Greg Carr
2006-08-15 23:42:59 UTC
Accused biker hit man extradited to Canada
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Switzerland has extradited to Canada a
man wanted by authorities there for murder and attempted murder, who
has confessed to other killings, a Swiss justice official said Tuesday.
Swiss newspapers have reported that the 56-year-old Canadian national,
arrested on charges of credit-card fraud in a Geneva hotel in May, has
confessed to committing up to 26 killings as a hit man for the Hell's
Angels.
"He was extradited yesterday [Monday]," said Folco Galli, spokesman for
the Swiss federal police.
He wouldn't comment on the man's possible links to the Hell's Angels,
the international motorcycle gang.
"He was sought for murder and attempted murder. It seems he told
Canadian police officials that he also committed other murders," Galli
added.
The man, who was not identified, agreed to his extradition and to
potential prosecution on other charges, Galli said.
Three Canadian police officers flew back with him from Geneva.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/08/15/swiss.canada.reut/
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Rather sad that I had to learn about the extradition of an accused
criminal biker hit man who is supposedly claiming to have killed almost
as many ppl as ABOMINATION Yves "Apache" Trudeau the convicted HA hit
man and cocaine addict also convicted of kiddie diddling from an
American web site. Heard nothing from the Cdn media about this which is
lame. If the confession of this killer is true it would make him the
second leading biker gang assasin in Cdn history.
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Yves "Apache" Trudeau
Yves Trudeau, known as "Apache" and "The Mad Bumper," was
born in the mid 1940s. Standing five-foot-six and weighing 135 pounds,
Trudeau didn't look like the prototypical biker, but that did not
stop him from becoming the Hells Angels most prolific killer to
date.
Trudeau became a founding member of the Hells Angels in Quebec
in 1977, when the Popeyes became the official Montreal Chapter for the
internationally renowned biker club.
The Montreal Chapter eventually grew so large that Trudeau and
others broke away in September 1979 to form the North Chapter,
based in Laval. The group would become known for its violent and
reckless behaviour and excessive drug use.
Trudeau was no exception. In one three-week span, the biker
spent $60,000 on cocaine. During another week, he wasted $25,000 on the
drug.
The biker has admitted to killing 43 people from September 73 to
July 1985. His talent in the ruthless trade earned him the "filthy
few" patch, awarded to members who have killed for the gang. He was
the first Canadian Hells Angel to earn the decoration.
Trudeau's first victim was Jean-Marie Viel, shot to death in
Trois-Rivieres in 1970 after he made the mistake of stealing a
motorcycle from the Popeyes.
Others soon followed. Among them were Donald McLean, a member of
the rival Outlaws gang, and his girlfriend Carmen Piche, blown up
in May 1980 when a bomb attached to McLean's Harley Davidson
exploded.
Jeanne Desjardins, a grandmother, was killed in February 1980 for
trying to help her son, ex-Hells Angel Andre Desjardins. Trudeau
battered her to death and then killed her son and his girlfriend.
The bodies of the latter two were dumped in the St. Lawrence River.
Michel Desormiers, a brother-in-law of reputed mob boss Frank
Cotroni, was gunned down in July 1983. He had reportedly been the
driver in a hit carried out by the Hells Angels. The killing
was supposedly cleared with members of the Montreal Mafia first.
Reputed West End Gang member Hugh Patrick McGurnaghan was blown to
shreds in Westmount in October 1981, when a bomb planted in his
Mercedes-Benz detonated. Trudeau later said West End Gang chieftain
Frank Peter "Dunie" Ryan had hired him to commit the murder.
Even fellow Hells Angels weren't safe. Trudeau and other bikers
killed Charlie Hachez, a member of the North Chapter, because he had
a heavy drug problem and owed Dunie Ryan almost $150,000 in drug
money. Hachez was lured to a meeting, killed, and his body dumped in
the St. Lawrence River.
And when Dunie Ryan was himself murdered, Trudeau was hired to
take care of business. He and fellow Hells Angels hitman Michel
Blass delivered a television set stuffed with explosives to
the apartment where Ryan's alleged killers were holed up. The
thundering explosion ripped through the building. Four people died
and eight others were injured.
Trudeau claimed that Allan "The Weasel" Ross had offered to
pay him $200,000 to eliminate Ryan's killers. Afterward the murders
though, Ross supposedly told Trudeau to collect the cash from the
Hells Angels Montreal Chapter and the 13th Tribe of Halifax, who
would become a Hells chapter shortly thereafter, both of whom had
owed Ryan large sums of drug money.
The Mad Bumper said he approached the Montreal Chapter about
payment but they refused. This only added to the resentment many Hells
Angels already felt towards members of the North Chapter.
Other Hells Angels felt that the North Chapter bikers were too
wild and uncontrollable. They often used drugs they were supposed to
sell and were suspected of screwing other chapters out of dope
profits.
A meeting was scheduled at the Sherbrooke Chapter's clubhouse.
At that gathering, five members of the North Chapter were shot to
death, wrapped in sleeping bags, and dumped in the St. Lawrence River.
A few others were allowed to live and were absorbed into the Montreal
Chapter.
Trudeau was supposed to be at that meeting, but had enrolled
in a detoxification program shortly before. He later said he wanted
to clean himself up, because he knew what happened to members who
were always stoned.
News of the North Chapter slaughter soon reached Trudeau at the
centre. He even received a visit from Normal "Biff" Hamel, a
then-prospect with the Montreal Chapter. Trudeau was told that he
was out of the gang and would have to have his gang tattoos removed.
After being released from the detoxification program, Trudeau
discovered that the Hells Angels had taken his motorcycle and $46,000
in cash that belonged to him from the North Chapter clubhouse. They
said they would return the bike if he killed two people for the gang.
Trudeau succeeded in bumping off one of the targets. Jean-Marc
Deniger is killed in May 1985 and stuffed in his car. Satisfied, the
Hells Angels gave Trudeau his motorcycle back.
But Trudeau knew he was living on borrowed time. The Hells
Angels had taken out a $50,000 contract on his head. He decided to
switch sides and became a government witness. He wasn't alone
either: biker thugs Michel Blass, Gilles "Le Nez" Lachane, and
Gerry "Le Chat" Coulombe also became informants.
Trudeau pleaded guilty to 43 killings, and spilled the beans on
40 other murders and 15 attempted murders. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Under his deal, the government reportedly gave him
$40,000 over the next four years and gave him about $35 a week for
cigarettes.
He was released after seven years in prison and has been resettled
under a different name.
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Ex-biker hitman imprisoned for child molesting
Updated Wed. Jul. 14 2004 11:29 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A former Hells Angels hitman who turned informant and who confessed to
participation in 43 murders will be going back to prison for sexually
abusing a boy.
Yves (Apache) Trudeau, 58, was sentenced to four years pleaded guilty
in April to two counts each of sexual interference, invitation to
sexual touching and sexual exploitation.
His victim was under 14 when the exploitation began. The offences took
place between September 2000 to this past February.
"We asked for four years and the judge gave a sentence of four years,"
Crown prosecutor Sonia Paquet told reporters, adding, "I think justice
was rendered."
When Trudeau committed his crimes, he had been out of prison on parole
since 1993. It was part of a deal he made to provide evidence against
other members of the Hells Angels, a powerful organized crime
organization.
Trudeau was motivated to help authorities when he realized the Angels
were trying to eliminate the Laval chapter because of its unruliness.
Information on almost 100 homicides was provided to police by Trudeau,
who also supplied information on the biker gang's drug network.
He also told police about the 43 killings he personally carried out,
such as building the bomb that blew up four men in a Montreal apartment
in 1984.
Trudeau was sentenced to life in prison in 1986 on manslaughter
charges. People are eligible for parole after seven years.
When he left prison, Trudeau did various menial jobs under his new
identity, including driving a bus for handicapped people.
After 2000, he lived on welfare and unemployment insurance.
Trudeau had killed more people than the Canadian military in the 1991
Gulf War, said Judge Michel Duceppe as he passed sentence.
While he found Trudeau's past deplorable, Duceppe predicted a "wretched
future."
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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Switzerland has extradited to Canada a
man wanted by authorities there for murder and attempted murder, who
has confessed to other killings, a Swiss justice official said Tuesday.
Swiss newspapers have reported that the 56-year-old Canadian national,
arrested on charges of credit-card fraud in a Geneva hotel in May, has
confessed to committing up to 26 killings as a hit man for the Hell's
Angels.
"He was extradited yesterday [Monday]," said Folco Galli, spokesman for
the Swiss federal police.
He wouldn't comment on the man's possible links to the Hell's Angels,
the international motorcycle gang.
"He was sought for murder and attempted murder. It seems he told
Canadian police officials that he also committed other murders," Galli
added.
The man, who was not identified, agreed to his extradition and to
potential prosecution on other charges, Galli said.
Three Canadian police officers flew back with him from Geneva.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/08/15/swiss.canada.reut/
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Rather sad that I had to learn about the extradition of an accused
criminal biker hit man who is supposedly claiming to have killed almost
as many ppl as ABOMINATION Yves "Apache" Trudeau the convicted HA hit
man and cocaine addict also convicted of kiddie diddling from an
American web site. Heard nothing from the Cdn media about this which is
lame. If the confession of this killer is true it would make him the
second leading biker gang assasin in Cdn history.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yves "Apache" Trudeau
Yves Trudeau, known as "Apache" and "The Mad Bumper," was
born in the mid 1940s. Standing five-foot-six and weighing 135 pounds,
Trudeau didn't look like the prototypical biker, but that did not
stop him from becoming the Hells Angels most prolific killer to
date.
Trudeau became a founding member of the Hells Angels in Quebec
in 1977, when the Popeyes became the official Montreal Chapter for the
internationally renowned biker club.
The Montreal Chapter eventually grew so large that Trudeau and
others broke away in September 1979 to form the North Chapter,
based in Laval. The group would become known for its violent and
reckless behaviour and excessive drug use.
Trudeau was no exception. In one three-week span, the biker
spent $60,000 on cocaine. During another week, he wasted $25,000 on the
drug.
The biker has admitted to killing 43 people from September 73 to
July 1985. His talent in the ruthless trade earned him the "filthy
few" patch, awarded to members who have killed for the gang. He was
the first Canadian Hells Angel to earn the decoration.
Trudeau's first victim was Jean-Marie Viel, shot to death in
Trois-Rivieres in 1970 after he made the mistake of stealing a
motorcycle from the Popeyes.
Others soon followed. Among them were Donald McLean, a member of
the rival Outlaws gang, and his girlfriend Carmen Piche, blown up
in May 1980 when a bomb attached to McLean's Harley Davidson
exploded.
Jeanne Desjardins, a grandmother, was killed in February 1980 for
trying to help her son, ex-Hells Angel Andre Desjardins. Trudeau
battered her to death and then killed her son and his girlfriend.
The bodies of the latter two were dumped in the St. Lawrence River.
Michel Desormiers, a brother-in-law of reputed mob boss Frank
Cotroni, was gunned down in July 1983. He had reportedly been the
driver in a hit carried out by the Hells Angels. The killing
was supposedly cleared with members of the Montreal Mafia first.
Reputed West End Gang member Hugh Patrick McGurnaghan was blown to
shreds in Westmount in October 1981, when a bomb planted in his
Mercedes-Benz detonated. Trudeau later said West End Gang chieftain
Frank Peter "Dunie" Ryan had hired him to commit the murder.
Even fellow Hells Angels weren't safe. Trudeau and other bikers
killed Charlie Hachez, a member of the North Chapter, because he had
a heavy drug problem and owed Dunie Ryan almost $150,000 in drug
money. Hachez was lured to a meeting, killed, and his body dumped in
the St. Lawrence River.
And when Dunie Ryan was himself murdered, Trudeau was hired to
take care of business. He and fellow Hells Angels hitman Michel
Blass delivered a television set stuffed with explosives to
the apartment where Ryan's alleged killers were holed up. The
thundering explosion ripped through the building. Four people died
and eight others were injured.
Trudeau claimed that Allan "The Weasel" Ross had offered to
pay him $200,000 to eliminate Ryan's killers. Afterward the murders
though, Ross supposedly told Trudeau to collect the cash from the
Hells Angels Montreal Chapter and the 13th Tribe of Halifax, who
would become a Hells chapter shortly thereafter, both of whom had
owed Ryan large sums of drug money.
The Mad Bumper said he approached the Montreal Chapter about
payment but they refused. This only added to the resentment many Hells
Angels already felt towards members of the North Chapter.
Other Hells Angels felt that the North Chapter bikers were too
wild and uncontrollable. They often used drugs they were supposed to
sell and were suspected of screwing other chapters out of dope
profits.
A meeting was scheduled at the Sherbrooke Chapter's clubhouse.
At that gathering, five members of the North Chapter were shot to
death, wrapped in sleeping bags, and dumped in the St. Lawrence River.
A few others were allowed to live and were absorbed into the Montreal
Chapter.
Trudeau was supposed to be at that meeting, but had enrolled
in a detoxification program shortly before. He later said he wanted
to clean himself up, because he knew what happened to members who
were always stoned.
News of the North Chapter slaughter soon reached Trudeau at the
centre. He even received a visit from Normal "Biff" Hamel, a
then-prospect with the Montreal Chapter. Trudeau was told that he
was out of the gang and would have to have his gang tattoos removed.
After being released from the detoxification program, Trudeau
discovered that the Hells Angels had taken his motorcycle and $46,000
in cash that belonged to him from the North Chapter clubhouse. They
said they would return the bike if he killed two people for the gang.
Trudeau succeeded in bumping off one of the targets. Jean-Marc
Deniger is killed in May 1985 and stuffed in his car. Satisfied, the
Hells Angels gave Trudeau his motorcycle back.
But Trudeau knew he was living on borrowed time. The Hells
Angels had taken out a $50,000 contract on his head. He decided to
switch sides and became a government witness. He wasn't alone
either: biker thugs Michel Blass, Gilles "Le Nez" Lachane, and
Gerry "Le Chat" Coulombe also became informants.
Trudeau pleaded guilty to 43 killings, and spilled the beans on
40 other murders and 15 attempted murders. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Under his deal, the government reportedly gave him
$40,000 over the next four years and gave him about $35 a week for
cigarettes.
He was released after seven years in prison and has been resettled
under a different name.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:nBIoC3FsPV0J:www.geocities.com/wiseguywally/YvesTrudeau.html+%22yves+trudeau%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
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Ex-biker hitman imprisoned for child molesting
Updated Wed. Jul. 14 2004 11:29 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A former Hells Angels hitman who turned informant and who confessed to
participation in 43 murders will be going back to prison for sexually
abusing a boy.
Yves (Apache) Trudeau, 58, was sentenced to four years pleaded guilty
in April to two counts each of sexual interference, invitation to
sexual touching and sexual exploitation.
His victim was under 14 when the exploitation began. The offences took
place between September 2000 to this past February.
"We asked for four years and the judge gave a sentence of four years,"
Crown prosecutor Sonia Paquet told reporters, adding, "I think justice
was rendered."
When Trudeau committed his crimes, he had been out of prison on parole
since 1993. It was part of a deal he made to provide evidence against
other members of the Hells Angels, a powerful organized crime
organization.
Trudeau was motivated to help authorities when he realized the Angels
were trying to eliminate the Laval chapter because of its unruliness.
Information on almost 100 homicides was provided to police by Trudeau,
who also supplied information on the biker gang's drug network.
He also told police about the 43 killings he personally carried out,
such as building the bomb that blew up four men in a Montreal apartment
in 1984.
Trudeau was sentenced to life in prison in 1986 on manslaughter
charges. People are eligible for parole after seven years.
When he left prison, Trudeau did various menial jobs under his new
identity, including driving a bus for handicapped people.
After 2000, he lived on welfare and unemployment insurance.
Trudeau had killed more people than the Canadian military in the 1991
Gulf War, said Judge Michel Duceppe as he passed sentence.
While he found Trudeau's past deplorable, Duceppe predicted a "wretched
future."
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