Boucher complained that despite their previous crimes, Yves “Apache” Trudeau, Serge Quesnel and Simard had nevertheless still all acquired favorable plea bargains from the Crown. Boucher was especially alarmed when Rocker hitman Aimé Simard turned délateur (informer) in March 1997, which was the third time since 1985 the Crown had offered a lenient deal to a Hells Angels-associated hitman. Boucher spoke to Gagné in his ordinary foul-mouthed coded language, supplemented by his various hand gestures, and the meeting ended with Gagné pointing to his nostril (meaning he wished to purchase cocaine) after which touching Boucher’s arm (which means he wanted to purchase the cocaine from him), main Boucher to level at a Rocker who was with him, Paul Fontaine (meaning that Gagné was now working for Fontaine). On 17 October 1994, Dany Kane, a Rocker and a protégé of Boucher’s lieutenant David “Wolf” Carroll contacted Interpol’s office in Ottawa, saying he knew a lot in regards to the Angels and needed to sell info. Boucher was the sole president of the Nomad chapter in title, however in apply the Nomads had been led by the triumvirate of David “Wolf” Carroll (chargeable for Atlantic Canada), Boucher (responsible for Quebec), and Stadnick (liable for the remainder of Canada).
In September 1999, the Hells Angel David Carroll informed Kane that Boucher was a “robust chief”, however a poor businessman. Carroll described to Kane la desk faction that consisted of Boucher, Hamel, Houle, Michel Rose, Gilles Mathieu and André Chouinard as being the elite inside the elite as Carroll acknowledged that the members of la table made probably the most money by far. Commander André Bouchard who headed the investigation that assembled the evidence that Boucher had ordered the murders of Lavigne and Rondeau, had been feeling heartbroken when he realized that Boucher had been acquitted of the 2 murders, and felt that attending the Hilton-Ouellet boxing match may get his mind off the ache of defeat. They might watch the pair swim out and disappear in the blue distance, and they could, or may not, probability to see them return hours afterward. In Naples, I used to be horrified to see the bodies of two Roma cousins – Cristina, 12, and Viola, eleven – who had been despatched by their dad and mom to beg and sell trinkets on a beach, left under a blanket after that they had ventured into the sea and drowned, as holidaymakers carried on sunbathing and enjoying soccer close by.
Boucher was carried out of the courtroom on the shoulders of his fellow Hells Angels while Commander Bouchard, who was current in the courtroom, regarded very glum on the sight. Whenever Boucher and his fellow Angels rode their Harley-Davidson bikes down the streets of the working class Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district in Montreal, odd folks would come out to cheer Boucher like it was a royal procession. As a man who detested outlaw bikers, Bouchard develop into Boucher’s arch enemy, and to annoy him, Boucher took to hanging around along with his fellow Angels carrying their “Death’s Head” patches on their jackets together with their attorneys on the Au Bon Pain cafe, which was also Bouchard’s favorite cafe. If Matticks was convicted, he would remove a possible rival or if Matticks’ attorneys exposed the planted evidence, the resulting backlash would discredit the Sûreté du Québec. Boucher was extraordinarily unhappy when he learned that Gagné had turned Crown’s evidence, believing the Crown would by no means cut a deal with somebody who had killed prison guards.
The case collapsed in court docket when Matticks’s legal professionals established that the Sûreté du Québec had planted evidence, most notably paperwork written in French that had been present in Matticks’ residence. Boucher was surrounding himself together with his attorneys to make sure that police couldn’t electronically eavesdrop on their conversations. The judge overseeing Boucher’s trial, Justice Jean-Guy Boilard, had overseen the trial of Réjean Lessard and the males chargeable for the Lennoxville massacre in 1986, and is thought as the “most widely feared choose in Quebec’s criminal courts”, given to bullying lawyers and witnesses. Throughout the trial, Justice Boilard displayed a strong bias in favour of the defence and promptly agreed to Larochelle’s request to exclude five tapes of intercepted telephone calls made by Boucher, which weakened the Crown’s case. Dagenais admitted he had a tough case as Gagné was an unsavory and unlikeable star witness, a self-confessed hitman who had only turned Crown’s proof for a lighter sentence. On 23 September 1995, a bouncer, Steven “Bull” Bertrand, who offered drugs for the Hells Angels, referred to as Boucher to complain about being crushed up by another drug seller. Boucher in his drive to monopolize the drug commerce took on not solely the Rock Machine, however other teams such because the Pelletier clan, which served to escalate the violence as a lot of the drug dealers of Montreal banded collectively to found an alliance in opposition to the Angels.