The Quebec-area Hells Angels, who are celebrating their 35th anniversary this weekend, have become a “family business” passed down from generation to generation like the Montreal mafia.
This is the startling observation made by Quebec Police Intelligence in recent internal reports that our investigative office had access to.
The tightly-knit chapter “Quebec City,” as the bikers call it in biker jargon, who christened it in English, is the only one among the five members of the gang in the province that consists of as many brothers, father-son duos or members consists of nephews.
Wearing the winged skull-decorated jacket since May 16, 1988 and escaping the fearsome killer Gérald Gallant during their bloody war against the Rock Machine in the ’90s, several of its founding members are now descendants of their own families.
Red Devil
Such is the case of Marc “Tom” Pelletier, 69, the former chapter president, who made his mark by becoming the first official “speaker” — and one of the few — of the Hells in Quebec. He gave interviews to journalists in the late 1980s.
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Marc Pelletier, June 2019
His son Mathieu is currently the only “interested” – or aspirant – of the club. The 31-year-old biker, who also wore the colors of the Red Devils, the Hells’ school club, could therefore shortly join his father and become the 16th full member of the Quebec chapter.
The same goes for Alain “Judas” Harton, 68, another founding member of the gang in the capital.
His nephew Daniel, 46, is also on file with the police as a member of the Red Devils.
For his part, the dean and former leader of the Quebec chapter, Daniel “Gros Dan” Hudon, 72, has two of his nephews among the relatives of this criminal organization.
One of them, Ralph Hudon, 39, is also a Red Devils player, as is his uncle Richard “Ti-Bob” Hudon, 62.
“He appears to be the perfect candidate to take over the management of the family business,” writes the Sûreté du Québec in one of these reports about Ralph Hudon, citing the drug trafficking and other illegal activities involving the Hudon clan. suspected of controlling a vast area between the south coast of Quebec and the Bas-Saint-Laurent.
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Ralph Hudon’s father Bruno was also part of the Hells of the Quebec group before leaving the gang on amicable terms in the ’90s.
“Marco” Roberge, another Hells veteran from Quebec, counts on one of his brothers and one of his nephews as his associates in the underworld.
A defector from the Rock Machine organization, Roberge, like most Hells in the country, is suspected of being involved in drug trafficking by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Arguably the most notorious father-son duo in Quebec Hells history is that of Aurèle and Mario Brouillette, two former members of the Trois Rivières chapter.
In the early 2000s, Mario was thought to be Maurice “Mom” Boucher’s “dolphin” who led the gang, but the police stopped him by sending him to two consecutive long prison terms.
In 2008, his father Aurèle was one of the “Quebec Hells” behind the formation of the band group in the Dominican Republic.
A hundred bikers from across the province were expected in Beauce this afternoon for the 35th anniversary celebrations of the Quebec Hells Angels. The rally is in Frampton, in a 2nd row apartment building that serves as Hell’s compound. The party will take place throughout the weekend under the supervision of Sûreté du Québec police officers, who will notably set up roadside checkpoints to verify bikers’ identities on the spot.
Quebec’s Hells Angels exercise “total control” over their vast territory’s drug market in a tranquil atmosphere that would make Montreal and its suburbs envious.
The Hells “dominate” the criminal market in the Capitale-Nationale, Chaudière-Appalaches, Beauce, Bas-Saint-Laurent and Côte-Nord regions where bikers have no competition, according to recent police reports obtained by our investigative office.
The last two bikers to graduate from the Hells of Quebec, Alexandre Maltais, 42, and Sylvain Marcotte, 52, would assert their “authority” in some of those regions.
“This situation differs significantly from comparable city-level regions such as Laval or Montreal. “In these cities, the key players in organized crime have much more diverse origins and affiliations,” the internal documents say.
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A clock with the image of this chapter of hells confiscated during Operation SharQc in 2009
The day and the night
Consequences of conflicts related to Montreal street gangs with the Italian Mafia, bikers and other criminal groups: Since the beginning of 2023, bullets have been whistling on the streets of the metropolis every third day, according to a recent compilation of gunshot crimes published in Le Journal de Montreal .
In comparison, in the capital, where there are no or almost no gangs and mafia, we hear shots more likely every 73 days, according to data released by the Quebec police for 2020 and 2021.
In addition, there have been nearly thirty victims of organized crime-related murders in Montreal over the past two and a half years.
But in Quebec, the last fatal reckoning related to bikers took place in November 2018.
Since 2019, the Quebec Police Department (SPVQ) has launched the Malsain Project to suppress violence and the use of firearms by organized crime, although the situation remains marginal compared to the metropolis.
The SPVQ has received four of the $65 million the Legault administration has poured into all police units fighting this scourge since 2020.
The new number one of the Hells Angels in Quebec, Martin Gamache, is also considered by the police as one of the ten most influential criminals in the entire province.
“Martin Gamache has controlled drug trafficking in the Quebec City area for several years. He seems to have the confidence of his colleagues (from the Hells) in performing this function,” we read about him in a recent internal police intelligence report that our investigative agency was able to read.
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Martin Gamache photographed on a beach in the Dominican Republic in 2008, where the Quebec Hells helped found the first chapter of the motorcycle gang in that country that same year.
The 52-year-old biker is said to be a “close associate” of former Quebec chapter president Marc Pelletier, as well as Hells veterans Jonathan Robert and Marc Roberge.
Frondeur on Facebook
Gamache, nicknamed “Gam” in the underworld, had come under the spotlight in the summer of 2018 when he didn’t hesitate to mock and publicly criticize the Sûreté du Québec after he and other bikers were arrested by a patrol officer on Route 175 Laurentides Game Reserve.
He had posted a video recording of the procedure on Facebook, which he filmed with his cell phone, in which he ridiculed the police officer for holding a taser while he checked her papers.
“He wants to taser me!” he said with a touch of sarcasm, referring to the English name of the weapon in question, causing roars of laughter from his comrades on motorbikes. In the end, he received no fine.
Gamache has been a member of the Hells since 2004 and was imprisoned from 2009 to 2016 after being convicted of conspiracy to murder as part of Operation SharQc. During his detention, the man, then nicknamed “Big Gam”, lost 50 kg.
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