Pubdate: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU) Copyright: 2003 The Gazette, a division of Southam Inc. Contact: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274 Author: Catherine Solyom Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?188 (Outlaw Bikers) BIKER INFORMANT TEACHES COURT DRUG DEALING 101 Jury Introduced To Gang Lexicon. Stephane Gagne Implicates Five Others In Third Day Of Testimony At Hells Trial Green is for pot, white is for cocaine and beige is for heroin. So went the lesson in Drug Dealing 101 given yesterday by Stephane Gagne, former biker turned police informer, in his third day of testimony at the gangsterism trial of nine Hells Angels at the Gouin courthouse. But apart from providing a whole gang lexicon for the jury, Gagne, who is testifying for the fifth time since his arrest in 1997, also implicated five of them directly, in everything from puncturing patrol car tires at a police station in Rosemont to murdering two prison guards. When prosecutor Francois Briore asked about one of the accused, who can't be named because he is involved in another biker trial, Gagne replied: "When I went to prison, our drug run was sold to him for $45,000." The price included the drug dealers working for him in the Gay Village. Briore asked about another of the accused. He sold PCP with Gagne in Carre St. Louis, Gagne replied, pointing him out among the accused in the courtroom. Soon, however, it was Gagne's turn to come clean himself. The Crown listed his many convictions from stealing cars to first-degree murder - - he is now serving a life sentence - before giving him the opportunity to explain why he turned informer. He was afraid for his life - in and out of jail - given that he was one of few people who could link Hells Angels kingpin Maurice (Mom) Boucher to the murder of two prison guards, he explained, and when his lawyers weren't calling him back, he knew something was wrong. Life can be dangerous as an informer, too, however, and police attending the trial yesterday weren't taking any chances on security around the courthouse. Just after noon, two Hells Angels sympathizers who sat in court and made gestures to the accused, were searched and briefly detained. Then after 4 p.m., a burly man, wearing a T-shirt that read "Support the red and white South" - a message for the Hells Angels chapter - was questioned, and his Harley-Davidson motorbike searched outside the courthouse. Inside, it was defence lawyer Guy Quirion's turn to question Gagne, also known as Godasse, poking holes in his 30 or so statements to police. Did he get $1,000 from Boucher or from Andre Tousignant for the attempted bombing of the Rock Machine's headquarters in Verdun? Had he bought the bolts to make the bomb at Reno Depot or Rona? "You are a good liar, aren't you?" Quirion asked, finally. "In this milieu that's how it works," replied Gagne, who just yesterday admitted to the jury he had been plotting to kill defence lawyer Pierre Panaccio, who is now representing Richard Mayrand, before his arrest in 1997. "When you take someone into the woods to kill him you have to be convincing. When I sold drugs at school and the principal called me in, I wasn't going to admit it." Quirion and seven other defence lawyers are to continue their cross-examination Monday. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin