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B.C. court quadruples sentence for Hells Angel
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The Canadian Press
Date: Friday Aug. 6, 2010 7:06 AM ET
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver Hells Angel who once threatened a prosecutor has had his drug sentence more than quadrupled by the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The court has struck down a 14-month sentence given to John Virgil Punko and imposed a sentence of five years and two months.
The appeal court ruled B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask was too lenient with the original sentence last March and did not take into account the damage the drug trade does to the community.
Punko was convicted of trafficking in 50 kilograms of methamphetamines and five kilos of cocaine after a two-year RCMP investigation that targeted the Hells Angels chapter in east Vancouver.
Last year, Punko and three other Hells Angels members were acquitted of committing crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization.
In 2002, he was convicted of attempting to obstruct justice after he threatened a prosecutor during the drug trial of two other men.
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It is about time - as a grandparent I have watched our kids (who were allowed to fail although I do remember some nagging on our part) learn, I have watched our children now micro-manage their children. A big part of it is the fact that there are predators out there and an extreme reluctance on the parents part to alllow freedom that might result in the children becoming victims.
