| Michel "Sky" Langlois |
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| Michel Langlois was born in 1946 and joined the Popeyes biker gang when he was in his early twenties. He became a Hells Angel on December 7, 1977, when the Popeyes became Canada's first Hells Angels chapter. He was 31 years old. He earned the name "Sky," because he possessed a pilot's license and owned an aircraft. When the club's president, Yves "Le Boss" Buteau, was shot to death on September 8, 1983, Langlois replaced him as the Hell Angels' national president of Canada. Langlois played a passive role in the March 24, 1985 slaughter of five members of the club's North chapter in Lennoxville. When police put out a warrant for his arrest, Langlois disappeared. He snuck into Morocco, where he lived the life of a fugitive for two years. |
On April 13, 1988, Langlois and fellow Angels René "Canisse" Hébert and Guy "Junior" Auclair showed up at the Surete du Quebec headquarters in Sherbrooke and surrendered. Langlois received a two year prison sentence. Sky Langlois, along with seven members and two prospects, left the Montreal chapter on March 1, 1997 and created the South Chapter. All the members had no convictions within the last five years, to avoid being classified under federal legislation as a criminal organization. Robert Savard, 44, was arrested at the Lacolle border crossing in Southern Quebec on January 18, 1998. Police found 178 kilograms of cocaine, worth an estimated $71 million, hidden in the walls of the trailor house he pulled behind his van. The drug was brought from Mexico and was intended to be distributed in Montreal The courrier was eventually sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Langlois was arrested at his Longueuil home on October 14, 1998 and charged with importing and conspiring to import the 178 kilograms of cocaine seized in January. Through the efforts of a double agent, police discovered that he had allegedly bankrolled 15% of the drug operation. A man Langlois called "Le Grand Manitou" provided the rest of the funds. In the hope of convincing the judge to grant Langlois bail, his lawyer presented the court with four witnesses, including the biker's girlfriend. Micheline Blanchard, who was the girlfriend of Hells Angels president Yves "Le Boss" Buteau before he was murdered in 1983, described him as a good father and a man of his word. She also offered to put up their $186,000 family home in Longueuil as security. The bullet riddled body of one of Langlois' accomplices, 29 year old Genevieve Dubois, was found in a forest in Saint-Hubert on February 12, 1999. A drug courrier for the Hells Angels, police suspect that she was murdered because the bikers feared she would flip and testify against Langlois. Evidence against Langlois, who is only one of three of the founding members of the Hells Angels in Canada still alive, included videotaped meetings. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and a $20,000 fine on July 9, 1999. |