Maurice (Mom) Boucher charged with attempted murder in penitentiary
The man who was once the most powerful Hells Angel in Quebec was charged on Thursday with attempting to murder a fellow inmate inside a penitentiary north of Montreal where both were serving life...
View ArticleCase alleging intimidation of Beaconsfield city officials by cop was quietly...
The criminal case brought against a police officer who was charged with intimidating Beaconsfield city officials in his bid to flip a lakeside property for a quick profit was quietly dropped, just...
View ArticleSecurity beefed up at sentence hearing for Sergio Piccirilli
Extra security measures were taken to screen people attending a sentence hearing at the Laval courthouse on Wednesday for a man with close ties to the Hells Angels who was recently warned by police...
View ArticleBureau chief demands more information in probe of aborted SharQc trial
The head of the provincial prosecutor’s bureau has ordered an extension of the internal investigation she requested last year to find out why prosecutors failed to disclose evidence to defence...
View ArticleMontreal Mafia hit could spark others: crime experts
Amid unstable times for Montreal’s criminal underworld, this week’s broad daylight killing of a well-known member of the Montreal Mafia will almost certainly bring violent repercussions, organized...
View ArticleConvicted drug trafficker Sergio Piccirilli says police are giving him a hard...
Sergio Piccirilli says the police can’t decide if he’s a Mafioso or a Hells Angel. Either way, Piccirilli told a Quebec Court judge on Tuesday, they’re hurting his reputation. Piccirilli, 56, was...
View ArticleMontreal lawyer Dimitrios Strapatsas charged in obstruction case
A Montreal lawyer has been charged with attempting to dissuade a convicted robber from testifying in a court case. The lawyer, Dimitrios Strapatsas, 42, was arrested twice last year in connection with...
View Article'I’m convinced that many Montreal mafiosi are very nervous'
After a brief lull, blood is being spilled in Montreal’s underworld. A homicide and an attempted murder in recent weeks are raising questions about the turmoil in the Montreal Mafia. The Montreal...
View ArticleAlleged Hells Angel shot in Lachute
LACHUTE — A suspected member of the Hells Angels Ontario chapter was shot on Saturday in Lachute. The man was seriously injured, but his life is not in danger, said Sergeant Audrey-Anne Bilodeau of the...
View ArticleOrganized crime figure arrested in 2006 sentenced to 15 years in prison
A well-connected drug trafficker arrested a decade ago received a 15-year sentence in a case that took many twists and turns before finally reaching its end on Monday. “Good luck to you Mr....
View ArticleHearing for Maurice (Mom) Boucher switched to Montreal for security reasons
LONGUEUIL – A judge has ordered that murder-related proceedings involving former Hells Angels kingpin Maurice (Mom) Boucher be switched to a Montreal courthouse. Boucher is to have a preliminary...
View ArticleLeading member of Hells Angels arrested in relation to alleged Mafia, street...
André Sauvageau, 57, a leading member of the Hells Angels, was arrested while he was in a restaurant on the South Shore on Wednesday morning. The Sûreté du Québec said Montreal’s Joint Regional Squad...
View ArticleQuebec Court of Appeal reduces sentences of several Hells Angels
Another court decision critical of how the prosecution handled the most significant criminal case ever brought against the Hells Angels in Quebec has reduced the sentences 35 bikers received for...
View ArticleOperation SharQc ends as last Hells Angel with open case pleads guilty to...
The last remaining case in Operation SharQc ended with a whimper on Tuesday as one of the founding members of the Hells Angels in Canada pleaded guilty to being part of the gang’s biker war in Quebec....
View ArticleArson at St-Léonard company formerly owned by leading Mafia member
Yet another arson fire suggests someone is intent on sending messages to people tied to the Montreal Mafia. Just before midnight on Thursday, someone set fire to a building that houses a St-Léonard...
View ArticleJudge dismisses gangsterism charges in Hells Angels trial
The Hells Angels scored another judicial victory Wednesday as a Superior Court judge tossed out a slew of charges against high-ranking club member Salvatore Cazzetta. Cazzetta was facing five counts of...
View ArticleSeveral accused in case targeting alleged Mafia leaders renounce right to...
A key witness in the investigation that produced the arrests of alleged leaders among the Montreal Mafia and Hells Angels is expected to testify in court for the first time Thursday. The man’s...
View Article'Culture change' needed to ensure completion of megatrials in Quebec: report
QUEBEC — Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée welcomed a report into so-called megatrials on Wednesday, vowing to implement its recommendations so that “criminals don’t go free.” Vallée commissioned the...
View ArticleInternal review of what went wrong in SharQc trial lays no specific blame
An internal administrative review by Quebec’s prosecutors bureau into how a murder trial involving members of the Hells Angels was aborted because the prosecution took too long to turn over evidence to...
View ArticleCourt overturns conviction in killing of Hells Angel
The Quebec Court of Appeal has acquitted a man who was convicted a decade ago of murdering one of the highest-ranking Hells Angels in Quebec during the biker gang war. Tony Duguay was convicted of...
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