. which represented members of the Rizzuto crime Jun 30, 2022 · The Hells Angels — as a corporate entity with chapters from California to New York and Montreal — faced incessant federal investigation on criminal enterprise and racketeering offences. OPP By Peter Edwards Staff Reporter. He was behind bars serving three life sentences. Canadian authorities have applied for the extradition of Michael ( L'Animal) Smith to face multiple criminal charges. Martin Jul 13, 2019 · Quebec's biker war started 25 years ago today. E. The conflict lasted from 1974 until 1976 and saw the two motorcycle clubs battle for dominance in Jul 10, 2022 · On May 1, 1987, Boucher was welcomed into the Hells Angels as a full-patch member of its Montreal chapter, and by 1994 he had gained a reputation among Montreal drug dealers as a fierce competitor. Mar 27, 2024 · The two Hells Angels who were arrested are Marc Roberge, 60, of Stoneham et Tewkesbury, and Mario Auger, of St-Étienne-des-Grès. Oct 31, 2023 · Last Updated Tuesday, October 31, 2023 2:26PM EDT. Jul 15, 2020 · Maurice (Mom) Boucher: Currently serving a life sentence in prison, Boucher, 62, is the former president of the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter. Oct 7, 2016 · The arrest of alleged new Montreal mafia leaders Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito revealed a very profitable alliance between the Montreal mafia and the infamous Hells Angels motorcycle club that helped the Rizzuto family control the provinces drug trade. According to testimony later heard during a Aug 17, 2023 · Police allege Barletta, who has ties to London and Toronto, previously was a member of the Hells Angels chapters in London and Niagara and now, is a member of the club’s Montreal chapter. Jul 9, 2021 · Photo by Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette. The Dec 29, 2014 · Article content. The guilty pleas were entered This story is over 5 years old. Allegiance. They were among 100 Quebec Hells Mar 24, 2015 · MONTREAL — Thirty years ago, the Hells Angels summoned five of their members to a quiet town in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, where they were slaughtered in one of the most notorious crimes ever Hells Angels: Haney / San Diego: Chad is a full patch member of the Hells Angels from the Haney chapter and is formally from the San Diego chapter. Mar 14, 2012 · A high ranking Hells Angels gang member from Montreal, Canada, wanted for 22 murders, has been arrested in Panama. The Sûreté du Québec is investigating after someone tried to murder a high-ranking member of the Hells Jul 11, 2022 · Former Hells Angels leader Maurice "Mom" Boucher died of throat cancer this weekend. He was a professional assassin who claimed to have killed as many as 43 people — although the number is inflated since he cut a deal with the authorities and later stated he was merely an accomplice in half of the cases. As Global's Gloria Henriquez reports, Boucher is being Montreal Mafia, Hells Angels targeted in murder investigations going back decades “Officers with the Sûreté du Québec and Montreal police carried out a series of search warrants on Thursday as part of an investigation targeting the Montreal Mafia and Hells Angels and involving homicides that date back decades. Hells Angels Quebec City member Marc ‘Marco’ Roberge also counted on his brother and his nephew to aid in certain ventures in the biker world. The Satan's Choice–Popeyes War was the first major outlaw motorcycle club conflict in Canada's history, involving the country's two largest Motorcycle Clubs; the Satan's Choice from Ontario, and the Popeyes from Quebec. Maurice (Mom) Boucher, right, is seen soon after his Article content. Satan's Guard MC. He says the recent arrests are "very significant. Oct. toward Apr 18, 2016 · Boudreau was shot in Lachute April 16, 2016. on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Michel (Sky Apr 4, 2018 · Hells Angels members clash with a group of anti-Vietnam protesters at the border of Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. Michel Langlois, 74, pleaded guilty to being part of a network that dealt 177 ounces of cocaine and more than 290,000 meth tablets On May 9, 1978, three members of the Hells Angels, Yves "Le Boss" Buteau, Jean-Pierre Mathieu and Yves "Apache" Trudeau, murdered Donald McLean, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, as well as his girlfriend, Carmen Piché. native became a member of the Hells Angels in the late 1980s. Silva is known to have had ties with members of the Rizzuto organization. Jun 12, 2024 · Two Hells Angels among 16 arrested in drug-trafficking investigation in Quebec City area Ex-member of Hells Angels support club who was charged in biker war is closer to parole Advertisement 2 Feb 3, 2020 · On the morning of Oct. Maurice Boucher had been imprisoned in the Sainte-Anne-des Mar 27, 2019 · A member of the Hells Angels at a Rolling Stones Concert flaunts a swastika on his cap. " "A lot of the people that we Apr 29, 2024 · Photo by Gordon Beck / Montreal Gazette. ”. 16, 2008. Two members were arrested and a police officer suffered a broken leg in the scuffle. Two Canadian members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang plotted with an Iranian drug trafficker to kill a pair of dissidents who were living in Maryland, the Justice Department and Aug 6, 2018 · Unlimited online access to the Montreal Gazette and National Post, including the New York Times Crossword, and 14 more news sites with one account Hells Angels members ride along 84 St. A Dispatch from the Hells Angels Wedding Event of the Season. Feb 3, 2024 · Ralph Hudon’s father was a member of the Hells Angels before quitting the club in good standing in the 1990’s. Jan 30, 2024 · Alamy file. Today's One Read Get the most Sep 18, 2016 · Hells Angels 2. The Parole Board of Canada decided to grant Stéphane (Godasse) Gagné the release earlier this year. On July 13, 1994, in the aftermath of an ultimatum issued by the Hells Angels, three men walked into a motorcycle shop on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. A founding member of the first chapter the Hells Angels established in Canada is not allowed to wear any clothing or jewelry bearing the notorious biker Sep 1, 2016 · Almost every member of the Hells Angels based in Quebec was arrested in Operation SharQc in April 2009. Jul 17, 2022 · Ralph (Sonny) Barger, left, president of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels, is pictured in 1967. He was a major force in the period of gang violence known as the Quebec biker war that saw the Hells fight Mar 24, 2015 · A sixth man linked to the Laval chapter, prospect Claude (Coco) Roy, was killed two weeks later, on April 7, 1985, by Hells Angel Michel (Jinx) Genest. About 500 Hells Angels motorcycle gang members from all over Canada, including Quebec, are expected in Calgary this weekend, but they’re not answering any questions about what Mar 16, 2015 · Member of South chapter and founding member of the Montreal chapter Hells Angels member Normand Labelle. According to CBC News, the Hells Angels have thirty-four chapters operating in Canada with 1,260 full-fledged (patched) members. Occupation (s) Outlaw biker, gangster. Feb 29, 2024 · Quebec police make more arrests in organized crime sweep. The bunker was the site of some notorious crimes during the biker war during the mid 1980's in Quebec. 0. Mar 16, 2015 · The Hells Angels members were arrested as part of Operation SharQc, a massive sweep of Quebec and New Brunswick organized crime groups in 2009. On March 27, 2015, while Sep 6, 2022 · The Quebec Biker War began on 13 July 1994. HELLS ANGELS®, HAMC®, and the Death Heads (winged skull logos)® are trademarks owned by Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation, registered and/or applications pending in the United States, Europe, China and many other countries. Aimé Simard (1968 – 18 July 2003) was a Canadian outlaw biker and hitman. The raids targeted 156 people in all. He death was announced on June 29, 2022. In 1995, a plot was hatched to kill Labelle and another influential Feb 6, 2020 · Monique Beaudin, Montreal Gazette Updated: February 3, 2020 On the morning of Oct. Feb 10, 2021 · In 1977, Langlois was among the first members of the Hells Angels, a gang that originated in the U. A Quebec Hells Angels member in Montreal in 2016. The club, which is international, has been accused of criminal activity by law enforcement officials. B. Leonardo Rizzuto leaves a Montreal courthouse Thursday, Oct. A police task force targeting the Hells Angels and spearheaded by the Sûreté du Québec launched a series of raids in Montreal and on the city’s North Shore Tuesday. Sonny Barger also featured heavily in the Hunter S Thompson 1966 book “Hells Angels: The Strange and May 3, 2023 · Two men, including a member of a Hells Angels support club, are on trial in an extortion case where they are alleged to have used a biker gang’s patch in an attempt to intimidate the head of a Apr 18, 2016 · The chapter’s presence in Quebec, and specifically in Montreal, was evident for several years after almost every member of the Hells Angels based in Quebec was arrested in April 2009 in Jan 17, 2021 · MONTREAL -- Officers in the Quebec provincial police's organized crime squad have twice broken up gatherings in January and handed out over $32,000 in fines to members affiliated with the Hells During the summer of 2015, Martin pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge at the Gouin courthouse in Montreal, and admitted he was part of the Hells Angels’ long and bloody conflict in Quebec with May 13, 2015 · The Red Devils MC has chapters in nearly 20 countries and, as the official Hells Angels official support club—a kind of minor league training team for future members of the major league squad A founding members of the Hells Angels in Quebec has been denied parole on a drug-trafficking sentence — in part because he remains loyal to the world’s most notorious biker gang. Apr 14, 2023 · Two men made their first court appearance Friday on a charge alleging they tried to kill a former member of the Hells Angels in Terrebonne last year. The Hells Angels’ Nomads chapter in Quebec was once the most feared organized crime group in the province. Skip to Content. Photo by Peter McCabe / MONTREAL GAZETTE. The Hells Angels were temporarily destabilized in the years that followed SharQc, a 2009 police crackdown that targeted drug trafficking and gang activity in Quebec and New Background. He ran a Jul 13, 2024 · Hells Angels, club for motorcyclists that was founded in California in 1948 and is probably the best known of the so-called “outlaw motorcycle gangs . It was originally based in Montreal but the biker gang Mar 29, 2023 · The home of Stéphane Plouffe, a longtime member of the Hells Angels, was searched in St-Joseph-du-Lac on Wednesday and police officers were busy going in and out of the home of Michel Lamontagne The Hells Angels had been badly weakened by the Lennoxville massacre on 24 March 1985, when five members of the Angels' chapter in Laval were shot by their colleagues, afterward the vacuum was filled by a number of Montreal-based organized crime groups most prominent being the Rock Machine, and it was not until the early 1990s that the Angels Feb 29, 2024 · More than 30 people have been arrested in Quebec during a sweeping police crackdown on a street gang believed to be behind a string of violent kidnappings. Jan 29, 2024 · OTTAWA — An Iranian drug trafficker allegedly plotted with two Canadian members of the Hells Angels to murder people in Maryland in early 2021, the U. McLee Charles, 38, and Gahens Lee Souverain Dec 2, 2018 · The wedding of a full-patch member of the Hells Angels and the daughter of the former head of a drug-trafficking network drew members of organized crime to downtown Montreal on Saturday. A senior Hells Angels member married the daughter of a notorious drug dealer this weekend in Montreal Feb 21, 2024 · 2024-02-21 - PAUL CHERRY. Oct 6, 2016 · In the early hours of April 15, 2009, more than 1,200 police officers were deployed to arrest 156 members and associates of the Hells Angels in 177 separate raids across Quebec, Canada's second Feb 26, 2024 · Several members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club have killed people, but Yves "Apache" Trudeau is a particularly notorious case. Montreal police are trying to determine who torched the mansion of former Dec 18, 2023 · The following month, former Rizzuto clan member Francesco Del Balso was shot dead outside a gym. 9, 2015, five full-patch Hells Angels members filed into a heavy-security courtroom at a specially built courthouse in north-end Montreal. His Montreal funeral, says de Champlain, attracted "300 bikers but Apr 29, 2009 · The main target of the Montreal Wolverines was the criminal activities of the Nomad chapter members, their underlings within the Hells Angels, and an affiliated group (the Rockers—not to be confused with the enemy gang, the Rock Machine) that was sponsored by the Nomad chapter and whose members were suspected of being the main executors of Gregory Woolley (26 February 1972 – 17 November 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. Other names. For years the Hells Angels have been a driving force in the drug trade in the region Oct 27, 2016 · The 51-year-old Bédard, who had only recently become a full-patch Hells Angels member, died in a road accident in New Brunswick. Most Hells Angels members are white males who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. An anti-drug operation involving five police forces and targeting a criminal biker gang linked to the Hells Angels saw 14 arrests and as many raids May 2, 2018 · Montreal Gazette ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, where you can share and comment. He operated on the side as a contract killer, working for the Hells Angels and other organized crime groups in Canada. Sep 14, 2023 · One of the cases Ouimet pleaded guilty to, Operation SharQc, was an investigation that in 2009 resulted in the roundup of almost every member of the Hells Angels in Quebec. Nov 8, 2022 · Julian Sher, the veteran Montreal journalist and documentary filmmaker, underlines that the West End Gang was different from the Hells Angels and the Italian Mafia, the two other main crime Nov 17, 2023 · Share. A violent melee broke out when 35 members of the motorcycle gang broke through barricades and attacked demonstrators. Nov 15, 2018 · Photo by Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette. Nearly 100 police officers from the SPVM, Laval police (SPL) and Longueuil police (SPAL) took part in the operation. They were among 100 Quebec Hells Angels arrested in sweeping raids in 2009 and accused of conspiring to murder more than 150… Hells Angels contract killer turned police informant. Both men are named in an arrest warrant issued from the Quebec Jun 21, 2019 · When Sauvageau defected in 2000, he was initially made a member of the Hells Angels’ Nomads chapter in Ontario and, in December 2003, he transferred to the Montreal chapter. A former member of a Hells Angels support club who played a role in a murder carried out in Pointe-aux-Trembles during Quebec’s biker gang war is one Founding member of Hells Angels not allowed to wear gang colours. , to form a chapter in all of Canada. Jul 10, 2022 · The Causapscal, Que. In Missing for 24 years and 13 days. Boudreau was Feb 25, 2024 · She added that the Hells had actually been in contact with police for weeks, warning them to act, otherwise members from other cities would move in and the situation would degenerate — something Aug 5, 2015 · Sonny Barger (Ralph Hubert “Sonny” Barger) Of all of the famous Hells Angels, Sonny is one clearly at the top. Woolley — who had connections to the Hells Angels, Montreal Mar 15, 2022 · A longtime member of the Hells Angels appeared before a judge at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday afternoon where he faces drug trafficking and gangsterism charges following an investigation led by Aug 16, 2023 · A Hells Angels vest seized in an OPP investigation is seen in 2019 file photo. Dec 7, 2023 · The SQ and Montreal police ask anyone with information to communicate with them anonymously and confidentially either through the Montreal police Info-Crime line at 514-393-1133 or with the SQ Former Hells Angels bunker in Sherbrooke could become part of a park Sherbrooke has frozen the zoning of the land where five biker gang members were executed in 1985 by a rival chapter. Members of the Hells Angels biker gang put millions gained from an underground gambling ring into cash, cars, a motorcycle and even waterfront First Montreal biker war. Sûreté du Quebec. The Rock Machine struck again the next day, attempting to kill a member of the Hells Angels. Department of Justice said Monday. This comes after a 28-year-old man was killed, shot on May 7, 2015 · In 2000, Biron was a member of the Blatnois, a Hells Angels puppet gang, when several of its members were charged in a case that became one of the first tests of Canada’s anti-gang laws. He was 69. He was a member of the Montreal-based Rockers Motor Club, a support club for the Hells Angels. Author of Mar 16, 2015 · 27: Men who still have cases pending in Operation SharQc, including two anglophones, Robert Bonomo, alleged to be a longtime member of the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels, and John Coates, an Brief synopsis from behind the paywall: --Per SBs sources as well as other media reporting in the Quebec area, Montreal Hells Angels (HA) heavyweights Michael Langlois (aged 77) and Salvatore Cazzetta (aged 69) are both included in a broad investigation by Canadian authorities into criminal activity linked to MC's wars against the Rizzutos as well as Blood Mafia Family (BMF) gang, the latter Mar 21, 2024 · Hell's Angels, founded in 1948 in California, notorious for drug trafficking, extortion, and violent crimes, with Necati "Neco" Arabaci, David Wolf, and Maurice "Mom" Boucher as top dangerous members, involved in high-profile criminal activities leading to 55 indictments on RICO charges from Operation Black Biscuit. Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. A former member of a Hells Angels support club who killed two prison guards and then helped take down the biker gang leader who ordered the murders has been granted full parole on his life sentence. Its founding members were selected from the gang’s Montreal and Nov 5, 2014 · The Nomads chapter was wiped out in 2001, when almost all of its members were arrested in Operation Springtime 2001, a three-year investigation into the Hells Angels. Langlois, 71, a founding member of the first Hells Angels chapter Nov 1, 2010 · One of the most powerful members of the Hells Angels' Quebec chapter, Normand Marvin (Casper) Ouimet, was arrested in Montreal on Monday. He was caught along with Jason Arkinstall from the Mission chapter and two other associates in a huge cocaine bust in Spain. Ouimet has been a wanted man for a year and a half, since Dec 30, 2019 · Last week, Mario Auger, 51, a full-patch member of the Hells Angels’ chapter in Quebec City since 1998, made a request before the Parole Board of Canada asking it to modify a condition that May 31, 2017 · Paul Magnan, a 54-year-old member of the Hells Angels Trois-Rivières chapter and whom police allege was the head of a major drug distribution ring, has been arrested. Jun 30, 2021 · A crane demolishes the Hells Angels bunker in Sherbrooke, Que. Jul 10, 2022 · The former head of the Quebec section of the Hells Angels, Maurice Boucher, better known by the nickname "Mom," has died. 30+ arrests in Quebec drug war between Blood Family Mafia, Hells Angels. “His father was a senior partner in a major Montreal law firm. 16, 1965. "Mélou". Jul 22, 2017 · Article content. March 1, 2024. The paid a fine and were extradited without serving their sentence. Quebec organized crime kingpin Gregory Woolley was gunned down Friday near Montreal, multiple sources confirmed to CTV News. More than 100 of the 156 people initially charged were active or retired members of the Oct 4, 2023 · A restaurant in the Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles borough was ordered to shut its doors for 25 days because it was frequented by members of the Hells Angels and people tied to the Aug 12, 2015 · Eighteen men who are full-patch members of the Hells Angels, or underlings in the gang, have pleaded guilty to taking part in a general conspiracy to commit murder. More than 30 people have been arrested in Quebec during a sweeping police crackdown on a street gang Apr 11, 2024 · Montreal police (SPVM) officers conducted several raids on Thursday in Laval, Brossard, and Montreal as part of an investigation into the murder of an alleged gang member. Hells Angels MC (1991–2000) Louis Roy (20 July 1959 – disappeared 23 June 2000), better known as "Mélou", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, said to have been the richest Hells Angel in Quebec. Hells Angels. S. Sonny Barger is known for being a founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels and was born on October 8th, 1938. Three masked men shot and killed Pierre Daoust, a member of a Hells Angels-affiliated club called the Death Riders, at a custom motorcycle shop in Montreal’s Rivière des Prairies neighbourhood. Reg Burkett/Getty Images. And in November, Gregory Woolley, who was affiliated with the Hells Angels with ties to the Italian mafia, was killed in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, south of Montreal. Feb 22, 2018 · A third wave of raids aimed at breaking what police contend is a drug trafficking network linked to the Hells Angels was carried out Thursday. Apr 17, 2016 · A suspected member of the Hells Angels Ontario chapter was shot on Saturday in Lachute. They were killed by an explosive that was attached to McLean's motorcycle. He was arrested at Playa Coronado 110 miles west of Panama city , following a two months surveillance and Montreal Mafia, Hells Angels targeted in murder investigations going back decades. Roberge used to be a member of the Rock Machine MC before switching patches to HA. Massive police raids target Quebec, N. One of . a member of Hells Angels Montreal chapter, Saturday, November 7, 2015. and Sep 26, 2017 · The trio, led by founding Montreal Hells Angels and former Popeyes member Denis Kennedy, had come up with a plot to kidnap one of Ryan's children and use the ransom money to pay back the coke Feb 23, 2024 · According to Noovo Info, two men with ties to the Hells Angels were allegedly kidnapped and tortured in a home by men linked to Dave Turmel, an organized crime boss who has fled to Europe. According to this article, the Hells Angels had at that time fifteen chapters in Ontario, eight in British Columbia, five in Quebec, three in Alberta, two in Saskatchewan and one in Manitoba. is vk rd ds rq jt ub oo vi mu