Justice Gerald Taylor didn’t mince words when it came time to sentence a full-patch member of the Hells Angels on drug and weapon offences Wednesday.
“I think you’re a career criminal,” Taylor told Frank Strauss, before delivering a sentence of 11 years in prison.
Strauss, 39, was convicted Tuesday of 17 offences – many of them relating to weapons and drugs.
Court heard that many guns, as well as three freezers and some shelves full of drugs, were found in a secret room in a barn belonging to Strauss on Erb’s Road.
The weapons were among 29 stolen from a Cambridge home in February 2012.
While Strauss wasn’t involved in the theft, he did give the people who stole them drugs in exchange for the firearms.
At the time of his arrest in 2012, Strauss was on bail after being convicted of other drug offences.
His lawyer argued in court that since that time, Strauss has taken Bible classes and otherwise been a model prisoner.
The Crown had argued for a sentence of 15 to 18 years.
