| Raymond Craig |
| Raymond Craig was born around 1940 and became one of Canada’s largest drug importers. He shared amicable relations with the West End Gang and the Montreal Mafia, including a friendship with mob boss Frank Cotroni, and was said to be an intermediate between local gangs and drug cartels in South America.
Craig began his criminal career robbing banks, before graduating to loansharking and importing large amounts of cocaine. He soon established strong connections to suppliers in South America and even spent four years living in Colombia during the mid 1990s. These links were surely strengthened by the fact that Craig married a Bolivian woman with her own drug contacts. Sandra Antelo also imported large amounts of cocaine, but made a mistake when she became involved with the Hells Angels, something her husband had warned from doing. |
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Antelo first became involved with the famous biker gang through Michel Rose and André Chouinard, members of the club’s Nomads Chapter. The two sides reached a business agreement where Antelo would import between 200 and 500 kilograms of cocaine at a time for distribution by the Hells Angels. The shipments went on without a hitch for about two years, until problems arose over a delivery of 2,400 kilos of cocaine. The two sides could not agree on the price of a kilo and Craig, who had warned his wife about dealing with bikers, became involved in the deal. Antelo would later say that her husband urged for Hells Angels kingpin Maurice Boucher to become involved in the negotiations. But once the bikers had the cocaine shipment, Antelo said they told they would pay her whatever they wanted to pay her. The drug importer’s wife barely escaped death in June 2000. She was driving on Highway 15 when a car pulled up alongside her and someone opened fire. She was miraculously unharmed. Her husband wasn’t so lucky. Craig was gunned down after attending an annual golf tournament held by reputed underworld figure Claude Faber in Ste. Adele, north of Montreal, on August 29, 2000. Antelo later gave herself up to authorities and was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for her cooperation and testified at a mega trial of several Hells Angels, including Rose and Chouinard. |