B.C. Hells Angel charged in Ottawa firearms case

A longtime B.C. biker involved in the Wolfpack gang is facing new charges in Ottawa while still awaiting trial in a major drug trafficking case in Manitoba.

The charges were announced Friday against Hells Angel Damion Patrick Ryan, 42, by the RCMP’s transnational and serious organized crime section in Ottawa.

RCMP investigators searched an Ottawa home where Ryan was living in February 2022 and found “12 illegal handguns, a number of prohibited high-capacity magazines, ammunition, and a device used to convert a semi-automatic pistol to fully automatic,” Insp. Islam Issa said in a news release. “Many of the firearms were loaded.”

At the time, the RCMP’s Winnipeg federal serious and organized crime team was investigating Ryan, who was living in the Ottawa house once owned by members of the Alkhalil criminal organization.

Gangster Rabih Alkhalil, also a Wolfpack member, escaped from a B.C. jail last summer in the middle of his murder trial. He was convicted in absentia.