TORONTO -- A Hells Angels veteran was lead away in handcuffs to start a nine-year sentence for drug trafficking and aiding a criminal organization yesterday while his common-law wife and friends kicked up a ruckus in the courtroom.

Brian Jeffrey, 50, a member of the Simcoe County Hells Angels chapter, was imprisoned for nine years -- less six months for pre-trial custody. He was given five years for trafficking four kilos of cocaine and 3.5 years for doing so for the benefit of a criminal organization -- the bike gang.

The conviction for criminal organization means Jeffrey will likely spend 5.5 years before being eligible for parole, Crown attorney Tom Andreopoulos said.

The total street value of the drugs seized was about $3 million, including two kilos of pure crystal meth, 10 kilos of cocaine, 50,000 Ecstasy pills, eight kilos of marijuana and one kilo of hashish.

Twenty-four people were charged, 15 of them members of Hells Angels. The most serious offenders were sentenced to the equivalent of five- to eight-year prison terms.
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