Larry Amero

A full-patch Hells Angel who built a side project called the Wolfpack into the most consequential criminal alliance in modern B.C. gang history, and whose closest tie in it was not to another biker but to Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil — a friendship that put both men on trial together, on the same two murder conspiracies, in the same Vancouver courtroom.

Identity

Lawrence Ronald “Larry” Amero was born in 1977 and grew up in Langley, British Columbia, of Portuguese descent. His father worked as a longshoreman with the Port of Vancouver, and Amero himself held work there for a period after joining the Hells Angels — notable because the Port has separately been described in organized-crime reporting as a route drugs move through the Lower Mainland. No source in the public record ties Amero’s own port employment to a specific smuggling case.

Founding the Wolfpack, 2010

Hells Angels members are permitted side ventures, provided the rest of the chapter is aware of them and given a chance to participate. Around 2010, in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, Amero’s side project was the Wolfpack Alliance — a working arrangement he built with Jonathan Bacon of the Red Scorpions and James Riach and Randy Naicker of the Independent Soldiers. It had no charter and no membership roll, and functioned as a coalition of existing crews rather than a new organization replacing them.

Kelowna, August 14, 2011

Amero, Bacon and Riach were leaving the Delta Grand Hotel in a white Porsche Cayenne when masked gunmen opened fire in the middle of the afternoon. Bacon was killed. Amero was seriously wounded — shot in the face, wrist and chest. A passenger, Leah Hadden-Watts, was left paralyzed. Riach escaped unhurt. Three men were later convicted over the shooting; none of them was Amero, who was a victim in this file, not a defendant.

Amero and Bacon are reported to have been close. Coverage at the time cited a message believed to be from Amero, sent after the shooting with a photo of the two of them, calling Bacon “my best friend.”

The Alkhalil Connection

Of everyone Amero is reported to have worked with, his closest documented tie is to Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil, a Montreal-based figure in the Alkhalil Brothers network. Reporting describes the two as close friends who shared a luxury Montreal penthouse around 2011 — a detail journalists have used to illustrate the Vancouver-Montreal axis at the centre of the Wolfpack’s reach.

That friendship shows up repeatedly in the court record, not just in reporting about it:

Their paths diverged sharply after that. Amero was sentenced in Canada and remains in Canadian custody. Alkhalil escaped the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in July 2022, spent three years at large, and was arrested in Qatar in September 2025 — where he remains, with no extradition treaty in place to bring him back. Amero’s sentencing order includes a no-contact provision naming Alkhalil specifically.

The Duhre-Dhak Conspiracy — Trial and Sentence

Sandip Duhre was shot dead in the restaurant of the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre on January 17, 2012. Sukhveer “Sukh” Dhak was killed outside the Executive Hotel in Burnaby that November. Amero was arrested in Ottawa in January 2018 and returned to B.C. to face conspiracy charges over both killings; he has been in custody since.

Where He Fits in the Wolfpack’s Wider Story

Amero is the only figure whose founding role in the Wolfpack is well documented across multiple independent sources, but — per our full Wolfpack Alliance profile — the alliance itself has never been the subject of a court finding that it constitutes a criminal organization. Damion Ryan is, at present, the only figure whose personal Wolfpack membership was itself a court finding, established at his 2025 Manitoba conviction; Amero’s 2022 conviction similarly rested on a criminal-organization finding, but tied to the Duhre-Dhak conspiracy specifically rather than to a general finding about Wolfpack membership as such.