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Falls bodybuilder gets seven years in jailDate: 13.06.2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info Team Canada
TORONTO – A Niagara Falls bodybuilder will spend the next seven years behind bars for his role in the robbery of an armoured car and the selling of cocaine to Hell’s Angels bikers.
In a Toronto courtroom Friday, a judge said 31-year-old Nick Nero was a “brash, greedy” individual who used the loot from the truck heist to establish himself in the drug trade.
Nero was originally charged in 2004 in connection with the December 2003 theft of $3 million from an armoured truck parked outside a Royal bank in Toronto.
More than $1.5 million of the stolen cash was later discovered in a barn in rural Niagara Falls.
“We got about half the money back,” said Steve Proulx, a detective with the hold up unit at the Toronto Police Service.
He said $1.2 million remains unaccounted for and Toronto police believe the remainder of the money is somewhere in Niagara.
On April 4, two weeks before he was to stand trial for his part in the the armoured truck heist, Nero was arrested during a series of police raids across Canada targeting involving Hells Angels and their associates.
Twenty seven tactical teams made 31 arrests and laid 169 charges.
Nero, who owns fitness club in Niagara Falls and was a super-heavyweight competitor who placed seventh in the 2003 Canadian Bodybuilding Federation Finals, was nabbed after undercover officers with the joint forces biker enforcement unit purchased two kilograms of cocaine. |
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