Pierre Aragon:

 Pierre Aragon, a former member of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Bandidos and the Loners, was denied bail in October 2022 while awaiting a new sentencing hearing for violent crimes committed on impulse.

He was convicted in 2014 of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, and uttering death threats, stemming from a 2012 beating of a Loners member in Peterborough, Ontario.
Aragon’s criminal record includes eight offences of violence and two firearm-related offences between 1997 and 2012, with most crimes committed while on probation or under community supervision.
Justice Jocelyn Speyer ruled that his history of violent reoffending, including a pattern of breaching court orders and probation, posed a significant risk to the community, and that proposed release conditions—including supervision at a residential treatment facility, sureties, and electronic monitoring—were insufficient to mitigate that risk.
Her decision cited his wife’s involvement in contraband cell phone use and his father’s lack of realistic understanding of the proceedings as further reasons for denying bail.
Aragon’s sentencing hearing was scheduled for May 2023, where the Crown sought to designate him a dangerous offender. Pierre "Carlito" Aragon was involved in multiple violent crimes tied to gang conflicts, including the 2012 baseball bat assault on Loners member Fernando Fernandes in Peterborough. Aragon was convicted in 2014 of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, and uttering death threats. Initially declared a dangerous offender in 2017 and given an indeterminate sentence, that ruling was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2022 due to insufficient reasoning by the sentencing judge.

Aragon also has a prior criminal record, including a 2008 conviction for aggravated assault related to the 2005 gang-related killing of Shawn Douse, a drug dealer beaten to death in Keswick. He pleaded guilty and received a seven-year sentence for that offence. In 2023, after a new sentencing hearing, Aragon was given a seven-year sentence (with credit for time served) and released with a 10-year long-term supervision order by Correctional Service Canada. The decision followed a psychiatric assessment indicating his risk of reoffending had decreased due to age, rehabilitation efforts, and participation in correctional programs.

Despite the reduction in risk, the court acknowledged Aragon still poses a high risk of violent reoffense without strict supervision and controls

‘His violent crimes have been committed on impulse’: Former Peterborough outlaw motorcycle gang member denied bail while awaiting new sentencing hearing

Pierre Aragon was declared a dangerous offender in connection with brutal beating of Loners member Fernando Fernandes in 2012

Former outlaw motorcycle gang member Pierre Aragon will remain behind bars until his sentencing hearing in 2023 after being denied bail by Justice Jocelyn Speyer.

Oct. 28, 2022

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Pierre Aragon is led into the Peterborough Superior Court of Justice Friday, Sept. 7, 2017. Aragon was declared a dangerous offender Friday, receiving an indeterminate sentence.  

Former outlaw motorcycle gang member Pierre Aragon will remain behind bars until his sentencing hearing in 2023 after being denied bail by Justice Jocelyn Speyer. Earlier this year, the Ontario Court of Appeal set aside Aragon’s dangerous offender designation, and ordered a new sentencing hearing. Aragon also appealed his conviction, but Ontario’s top court upheld the jury’s verdict.

 

‘There is strong evidence his risk has decreased’: Former Peterborough outlaw motorcycle gang member to be released from prison

Pierre Aragon will be supervised by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) when he is released from custody next month

Pierre Aragon is escorted by Peterborough police members during his dangerous offender hearing in 2017. - Examiner file photo

After spending over a decade behind bars, former violent outlaw motorcycle gang member Pierre Aragon will be released from custody next month.

However, the 41-year-old won’t completely be a free man as he’ll be under the watchful eye of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) for the next 10 years after he was found to be a long-term offender.

Former Bandidos enforcer wins appeal of dangerous offender ruling in baseball bat beating

Although Pierre Aragon’s convictions will stand, the recent appeal ruling means he has won another hearing on the Crown’s position he is a dangerous offender who can be held for an indeterminate prison term.

Pierre Aragon arrives at the Petebrorough Superior Court of Justice for his dangerous offender hearing on May 11, 2015

A former member of the “No Surrender Crew” of the GTA-based Bandidos Motorcycle Club has won an appeal of his indeterminate prison term after he was convicted of taking a baseball bat to a York Region rival.

In the same Ontario Court of Appeal decision released earlier this year, Pierre (Carlito) Aragon lost an appeal of his related convictions for aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence, and uttering a threat to cause bodily harm stemming from the baseball bat attack.

The charges were for his role in the severe beating of Fernando Fernandes of the Woodbridge Loners Motorcycle Club shortly before 1:30 a.m. on July 22, 2012, outside a motorcycle gang clubhouse in Peterborough.

The attack followed a bitter internal club dispute within the Loners, when Peterborough members quit the group en masse.

Fernandes couldn’t identify his attackers, as he was intoxicated at the time of the beating, when he suffered a brain injury.

Fernandes also required 60 stitches and a plate was inserted in his left elbow after he was repeatedly clubbed.

Aragon was originally designated as a dangerous offender and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence.

Although Aragon’s convictions will stand, the recent appeal ruling finds his sentencing judge failed to “offer sufficient explanations for important rulings made in the course of the sentencing hearing.” The ruling calls for a new hearing on Aragon’s sentence and the Crown’s dangerous offender application, to be heard by a new judge.

Some of the evidence used to convict Aragon in his original trial came from an accidental pocket dial the Crown said he made while he was pummelling Fernandes.

In the accidental audio recording from Aragon’s cellphone, a male voice can be heard saying: “Here, give me that bat … No, I won’t, I’m breaking his knees.”

Shortly after that, a male voice can be heard saying: “You had the only chance to come away. You’re so stupid. What, are you a Loner? … You want to be a Loner? That’s for the Loners. Fernando you had a chance to come with us.”

A woman’s voice was recorded saying, “Baby enough” and a male voice responded, “Get the f—- outta’ here, b——.”

The Crown said that the phone which made the call was the same one found on Aragon when he was arrested.

DNA evidence from one of the baseball bats was also used by the Crown in securing the conviction.

It took a Peterborough jury less than three hours to convict Aragon of the charges on April 22, 2014.

The prosecution case was bolstered by video recordings made by police covertly across the street from a Peterborough biker clubhouse.

Aragon had been a member of the “No Surrender Crew”; eight members and associates of his crew were murdered in 2006 by fellow Bandidos and associates in a barn near the hamlet of Shedden, Ont., outside London.

A biker-turned-police-informant told the murder trial of the six men convicted of the 2006 massacre that Aragon was in Winnipeg days before the massacre.

Aragon is also a former sergeant-at-arms of the Loners, a position for someone who enforces club discipline.

Aragon’s criminal record includes pleading guilty to aggravated assault in 2008 for his role in the gang-related killing in 2005 of Shawn Douse, 35, of Keswick.

Douse was tied up, beaten and left in a Pickering woodlot, where his body was torched.

In 2017, Aragon was in custody for assault with a weapon when he unsuccessfully tried to sue the Queen and provincial government for more than $2 million because he was unhappy with his jail accommodations.

While an inmate at the Toronto East Jail, Aragon unsuccessfully argued that his “basic human rights” are violated by his daily jail schedule, which included being locked in his cell for breakfast, lunch and supper, as well as overnight.