Gerald Ward

Project Tandem Due to the information provided by Gault, Ward was arrested on 28 September 2006 as part of Operation Tandem. Also charged with Ward were Kenneth "Wags" Wagner, Richard Beaulieu, Timothy Misue, Alain Lacroix and Deborah Fetz. Ward pleaded guilty to the drug charges on 26 September 2008 while denying the gangsterism charges, insisting he was acting on his own. At Ward's trial in the fall of 2008, Gault testified that various drug dealers would pay Ward $500 per week for the right to sell drugs in the Niagara peninsula and that other drug dealers would pay Gard "tribute" in exchange for him not operating in their territories. On 1 October 2008, Timothy Panetta, the owner of Advantage Auto Sales, was charged with 12 counts of fraud as the police alleged that he had purchased salvaged automobiles in the United States and sold them as legitimate used cars in Canada.

On 12 December 2008, Ward was found guilty of the criminal organization charges as the court accepted the Crown's argument that Ward was selling drugs on behalf of the Hells Angels. Ward's subordinate, Wagner, was also sentenced at the same trial to 11 years in prison. On 1 June 2009, the clubhouse of the Hells Angels' Niagara chapter was seized by the Crown under the grounds it was "considered a place where illegal activities took place". In March 2015, Ward was released on parole.