Bob Pammett has approached Vagos, Bandidos, Mongols biker gangs about establishing Peterborough chapter

Bob Pammett has approached Vagos, Bandidos, Mongols biker gangs about establishing Peterborough chapter. Friday, August 3, 2012

Bob Pammett may be shopping south of the border with the hope of bringing another biker club to Peterborough. The Examiner has learned that Pammett may have approached U.S.-based biker club the Vagos with the intention of starting a chapter in Peterborough. Insp. Ted Boynton said he’s heard talk about that too. Boynton has also heard Pammett has approached other clubs such as the Bandidos and the Mongols to start Peterborough-based chapters. Right now, he said, police are just trying to sort out truth from fiction. News of a possible Vagos expansion isn’t that surprising to biker enforcement officials. “They’re the fastest growing motorcycle club in the world,” said Det. Sgt. Len Isnor with the OPP’s Biker Enforcement Unit. Isnor said he hasn’t heard that Pammett has approached the Vagos. “But we’re not going to rule it out,” he said. The Vagos have talked about coming to Canada in the past. In early 2011 there were rumblings that the club was going to start a Toronto-based chapter. Isnor said their colours were never seen on Ontario roads. Plans for the club fizzled out quickly. “It died as quickly as it started,” he said. It’s not illegal to start a motorcycle club. There’s little police can do if that happens. But a Vagos chapter has the potential to bring more trouble to the city. “They have an ongoing conflict with the Hells Angels,” Isnor said. The trouble has been isolated to the southern United States. There have been several high-profile fights between the two within the past two years, including shoot-outs in Arizona and Nevada and a rumble outside a California Starbucks. “They are definitely rivals,” Isnor said. Isnor said he couldn’t speculate on what would happen if the Vagos came to Peterborough. No one can predict whether the Hells Angels in Ontario would stand by their southern brothers, he said, or let another club like the Vagos set up. But, he said, the Hells Angels have been “suspiciously absent” when it comes to the Peterborough landscape. The club made no moves when the Outlaws came to town, Isnor said, and tipped their hats when the Loners motorcycle club set up shop. He said there was no reason for the public to be alarmed. “We’ll see what unfolds,” he said. “The police are prepared. We have to be.” http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2012/08/03/bob-pammett-has-approached-vagos-bandidos-mongols-biker-gangs-about-establishing-peterborough-chapter-source