| Guillaume "Mimo" Serra |
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| Guillaume Serra, born on July 27, 1965, was among the Hells Angels top drug traffickers, authorities claim. According to an informant Stéphane Sirois, Serra controlled cocaine networks in downtown Montreal and a large chunk of the drugs sold on St. Laurent Boulevard, one of the city’s busier streets. The government claims Serra made a heap of money from drugs, allegedly selling about 80 kilograms of cocaine per month, at a price of $50,000 a kilogram. News reports placed the biker's revenues at an estimated $30,000 every month. One of his customers allegedly included Serge “Pacha” Boutin, the Rocker who would become a government informant. |
| Rocker Danny Kane, who gathered information on his associates for police until his suicide, said Serra did business with Marco “La Masse” Frappier, who Kane described in government documents as being close with Nomad Richard Mayrand. The same documents explained that Serra had supposedly purchased the Laurentian home of Joe Di Maulo. Police claim Di Maulo is associated with the Montreal Mafia since the 1960s. In 1994, Serra was reportedly arrested by police as he apparently prepared to make a drug deal. A police officer noticed Serra and another man sitting in a double-parked car on St. Laurent Boulevard. A search of the vehicle uncovered 42 grams of cocaine. The charges against Serra would later be thrown out of court. “Mimo”, as Serra is called, became a member of the Rockers Montreal Chapter in July 1995. As a member, Serra allegedly sat on the gang’s ruling committee, along with fellow Rockers Normand Bélanger, Daniel Lanthier, Pierre Provencher, Jean-Guy Bourgoin, and Sylvain Laplante. Serra allegedly became a prospect for the Hells Angels elite Nomads Chapter on December 11, 2000. He didn’t have the chance to enjoy his new status for long however, since he was arrested a few months later. On March 28, 2001, Serra and over 100 Hells Angels and associates across the province were arrested in Opération: Printemps 2001, the largest one-day operation against organized crime in the country’s history. He was charged with 13 murders, drug trafficking, and gangsterism. Serra was arrested at his luxurious Longueuil residence, where he supposedly answered the door in his underwear. In the home, police found $2,500 CDN and $5,500 US in a secret compartment in the kitchen, as well as seven cellular telephones and four pagers. In 18 months of investigating Serra, police apparently recorded over 13,000 of his telephone conversations. Among the evidence presented in court was hidden camera footage of a February 2000 meeting between Serra and some fellow Rockers. Gang member Pierre “Razor” Toupin had been suspended from the club and Serra argued that he should be reinstated. Other members of the group disagreed. “He’s done some good work,” Serra was quoted as saying. “When you commit a mistake, you make up for it and your mistake is finished.” He illustrated this by making a sign of a gun with his hand and then motioned to the others to keep it secret. The Rockers then took a vote and welcomed Toupin back to the flock. In September, 2003, Serra and eight others – four Nomads and four Rockers – pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking, and gangsterism. First-degree murder charges were dropped in exchange for the guilty pleas. The following week, the bikers were sentenced to terms of 15 to 20 years in prison, with the condition they serve at least half before being eligible for parole. The two and a half years spent behind bars since the March 2001 bust counted for double, meaning the bikers had already served five years of their sentences. |