Former gang member: Canada deaths linked to biker gang

Rob Gillies
Associated Press
Houston Chronicle
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Toronto (Canada):
Canadian police investigating the deaths of eight men found stuffed inside abandoned vehicles in a wooded field descended on a farmhouse a few miles down the road on Sunday.
A former motorcycle gang member said there were indications the deaths were linked to the Bandidos gang.Police refused to discuss what was happening beyond the roadblock they had set up around the farmhouse, about three miles from where the bodies were found inside four vehicles deserted in a farmer's field Saturday morning.
The farm in Shedden, Ontario, is about 90 miles northeast of Detroit.Edward Winterhalder, a former member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang who lives in Oklahoma, said he had talked to current members in the area who recognized the vehicles from the media coverage."I can tell you that it's Bandidos that got killed," said Winterhalder, who left the gang in 2003 and wrote "Out in Bad Standings," a book on his time inside the gang.
The owner of the farmhouse where police descended also was affiliated with the Bandidos, Winterhalder said.The eight victims knew each other and were all from the Toronto area, said police, who characterized the deaths as homicides but declined to release further details.
apr 10, 2006