Jean-Guy Bourgouin, former vice-president of the Rockers, the late Hells Angels school club, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of a prohibited firearm on August 5 and was immediately sentenced to jail three years.
Bourgouin, 54, was arrested last December and has been detained since. By subtracting the period of time spent in preventive detention of 366 days – at the time he received his sentence – he therefore has a remainder of two years less a day to serve.
Jean-Guy Bourgouin was arrested during the first phase of searches carried out as part of an investigation by the Organized Crime Division of the SPVM called Renouveau and targeting a network of cocaine traffickers who allegedly distributed cocaine in the Plateau-Mont-Royal and allegedly supplied kilograms of cocaine to other criminal organizations in the Montreal region and eastern Quebec.
While searching his house in Mascouche, investigators discovered in the bedside table of his bedroom a loaded firearm, a handcrafted assembly pistol of the Glock model 22 caliber. 40, while Bourgouin was under the gun. coup of an order prohibiting him from owning a weapon.
The motorcyclist was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, careless storage of a firearm and breach of ordinance and was not charged in connection with Project Renouveau even though the police considered him to be the head of the network.
“A gang of minds”
The Rockers, who reported to Maurice Boucher during the biker war between 1994 and 2002, were very active during the conflict against the Rock Machine and independent traffickers, and disappeared after Operation Spring 2001.
In 2000, Bourgouin, whose communications were then intercepted by the police, explained to an individual how some aspirants were desperate to obtain their “patches” from the Hells Angels. “They all want to ride, guys, it doesn’t look like that, at one point there, criss, listen, it’s fine there, it’s a gang of minds. Moé, in my book à moé, they are psychopaths, ”the biker had said.
Three and a half years ago, Bourgouin was targeted by an attempted murder. An individual shot him as he was leaving a restaurant in the borough of Saint-Léonard, after having shared a meal with a member of the Hells Angels and an associate of the latter.
At the same time, relatives of Bourgouin would also have had contracts on their heads. Under the vehicle of one of them, we had stuck a GPS device of the same type as those used by contract killers to know the whereabouts of their target.
In a press release issued last June during the final sweep of the Renouveau investigation, the SPVM announced that it had seized 20 kg of cocaine worth $ 1.4 million on the market, 218,000 methamphetamine tablets and quantities various of Xanax, mescaline and other narcotics. Two firearms, an electric pulse pistol, brass knuckles, ammunition of various caliber and bulletproof vests were also seized, as were nearly $ 800,000 in cash.
Several individuals have been arrested and charged and proceedings are continuing.
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