Comox Valley drug ring tied to you know who

Check news is reporting that "Three Vancouver Island men facing organized crime and drug trafficking charges from 2021 began trial Tuesday in BC Supreme Court. Jeff Pasanen, Jonathan Clifford and Randall King are all pleading not guilty to several charges ranging from trafficking cocaine, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, to participating in a criminal organization."

"In their opening remarks of the high-security trial, Crown prosecutors allege the group, led by Pasenan, was selling drugs across the Comox Valley under the Hells Angels banner.A confidential police informant described to the court Tuesday that he acted as Pasanen’s enforcer, collecting on drug debts, or threatening those encroaching on Pasanen’s territory."

"He says he became a ‘police agent’, wearing a wire for drug transactions and conversations, after he was arrested with drugs he’d just picked up from William (Bill) Paulsen, former vice president of the Hells Angels Nanaimo chapter. In November of 2024, Paulsen was sentenced to six years in a federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to multiple drug-trafficking and possession charges."

The Nanaimo Hells Angels clubhouse was one of three seized by the BC under proceeds of crime. It was sold and demolished November 2023. I'm not a fan of proceeds of crime legislation because it removed the incentive to stop crime. Instead they just want to profit from it. The BC CFSEU is the perfect example of that. I realize it's better to do something than nothing but I would prefer them go after the drug dealers because drug dealers don't need a clubhouse to sell drugs.