59 Facts About Mario Parente

Mario Parente was born on 1949 and is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, mostly noted for serving as the Canadian national president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club between 2000 and 2009.

Mario Parente was born and grew up in the "lower" part of Hamilton under "the Mountain" as locals call the Niagara Escarpment.

The majority of the people in Ontario in 1967 were Protestants of British descent, and Mario Parente stood out in the Hamilton chapter on the account of his Italian heritage, which he sought to turn to his advantage.

Mario Parente was convicted of assaulting a police officer, whom he saw beating a man who was already in handcuffs, leading Mario Parente to attack the policeman.

Mario Parente has frequently worked as a construction worker, as a welder and as a bouncer.

Mario Parente got into fights, and could sometimes be confrontational.

Mario Parente had this huge mop of black hair and a big, long beard.

Harris commented on the intense Italianness of Mario Parente, saying "Mario Parente looked Italian, acted Italian".

Harris stated that Mario Parente was usually jovial and friendly in his dealings with the police.

Mario Parente developed a negative view of most policemen, calling them "bags of shit", but expressed much respect for Harris, despite him being on the other side of the law.

Harris stated Mario Parente became more self-confident after he "patched over" to join the Outlaws.

Mario Parente had a reputation in underworld circles as a tough leader.

One piece of jewelry Mario Parente wore had the initials GLGC, which is an informal name the Outlaws use to describe themselves.

Mario Parente was riding on Highway 17 outside of North Bay when he noticed a jacket bearing the Hells Angels' patch pressed against the window of the bus.

Mario Parente insists that he was not present at the Wawa incident, but a number of sources have stated he was one of the gunmen in the car.

Mario Parente worked as a bouncer at a well known Hamilton strip club named Bannister's.

The police were looking to shut down Bannister's by vigorously enforcing a by-law that stated that any bar that admitted intoxicated patrons would lose its liquor license, thus leading to Mario Parente being strict about who he admitted into Bannister's.

Mario Parente had a long-standing feud with the three Lewis brothers, frequently quarreling with them.

One night in 1984, Brian Lewis had shown up drunk at Bannister's, leading to a fight when Mario Parente refused him to allow him in.

Mario Parente stated he brought along his shotgun in case of trouble.

Mario Parente was arrested later that night at a house of a friend in St Catharines.

Marie, Mario Parente pleaded guilty to the illegal possession of a weapon and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Mario Parente was shocked by the sentence, but learned the judge had imposed the maximum sentence because of the Lewis shooting incident.

Detective Harris stated about the failed plot: "When Mario Parente was running the show, they would had done it; but after he went to prison they didn't have the guts".

At his trial for Lewis's death in 1988, Mario Parente was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Callon ruled that Mario Parente had "reacted to a serious threat of personal harm to him that included the possibility of death".

Mario Parente had just parked her car in the driveway of Parente's house at about 2:00 am and was getting out of the vehicle when she was shot once in the lower back.

In 1992, Mario Parente was accused of laundering money for the Mafia in connection with an Italian-born businessman, Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeMaria, but Mario Parente and DeMaria were able to prove a legitimate source for the money.

Mario Parente was arrested at the clubhouse of the St Catharines chapter of the Outlaws.

Mario Parente was charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine and uttering death threats.

On 10 July 1996, Mario Parente was attacked in the Hamilton-Wentworth Jail by an inmate just arrived from Montreal who assaulted him with a crude home-made knife fashioned out of a tooth brush.

Mario Parente was able to fight off his attacker, suffering superficial injuries to his eyes and throat.

In 1997, the Project Charlie charges against Mario Parente were dropped when the Crown decided there was little prospect of a conviction.

Mario Parente believes that he was only charged out of the hope he might turn Crown's evidence.

Mario Parente rose up to become the national president of the Outlaws.

The journalist Alex Caine described Stadnick, who had become the Hells Angels national president in 1988, as the better strategist as Stadnick saw establishing the Angels in Winnipeg as important to creating a national club while Mario Parente was only focused on Ontario.

Mario Parente called James "Frank" Wheeler, the president of the American Outlaws, who in turn contacted Ralph "Sonny" Barger, the leader of the American Hells Angels.

At the Toronto Exhibition Grounds, both Isnor and Mario Parente found themselves surrounded by Hells Angels, leading to Mario Parente to joke to Isnor: "You'll probably want to stick with us for a little while".

On 30 June 2004, Getliffe dismissed the charges against Mario Parente, saying that the Crown had failed to present enough evidence.

Mario Parente has an on-going lawsuit against Magiure, alleging malicious prosecution.

Mario Parente was held in jail, but was released on $400,000 bail in 2004.

Kosta lost her security clearance because she posted bail for Mario Parente, leading to the airport to declare her a person of bad character.

Mario Parente paid his legal bills out of his own pocket and that of Kosta, being forced to sell almost everything he owned.

Mario Parente became an Outlaw, but was never a major guy.

Mario Parente felt much disgust with the willingness of his fellow Outlaws to make plea bargains, feeling that the other members were being very selfish in testifying for the Crown in order to reduce their sentences.

The primary witness against Mario Parente was a member of the Outlaws' Sault St Marie chapter known only as BK due to a court order.

Mario Parente insists that he barely knew BK, but Isnor has stated that Mario Parente did know BK very well and that he had witnessed "at least three [cocaine] buys" between the two.

On 12 March 2009, Alex Smith, the Crown Attorney prosecuting Mario Parente's case dropped all seventeen weapons and drug charges against him, saying there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction if the case should go to trial.

Mario Parente stated that the case against him was weak, which was BK chose not to testify.

In 2009, Mario Parente sued the Crown to seek the return of his confiscated assets, which the Crown refused to do under the grounds that Mario Parente was a member of a criminal organization.

The Crown's argument was that even through the charges against Mario Parente were dropped, because other Outlaws confessed to being members of a criminal organization that his assets were still forfeited to the Crown.

About his lifestyle, Mario Parente stated: ""I have to say I'm not a saint.

Mario Parente concluded the interview by saying he was now intending to work as a construction contactor.

Mario Parente was replaced as the Outlaws national president with Richard "Dooker" Williams.

In 2009, Mario Parente approached the author Jerry Langton to write his biography.

Mario Parente described Parente as a highly muscular man as he acquired the habit of lifting weights while he was in prison.

Mario Parente got angry at me a couple of times, because he came into the process with certain things in mind that he wanted to get accomplished.

Mario Parente wanted me to tell the story as he saw it, and when I didn't agree with that, he got angry at me, but was nothing short of gentlemanly and was very polite.

Mario Parente later expressed some dissatisfaction about Langton, saying he failed to interview enough outlaw bikers and only interviewed "cops, snitches and lawyers".