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Five alleged members of the Hells Angels and their support club face charges after police seized a cache of weapons as part of a robbery investigation in Southwestern Ontario.

The OPP-led biker enforcement unit worked with Waterloo Regional police to investigate a robbery that took place in Cambridge on Sept. 21. Investigators conducted searches in Cambridge, Waterloo, Seaforth and Whitby, seizing 17 guns, ammunition, nine magazines, a whip, three Hells Angels vests, cellphones and a quantity of unknown pills, police said Thursday.

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A Seaforth man, 34, a Whitby man, 36, a Northumberland man, 29, a Cambridge man, 38 and a Kitchener man, 39, face a combined 14 charges including robbery, possession of property over $5,000 obtained by crime, unauthorized possession of a weapon, disguise with intent and theft under $5,000.

Four of the men have been released from custody and were scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, while an arrest warrant has been issued for a fifth man.

Police allege four of the accused are members of the Hells Angels and one is a member of its support club, the Red Devils.

This is the latest police crackdown on the Hells Angels in Kitchener-Waterloo this year.

In May, the OPP searched four locations in Kitchener – two homes, an after-hours bar and the Hells Angels clubhouse – and seized handgun, a kilogram of suspected cocaine, alcohol and electronic devices, police said at the time.

The investigation started after police were alerted to an illegal after-hours club and determined it was linked to the Hells Angels, police said.

Five people, one of them an alleged “hang-around” member of the Hells Angels, were charged drug trafficking and gun-related charges.

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