Police arrest three members of Bacchus Motorcycle Club, execute search warrant at Oakville clubhouse [Video]

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested three members of the Bacchus Motorcycle Club in connection with a year-long investigation into auto theft that also saw the group’s Oakville clubhouse raided.

OPP say that the investigation, dubbed Project Abstract, began in June 2023 after the OPP-led Biker Enforcement Unit received information that members of the club were in possession of stolen vehicles with fraudulent vehicle identification numbers (VINs).

Police say that on Nov. 16, 2023 officers executed search warrants in Burlington, Orangeville, Etobicoke, Hamilton, Mississauga, and Paradise, Newfoundland as well as at the Bacchus MC Clubhouse in Oakville.

While a total of six stolen and re-vinned vehicles were seized at the time, police say no arrests were made at the time.

In a news release on Wednesday, police confirmed that two “full patch” members of the Bacchus Motorcycle Club and one associate member were arrested on July 2 and charged with nine …