Gregory Woolley, the “godfather of gangs”, would have himself eliminated two members of the Reds opposed to his wishes

The late kingpin Gregory Woolley himself allegedly eliminated two Montreal street gang leaders because they refused to work with the Hells Angels, in addition to having humiliated him in front of bikers.

It was the hitman Frédérick Silva, a key witness for the Montreal police and the Sûreté du Québec in the largest ongoing criminal investigation in the country, who identified him as the alleged perpetrator of the murders of “Big” Chénier Dupuy and Lamartine Sévère Paul, according to information obtained by the QMI Agency and our Investigation Office.

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These two veterans of the Reds were shot and killed in the summer of 2012.

Silva, who could help Project Alliance investigators unravel 65 murder plots, also told them that Woolley would have ordered the assassination of Hells André Sauvageau, poisoned with fentanyl while he was in prison, in 2019, as we know reported Wednesday.

Silva incriminated Woolley even though the man called “the godfather of gangs” was his best client when it came time to settle scores in the underworld.

Slapped in front of Hells

Convicted in 2022 for three murders, Silva thus corroborated suspicions that had been circulating in the criminal community for a long time.

Woolley, a former member of the Montreal Rockers and the only black person to have worn the colors of a Hells school club in Quebec, had a disagreement with Dupuy, the leader of the Bo-Gars, during two altercations that occurred in bars in Sainte-Adèle and downtown Montreal during the summer of 2012, according to our sources.

Dupuy, who was nicknamed “Big”, even slapped Woolley in front of some Hells present at Solid Gold, rue Sainte-Catherine, claiming that he would never work with bikers like a “licious becyc”.

In the space of seven hours

“THE bikers would have told Greg to settle the case with “Big” if he didn’t want to lose his standing and respect for the street,” we can read in court documents from the Magot investigation, carried out between 2013 and 2015, where police informants are cited.

On August 10, 2012, at 6:52 p.m., Dupuy was shot by a black suspect in the Galeries d’Anjou parking lot, near the Bâton Rouge restaurant.

Then, at 2:21 a.m. on the night of August 11, the police were informed by a 911 call that Lamartine Sévère Paul, a relative of Dupuy, was lying on the steps of his home in Laval, after having been fatally shot by several projectiles.

Roles reversed

Frédérick Silva’s statements will allow the police to classify these two murder cases as solved, but the suspect will never be charged.

Gregory Woolley himself was shot and killed on November 17, 2023, in front of his partner and their baby, in the parking lot of the CLSC in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

According to our information, the police suspect, in particular, the Montreal gang Arab Power of having been involved in this assassination.

– With Marc Sandreschi and Jean-Louis Fortin, Investigation Office

The boss has been dreaming of an alliance for a long time

Gregory Woolley had long dreamed of unifying Montreal’s red and blue street gangs in order to include them in a business alliance with the Hells Angels and the Italian mafia.

According to our information, Woolley had also spoken about it to the former leader of the Hells Angels Maurice “Mom” Boucher, in 1998, when the latter promoted him to member of the Montreal Rockers, the most violent of the school clubs of the gang of bikers.

But Woolley had to put his plan on ice, having spent almost all of the next 13 years behind bars, notably after being convicted of conspiracy to murder in Operation Spring 2001.

The boss, however, put his plan back on track upon his release in July 2011.

A year later, Woolley’s dream was still not unanimous among the Reds.

But barely three weeks after the murders of Chénier Dupuy and Lamartine Sévère Paul, the “godfather of gangs” gave the police a clue that the alliance of forces that he dreamed of concluding had finally come to fruition.

On September 2, 2012, at the funeral of Hells Gaétan Comeau in Montreal, the police were stunned to see Woolley arriving in the company of the Rizzuto clan’s lawyer Loris Cavaliere aboard the latter’s gleaming Ferrari.

This alliance of organized crime factions has not held water for more than two years, according to our information.