| Francis Boucher |
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| Francis Boucher, son of infamous Hells Angels leader Maurice "Mom" Boucher, was born in 1975. As a teenager, he was a leader of a white-supremacist street gang based in Sorel and in 1992, when he was only 17, Boucher organized a neo-Nazi rally in La Plaine, North of Montreal, which he called "Aryan Fest '92". Boucher chose to follow in his father's footsteps and became a member of the Rockers, a Hells Angels puppet club. On January 18, 1996, when Boucher is only 20, he is pulled over in his automobile by police of the anti-biker Wolverine squad. Police find a loaded .38 revolver hidded under a seat. His father is also in |
| the car but is not charged. The younger Boucher is arraigned on firearm charges. Boucher, who sports a buzz-cut like his father, was arrested again in September 1999 while on guard duty at the Hotel Dieu hospital. After Sandra Gloutney, the wife of Nomad member Denis "Pas Fiable" Houle, was shot by rival bikers, Boucher and five other Rockers members were sent to make sure she was safe. After receiving a phone call from a hospital employee who reported seeing several armed men in the building, police responded and searched the six men. Boucher and two others were charged with illegal possession of a firearm. The other three were released. The case was finally brought to court on December 14, 2000. Metal detectors and special security was put in place for security reasons. Boucher was represented by Benoit Cliche, a long- time lawyer for the Hells Angels. He was sentenced to a year in prison. While still behind bars on his firearm possession conviction, Boucher was among the over one hundred Hells Angels members and associates snared in Opération: Pringtemps 2001. He was charged with eight counts of murder, gangsterism, and drug trafficking. On November 18, 2002, Boucher and fellow bikers Salvatore Brunetti, Vincent Lamer, Kenny Bédard, Stéphane Jarry, and Pierre Toupin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and gangsterism. Boucher, at age 27, was immediately sentenced to ten years in prison, with the condition that he serve half before being paroled. |