| Yvon "Ti-Rouge" Doucet |
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| Yvon "Ti-Rouge" Doucet was a close associate of Claude Dubois, the reputed leader of the Dubois Gang. Doucet, police alleged, worked once worked as Dubois' loan collector. A Montreal Gazette article stated that Doucet was once "the King of the seedy section of Montreal's lower St. Laurent Blvd, The Main." "During the Dubois's heyday [in the 60's and 70's], Ti-Rouge took a percentage of all the action on [the] strip," a police officer once told the newspaper. Around 1964, the government said, Claude Dubois began to take control of the downtown area, extorting money from pimps, prostitutes, and nightclub employees. |
One prostitute, who worked on St Catherine Street between 1970 and 1973, told authorities that when she solicited customers in the Saguenay club, a bar controlled by the Dubois Gang, she had to give $5 per customer to Doucet or Réal Levesque, another alleged Dubois Gang member, who both worked as doormen at the establishment. In the 1970s, the Commission d'Énquete sur le Crime Organisé (CECO) played a taped telephone conversation between Doucet and Claude Dubois that took place on April 22, 1974. During their talk, Dubois allegedly gave Doucet the names of numerous loanshark customers that he wanted Ti-Rouge to collect from that day. Doucet and Dubois both denied the CECO's allegations. Doucet was last mentioned in the media in mid-March, 1989, when he attended the funeral of Raymond Dubois, the oldest brother of the infamous family. Doucet was among the 150 or mourners who came to pay their respects at the St. Zotique Church in St. Henri. In a Montreal Gazette article about the funeral, journalist Eddie Collister described Doucet as "a short, pot-bellied man with a bulldog nose." Doucet, Collister wrote, could be seen shaking hands with people after the church service until the hearse left for Notre Dame des Neiges cemetery. Like other senior members of the Dubois Gang, Doucet hasn't made headlines in over a decade. |