https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/05/06/les-hells-angels-ont-de-nouvelles-recruesThe Hells Angels have new recruits
Éric Thibault
ÉRIC THIBAULT
Monday, May 6, 2019 13:33
UPDATE Monday, May 6, 2019 13:33
The Hells Angels took advantage of their first motorcycle show of the year to welcome two new members in good standing in their ranks late last week.
The police identified the gang's new recruits during the traditional "First Run" of the Hells, in which more than 250 bikers participated in Beauce .
Michael Parent became the newest full-patch member of the South Chapter, while Philippe Carrier received his nomadic jacket from the New Brunswick-based Nomads Chapter, according to Le Journal .
Parent has already been considered a lieutenant of the influential biker Kenny Bédard, who died wearing the Montreal Hells chapter in a motorcycle accident in the summer of 2016.
Carrier escaped Operation SharQc when he and 30 other bikers accused of drug trafficking and gangsterism were released in May 2011 because the court felt they could not be tried in a timely manner.
Return of the "Mammoth"
The Sûreté du Québec also noted on Saturday that another veteran Hells Angels, Michel "Mammouth" Grenier, was wearing his "colors" of the Sherbrooke Chapter of the band.
Grenier, who was sentenced to 12 ½ years in jail for a murder plot in the wake of Operation SharQc, was able to halve his sentence in the Court of Appeal in 2016 and is now free.
Wanted for 31 months following this operation, the 53-year-old rider had imposed a diet and lost several tens of pounds to escape the police during his run.
The Sherbrooke Hells section, which has been inactive since Operation SharQc 2009 because it does not have enough staff, now has four members in good standing.
This is two less than the minimum required to be able to become an official chapter of this biker club under its internal rules.
138 fines awarded
The Hells now have close to 90 members in good standing in Quebec. The gang is also assisted in its illicit activities by about 200 color holders of its 20 partisan clubs.
Last weekend's rally in Frampton coincided with the arrival of the Red Devils as the Hells' new "club-school" of the Quebec chapter.
The Red Devils are already present in several provinces and represent the largest Hells affiliated club in Canada.
The police present at the weekend on the site of this parade were not idle.
They issued 138 statements of offense - mainly for motorcycles whose exhaust system was found to be non-compliant or defective - and seized four vehicles. However, the patrol boats did not make any arrests.
