Alleged to have sold sensitive information to the Hells Angels.
Former Montreal police investigator Benoit Roberge in a file photo from the book The Road to Hell; How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada by Julian Sher and William Marsden. The SQ@ announced Oct. 7 that Roberge has been arrested.
After a career spent bringing biker gang members to justice, Benoît Roberge stood before a judge Monday on the opposite side of the law.
The recently retired police investigator, who has been charged with gangsterism, likely recognized many of the lawyers and journalists gathered in the Montreal courtroom. He appeared to duck his head low when entering the prisoner’s dock, sporting a pair of handcuffs.
But Roberge, 50, couldn’t hide from the fact he now faces the same charges he used to see filed against the people he investigated during his career. He is alleged to have sold information from ongoing police investigations to the Hells Angels.
As a longtime member of anti-biker-gang squads, including most recently Montreal’s regional integrated squad, Roberge had access to sensitive police intelligence gathered on the biker gang.
Hours before Roberge’s court appearance before Quebec Court Judge Lori Renée Weitzman, SQ Inspector Michel Forget made the stunning announcement that one of the Montreal police’s best-known investigators may have sold information to the same gang he was being paid by taxpayers to investigate.
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