45 searches against Hells Angels

A biker suing the state for $ 16 million is among the suspects targeted

The search blitz of 45 searches conducted yesterday to support an investigation targeting a vast network of traffickers brought the police into this condo building in Brossard, where the biker Kaven Langlois lives, as well as in Montreal in this lava -auto Pointe-aux-Trembles area.

A notorious Hells Angel who claims $ 16 million from the government alleging that he was unfairly charged with murder in Operation SharQc is now undergoing a major drug investigation.

Daniel "Capoté" Beaulieu was visited by the National Crime Suppression Squad (ENRCO), which conducted a series of 45 searches in several regions of Quebec and New Brunswick yesterday. However, the police did not arrest anyone.

Motorcyclist residing in Saint-Jacques, New Brunswick, is suspected of being a key player in a drug smuggling ring in eastern Quebec to the Maritimes, police sources say .

This organization had ramifications everywhere, according to the extensive searches carried out in Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec and Moncton, as well as in the Laurentians, Mauricie and Beauce.

Main targets

Former member of the chapter of the Hells of Quebec, Beaulieu, 60 years old, joined the first section "Nomads" of the gang in New Brunswick, two years ago.

He went there to join Emery "Pit" Martin, another former Quebec Hells considered the leader of the New Brunswick chapter of the band.

Yesterday, the police also visited the twin brothers Éric and Yannick Blanchette, Beaucerons who have also become members of the Hells in New Brunswick. The home of another Quebecker, Kaven Langlois, a Moncton Red Devils coach, the number one Hells club in Canada, was also searched in Brossard.

Just eight months ago, Daniel Beaulieu made a name for himself by filing a massive $ 16.4 million lawsuit against the Sûreté du Québec and the Attorney General of the province. He wants to be compensated for the 6 years he spent in Bordeaux prison in the wake of the 2009 SharQc operation .

Charged with murder and conspiracy, the veteran biker was released from all charges without even having to go to court in the spring of 2015.

He claims that he was accused without evidence on the sole basis of statements made by ex-Hells Angel Sylvain Boulanger, paid $ 3 million to become an informer.

According to him, Beaulieu allegedly participated in the murder of a Rock Machine sympathizer in the Quebec City area at the time of the biker war in 2000.

The Boulanger informer also claimed that Beaulieu had temporarily left the Hells in the late 1990s, while serving a long term of incarceration, to convince the parole authorities to let him out of jail more quickly.

WHO ARE THE SUSPECTS?

Daniel Beaulieu

Daniel Beaulieu

• In May 1988, he was one of the founding members of the chapter of Québec des Hells.
• In 1994, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to import 740 kg of cocaine with other Hells and mafia gangster Raynald Desjardins. The previous year, due to mechanical problems, the crew of the boat returning from Venezuela with cocaine hidden in ten sewer pipes was forced to dump the goods at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The police fished the drugs off Nova Scotia.

Eric and Yannick Blanchette
Yannick Blanchette
Eric Blanchette

• Originally from Beauce, they were arrested in 2012 in Cabarete, Dominican Republic, a country where the Quebec Hells founded a chapter three years earlier. Local police found drugs and firearms in their possession.

Kaven Langlois
Kaven Langlois

• He was a prospect in the Hells chapter of Quebec when the police arrested him in Operation SharQc in 2009.
• Two years later, he and 30 other motorcyclists were released from drug trafficking and gangsterism charges against them when Judge James Brunton felt they could not be tried in a timely manner.