| Denis "Pas Fiable" Houle |
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| Denis Houle was born in 1954 and became a member of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter in the early 1980s. Known as "Pas Fiable" - not reliable - he was charged in 1982 with assault and conspiring to commit assault. The charges were dropped. Houle played an important role in the 1985 slaughter of five North chapter members. Gerry "Le Chat" Coulumbe, who would later turn informant, overheard Houle, Réjean "Zig-Zag" Lessard, Luc "Sam" Michaud, and Jean-Yves "Boule" Tremblay planning the massacre one day at the gang's Sorel clubhouse. Coulumbe also revealed to authorities that Houle and fellow Hells Angel Jacques "La Pelle" Pelletier had supplied the firearms |
| that were eventually used to murder Laurent "L'Anglais" Viau, Jean-Pierre "Matt Le Crosseur" Mathieu, Jean-Guy "Brutus" Geoffrion, Michel "Willie" Mayrand, and Guy-Louis "Chop" Adam. Houle was arrested and, on March 14, 1988, pleaded guilty to five charges, including being an accessory after the fact and culpable homicide. On May 5, 1995, Houle was convicted of impaired driving and possession of narcotics. One day, as he and fellow Hells Angel Richard "Bob" Hudon walked through the prison yard, Rock Machine hitmen, stationed near the jail's fence, fired at them with semi-automatic rifles. Neither Angel was harmed and the attackers fled in an automobile. On June 24, 1995, as Houle was still behind bars, he left club's Montreal chapter to become one of the founders of the Nomads chapter. This new charter comprised of the organization's best and would handle the war with the Rock Machine. Houle's wife, Sandra Gloutney, was wounded by gunshots outside the couple's Piedmont home on September 20, 1999. A gunman, hidden in a forest near the house, fired several bullets and fled to a nearby Highway. Houle, who was away hunting at the time of the vicious attack, assured her safety by placing armed associates outside her Hotel Dieu hospital room around the clock until she recovered. On February 15, 2001, Houle was arrested along with fellow Nomads members Normand Robitaille, Gilles "Trooper" Mathieu, Richard "Dick" Mayrand, Michel Rose, Nomads prospects Luc "Bordel" Bordeleau and Jean-Richard Lariviere, and Rockers member Kenny Bédard at the Holiday Inn on Sherbrooke Street Ouest in Montreal. All eight men were carrying firearms and pictures of eight Rock Machine/probationary Bandidos were found. The bikers' pocket money, totaling $39,197, was confiscated. Rather than face gangsterism and a lengthy trail, the accused agreed to plead guilty to weapons charges and were sentenced to one year in prison. Things got worse for Houle as he learned on March 28, 2001 when Opération: Printemps 2001 came to a close. The government seized the biker's three homes and charged him with 13 counts of murder, gangsterism, and narcotics trafficking. If convicted, he could face spend the rest of his life in prison. In September, 2003, Houle and eight others, including three other full-patch members of the Nomads, brought an abrupt end to the 11 month trail by pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking, and gangsterism. The following week, the bikers received sentences ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison. Houle received 20 years, with the condition that they would have to serve half before being eligible for parole. |