Wortman, CI - mounties move anti-biker operations to NB - suicide staff sergeant Bruce Reid

What connection - if any - between his tragic death & Wortman story ?

Was there a connection between the decision in late summer 2019 to centralize all Maritime mountie anti-biker operations to New Brunswick and the October 25th 2019 sudden suicide of veteran mountie, staff sergeant Bruce Reid ?

And did this central command process upset long time relationships local provincial RCMP had built up with informants inside and on fringes of local Hells Angels branches and farm teams ?

Such that the multi-province raids against Hells Angels & associates in February 2020 fuelled extra huge amounts of biker paranoia over who had betrayed them this time ?

Did this paranoia spill over to lover-of-motorcycles, friends-with-Hells-Angels, RCMP CI, Gabriel Wortman in February and March 2020 ?

We recall, from FRANK MAGAZINE reporting, just how paranoid GW was about a couple of plain clothed HRM police poking around near his Portland street garage in mid February - a big RCMP anti biker operation was about to go down, starting a handful of days later.

As the raids continued into March, a jumpy GW withdrew $450,000 in large bills and started stockpiling gasoline.

Were things all going pear shaped for Gabe Wortman on the biker front ?

Did this coincide with covid worries? 

 (But GW claimed he was about to retire, so covid only affected the re-sale value of his clinic if he got out in April rather than wait til say July).

Did this coincide with his increasingly fragile health ?

 I see in his very last photos, a man who looked strikingly different from his life-long wiry self. Thirty years of hard drinking and not enough proper foods had really done a number on his health - his liver in particular.

A lot of questions ; so few answers.

Keep those tips coming in people - if not to me, than to other media sources you can trust to follow things up, not to just sit on them....