| Donald "Pup" Stockford |
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| Donald Stockford, born in the early 1960s, is a long time member of the Hells Angels and a founding member of the elite Nomads Chapter, founded on June 24, 1995. He was described as the Vice-President of the chapter in a October, 2000 news report. Stockford and fellow Nomads member Walter “Nurget” Stadnik are among the few anglophones in the Quebec Hells Angels organization. The two bikers call Ontario home and allegedly masterminded the Hells Angels expansion into that province. Stockford was among the over 100 Hells Angels members and their associates arrested on March 28, 2001 in the highly publicized police investigation Opération: Printemps 2001. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, gangsterism, and drug trafficking. |
He was picked up at his Ancaster, Ontario home. During a search of the residence, according to information that was later revealed in court, police found all sorts of Hells Angels clothing, jewellery, photographs, and documents, as well as a Surete du Quebec album containing pictures of the entire Rock Machine/Bandidos membership. The Hells Angel was released on $210,000 bail in June, 2001, but was back in jail a few weeks later, when the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the decision. Stockford tried again in December but was unsuccessful. Stockford and Stadnik chose to have their trials in English and asked for the evidence against them – an estimated 500,000 pages of evidence, 69 CD-ROMS, 120 video tapes, and 70 audio tapes - to be translated. Quebec Superior Court Justice Réjean Paul ruled that translating all the evidence would take too long but did order the Crown to translate the summary of evidence on all counts and an index of the documentary evidence they plan on using in court. |