Biker Trials, The (53 page)

Paul Brisebois
— Was named a member of the Rockers around the same time he and Laurin killed a Verdun drug dealer. He became a prospect in the Nomads chapter on December 11, 2000. His case was severed from one of the megatrials and he later managed to plead guilty to second-degree murder even though his
DNA
was found at the scene of the murder of drug dealer Patrick Turcotte. As part of his plea bargain he is serving a life sentence but is eligible for parole in 2011.

Salvatore Brunetti
— Served time in prison near the beginning of the biker war as a member of the Dark Circle, one of the rival gangs that took on the Hells Angels. When the war ended he was serving a short sentence as a member of the Hells Angels. He defected to the Nomads chapter on December 19, 2000. On November 18, 2002, he agreed to plead guilty to drug trafficking and was sentenced to three years. By late 2004 he was released on parole after reaching the two-thirds mark of his sentence.

David (Wolf) Carroll
— Was a founding member of the Hells Angels' Halifax chapter on December 5,1984. Transferred to the Montreal chapter in 1990 and then joined the Nomads chapter in 1995. Disappeared when a warrant was issued for his arrest in March 2001 and has never been seen since.

René Charlebois
— Joined the Rockers in April 1997. Evidence tied him to at least two murders committed during the biker war as well as the slaying of a police informant. Charlebois was apparently rewarded well for his work as a Rocker and was made a full-patch member of the Nomads chapter on April 14, 2000. Originally sentenced to 20 years when he pleaded guilty in his megatrial case on September 23, 2003. He also later agreed to a plea bargain in a case where he was charged with killing an informant. He was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

André Chouinard
— Joined the Rockers on July 15, 1994. Quickly became a close confidant to Boucher because his clean-cut image and lack of a police record did not draw police attention to the Hells Angels' leader. Four years later he became a full-patch member of the Nomads chapter. He left the gang “in good standing” on July 20, 2000. Despite leaving the Hells Angels he was charged in Project Rush and was in hiding for several months
until the police tracked him down. He had been hiding in a house in the Eastern Townships. On March 8, 2004, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder rival gang members, drug trafficking and gangsterism. He agreed to a twenty-two-year sentence, one of the harshest given in connection with Project Rush. It is believed he agreed to the sentence because he was also facing the possibility of being extradited to the U.S. to face a trial for drug smuggling which might have produced an even tougher sentence.

Raynald Desjardins
— A key member of Montreal's Mafia who spent all of the biker war behind bars. He was doing time for his role in a major drug bust that netted members of the Mafia and the Hells Angels in the early 1990s. During the investigation, Desjardins was seen meeting with Maurice (Mom) Boucher. He was released in 2004 after serving 10 years of a 15-year sentence he received. While behind bars he hung out with members of the Hells Angels.

Alain Dubois
— the son of a notorious gangster who himself was part of an organized crime gang. He was made a member of the Rockers on August 24, 1999, but left the gang on April 26, 2000, but was still charged in connection with Project Rush. He was convicted by a jury and was sentenced, on April 8, 2004,to nine years and nine months. The Quebec Court of Appeal later reduced the sentence to nine years.

Paul (Fon Fon) Fontaine
— A member of the Rockers early on in the biker war. He was made a prospect in the Nomads chapter on July 1, 1997, and later promoted to full-patch member in 1998, while he was on the lam attempting to avoid being tried for the murder of a provincial prison guard. He would be found by the police in 2004.

Éric (Pif) Fournier
— Joined the Rockers on October 24, 1999. He was the bodyguard of Louis (Melou) Roy until Roy disappeared. Fournier got away with murder early on in the biker war after evidence was mistakenly destroyed before his criminal trial could begin. He was convicted of conspiring to murder rival gang members, drug trafficking and gangsterism. On April 8, 2004, he was sentenced to nine years on top of the time he spent behind bars awaiting the outcome of his case. In June 2004 he also pleaded guilty to murdering one of the innocent victims of the biker war and received a life sentence with no chance at parole until he has served 15 years behind bars.

Stéphane (Godasse) Gagné —
The trigger man in the murders of two prison guards. Gagné turned informant after he was arrested in 1997. He would become the key witness in the trial that ultimately sent Maurice (Mom) Boucher behind bars.

Normand (Biff) Hamel
— A close friend of Boucher who became a Hells Angel on October 5, 1986, only months before Mom did. He was chosen to be a founding member of the Nomads chapter. Was murdered in Laval in April 2000.