Maurice "Mom" Boucher tribute thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alex23]

A true patriarcal quebec brother.


Maurice "Mom" Boucher (born June 21, 1953) is a high-ranking Hells Angels member and a Canadian convicted criminal.

Born in Causapscal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in the tough Hochelaga-Maisonneuve section of Montreal, where his family moved when he was two years old, Boucher was arrested several times during his youth for small acts of delinquency.

His first experience with biker gangs was in a local Montreal-based biker gang called the SS. Ironically, one of the fellow members of the gang was Salvatore Cazzetta, a biker who would later go on to be one of the founders of the Rock Machine, with whom Boucher's Hells Angels would eventually be locked in a bloody turf war.

By late 1987, soon after finishing a 40-month sentence for armed sexual assault, Boucher joined the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club in Montreal and quickly began rising through the ranks. By the early 1990s, he was considered one of the most powerful bikers in the province and was involved in numerous lucrative criminal activities such as cocaine trafficking and loan sharking.

In 1994, following the arrest of Salvatore Cazzetta on charges of conspiring to import 11 tonnes of cocaine, the Rock Machine was rendered temporarily leaderless. Boucher, by now president of the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels, decided to make his move against the Rock Machine and other independent dealers. His ultimate aim was to establish a Hells Angels monopoly over street-level drug dealing in the Montreal area and eventually the whole province. This would be the spark that would set off the Quebec Biker war.

In 1995, Boucher decided to start a new Hells Angels chapter which he would lead. The Hells Angels Nomads chapter was a group made up of the most powerful Hells Angels in Quebec and not bound by geographical locations like other Hells Angels chapters.

During the intense war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine, he ordered the murders of two Quebec correctional guards. Besides the blow to the judicial system in Quebec, Boucher wanted crimes committed by bikers that would be so serious that prosecutors wouldn't want to make deals to turn bikers into informants.

Boucher was convicted for those murders (on the second attempt) with the help of a police informer in May 2002. The key witness for the prosecution was Stephane Gagne, who was involved in both murders. He testified he was ordered to carry out the killings by Boucher lieutenants Andre (Toots) Tousignant and Paul (Fon Fon) Fontaine and was later congratulated by Boucher himself. After 11 days of deliberation by the jury, Boucher was found guilty of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree murder. Boucher received an automatic life sentence, with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years.

Boucher has gained notoriety in Quebec similar to mafia figures like Frank Cotroni during the 1970s. He is currently detained in the only Canadian Super-Maximum security penitentiary located in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, north of Montreal.

Boucher is married and has a son, Francis Boucher, who was a member of the Rockers MC, a Hells Angels puppet gang in Montreal.

[chaos]

Those Nomads are pretty good guys.

[Alex23]

Those Nomads are pretty good guys.

I used to train with some of the Nomads guys when I was in college up there in the mid 90's. Some of them still around are invited to the wedding.

Brotherhood goes a long way, even for a "hang around".

[chaos]

It seems it does.

[tommywishbone]

The Big Red Machine!

[Alex23]

A true hero fighting for a province raided by filthy immigrants trying to milk down the system.

[TechnoViking]

A true hero fighting for a province raided by filthy immigrants trying to milk down the system.

Alex-you look pretty familiar. Have you ever been in a band?

[Alex23]

While still on parole for firearm possession, Boucher was overheard on a wiretapped telephone advising  Hells Angels sympathizer Steven Bertrand to  assault someone with a  baseball bat. Police issued an arrest warrant for his arrest  and Boucher turned himself  in at 5:30 p.m. on October 25, 1995. The judge ruled that the prosecutor had not proved that Boucher was a threat to society and "Mom" was liberated.

   But police knew  Boucher was key to the Hells Angels Quebec operations and arrested him again on December 18, 1997. He was charged  with ordering the  murders of  two prison guards. Diane Lavigne  was gunned down in her automobile, as she drove home after her shift  at Montreal's Bordeaux prison  and Pierre Rondeau was murdered while at the wheel of a prison transport bus.

     Security  was severe in the  courtroom  and everyone entering was examined  and videotaped. Stephane Gagne, who  admitted to participating in the  murders on Boucher's orders, testified against the feared Hells Angels leader. But the defence hammered away at his credibility to such  an extent that the jury ruled that Gagne had none.

     The  world was stunned on November 27, 1998 when the jury pronounced Boucher innocent of all charges. Friends applauded as he  swaggered out  of  the  courtroom. Boucher, accompanied  by bodyguards, spent his first night of freedom at Montreal's Molson Centre, where  he  watched boxer  Davey Hilton  defeat  Stephane Ouellet in  a surprising upset. The 18,000 fight fans in the building welcomed Boucher and gave him a standing ovation.