Homicide victim linked to Hells Angels, recently released from jail

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The latest murder victim in town was a man linked to the Hells Angels who recently admitted he was a criminal and had no intention of changing.

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Charles Olivier Boucher-Savard, 33, died in a hospital Thursday after being shot multiple times near Lafontaine Park Wednesday night. In September, he was released from a federal penitentiary after serving two-thirds of the sentence he received for stabbing a person linked to the Luppino family, a Hamilton, Ontario-based mob clan in April 2018.

A Montreal police spokesman said first responders who responded to a 911 call made before 10 p.m. Wednesday found Boucher-Savard near the corner of des Érables Ave. and Sherbrooke St. in the Ville-Marie district. .

He was found lying on the ground, unconscious and injured by “more than one” gunshot wound to the upper body, the spokesman said. Two people located nearby were arrested and questioned, but they may only face charges related to a firearm or firearms.

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According to the summary of a decision made by the Canadian Parole Board on September 8, Boucher-Savard refused to have a parole hearing during 2020 and chose to wait until September in order to automatically qualify for legal release. after reaching the two-thirds of the sentence he had left for stabbing the person with ties to the mafia. The victim is described in the parole decision as “linked to an organized crime family.”

The parole board’s decision notes how, in October 2020, Boucher-Savard told his parole officer that he had no interest in participating in rehabilitation programs.

“You explained that you are a criminal and that you had no intention of changing,” the parole board wrote. Earlier this year, Boucher-Savard changed her mind and asked to participate in a program, but the board was informed that she probably only did this to avoid a condition being placed on her release that requires her to live in a rehab facility. .

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The board decided to impose the condition after it was informed that Boucher-Savard was allegedly the leader of a group of inmates using drones to smuggle contraband into his penitentiary. At the time of his release hearing in September, the Correctional Service of Canada believed he was linked to the Hells Angels and was rejected as a candidate in two transition houses.

In 2009, Boucher-Savard was among more than two dozen people arrested in Project Machine, an investigation into a drug trafficking ring run by the Hells Angels. In that case, he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, conspiracy and gangsterism charges and was sentenced in 2010 to 35 months in prison.

While Boucher-Savard was originally charged with attempting to murder the victim he stabbed in Hamilton, he ultimately pleaded guilty to aggravated battery despite stabbing the man four times with a small knife.

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Boucher-Savard and two other men broke into a house, making their way through a door with a ceramic toilet seat. The blade of the knife broke inside the victim’s stomach and he fled his home. Boucher-Savard and his accomplices also fled before the police arrived. He was arrested more than a year later, while in custody in a different case involving handguns discovered in a hotel room after he and another career criminal from Montreal were arrested in Toronto while buying crack. His DNA had been recovered from the handle of the knife used to stab the victim.

The homicide was the 35th reported in Montreal police territory so far this year. Only 25 homicides were reported in all of 2020. The last time the Montreal police investigated so many homicides in a year was in 2012 when they also investigated 35.

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