Donald Stockford was born on 6 May 1962 and is a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster and stuntman.
25 Facts About Donald Stockford
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Donald Stockford is a friend of the actor and biker Chuck Zito, who served as the president of the New York City chapter of the Hells Angels.
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In 1989, Donald Stockford married Christine Yanke, by whom he had three children.
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In 1992, Donald Stockford left Ancaster to live in Montreal for a year as a Hells Angel "prospect".
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On 26 May 1993, Donald Stockford joined the Hells Angels Montreal chapter as a "full patch" member.
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Donald Stockford was a close associate of the Hells Angels national president Walter Stadnick.
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Donald Stockford was able to support Yanke as a housewife and stay-at-home mother while owning a house in the middle-class town of Ancaster.
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On 25 June 1995, Donald Stockford became a founding member of the Angels' elite Nomad chapter.
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Donald Stockford served as the vice-president of the Nomad chapter while Boucher served as the chapter president.
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Once identified, Donald Stockford sent out a representative to contact the individual and to see if they were willing to buy drugs from the Hells Angels.
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On 3 May 1996, Kane reported that Donald Stockford had sent a drug courier from Montreal to Toronto with one kilogram of cocaine; about 1,000 ecstasy pills; and four kilograms of hashish.
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Kane reported that afterwards the courier was to go to Tim Horton's coffee shop on Bronte Road, dial another number and press 17 to arrange for a cousin of Donald Stockford to arrive to pick up the drugs.
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On 29 November 1996, Kane wrote in a report that Donald Stockford had sent 300 kilograms of hashish to Hamilton, and in another report in January 1997 stated that he had sent four kilograms of cocaine to Oshawa.
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Kane stated that Donald Stockford had told him that he received a knock on his door at his Ancaster house from a pizza deliveryman despite not having ordered any pizza.
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Donald Stockford told Kane that he believed this was a murder attempt by the Outlaws and that, if he had answered the door, someone would have tried to kill him.
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On 16 December 2000, the police observed Donald Stockford talking with leaders of Satan's Choice and the Para-Dice Riders biker gangs.
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On 28 March 2001, as part of Operation Springtime, Donald Stockford was arrested at his house in Ancaster.
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At his trial in Montreal in 2003 and 2004, Stockford was defended by Edward Greenspan and Alan B Gold, two of Canada's best-known lawyers.
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Donald Stockford and Stadnick chose to exercise their constitutional right for a trial in English, which presented major problems as there was a shortage in Quebec of Anglo Crown Attorneys to prosecute the accused together with Anglo judges.
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Gagne's lengthy rant on the stand about how badly he felt treated by the Crown and his unwillingness to testify in support of the Crown's thesis that he committed his murders on the orders of Stadnick and Donald Stockford effectively derailed the Crown's case on the first-degree murder charges.
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The trial ended in June 2004 with Donald Stockford being acquitted of all 13 first-degree murder charges, but he and Stadnick were convicted on charges of conspiracy to traffic in narcotics.
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Donald Stockford was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and gangsterism.
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Zigman factored time served in jail prior to the conviction, which reduced the number of years that Donald Stockford was to serve in prison.
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In September 2014, the National Parole Board ruled Donald Stockford had to live in a half-way house while on parole, stating, "You clearly decided to adopt criminality as your lifestyle and you took cold-blooded decisions to achieve your goals and there is nothing in your file to suggest that you have changed".
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In 2020, Donald Stockford joined the Sherbrooke chapter of the Hells Angels.