It was during his time in the SS that Boucher , until then an undistinguished petty criminal , first showed the charisma and ability to lead that later marked his time in the Hells Angels . One of Boucher 's most consistent enemies , Commander André Bouchard of the Montreal police who first encountered Boucher in the 1970s , described Boucher during his time in the SS : " He was muscle . He was a crazy fucker . They 'd send him out to beat up some guy . He was stoned half the time " . The journalist James Dubro stated about the distinctive outlaw biking sub-culture in Quebec : " There 's always has been more violence in Quebec . In the biker world it 's known as the Red Zone . I remember an Outlaws hit man telling me he was scared going to Montreal . " In an interview , Commander Bouchard described Boucher as a man who loved publicity and who was always smiling for the cameras . Bouchard stated : He 'd do it on purpose , come out of the funeral parlor , stand with ten or twelve of his guys , look right into the cameras and smile and wave . But he never talked . Because I 'll tell you honestly , he ca n't put two words together . However , Bouchard went to say though Boucher is a semi-literate thug who has a great deal of trouble speaking coherent sentences that : He 's very intelligent in the way he runs people . He 's got a very high leadership quality . If he was straight , he 'd be a great manager for any business ... He rules by fear . People respect him because they fear him . They do n't respect him because he 's respectable . In March , 1985 , a Lennoxville , Quebec chapter of the Hells Angels suspected the Laval chapter of wasting drug profits by using too much of the product themselves and ripping off the Nova Scotia chapter of $ 96,000 . The Laval chapter was invited to a Lennoxville chapter party . When the five Laval members arrived , they were ambushed and murdered . Two months later , divers located the decomposing bodies of the victims wrapped in sleeping bags and tied to weightlifting plates at the bottom of the St. Lawrence River . What became known as the Lennoxville massacre was considered extreme even for the criminal underworld , and it gave Quebec 's Hells Angels a notorious reputation . Boucher was impressed with the Lennoxville massacre , which proved to him that the Angels were sufficiently ruthless for his tastes , and only criticized Réjean " Zig Zag " Lessard , the man behind the massacre , for sparing three Angels from the Laval chapter instead of killing them . Cazzetta found the ambush — essentially , biker " brothers " killing their own — to be an unforgivable breach of the outlaw code . He refused Boucher 's offer to join him at the top of the Quebec Hell 's Angels , and instead formed his own smaller gang — the Rock Machine — with his brother Giovanni in 1986 . In the aftermath of the massacre , Yves " Apache " Trudeau , the Angels ' leading killer , turned Crown 's evidence and his testimony sent 39 Angels to prison . The late 1980s were a period of flux for the Angels in Quebec and Boucher rose very rapidly through the ranks . Laurent Viau of the Laval chapter had been killed in the Lennoxville massacre , Réjean Lessard of the Sorel chapter had been convicted of first-degree murder for ordering the Lennoxville massacre , and Angels ' national president Michel Langois fled to Morocco to escape charges of first-degree murder relating to the Lennoxville massacre
Lennoxville massacre
Lennoxville massacre
Maurice Boucher