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five fellow Hells Angels’ members. The sordid event became known as the“Lennoxville Purge” or the “Lennoxville Slaughter,” as the five members were invited to the Hells Angels’ Sherbrooke chapter bunker on March 24, 1985, where they were gunned down. After the bloodbath, the bodies were stuffed into sleeping bags, weighed down with barbells and dumped in a river. The Hells Angels had purged their own members in part for consuming cocaine the gang intended to sell for profit. Houle had a small role in this purge, an event that awoke Canada to the violent potential of the Hells Angels. The same psychologist told the National Parole Board that Houle, while serving his sentence, found a source of personal value in the gang, and described him as a well-structured individual “in his delinquency.” Life in his adopted family would permit Houle to live a lifestyle that, by 2001, according to court documents, was clearly incompatible with his declared revenue. He allegedly managed to hide $4.5 million in the Antilles and was believed to own $800,000 in real estate in Nova Scotia. During the early part of his sentence, Houle was caught selling drugs in a federal penitentiary and intimidating other inmates, so he was transferred from a minimum-security institution to Donnacona, a maximum-security penitentiary near Quebec City. The parole board held back on granting Houle full parole during the early 1990s because he refused to discuss the details of his role in the Lennoxville murders. In 1993, he told the board he would not discuss the slayings because other Hells Angels found guilty of taking part were still appealing their sentences. The parole board reports filed during Houle’s sentence revealed a fierce gang loyalty that belied his nickname. In 1994 that loyalty would be paid off as he was picked to be one of the founding members of the Nomads chapter despite having spent the past several years in prison.
    The police half-jokingly referred to the Nomads chapter members as the “elite” of the five other Hells Angels’ chapters chartered by the gang in Quebec by 2001. The newly createdNomads represented some of the gang’s most influential members in eastern Canada. At the helm was Boucher, a man who had become so influential as a drug dealer in Montreal’s east end that a short stint behind bars during the mid-1990s caused panic, uncertainty and shortages among his many drug dealers in the Rockers. Like some of the other founding members of the Nomads, Boucher had held prominent positions within the gang including president of the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter. Because of details Dany Kane, a Hells Angels’ underling who turned informant in 1994, was feeding them, the police were already aware of the existence of the Nomads well before it was chartered on June 24,1995. Also, just months before it was chartered, Houle’s parole had been revoked because it was clear he had been involved in setting it up.
    Houle had been arrested for drunk driving, possession of drugs and uttering threats to the police officers who had arrested him. Inside his car, the police had found the brand-new Nomads patches. Now they knew what those patches were for.
    One parole report revealed that even though Houle had dropped out of school by the age of 15, while he was in grade 8, tests he agreed to undergo in prison indicated he had a superior intellect. Behind bars, he worked to complete high school and took accounting courses. While on parole, he told the board that he was working as a sales representative for a company with a salary of $30,000. He also was involved in a small recycling company, owned by other Hells Angels’ members, that the police believed was actually selling recycled products to small municipalities in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. Houle made it clear that when his sentence ended and he was no longer subject to parole conditions he would rejoin the