Marc "Tom" Pelletier
Hells Angels Quebec City Chapter
    Marc "Tom" Pelletier was born on October 25, 1953  and is  a founding member of  the  Hells Angels Quebec City chapter. He  is  also  the  group's first  and  only  president, although it  has been said  that  Hells Angel  René "Will" Pearson is the true leader of the gang.

     Pelletier's  Hells Angels  vest  includes  the "Filthy Few" patch, allegedly awarded to members who have murdered for the club.

     Before joining the club, Pelletier  already had one drug conviction on his record. In October 1992, he was among 11 people  arrested by  the  RCMP in  operation  Chacal. Pelletier and others were charged with selling cocaine  to hockey player John  Kordic, an NHL enforcer who would die  of  a drug overdose.
    Pelletier, Magella Houde, and Roger Morin were  arrested in September 1995, at the  Hippodrome de Quebec during  a  bike race. Police found  two firearms in  a container but the charges  against the  trio were dropped because of lack of evidence.

     Sylvain Dupperon, a drug trafficker  active  around Quebec City, contacted the RCMP in July 1996. He had accumulated large drug debts and feared for the safety of his family. He offered to provide them with information and became an informant for authorities.

     Over  the  period  of  about  a  year, Duperron, accompanied  by  an  RCMP officer  posing  as  his bodyguard, completed a total of 18 drug  transactions. The operation ended the first week of July 1997, when authorities arrested 51 people, including Pelletier and Jean-René "Bull" Poirier, his right-hand man. Rock Machine members Pierre Lapointe, Christian Poirier, and Daniel Savard were also charged.

     Pelletier, through Poirier, had completed several drug transactions with Duperron. The deals  always happened  the  same way. A Hells courrier would  deliver the  narcotics to  a  Dunkin Donnuts on  First Avenue in Quebec City  and hide the package in the ceiling of  the men's bathroom. One of  Duperron's men would later  retrieve the drugs. Duperron would then meet with  Poirier  at the  Sans Limite bar the next day and pay for the dope.

     Then, on June 25, Dupperon offered  to  sell  Pelletier  and  Poirier  five  kilograms  of  cocaine  for $22,000  a kilo. With the price of  a kilo of coke ranging from $27,000 to $30,000  at the time, the deal, seemed too good to be true.

     It was. The transaction was to take place on July 2, at  Poirier's house  in Saint-Nicolas. But instead of  Dupperon  showing  up, a squad of  police  officers  came  in his  place. Pelletier was  charged  and arrested at his home that same night.

     On December 18, 1997, Pelletier pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy for having  narcotics in his possession. Two months later, he was sentenced to four years.

     In prison, Pelletier was constantly  accompanied by  a  bodyguard. When  questioned  about  this by parole officials, he claimed that  this constant companion was not  a bodyguard but rather  a friend who gave him massages to help heal an injury.

     Pelletier was paroled the first week of  October, 2000 but, after less than  a month on the streets, he was back behind bars, reportedly for violating the conditions of his parole. But a woman who called the Le Soleil newspaper claiming to be Pelletier's wife told  a different tale. She said that her husband chose to stay in prison. "With everything that's happening outside, I wouldn't want to hear that my husband was shot in a transition house," she explained.

     In  June 2002, Pelletier filed  a  lawsuit for $80,000  against  Correctional  Services  of  Canada, the federal  justice  minister, and the  Leclerc penitentiary in  Laval. The Hells Angels leader claimed that on February 6, 2001, an elevator at  Leclerc slammed on his  hand  and  fractured two fingers. The injury, Pelletier said, has left him unable to ride his motorcycle, lift wieghts, or play sports.