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Sep 23, 2023 · Maurice (Mom) Boucher, the reputed head of the Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels in Quebec, flashes peace sign to photographers outside a funeral home in Montreal where the wake for Normand (Biff ...
- Early Life
- Hells Angels
- Quebec Biker War
- Conviction
- Life Behind Bars
- References
Born in Causapscal, Quebec, Canada, Boucher was raised in poverty in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of inner-city Montreal, where his family moved when he was two years old. Boucher had seven siblings; his father worked as a construction worker while his mother stayed at home to raise their eight children. Boucher's father was an alcoholic who f...
In September 1984, Boucher held a gun to the head of a 16-year-old girl and threatened to kill her on the spot if she did not have sex with him, leading to his conviction for rape. During his time in prison, Boucher managed to illegally collect unemployment insurance. It wasn't until shortly before he was to be released in January 1986 that a clerk...
Starting the war
In 1994, following the arrest of Salvatore Cazzetta on charges of conspiring to import 200 kilos (440 lbs) 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, biker gang drug-dealing in the Montreal area—and eventually, all of Quebec.Boucher had the two...
The Nomads
In January 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. Boucher was the sole president of the Nomad chapter in name, but in practice the Nomads were led by the triumvirate of David "Wolf" Carroll (responsible for Atlantic Canada), Boucher (responsible for Quebec), and Stadnick (responsible fo...
The killings of Desrochers, Lavigne and Rondeau
In March 1995, Boucher was found to be carrying a handgun after he was pulled over by the police, doing a few months in prison. After his arrest, a Sûreté du Québec detective told Boucher that the RCMP had a "coded informer" numbered C-2994 within his gang. During his time in prison, Boucher quarrelled with the warden, Nicole Quesnel, after she refused his request to give him day passes and on 9 June 1995, her house was burned down after being firebombed by masked men riding Harley-Davidson m...
During the intense war between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine, Boucher ordered the murders of Quebec correctional officersDiane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau in 1997. Both officers had been chosen at random. Besides the blow to the judicial system in Quebec, Boucher wanted crimes committed by bikers that would be so serious that prosecutors wou...
Boucher was detained in the only Canadian Super-Maximum security penitentiary, located in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, north of Montreal. In May 2002, Boucher was held in the prison's E-block section where other Hells Angels were housed. In the spring of 2002, Boucher played volleyball with his fellow Angels in the prison yard, and for reasons that rem...
Bibliography
1. Auger, Michel (2002). The Biker who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 2. Auger, Michel; Edwards, Peter (2012). The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 3. Cherry, Paul (2005). The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-638-6. 4. Langton, Jerry (2006). Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels. Toron...
Photos of Maurice "Mom" Boucher, an outlaw biker sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murders of two Quebec prison guards in 1997.
Maurice "Mom" Boucher is an outlaw biker sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murders of two Quebec prison guards in 1997.
Maurice (Mom) Boucher was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on Friday for his leading role in a plot to murder Raynald Desjardins, an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia.
Jul 10, 2022 · The former head of the Quebec section of the Hells Angels, Maurice Boucher, better known by the nickname "Mom," has died. He was 69.
Feb 20, 2024 · The Nomads were an elite chapter created by Maurice (Mom) Boucher to fight the war he started with rival organized crime groups.
