Biker Trials, The by Paul Cherry

Author:Paul Cherry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: TRU003000
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2006-12-15T10:00:00+00:00

From left to right: Gregory Wooley, Pierre Provencher, Sylvain Laplante, René Charlebois, Guillaume (Mimo) Serra, Jean-Guy Bourgoin, Ronald (Popo) Paulin and Daniel Lanthier.

In January 1999, about five months before Charlebois was made a prospect in the Nomads chapter, Charlebois was himself the target of an attempted hit. It happened while he was in his car, parked behind a bar where the Rockers had been known to hang out. He was not seriously hurt but told one of the Hells Angels’ lawyers that he had no plans to make a statement to the police.

By the time of his wedding on August 5,2000, Charlebois was a full-patch member of the Nomads chapter. His wedding caused a major stir in Quebec as the Hells Angels had managed to hire popular singers Ginette Reno and Jean-Pierre Ferland to perform at the reception. By then, Charlebois had come a long way from his days delivering pizzas and cocaine. Informants would say that he was an important drug dealer for the Hells Angels in the Hochelaga Maisonneuve district, the area where Boucher began his dreams of a monopoly.

They also said Charlebois was partners with Robitaille, Paul (Fon Fon) Fontaine and Robert Johnson, a member of the Rockers who avoided being investigated in Project Rush only because he was behind bars for its duration. Early on in the biker war, Johnson and Stéphane Blaquiere, another man tied to the Rockers, had been caught making a deal for 350 kilograms of cocaine. When the police searched Johnson’s home, they found more than a kilogram of an explosive called Syntex and 15 detonators.

The trial heard before Réjean Paul was bogged down by several delays, including one caused by Charlebois’ teeth. During the trial, he had to ask for a recess because his dental implants were causing him severe pain. Visibly frustrated by the delays, Paul asked Charlebois to be patient while they tried to find a dentist who was willing to travel to the Bordeaux detention center to treat him. Paul even tried to offer the Hells Angel some advice saying: “There is nothing like 600 milligrams of Motrin”

A Rush of Plea Bargains

One of the Rockers to accept a plea bargain before Justice Réjean Paul was Sylvain Laplante. Before joining the Rockers, Laplante had been vice-president of a gang called the Pirates based in Valleyfield, a small city west of Montreal, near the Ontario border. The Pirates were run by Gilles (Trooper) Mathieu who jumped from the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter to the Nomads chapter in 1995. Laplante followed Mathieu and became a Rocker on August 25,1995. Before joining the Rockers, Laplante already had several arrests under his belt for selling drugs out of bars in Valleyfield.

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