Province is going after this Hells Angels clubhouse in Surrey

The B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office has filed a claim in B.C. Supreme Court seeking the forfeiture of three Hells Angels clubhouses – including one in Surrey.
“Organized crime has no place in B.C., and our government has been working with focus and resolve to go after gangs and remove the profits of criminal activities,” said Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Nina Krieger. “As criminals attempt to hide their illegal activities and shield their members from law enforcement, we are finding ways to permanently take away their assets while protecting British Columbians.”
The clubhouses in this claim include the Mission chapter, the Hardside chapter in Surrey and the Haney chapter in Pitt Meadows.
This isn’t the first time the Surrey chapter has been involved in a court fight. In October 2024, a B.C. Supreme Court judge tossed a City of Surrey application to close down a Hardship chapter-rented property based on municipal bylaws. The city applied for an injunction for a property located at 18068-96th Ave., which was being rented by Shannon Rennie.
Rennie responded in court that the property wasn’t being used for “unlawful purposes and is instead used for members to assemble, socialize, and discuss matters related to the chapter’s affairs.”
But Justice Ardith Walkem said the city’s application was too broad.
“I have serious concerns surrounding the terms of the injunction sought,” reads the court ruling. “The breadth of the activity the injunction seeks to prohibit, such as holding meetings or conducting activities for a particular group, or having signage or paraphernalia for a particular group does, on its face, engage Charter rights. On the record before me, such a breadth of activity has not been demonstrated to be prohibited under the bylaw.”
A provincial government statement says the Haney, Surrey and Mission properties are alleged to have been “financed and maintained using funds derived from unlawful activity and are alleged to be the proceeds and instruments of crime.” Clubhouses are central to the operations of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and successfully forfeiting them would be a major disruption to this criminal organization.
“The partnership between the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit B.C. (CFSEU-BC) and the Civil Forfeiture Office is an essential part of our approach to disrupt those who profit from unlawful activity,” said Manny Mann, assistant commissioner and chief officer, CFSEU-BC. “By combining investigative expertise with civil-forfeiture tools, we are able to remove assets that undermine community safety and redirect them toward prevention and public good. This collaboration demonstrates our shared commitment to ensuring that crime does not pay in British Columbia.”
Previously forfeited clubhouses: This latest claim builds on the successful forfeiture of three Hells Angels clubhouses belonging to the Nanaimo chapter, the East End (Vancouver) chapter and the Kelowna chapter in February 2023, which followed more than a decade of legal proceedings. It was the first successful forfeiture of any outlaw motorcycle gang clubhouses in B.C. Since then, these properties have been sold or demolished.
The funds from previous forfeitures and any received from these new claims will go directly toward supporting communities in B.C.
Since 2006, more than $93 million in civil-forfeiture recoveries has been disbursed as grants supporting community organizations throughout the province.