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On 2 November 1998, Boucher's trial began in Montreal with Boucher being defended by Jacques Larochelle and Crown Attorney Jacques Dagenais prosecuting. [131] Dagenais admitted he had a difficult case as Gagné was an unsavory and unlikeable star witness, a self-confessed hitman who had only turned Crown's evidence for a lighter sentence. [132]
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]
On 27 November 1998, Boucher was acquitted of ordering the murder of the two prison guards in 1997, and afterwards became a folk hero in Quebec, with people in the poor neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal cheering Boucher and his fellow Angels as they rode their Harley-Davidson motorcycles down the streets like it was a royal ...
The Rockers MC was first set up in March 26 of 1992 by then-President of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) Montreal charter, Maurice "Mom" Boucher.It was during this time in Quebec that several organized crime entities were competing for drug turf across the French-speaking province.
Normand Hamel (16 March 1956 – 17 April 2000), better known as "Biff", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster.A senior member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Montreal, Hamel was the right-hand man of Hells Angels leader Maurice "Mom" Boucher and became one of Quebec's top drug traffickers before he was shot dead in 2000.
Walter Gutierrez, a money launderer for the Rizzuto family, was shot to death in West Montreal on July 16, 2012. [88] Vito Rizzuto was released from prison on October 5, 2012. [ 89 ] On November 5, 2012, Rizzuto family confidant-turned rival 70-year old Giuseppe "Smiling Joe" Di Maulo was executed by a hitman waiting outside his home in ...
The trial for Boucher on two counts of first-degree murder began in Montreal on 2 November 1998. [78] During the trial, Larochelle brought up Gagné's long history of telling lies and of anti-social behavior, which he used to paint him as a dishonest sociopath who would tell any falsehood if it would serve his interests such as avoiding going ...
Food Services Officer Joseph D.P. Maurice Collins Bay Institution, Kingston, Ontario November 26, 1978 Stabbed by an inmate. [3] Warden Michel Roy Archambault Penitentiary, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec February 7, 1978 Shot in his driveway. [3] Guard Paul Guy Fournier St. Vincent De Paul Penitentiary, Laval, Quebec July 11, 1978