Claude "Macho" Giguere
Hells Angels Trois-Rivieres Chapter
    Claude "Macho" Giguere was born in the early 1960s  and became a  Hells Angel on  June 14, 1991, when his gang, the  Satan's Guards, became the Hells Angels official Trois-Rivieres chapter.

     On  December 23, 1994, Giguere, along  with five other  members and  two 
prospects of  the Trois-Rivieres chapter, left  Quebec for  a month  long vacation in  Acapulco, Mexico with their wives  and kids. Among the Hells that  accompanied Giguere were Louis "Mélou" Roy, Sylvain "Baptiste" Thiffault, and Daniel "Johnny" Royer.

     Giguere was among 13 Hells members  and  associates  arrested in a  Surete du Quebec operation on  April 3, 1995. Among  the  arrested were three other members of the Trois-Rivieres chapter  and  about  a half dozen members of the Quebec chapter.

     Giguere, along with  fellow  Hells  Angels  Louis Roy, Sylvain Thiffault, Mario Brouillette, Francois Hinse, and Blatnois member Clermont Carrier, was charged with conspiracy to murder.

     To make matters worse, Serge Quesnel and Michel "Pit" Caron, two Hells associates charged in the bust, decided to spill their guts to the cops. Quesnel, who claimed to be a professional  hitman working for Hells Angel Louis Roy, admitted to murdering five people on behalf of the biker gang.

     On October 17, 1997, Giguere, Thiffault, Brouillette, Hinse, and  Carrier  pleaded  guilty to  murder conspiracy charges, in exchange for charges being dropped against Louis Roy, described at the time as the number two man in the Hells organization.

     Giguere, according to Quesnel, had given him a contract to murder Gino Hallé, a  man with links to the Rock Machine, in November of 1994. The murder contract was never fulfilled.

     Taking into consideration that Giguere  had  already served one year in  prison  awaiting trial, Judge Francois Tremblay sentenced him to two years less a day.

     In  an  article published in 
Le Soleil on  March 8, 1997, biker expert Guy Ouellet said that Giguere, along with his brother J.P., controlled drug distribution in the  La Causerie bar in Charlesbourg, as well as three homosexual bars in the Quebec area.

     Giguere was  among the  over 100  Hells Angels  and  associates  arrested  in
Opération: Printemps 2001 on March 28, 2001, the biggest police operation against biker gangs in Canada ever. Giguere was charged with conspiracy, drug trafficking, and gangsterism.

     On October 24, 2001, Giguere and Luc Dallaire, another member of the Hells Angels Trois-Rivieres chapter, pleaded  guilty  to  charges  of  conspiracy, drug  trafficking,  and  gangsterism. Giguere  was sentenced to eight years in prison, while Dallaire received a nine year sentence.

     Evidence showed that, during  a six  month period, Giguere had purchased 23 kilograms of cocaine and 16 kilos of  hashish  from  the  Nomads chapter. Dallaire  bought 14 kilograms of  cocaine  and 60 kilos of hashish from the Nomads during that same period.