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| Gregory "Picasso" Wooley |
| Gregory Wooley, nicknamed "Picasso", was born in Haiti in 1972. He immigrated to Montreal where he became a member of the vicious Master B street gang. At some point, Wooley became an associate of Hells Angels leader Maurice "Mom" Boucher and the Rockers biker gang. He was charged with Rockers Pierre Provencher, Stephen Falls, Patrick Pascone and Daniel St. Pierre in the murder of Rock Machine member Jean-Marc Caissy. The victim was shot in the face five times outside a Cote St. Paul recreation centre in March 1997. The prosecution's main witness was a self-described homosexual hired killer turned informant, Aimé "Ace" Simard. He provided crucial evidence against the bikers but on July 18, 1998 the jury, after hearing four months of testimony from more than fifty different witnesses, |
| acquitted the men of all charges. Six days later, Greg Wooley became the first black member of the Rockers. He was given his patch by Maurice Boucher personally and then celebrated by partying with members of the Hells Angels Nomads chapter, showing off his colors at all their regular haunts. As a former member of the Master B, Wooley still had many connections to Montreal's street gangs. He used his new influence as a Rocker to create a new gang, the Syndicate, that operated under his, and the Rockers, orders. Montreal Urban Community police pulled over Wooley in August 1999 as he rode his Harley Davidson in downtown Montreal. Police said they pulled him over for speeding and excessive noise. The officers noticed aheavy bulge under his leather jacket and, when they questioned him about what he had concealed, Wooley fled. He was caught and police located a loaded revolver that the biker had tossed, apparently, dropped during the chase. Wooley spent nearly five months in prison before he was freed on January 21, 2000. Quebec Court Judge Celine Lamontagne ruled that police had no right to try to search Wooley. They had stopped him for traffic violations and their investigation should have stuck to that. In early April 2000, Wooley was arrested yet again. He was preparing to board a flight to Haiti at Mirabel Airport when a .44 magnum Smith and Wesson handgun was found inside his luggage. $35 000 was also found in one of his suitcases. Wooley pleaded guilty to a firearms charge and was jailed. While in prison, he was attacked by another inmate who stuck him in the face with a blunt object at a federal penitentiary. He was severely injured and spent several days in the hospital. Before he could be paroled, Wooley, who lives in Saint-Hubert, was charged in the massive biker crackdown Opération: Pringtemps 2001. He faces charges of gangsterism and 9 counts of murder. |