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Gregory Woolley (February 26, 1972 – November 17, 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] 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. [4]
In 2015, the Sûreté du Québec alleged in an indictment that Boucher had continued to engage in organized crime from his prison cell, using his daughter Alexandra Mongeau as his messenger, and that his principal surrogate in Montreal was his former bodyguard, Gregory Woolley, who has been charged three times with first-degree murder. [22]
Woolley, an up-and-coming crime boss who got his start as an early member of the small-time Crack Down Posse street gang, had already worked alongside the Hells Angels as Maurice Boucher's bodyguard and earned his reputation after successfully forging an alliance between HAMC and the influential Italian-Canadian Rizzuto crime family (as well as ...
Beginning in the 1960s, one of Montreal's more prominent biker gangs were the Popeyes Motorcycle Club, who were led by Yves "Le Boss" Buteau. [3] In the 1970s, the Popeyes had successfully fought against the Devils Diciples and Satan's Choice biker gangs, and as the journalist Patrick Lejtenyi noted: "The violence that ensued cemented Quebec's reputation as one of the most dangerous places for ...
Gregory Woolley, 36; was arrested in Kingston Prison. [8] He was in the process of serving a 4.5 years sentence for illegal events he perpetrated during the Quebec Biker war. [9] During the raid he was charged and arrested for receiving money for the royalties of selling drugs from his gang. First ever Canadian charged with Gangsterism twice. [4]
The Popeye Moto Club, also referred to as the Popeye(s) MC, and often shortened to simply The Popeyes [7] was a French-Canadian outlaw motorcycle club [8] and criminal organization based in Quebec. [8] At their peak, they were as the second-largest biker gang in all of Canada, behind the rivaling Satan's Choice. [9]
Michel "Sky" Langlois (born 2 July 1946) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the second national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. A founding member of the Popeyes biker gang, which amalgamated with the Hells Angels in 1977, Langlois was convicted as an accessory to murder in the club's internal Lennoxville massacre of 1985, and later of conspiracy to ...
Queen's work was soon to become the most extensive undercover operation into a motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement. Queen, using the alias Billy St. John, successfully infiltrated the gang by posing as a heavily bearded and long-haired motorcyclist who liked to drink beer and ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. After ...