No immediate parole for gang leader Gregory Woolley

Gang leader Gregory Woolley, considered by the police to be an influential actor in Montreal organized crime with ties to both bikers and the Mafia, will not be able to go to the halfway house as he wished.

Woolley, 48, has just been turned down by parole commissioners, who consider that despite some progress since his last incarceration, the gang leader still poses a significant risk to society.

According to your contributors, your criminality is one of choice, aware and calculated to satisfy an oversized ego, a need to please and control, and fueled by numerous visits to the criminal environment and significant notoriety. "
"The commission has taken into account that you have committed particularly serious crimes considering what drugs can have on society in general and its leverage on crime in particular. Your crimes are made more serious by the fact that you are linked to a criminal organization and that you were placed high in the organizational pyramid. In addition, the commission took into account in its decision that this is your third federal sentence and that there is no criminal lull in your home, "wrote the commissioners in their 10-page decision.
In conflict with a fellow prisoner

They also point out that Woolley is not a subject of interest in relation to a possible involvement in illicit activities in the penitentiary since the beginning of his imprisonment but that he is nonetheless because of his frequentations with individuals linked to organized crime inside the walls, and that he participates in activities organized by them.
The commissioners say that Woolley maintains a cordial relationship with the members of the personnel and his fellow prisoners, but that the intelligence reports "suggest that he would have a major conflict with another inmate".
Greg Woolley said during his hearing that journalists were unable to attend due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report, he had cut ties with his criminal relationships outside and that although he rubs shoulders with them in institutions, this does not mean that he is involved in criminal activities at the penitentiary.

Although you have changed your attitude at the penitentiary, it appeared during the hearing that the number of things you learned while incarcerated is rather limited. In your discussions with the commission, you continue to minimize your involvement and its consequences. You do not take full responsibility for your crimes. You do not seem to have any regrets or remorse except for the consequences that your crimes have had for you. Your answers contain many cognitive distortions and obviously you would have needed to complete the program interrupted because of the virus. You needed it all the more because you are a long-distance individual, considering that you integrated the values ​​of the criminal community as a teenager and cultivated them up to the top of the pyramid. In short, the commission is of the opinion that your prison journey is on a trajectory of change but that these remain embryonic, "write the commissioners in their decision.
Gregory Woolley is currently serving a sentence of more than three and a half years in penitentiary for gangsterism and drug trafficking, following his arrest in the fall of 2018 in the Magot-Mastiff operation by which the Sûreté du Québec beheaded an alliance bikers-mafia-gang who led organized crime in Montreal.
In addition to denying him day parole, the commissioners already impose strict conditions on Gregory Woolley when he is released on statutory release - after serving half his sentence - next fall.
Woolley must remain in a specific location and respect a curfew from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. He will not be able to socialize with anyone with a criminal history or who is linked to a criminal organization. He will not be able to frequent licensed establishments. He must disclose all of his financial transactions and cannot have more than one communication device.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...pour-le-chef-de-gang-gregory-woolley.php

‪Pas de libération pour un proche du chef de gang Gregory Woolley

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...n-proche-du-chef-de-gang-gregory-woolley

Wondering how his organization work. Who are the members, how the street gangs, the bikers and mafia work in all of this

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‪Parole denied to street gang leader with ties to Hells Angels

https://montrealgazette.com/news/parole-denied-to-street-gang-leader-with-ties-to-hells-angels/

Un conflit entre deux cliques à l'origine des tirs

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...re-deux-cliques-a-l-origine-des-tirs.php

Look like the bloods in the eastern part of montreal have some kinds of conflicts.
Click against click

In your opinion, would Gregory Woolley’s release in the middle of last month have anything to do with the recent violence?

No, this is probably a beef between two groups that are not directly linked to Woolley. Also, the eastern part of Montreal, always been like that, sometime you have gang wars. Not like in the 90s or 2000s, but some shootout

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/.../un-membre-de-gang-assassine-a-laval.php

A blood gang member got killed tonight in Laval. He was linked to another blood gang member that wqs killed one week before in Villeray. And the two of them were linked to a gangster named bm, that was trying to surpass wolleyy

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Photo of the victim accompanies journalist Maxime Deland’s tweet at https://mobile.twitter.com/maxdelandqmi/status/1334343092149870592.

Yes that him.
He was a known rapper from Montreal, in the early 2000s.
En direct de MTL, was a classic

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West Island drug dealer tied to street gangs killed in Laval.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...ler-tied-to-street-gangs-killed-in-laval

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...val-pourrait-etre-lie-au-trafic-dheroine

Laval murder could be linked to heroin trafficking

According to information obtained by our Bureau of Investigation, Sacha César-Nelson was a heroin trafficker, even going so far as to resume certain activities that were carried out by the clan of the Scoppa mafia brothers. He could have been the target of a settling of accounts.

https://www.selonwalter.com/les-ori...-de-la-communaute-haitienne-de-montreal/

Article about the origin of haitian gangs in Montreal in the 80s.

We are in the spring of 1982, when racism is at its highest level, in the Rosemont district. Joël, a teenager of Haitian origin, enters the café Les Trois Copains to play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, the video games of the hour, without suspecting that, like Rosa Parks, he will pose an act of bravery that will forever change the face of the Haitian community in Montreal.

Barely seated in front of one of the café's video games, tension mounts when Joël refuses to comply with the owner and the customers of the establishment who order him to leave the premises because of the color of his skin.

After being pushed around by the horde of racists, the young black man went to seek reinforcement from a man named Ducarme Joseph, alias Kenny, where other friends had gathered to play basketball.

Armed with kitchen knives from "Kenny's" mother and iron bars, there are about a dozen of them in front of Les Trois Copains cafe, which is located on Belair Street, corner 15th avenue, ready to avenge Joël and enforce the law. black skin color.

Faced with the Dessalinian anger of young mutineers who demanded their rights, the café's managers had to seek the intervention of Joel's older brother and promised to make changes to their racist admission policies.

Thus was born the famous Bélanger (The Bélanger Boys for the intimate), the first Haitian street gang in the history of Quebec.

They were just young adolescents who spent most of their time on the basketball court at Parc Sainte-Bernadette on Belanger Street, in order to relieve their feeling of exclusion.

Extensive research has led me to believe that this group of teens would be the first in North America to assert themselves as a Haitian gang, because Haitian-Americans only undertook this perilous adventure towards the end of the years. 80.

A few weeks after his birth, Bélanger, most of whose members attended the Joseph-François-Perreault school, gained momentum after Maxime, the chef, and his comrades J… and CH beat up Meuze, a bully who terrorized them at school.

However, the young Haitians of Montreal found themselves in a double concern: they had to deal with the animosity of the whites of the east of the metropolis who treated them of "cursed n * gre" and the hostility of the English-speaking blacks of the West who called them "f *** ing Haitian".

As a result, three years after the creation of the Bélanger, in 1985, young Haitians from Montreal-North who also wanted to hunt skinheads and tame the wildest racists, formed the Master B, including a large fraction of the group. was located in Saint-Léonard, more precisely in the famous Viau-Robert area, unduly nicknamed "Brooklyn"

Between 1986 and 1989, the phenomenon of gangs in the community grew: the groups Dynamite / Public Enemy (Parc Extension), Gwo Ponyèt (Saint-Léonard) and Family (Anjou) entered the scene and joined the fray. "Tribalist".

Following the death of Chris, a young Haitian without history, who was stabbed at the Tropicana club by John P Gordon, a Jamaican part of the group The Untouchables (the Gordon brothers), the rift between black Anglos and Haitians widens.

Full of arrogance and self-confidence, the Belangers move west of the city to face off against the Uptown Posse (Côte-des-neiges), The Untouchables (Côte-des-neiges) and Downtown Posse (Little Burgundy).

So, in the fall of 1989, the turbulent Haitian community (Bélanger) and the formidable Leslie Presley and his gang engaged in a violent clash at the famous Thunderdome club.

A few months later, on April 9, 1990, a tragic event shook the black community: Leslie Presley became the second black man killed by police when he received six bullets fired by three officers during an intervention following a call for brawl at the Thunderdome club.

A sad end for a young man of 26.

High surveillance release for gang leader Gregory Woolley

After spending the last five years behind bars, Gregory Woolley will be released at two-thirds of his sentence in the coming days, La Presse found, and police fear that the return of the dreaded gang leader to the streets of Montreal will be not do smoothly.

Woolley took up a lot of space in the metropolis between 2012 and 2015, when most of the Hells Angels arrested after Operation SharQc in 2009 were still being held or had to meet conditions.
A trusted man of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, he also took advantage of this period to get closer to Stefano Sollecito, whom the police considered to be the head of the Montreal mafia in the fall of 2015.

"He's watching my back, I'm watching his," Sollecito said of Woolley in a conversation picked up by investigators during Project Magot-Mastiff.
Changes

But five years later, sources wonder if Stefano Sollecito's influence as the leader of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia is still as great.

The Hells Angels are now the strongest in Quebec, including in parts of the metropolis, police say.
The plot to kill Raynald Desjardins, which Woolley allegedly hatched in 2015 with former Hells Angels warrior Maurice Boucher, has not been unanimous among bikers, according to our information.
That's without counting gang members, who might take a dim view of Woolley's eventual return, still remembering a forced gang union in blood in 2012.

According to our information, Montreal organized crime has profited from the pandemic, by going back into the shadows and making a lot of money with its traditional activities: sports betting, underground gambling, drug trafficking and others. Everything is fine, then. And when everything is going well, there are no conflicts.

It will be necessary to see the place and the part that the environment will reserve for it. He may not have the same role and importance as before. The stars are no longer aligned for him as they were in 2012 ", analyzes a source.
“When Woolley was around, there was a course for others to follow. If he wants to take his place and reestablish that course of action, it might not be to everyone's satisfaction and there might be a stir. If Woolley wants to resume his place, he will have to deal with new facts that emerged during his detention, ”adds an observer of the criminal and police scene in Montreal.


https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...pour-le-chef-de-gang-gregory-woolley.php

I think Wooley will have is place in the biker world like he always had. He’s good with the mob because of is link with Rizzuto et Sollecito.
Its the gang world and the lebanese world.... he’s probably good with most of the Crips and some Bloods.
But look like he got some issues with some Bloods from the eastern part of the city. Some of Wooley guys put a hit on Mompoint, a blood veteran that tried to take over after Wooley went to jail. After that you had some bloods gang members that were killed one week apart, and they were all linked to Scoppa and probably lebanese and the heroin drug game.

Well will see in the future how that go....

Are there any other places where Haitian organized crime is strong?
The Montreal Crips and Bloods are obvious and the Zoe Pound in Florida is infamous as well, but I can't really find a lot of information on major Haitian gangs in other areas.

Haitians criminals got a presence in cities like New York and Atlanta. But it look like in Atltanta they hang with other blacks. While in New York, you had the Haitian Mafia Crips that were a presence in Brooklyn Flatbush.
You also had some haitian gangsters in the 90s, like Haitian Jack, Jimmy Henchmann and others, but it look like they were doing things with other blacks also.

Haitians crime groups also jave a presence in other caribbean islands, like in the Bahamas.
But, its true, Montreal and Florida are the strongehold of haitian organized crime groups outside of Haiti.

Additional information


https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/12/sacha-nelson-cesar-whacked-in-laval.html

No less than three shootings broke out over the weekend in the boroughs of Montreal-North and Rivière-des-Prairies. These violent events are linked to a conflict between two street gangs.

According to our information, two street gangs, Section 43 and Profits Boyz, are behind this outbreak of violence. This war reminds us that power struggles still plague relations between the various groups affiliated with the Reds.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/ici.rad...usillade-conflit-gangs-rue-montreal-spvm

Jerry Domond, who destroyed $3 million home, gets day parole.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...destroyed-3-million-home-gets-day-parole

Des gangs violents et armés jusqu’aux dents

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/03/06/des-gangs-violents-et-armes-jusquaux-dents

Yes the beef between the Profit Boys and 43 been going for a while.

A power struggle is emerging between an ambitious boss of the Reds and the clan of the one the police have already described as the “godfather” of Montreal street gangs, Gregory Woolley.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/03/06/le-parrain-des-gangs-en-eaux-troubles

Who would you say are the most notable Haitian gangs in Montreal these days?

I used to hear the most about the Crack Down Posse and the Bo Gars

@TheKillingJoke Crqck down posse and BO are in there 50s and mid 50s. The news from Montreal are not very informed on Montreal gangs, so they will use the name of CDP, BO etc for gangs, but the young ones have there own gangs, many that are linked to cdp and BO, but still different.

And in Montreal, the most powerful are the one at the top with Wooley. Old members of the cdp’s, BO, bad boys etc.

The most notable are the ones that putting work and make rap videos.

R these street gangs operating independently or r they doing the legwork for Mafia groups in that part of city?
Marco Pizzi Davide Barberio and possible remnants of Giuseppe DeVito/Alessandro sucapanes groups r known to operate in that part of city.

Well some work independently, some work with the mafia or other group like the bikers.
In the eastern part of montreal, montreal north and rdp, street gangs have a long history of beef with the mafia.
And they were against the hells angels during the biker war