Not many folks know the exact location of Omid Bayani, who vanished two days before he was due to be sentenced for conspiring to sell 600 litres of a date rape drug to Toronto Hells Angels. Bayani, who’s a senior figure in the West Coast United Nations gang, moves in the circles where “disappeared” often translates to “murdered.” There’s speculation now that Bayani is alive and well and running from the law.

The last time Omid Bayani was seen alive was last week, when he was on his way to the gym. Bayani had been due to be sentenced in a couple of days for his role in a drug scheme that involved Ontario Hells Angels. His name is also of note because he’s close to the United Nations gang, which has tried several times to murder rival gang leader Jon Bacon. Someone succeeded in murdering the Kelowna man last month.

There’s a certain irony to Bayani going missing. He was labelled too dangerous to stay in Canada in 1997 and ordered deported in 1999. And yet he managed to stay on, rising in the undersworld.

So what happened to Bayani this time? Did he flee the country, to avoid imprisonment? Or did enemies in the underworld determine he deserved a stiffer sentence than whatever the courts had planned for him?

Whether Bayani fled or was murdered is a mystery. And those who know the answer have good reasons to remain silent.

The obit for the father of former Bandido Concrete Weiche certainly doesn’t apologize for his Nazi past. Indeed, he’s off to see “The Great White Father.” I can almost hear the jackboots clicking.

Towards the end of The Bandido Massacre, I wrote about Steven (Hannibal) Gault, the former secretary of the Oshawa chapter of the Hells Angels, who made more than $1-million working for the police. Gault got his nickname because of his taste for raw flesh, especially of the human variety. He’s now hiding out from the Hells Angels. He may succeed there, but he has less chance of evading a lawyer for his ex-wife, who’s seeking back child support, as I wrote in today’s Toronto Star.

Not many members of the Ontario Bandidos escaped murder or prison. One who did was Dave (Concrete Dave) Weiche, son of London, Ontario Nazi Martin Weiche. The elder Weiche has just died, and it’ll be interesting if Concrete Dave comes out of the shadows and shows up at the funeral.

The CBC’s Canada Writes program’s a nice forum for plugging the book. This was posted today.

No one’s yet charged with the murder of Jonathan Bacon in Kelowna earlier this month, but plenty of members of the United Nations gang have been charged with trying to shoot him in the past, including Ion (Johnny K-9) Croitoru of Hamilton, Ontario, a former professional wrestler. Perhaps his old tag team partner Dusty Wolf should have been arrested for his mullet.

The Hells Angels are suing an online hippyish T-shirt maker for copyright infringement. Amazon.com also isn’t safe from the legal rumble.

Could the Sixties be more dead, with the Hells Angels suing the neo-hippies over something on the Internet?

It’s not so surprising for the Angels to take to litigation over baseball bats. Here’s a story I did a year ago on the Hells Angels and branding. Ironically, it was posted on a biker website. We in the newspaper business aren’t as protective of our brands as the outlaw bikers.

Somewhere in B.C., at this moment, retaliation is being planned for the murder of Jonathan Bacon. That’s the general consensus of people who follow organized crime. The first shootings were in public, with the victims sprayed with bullets. It’s a far cry from when hitmen had the nerve to walk up to their victims. It’s a safe bet that the would-be killers planning retaliation will be equally callous about bystander safety.

It’s a tie in the turtle race to determine who are the two stupidest men in Quebec.