Jean-Guy Dubois
Dubois Gang
  Jean-Guy was born in 1934 and is  the second oldest of the Dubois brothers. Like most Canadian children, he loved to play hockey but his father couldn't afford the  necessary gear, so Jean-Guy  put together a couple  of petty scams to rack up the money to buy the equipment. He would move on to much more profitable rackets.

     In his teens, Jean-Guy  worked briefly as an assistant  for his older brother  Raymond, a milkman. The two then worked for Amcan Wood and Coil. He developed powerful muscles as he carted hundred pound bags of coal all day long.

     The Dubois brothers reputation around the neighborhood increased as the years progressed. They were tough, violent, and extremely loyal to one another.

     Jean-Guy's brother  Normand had a fling with the girlfriend of Rosaire Forgues, a hood with a reputation as  the toughest street fighter in the  neighborhood. When Forgues found out  about the affair, he began talking about how he'd get even with Normand. The threat got back to the Dubois brothers and Jean-Guy, Claude, and Normand  chose to confront Forgues, who was accompanied by Robert Miron, Ti-Mand Auger, and Roger Provencal. Words quickly turned into fists and Jean-Guy delivered Forgues a vicious beating. The fight enhanced his reputation on the streets.

     The next day, the brothers learned that Robert Miron had told people around the  neighborhood that he was going to shoot down Normand. Jean-Guy, Claude, Normand, and René tracked Miron down at the Chez Maurice tavern, where Jean-Guy dropped him quickly.

     After the  incident, the Dubois learned that Gilles Petit, a young bystander, had been shot down by Miron. Jean-Guy, Claude, Normand, and René are arrested and Miron is picked up at the scene. Miron admitted  to the shooting but claimed it  was only out of fear for the  Dubois brothers. Jean-Guy  was eventually acquitted of  murder but received a  two year prison sentence for  assault and possession of an illegal weapon.

     After being released, Jean-Guy found a job as a maitre d at the Sahara Club. The position gave him the chance  to rub shoulders with some of  Montreal's most important underworld figures. He also established a successful  loansharking operation in downtown Montreal and developed a crew of  loyal underlings. He contacted  members of the Montreal Mafia, who brought in hashish by the ton, and set up a lucrative hashish network.

     Jean-Guy also bought the Robert Bar Salon on Notre-Dame street with  his brother Adrien and Yvon Belzil. The three  made a lot of money from the place and  eventually sold it in the late 1970s for $40 000.

     In  the early 1970s, Richard Désormiers, Frank "The Big Guy"  Cotroni's brother-in-law, began stirring  up trouble in Dubois protected bars and clubs. One night, Désormiers  had  the misfortune of starting  problems in a club that was Jean-Guy in. Dubois decided to teach him a lesson. He got a firearm from André Durocher, a gang henchman, and pointed it at Désormiers. Jean-Guy forced him  to get on his knees and placed the gun against his temple. The  act cooled Désormiers off for awhile but he continued to cause problems for the Dubois Gang. He was later murdered by Claude Dubeau and Donald Lavoie on Claude Dubois' orders.

     Late October 22, 1975, Police spotted Jean-Guy and  Jacques Ouimet along the Lachine Canal. When  they couldn't explain their presence at the river, the cops brought them down to the station. Blood stains were discovered on Jean-Guy's pant leg and, when police returned to the scene, more redish drops were detected. Divers searched the water where Dubois and Ouimet had been spotted and discovered the body of Jean-Guy Fournier, an employee at the Hotel Iroquois in Old Montreal.
     Jean-Guy Dubois and Jacques Ouimet were charged with the first-degree murder of Jean-Guy Fournier. The first trial was  aborted after it was  uncovered that  a juror had been  threatened . A new trial was held and it resulted with the convictions of both defendants. Both men were handed down life sentences.

     On June 29, 1982, from his jail cell, Jean-Guy received more bad news. He, his brother Adrien and Claude  Dubeau were being charged with  the 1974 first-degree murder of Jacques McSween. The trial began on February 1, 1983 and received alot attention from the press. Informants Claude Jodoin, Donald Lavoie, and Paul Pomerleau testified for the government but the  jury didn't believe buy their stories. And since the evidence relied solely on the witnesses, the trial ended in deadlock.

     A  second  trial was held but the result was the  same. Jean-Guy, Adrien,  and Claude  Dubeau were  acquitted on June 14, 1985. Jean-Guy smothered the three defense lawyers with hugs when the judge handed down the verdict. Dubois spent 14 years in jail for the murder of Fournier before being paroled in October, 1989.

     Jean-Guy  and eight associates - William Bykerdike, Gérard Bourque, Gilles Saint-Amand, Gary Wooley, Israel  Meyer  Randolph, Stephen  Maron, Michel  Boisvert, and Lauren  Hickman - were arrested on June 28, 1991 and charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in narcotics. Police seized 100 kilos of hashish, 400 marijuana plants, and $500,000 in cash. He was denied bail on July 5 by Judge Francois Doyon.

     Jean-Guy surprised everyone  on March 31, 1992 by  pleading guilty to charges of  trafficking and  possession of 44 kilograms of  hashish. The evidence  accumulated by investigators revealed how Dubois received $6000 for every kilogram sold to Bykerdike, who then sold the merchandise for $6500 to Bourque. Bourque would then distribute the hashish to the other members of the ring for $7000 a kilo.

     Dubois was sentenced  to seven years on  April 14, 1992. He has  since been  paroled. His son Alain has followed in his father's footsteps  and is a full-fledged  member of the Rockers Montreal Chapter.