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Sébastien Beauchamp was using hard drugs by the age of 11 and dealing soon after. He joined the Rockers, where his reckless attitude benefited the Hells Angels.
Sébastien Beauchamp was fatally shot Dec. 20 in St-Léonard. He had been a member of the Rockers biker gang. Montreal Gazette 2004 file Photo
When he was in Grade 7, Sébastien Beauchamp decided he no longer wanted to play by society’s rules and he walked out of a classroom while his teacher was in the middle of a lesson.
As a young teenager, Beauchamp, the 44-year-old man who was fatally shot Thursday in St-Léonard, had grown tired of the nomadic lifestyle his family was leading. As he told the Parole Board of Canada many years later, he had been transferred to six or seven schools in one year.
He described his mother as having had “a hippy philosophy” and said she left his biological father when he was a baby.
“You say that you were able to do what you want and you had no limits. At the age of 11 you began (using hard drugs),” the parole board wrote in a summary of a decision it made more than two decades ago.
At 19, Beauchamp was already serving his first federal sentence — 31 months for having either imported or exported drugs and for having severely beaten a man who had hassled a friend of his.
The summary says Beauchamp took the man’s wallet and keys and went to rob his apartment. He was arrested while he was still inside.
Beauchamp told the parole board in 1993 how, at the age of 13, he nearly emptied his mother’s home to sell items so he could buy drugs — acid and cocaine. His mother turned him in to police, and he spent 18 months in a centre for troubled youths.
By 15, Beauchamp told the parole board, he was dealing drugs to survive. He also dealt drugs while in prison.
In October 1994, just four days after his statutory release, he was recorded boasting to inmates that he was frequenting bars and using drugs despite the strict conditions imposed on his release. He then spent more time in prison for having violated his conditions.
In 1995, when his sentence expired, his troubled youth and lack of respect for the rules made him an ideal candidate for the Rockers. The underling gang was created by then-Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher to help him in the bloody biker war over drug turf in Quebec.
In 1999, he was convicted of possessing a firearm while doing “guard duty” at a hospital where the wife of a Hells Angel was being treated after an attempt on her life.
While serving that sentence, he was recorded telling a fellow Rockers member who was on the outside: “I look at the people who get up at 7 in the morning and get stuck in traffic for $10 per hour and then go home again at night. They are the ones who are crazy. It is us who are a little bit more normal.”
Like almost everyone else who was part of Boucher’s violent and vast drug trafficking network, Beauchamp was arrested in Operation Springtime 2001.
Jurors at the Gouin courthouse in 2004 heard that Beauchamp joined the Rockers in 1997 and became a full-patch member in 2000 — evidence that put him at the heart of Quebec’s biker gang war, which stretched from 1994 to 2002, during the most violent years.
Beauchamp was convicted in 2004 of drug trafficking for the benefit of a gang. The same jury acquitted him of the more serious charge that he was part of a general conspiracy to murder those whose opposed the Hells Angels.
When he was acquitted, he looked over at his defence lawyer, smiled and winked at her.
According to an affidavit in Project Magot — a more recent investigation into links among the Hells Angels, the Montreal Mafia and street gangs — Beauchamp maintained his ties to former members of the Rockers long after he finished serving the seven-year sentence he received in Operation Springtime 2001.
Beauchamp was not charged in Project Magot, but the affidavit shows police conducting surveillance on gang leader Gregory Woolley, a former member of the Rockers, often spotted Beauchamp with him.
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When he was in Grade 7, Sébastien Beauchamp decided he no longer wanted to play by society’s rules and he walked out of a classroom while his teacher was in the middle of a lesson.
As a young teenager, Beauchamp, the 44-year-old man who was fatally shot Thursday in St-Léonard, had grown tired of the nomadic lifestyle his family was leading. As he told the Parole Board of Canada many years later, he had been transferred to six or seven schools in one year.
He described his mother as having had “a hippy philosophy” and said she left his biological father when he was a baby.
“You say that you were able to do what you want and you had no limits. At the age of 11 you began (using hard drugs),” the parole board wrote in a summary of a decision it made more than two decades ago.
At 19, Beauchamp was already serving his first federal sentence — 31 months for having either imported or exported drugs and for having severely beaten a man who had hassled a friend of his.
Beauchamp told the parole board in 1993 how, at the age of 13, he nearly emptied his mother’s home to sell items so he could buy drugs — acid and cocaine. His mother turned him in to police, and he spent 18 months in a centre for troubled youths.
By 15, Beauchamp told the parole board, he was dealing drugs to survive. He also dealt drugs while in prison.
In October 1994, just four days after his statutory release, he was recorded boasting to inmates that he was frequenting bars and using drugs despite the strict conditions imposed on his release. He then spent more time in prison for having violated his conditions.
In 1995, when his sentence expired, his troubled youth and lack of respect for the rules made him an ideal candidate for the Rockers. The underling gang was created by then-Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher to help him in the bloody biker war over drug turf in Quebec.
I look at the people who get up at 7 in the morning and get stuck in traffic for $10 per hour and then go home again at night. They are the ones who are crazy.”Beauchamp came to be known as “Bass” while he was in the Rockers. Besides a reckless attitude, he also offered the Hells Angels expertise in trafficking in the drug PCP.
In 1999, he was convicted of possessing a firearm while doing “guard duty” at a hospital where the wife of a Hells Angel was being treated after an attempt on her life.
While serving that sentence, he was recorded telling a fellow Rockers member who was on the outside: “I look at the people who get up at 7 in the morning and get stuck in traffic for $10 per hour and then go home again at night. They are the ones who are crazy. It is us who are a little bit more normal.”
Like almost everyone else who was part of Boucher’s violent and vast drug trafficking network, Beauchamp was arrested in Operation Springtime 2001.
Jurors at the Gouin courthouse in 2004 heard that Beauchamp joined the Rockers in 1997 and became a full-patch member in 2000 — evidence that put him at the heart of Quebec’s biker gang war, which stretched from 1994 to 2002, during the most violent years.
Beauchamp was convicted in 2004 of drug trafficking for the benefit of a gang. The same jury acquitted him of the more serious charge that he was part of a general conspiracy to murder those whose opposed the Hells Angels.
When he was acquitted, he looked over at his defence lawyer, smiled and winked at her.
According to an affidavit in Project Magot — a more recent investigation into links among the Hells Angels, the Montreal Mafia and street gangs — Beauchamp maintained his ties to former members of the Rockers long after he finished serving the seven-year sentence he received in Operation Springtime 2001.
Beauchamp was not charged in Project Magot, but the affidavit shows police conducting surveillance on gang leader Gregory Woolley, a former member of the Rockers, often spotted Beauchamp with him.
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