Jean-Guy Bourgoin
Rockers Montreal Chapter
    Jean-Guy Bourgoin, born in the mid 1960s, is a founding member of the Rockers, a  Hells Angels  affiliate gang formed in  March 1992. He has been listed as being  a  leader of the group, along with, among others, Daniel Lanthier, Guillaume Serra, and Pierre Provencher.

     According to  police, Bourgoin’s drug  territory  was  the  Plateau Mont-Royal area of Montreal. It was estimated the biker made $7,000 a month from his drug operation.

     In February, 1995, Jean-Guy Bourgoin and fellow biker Normand Robitaille  were  arrested  for  an  extortion  attempt. The two, armed with firearms, allegedly tried to extort $425,000 from  a  Boucherville man.
    As the bikers waited in the car, they told the  man to go into his bank  and  take  out  the  money. Instead, the man  alerted police. Bourgoin  and  Robitaille were found guilty of  forcible confinement, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and concealing evidence and sentenced to 26 months in prison.

     In  September, 1998, Bourgoin,  Robitaille, and  Rocker  Gregory  Wooley  were  involved  in  an incident outside a downtown with three players of the Montreal Alouettes CFL football team. Outside the bar, Bourgoin supposedly beat football player Stephen Reid with a metal pole.

     Bourgoin  pleaded guilty to  assault  and  was  sentenced to time served – 20 days in prison – and fined $2,000.

     In March, 2001, police  arrested over 100 Hells members and associates in Opération: Printemps 2001, the largest operation  against biker gangs in Canada’s history. Bourgoin was charged with drug trafficking, gangsterism, and murder.

     During the  mega-trial of  Bourgoin  and  many  others  of  the  Hells Angels organization, several recorded  conversations  between  Bourgoin  and Stéphane Sirois were played. Sirois, a  Rocker who retired from the club in 1997, became a police informant two years later and infiltrated the gang.

     In one conversation, when  the  two met for  a $150 sushi dinner, Bourgoin told Sirois  about the benefits of  eliminating members of  the  rival  Rock Machine/Bandidos biker gang. The Hells Angels, Bourgoin said, would pay $100,000 for every full-patch Rock Machine murdered, $50,000 for every striker, and $25,00 for every hangaround. 

     Another time, Bourgoin was secretely  recorded telling Sirois  about viagra. “I have it in industrial quantities,” he said. When Sirois asked what would happen if he tried some, Bourgoin answered with a laugh: “You will be as erect as a horse.”

     When Sirois  asked  Bourgoin if he knew  a good  accountant, the Rocker mentioned the name of Georges Therrien. “He  was  Rizzuto’s  accountant – he’s  always  worked  for  that Italian  clique,” Bourgoin was  quoted  as  saying. “You give him cold cash – ‘here wash this for  me’ – and  he  will play with your money.”  

     Bourgoin was  also  alleged to have said that  about one-third of his associates are psychopaths, a term that must not have been appreciated by many his co-defendants.

     In September, 2003, Bourgoin  and eight others, including four 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  were  handed  sentences  ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison. Bourgoin got 15 years, with the condition that they would have to serve  half before being eligible for parole.