The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels

417 Pages·2005·2.7 MB·English

by  Paul Cherry

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On October 28, 1994, gang member Sylvain Pelletier was
killed in a bomb blast. His murder signaled the start of a
war that brought about one of the longest criminal trials in
Canadian history.
With two goals in mind – to monopolize the Quebec drug trade and to
expand that trade across Canada – Maurice (Mom) Boucher and his
Montreal-based Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels openly waged
war against rival biker gangs on the city’s streets, taking the lives of
gangsters and innocent people, as the conflict escalated to a boiling
point.
Little did these bikers know that at the brink of achieving their goals,
their organization was the target of a police investigation that would
debilitate their criminal activities. The trials that followed shed light
on the methods behind the mayhem of seven years of conflict, murder
and betrayal.
In The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels, crime reporter
Paul Cherry reveals the inside story of the biker war, the police inves-
tigations that brought it to an end and the trials that determined the
fate of men like Maurice (Mom) Boucher, who some
say started it all.
PAUL CHERRY has worked as a newspaper reporter
for nearly a decade. He is a crime reporter for The
Montreal Gazette and covered stories during
Quebec’s biker gang war, as well as other stories on
organized crime.
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The Biker Trials

The Biker Trials
Bringing Down
the Hells Angels
PAUL CHERRY
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The biker trials :bringing down the Hell Angels / Paul Cherry.
isbn1-55022-638-x
1.Hell's Angels. 2.Trials (Narcotic laws) — Québec (Province) — Montréal.
3.Drug traffic — Québec (Province). 4.Motorcycle gangs — Québec (Province).
5.Organized crime — Québec (Province). i.Title.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1
The Peak 
2
Mom 
3
Arrests en Masse 
4
The Hits 
5
An Ocean of Cash 
6
Santa Claus aka Gerald Matticks 
7
Project Rush: Guilty Pleas and Surprises 
8
Stéphane Sirois: A Man Inside 
9
Stéphane Gagné: Trigger Man 
10
Serge Boutin: Nowhere to Go But Out 
11
The Colombian Connection 
12
The View From the Other Side 
13
A Jury Decides 
Conclusion 
Cast of Characters 