Guy Lepage |
Guy Lepage, born in the mid-1940s, is a rarity in Montreal’s criminal circles. He is among few police officers to switch sides and gain the trust of top gang leaders. Lepage worked as a Montreal Urban Community police officer for seven years, before leaving the force in 1974. He established himself in Sorel, on the city’s south shore, where he ran a night club. Lepage was among the founding members of the Rockers biker gang, formed on March 26, 1992. He served as the club’s president for several years, before leaving the group. He remained associated with the Hells Angels and served as driver for biker boss Maurice “Mom” Boucher. In April, 1994, Lepage pleaded guilty in a British Colombia court on charges of laundering drug money. The arrest came after the Rockers attempted, with the apparent approval of the Hells Angels, to |
establish themselves out west. Four months later, he was sentenced to two years less a day and fined $200,000. After several months in a western-Canadian prison, Lepage became homesick. He dished out $5,700 for three plane tickets - for himself and two police escorts - from Vancouver to Montreal, so he could stay in a prison closer to home. He was paroled in 1995. On June 28, 1999, police arrested Lepage, along with Robert “Bob” Savard and Ronald Leduc, both of whom also had links to Mom Boucher. The three were accused of kidnapping a man and attempting to extort as much as $100,000 from him. The charges would eventually be dropped. Lepage was arrested on December 18, 2001, this time at the request of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). U.S. authorities accused him of conspiracy to import over a ton of cocaine and acting as a middle-man between the Hells Angels Nomads Chapter and a large drug trafficking organization based in Colombia. Lepage’s extradition was approved, and on July 31, U.S. Marshalls accompanied him to Florida to stand trial. Lepage, authorities claimed, made ten trips to Colombia between 1997 and 2001 to meet with drug kingpins and arrange numerous narcotics shipments to Canada. The Nomads reportedly planned to purchase cocaine for $18,000 US a kilogram. At least four tons of cocaine was sold to the Nomads, police said, including a shipment of 2.4 tons of the drug the Colombians sent by ship to Gaspesie, Quebec. The Nomads allegedly sent tens of millions of dollars to Colombia to pay for the shipments. In April, 1998, U.S. police seized $2.5 million, which they said was destined to the bikers’ Colombian drug suppliers. Several Hells Angels, including gang leader Mom Boucher, were named by U.S. authorities as being involved in the drug smuggling conspiracy. In September, 2003, Lepage pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As part of an agreement, the biker was promised he wouldn’t be summoned to testify at the trials of any of the other accused. The possibility of Lepage being transferred to a Quebec penitentiary within six months to a year was also discussed. |