Daniel "Dan" Hudon
Hells Angels Quebec City Chapter
    Daniel Hudon was born on April 3, 1951, and is  a founding member of  the  Hells  Angels  Quebec  City  Chapter, founded  in 1988. Daniel's younger brother Robert is  also  a  full-patch member  of  the  Big Red Machine.

     On  April 13, 1983, Daniel Hudon was  sentenced  to  one  month in prison for having installed a boobie trap in his home.

     Exactly six years later, on  April 13, 1983, Hudon  was convicted of drug possession, and ordered to  pay $6,500 or spend  three  months in prison.
    In early 1998, Hudon and fellow Hells Angel René "Canisse" Hébert travelled to Brazil to  meet with a  biker  gang  who  hoped  to establish  a  Hells Angels chapter in  Buenos Airies, Argentina. The two bikers stayed in  South  America for over  a month, but their vacation was cut short when Hébert died of a heart attack on March 8.

     On  February 27, 2002, over 400 police officers from the  Surete du Quebec, the  RCMP, and  the Quebec  and Levis municipal police forces  raided  about 40 homes  and  business  linked  to  the Hells Angels. Almost 30 people were arrested, including four  members of  the gang's Quebec City  chapter and five members of the Damners Downtown, a Hells puppet gang.

     Twenty-nine others were arrested in New Brunswick, including 12 members of the Damners. The raids focused in Moncton and the north-western part of the province.

     Hudon, in Paris, France at the time, was arrested by the French police on an international warrant.

     A  total  of 257 counts  of  drug  trafficking, conspiracy  to  traffic in drugs, possession of  goods obtained through crime, and gangsterism were laid.

     The investigation, which had began in April 2000 and was called Operation Quatre H, set its sights on  Hudon, Alain Harton, Pierre Hamilton, and Magella Houde, and the  major drug network that police say the four Hells Angels operated on  the  south  shore of  Quebec City, in Beauce and the Bas-Saint-Laurent, stretching  all the  way  into  New Brunswick. Investigators said the  network distribution 30 kilograms of cocaine and 20 kilograms of hashish every month, bringing in about $15 million a month.
Hudon was the head of the network, police said.

     After six months in  a Paris prison, Hudon was brought back to Quebec under  heavy police escort on August 19, 2002 to face trial.

     On December 20, Hudon pleaded guilty to a whole bunch of  charges, including gangsterism, drug trafficking, and conspiracy to traffic drugs. Three weeks later, on January 9, 2003, he was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison, with the condition that he serve half his term before becoming eligible for parole.