It remains a mystery why Stadnick 's nickname is " Nurget " ; one Hamilton police officer says it goes back to his high school days when as the neighborhood hash dealer , Stadnick always had a " nugget " of hash to sell . In 1987 , Stadnick went to Toronto to try to persuade an outlaw biker club , the Vagabonds , to " patch over " to become Hells Angels , but the club were unwilling to submit to the sort of self-discipline that Stadnick wanted . From 1987 onward , Stadnick was closely associated with Maurice Boucher who had become a " full patch " Hells Angel on 3 May 1987 . In 1988 , Stadnick become the national president of the Canadian Hells Angels . In the spring of 1988 , Langlois fled to Morocco to escape charges of first-degree murder in connection with his role in the Lennoxville massacre of 1985 , and Stadnick was chosen to be his successor . Stadnick immediately appointed Boucher his Quebec lieutenant and informed him that he would largely run Hells Angels operations in Quebec while Stadnick focused on expanding the Angels into the rest of Canada . In one of his first acts as president , Stadnick together with Boucher went to Quebec City on 28 May 1988 to meet the leaders of an outlaw biker club called the Vikings . The meeting went so well that the Vikings agreed to " patch over " to become Hells Angels ' Quebec City chapter the same night . On 23 August 1988 , Stadnick was arrested at the home of Douglas Freeborn , a former Satan 's Choice member and a prominent drug dealer in Hamilton . Found with him were 11 ounces of hash , which led the police to charge him with intention to sell drugs , but the charges were dropped were Freeborn sworn in court that the hash belonged to him and Stadnick had nothing to do with his drug-dealing
Lennoxville massacre
Lennoxville massacre
Wolodumir “Walter” Stadnick