No immediate parole for gang leader Gregory Woolley
Gang leader Gregory Woolley, considered by the police to be an influential actor in Montreal organized crime with ties to both bikers and the Mafia, will not be able to go to the halfway house as he wished.
Woolley, 48, has just been turned down by parole commissioners, who consider that despite some progress since his last incarceration, the gang leader still poses a significant risk to society.
According to your contributors, your criminality is one of choice, aware and calculated to satisfy an oversized ego, a need to please and control, and fueled by numerous visits to the criminal environment and significant notoriety. " "The commission has taken into account that you have committed particularly serious crimes considering what drugs can have on society in general and its leverage on crime in particular. Your crimes are made more serious by the fact that you are linked to a criminal organization and that you were placed high in the organizational pyramid. In addition, the commission took into account in its decision that this is your third federal sentence and that there is no criminal lull in your home, "wrote the commissioners in their 10-page decision. In conflict with a fellow prisoner
They also point out that Woolley is not a subject of interest in relation to a possible involvement in illicit activities in the penitentiary since the beginning of his imprisonment but that he is nonetheless because of his frequentations with individuals linked to organized crime inside the walls, and that he participates in activities organized by them. The commissioners say that Woolley maintains a cordial relationship with the members of the personnel and his fellow prisoners, but that the intelligence reports "suggest that he would have a major conflict with another inmate". Greg Woolley said during his hearing that journalists were unable to attend due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report, he had cut ties with his criminal relationships outside and that although he rubs shoulders with them in institutions, this does not mean that he is involved in criminal activities at the penitentiary.