten men from Prince George and Vancouver were charged in the January bust. One has since been murdered.
Police say several more members are expected to plead guilty to a variety of charges.
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