| Claude "Macho" Giguere |
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| Claude "Macho" Giguere was born in the early 1960s and became a Hells Angel on June 14, 1991, when his gang, the Satan's Guards, became the Hells Angels official Trois-Rivieres chapter. On December 23, 1994, Giguere, along with five other members and two prospects of the Trois-Rivieres chapter, left Quebec for a month long vacation in Acapulco, Mexico with their wives and kids. Among the Hells that accompanied Giguere were Louis "Mélou" Roy, Sylvain "Baptiste" Thiffault, and Daniel "Johnny" Royer. Giguere was among 13 Hells members and associates arrested in a Surete du Quebec operation on April 3, 1995. Among the arrested were three other members of the Trois-Rivieres chapter and about a half dozen members of the Quebec chapter. |
Giguere, along with fellow Hells Angels Louis Roy, Sylvain Thiffault, Mario Brouillette, Francois Hinse, and Blatnois member Clermont Carrier, was charged with conspiracy to murder. To make matters worse, Serge Quesnel and Michel "Pit" Caron, two Hells associates charged in the bust, decided to spill their guts to the cops. Quesnel, who claimed to be a professional hitman working for Hells Angel Louis Roy, admitted to murdering five people on behalf of the biker gang. On October 17, 1997, Giguere, Thiffault, Brouillette, Hinse, and Carrier pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy charges, in exchange for charges being dropped against Louis Roy, described at the time as the number two man in the Hells organization. Giguere, according to Quesnel, had given him a contract to murder Gino Hallé, a man with links to the Rock Machine, in November of 1994. The murder contract was never fulfilled. Taking into consideration that Giguere had already served one year in prison awaiting trial, Judge Francois Tremblay sentenced him to two years less a day. In an article published in Le Soleil on March 8, 1997, biker expert Guy Ouellet said that Giguere, along with his brother J.P., controlled drug distribution in the La Causerie bar in Charlesbourg, as well as three homosexual bars in the Quebec area. Giguere was among the over 100 Hells Angels and associates arrested in Opération: Printemps 2001 on March 28, 2001, the biggest police operation against biker gangs in Canada ever. Giguere was charged with conspiracy, drug trafficking, and gangsterism. On October 24, 2001, Giguere and Luc Dallaire, another member of the Hells Angels Trois-Rivieres chapter, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, drug trafficking, and gangsterism. Giguere was sentenced to eight years in prison, while Dallaire received a nine year sentence. Evidence showed that, during a six month period, Giguere had purchased 23 kilograms of cocaine and 16 kilos of hashish from the Nomads chapter. Dallaire bought 14 kilograms of cocaine and 60 kilos of hashish from the Nomads during that same period. |