Jean-Guy Dubois, second oldest of the infamous Dubois brother crime crew of St. Henri, has died at around the age of 88, Coolopolis has learned.
Dubois, we are told, died "not long ago," so the precise date of his demise, and cause of his death, remain shrouded in shroudy stuff.
Dubois's crimes include the murder of barman Jean-Guy Fournier, 43, after one of the longest trials in Montreal.
Fournier was night manager at the old Iroquois Hotel on Jacques Cartier Square in Old Montreal, which the Dubois brothers took over with their customary over-the-top brutality.
Cops nabbed Dubois after he pulled his car over, leaving it running with the wipers on as he dumped the victim's body into the Lachine canal.
Jean Guy's reputation began as a kid when he beat up a tough guy Rosaire Forgues in a street fight involving his brother over a girlfriend dispute.
The brothers forestalled any chance of Forgues getting his revenge when Jean Guy brutally beat Forgues pal Robert Miron in the Chez Maurice Bar at 47750 Notre Dame St W.
The brothers had also been shaking Miron down for protectoin money from the bar he worked at and Miron had recently broken the arm of one of their pals.
Miron shot at the five brothers as they drove away, accidentally kiling bystander Gilles Petit, 21.
Five of the nine Dubois brothers were detained for four months behind bars until future Supreme Court Chief Justice Tony Lamer got Jean Guy and the other four acquitted of murder charges.
However Jean Guy was sent inside on a two year assault and weapon conviction.
Jean Guy then got to know more gangasters at Harry Ship's Sahara Club on Sherbrooke near Park where he met many underworld figures who helped him set up a lucrative hashish dealing network.
Jean Guy, with his brothers, also terrorized the owner of the Robert Salon strip club on Notre Dame near St. Remy until he sold it to them and it too became profitable.
On 22 October 1975 police finally caught up with Jean Guy Dubois at the Lachine Canal. He couldn't explain why there was blood on his clothing but cops figured it out after finding Fournier's body dead in the water. Jean Guy was sentenced to life in prison. two of his brothers narrowly escaped the same fate in a separate murder affair soon after.
Jean Guy Dubois was paroled in October 1989 but he returned to do a seven year sentence in 1992 on drug charges.
His son Alain was a member of the Rockers Montreal Chapter of the Hells Angels and died in 2015 of cancer.
I'm surprised he lived that long.
ReplyDeleteKristian, I assume you've seen the recently-released film "Kings of Coke" by now? See link:
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No, I haven't watched it yet. I chatted a lot with one of the researchers a lot throughout the process but I didn't give him much info, as I'm a hoarder when it comes to these inside WEG stories. I've got about 80-100 pages of a book written with all sorts of confessions and insider accounts. I might wait another year or two to put it out however as some of it is rather explosive and I need to go through it pretty carefully.
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