35 YEARS OF HISTORY OF THE STREET GANGS IN QUEBEC Street gangs have been in Montreal for 35 years now. Here are 10 events that marked their eventful history and shaped their evolution in Quebec.
1984 At the age of 19, Beauvoir Jean founded the first street gang in Montreal-North, the Master B, which later became the Bo-Gars. One of his emulators in this area of the Reds is the trafficker Bernard "Tipon" Mathieu, leader of the street gang Pelletier, who was then expelled from Canada. Rival gangs of Haitian origin also settle in the neighborhood
2002 Quebec City is shaken by Operation Scorpion as the police dismantle a large network of juvenile prostitution to notable clients, operated by the street gang Wolf Pack. Among the 11 condemned pimps, the head of the network, Nerva Lovinski, will receive six years' imprisonment.
2010 On March 18, three gunmen fired 70 projectiles inside the Flawnego, a shop in Old Montreal owned by gang leader Ducarme Joseph. The latter was absent, but his bodyguard and one of his uncles are killed. The shooting also caused two serious injuries. Joseph, founder of gang 67, was suspected of murdering the eldest son of Montreal mafia boss Nick Rizzuto Jr., who was killed three months earlier.
2014 On August 1, the formidable gang leader Ducarme Joseph, whose head was priced by the mafia, is shot dead in the street, in the Saint-Michel district. A follower of voodoo, he wore an amulet to protect himself. It is said that "Kenny" Joseph, who had even tried to steal a cargo of narcotics from the Hells Angels in 1999, believed himself invincible.
2018 On October 26, Gregory Woolley, considered the number one street gang and one of the leading organized crime leaders in Quebec, was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism. He was arrested in 2015 with other members of the Syndicate, two heads of the Montreal Mafia and some Hells Angels.