Jean-Paul Dubois |
Jean-Paul, the seventh born of the famous Dubois brothers, would become a major loanshark in his home neighborhood of Saint-Henri and was involved in drug trafficking and extortion. He also purchased the Les Deux Mouches bar with "Coco" Laramée. One night, as Jean-Paul exited the Bar des Copains, a Dubois gang hangout, he was ambushed by two disgruntled loansharking customers. They opened fire on him but, fortunately for Jean-Paul, most of the bullets missed their mark. Dubois was slightly injured. Retaliation was swift. Police find the bodies of Roger Bonenfant and Michel Marleau, the men who attempted to murder Jean-Paul Dubois, early one late February 1968 morning. The corpses are left in the open to make an example. |
On September 29, 1974, during the organization's vicious war with the McSween Gang, rival gang members barged into the Les Deux Mouches bar and fired several shots at Jean-Paul. Luckily for him, all the bullets missed. Jean-Paul was among the eleven Dubois Gang members, including his older brother Claude, that participated in the brutal August 1975 murders of Mario Saint-Pierre and his girlfriend Marie Talbot. Saint-Pierre, an associate of Devils Disciples biker gang leader Claude "Johnny Holliday" Ellefsen, and his girlfriend were lured to a meeting with Claude Dubois at a Saint-Michel-de-Wentworth chalet owned by Jean-Paul. Once there, he was interrogated and beaten for hours with the purpose of extracting Ellefsen's whereabouts. He was then stabbed to death and Talbot was murdered with a hatchet. Their bodies have never been found. When Donald Lavoie, who had been one of those present for the murders of Saint-Pierre and Talbot, decided to flip on December 23, 1980, life for Jean-Paul became stressful. When he heard in 1983 that he, his brother Claude, Michel and Claude Dubeau, and Alain Charron were going to be charged of the double murder, Jean-Paul went into hiding. Police were stumped. Jean-Paul seemed to had disappeared into thin air. In May 1988, after five years on the run, Jean-Paul Dubois surrendered to police at the Saint Jerome Court House. He pled guilty the next day to a reduced charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to three years in prison. He has since been released. |