When Travis Miles took a beating from a group of men involved with the Fallen Saints motorcycle club in Saskatoon, the affiliate member was being punished for lying.
Once the assault was over, the “slate was wiped clean” for Miles, federal Crown prosecutor Lynn Hintz said.
Five men were charged with participating in the activities of a criminal organization as a result of the beating. On Tuesday, Layne Joseph James Boorman admitted his involvement by pleading guilty to the charge.
He was sentenced to one year in jail after the judge accepted the jointly-recommended sentence from the Crown and defence.
Layne Joseph James Boorman
Hintz said through his guilty plea, Boorman admitted the Fallen Saints was a criminal organization, that he was a member of that organization and that the assault was a “disciplinary matter.”
Boorman, 27, is the second Fallen Saints member to plead guilty to a criminal organization offence. Last month, Justin Murray Smith, 34, pleaded guilty to participating in a criminal organization and recruitment to a criminal organization.
He received a two-year sentence on each charge. It was part of an 18-year sentence Smith was given for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and guns.
Mark Michael Nowakowski, Ryan William Hillman and Armand Leigh Hounjet are still before the court charged with participating in a criminal organization for assaulting Miles.
The charges stem from Project Forseti, a lengthy drug and gun investigation targeting the Fallen Saints and Hells Angels that culminated in raids across Saskatoon in January 2015.
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