The Hells hunting informers?

A police mole hunt by the Hells Angels could explain the theft of court documents at two Crown Attorneys a week ago.

This is an assumption envisaged by law enforcement as a possible motive for two burglaries perpetrated on September 5, in Montreal and Longueuil, at the homes of as many lawyers of the Office of Serious Crime.

The criminals stole only investigation reports and court documents without touching the valuables, according to La Presse reported Wednesday and whose Journal was able to obtain confirmation.

The victims represent the prosecution of the Objection drug trial, which resulted in the arrest of 70 alleged traffickers, including four members of the Hells Angels in April.

According to our sources, the thieves were hoping to get their hands on information about a criminal who collaborated with the police to infiltrate the network and trap suspects in this investigation.

In addition, it is likely that the perpetrators of these crimes also wanted to obtain information about other police informants in these documents.

On the other hand, there would be nothing that would compromise investigations or put people at risk in stolen reports, according to our sources. The Sûreté du Québec, responsible for elucidating these flights, made no comment Wednesday.

Assassination

In February 2000, civilian agent Claude DeSerres was murdered a few months after the Hells obtained information about him by stealing an investigator's laptop from a hotel room in Sherbrooke.

The Hells have been trying for a long time to guard against the use of informers. In particular, they put a half-million-dollar contract on the head of Operation SharQc informant Sylvain Boulanger.

In 1997, after having ordered the murders of two correctional officers, the former Hells chief Maurice "Mom" Boucher told Stéphane "Godasse" Gagné that "we would kill the family of [the] next informant's family". . Gagné became an informer the same year.