The daughter of former Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher was arrested by the Sûreté du Québec on Saturday, a little more than a month after she was sentenced to house arrest for being in possession of cash generated by a major drug-trafficking ring linked to the biker gang.
Alexandra Mongeau, 28, appeared before a judge Monday afternoon at the Longueuil courthouse where she faces two charges alleging she was driving while impaired in Candiac. She was ordered to remain detained for a bail hearing to be held on Tuesday.
On May 11, Mongeau pleaded guilty to being in possession of cash collected by drug dealers who were part of a network that sold drugs in eastern Montreal. According to a summary of facts read into the court record, Mongeau was paid a cut (referred to as rent or taxes) of the profits on drugs sold in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough between 2011 and 2015. Her cut worked out to $1,000 per month and came from traffickers who sold drugs like cocaine in neighbourhoods her father ruled over when he was the leader of the Hells Angels in Montreal during the 1990s.
The same investigation revealed that Mongeau acted as a messenger for her father while he plotted to kill Montreal Mafia leader Raynald Desjardins in 2015. Boucher, 64, was already behind bars inside a penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines for having issued orders that led to the 1997 murders of two prison guards and the attempted murder of another. Desjardins was expected to be brought to the same institution while he awaited his sentence for playing a leading role in a plot to murder Mafioso Salvatore Montagna.
It appeared that Boucher was hoping to be paid for the hit, which was never carried out. Mongeau passed on messages when she visited her father inside the penitentiary. She was charged in the case involving the plot to kill Desjardins, but those charges were stayed when she pleaded guilty to being in possession of the proceeds of crime. Boucher was sentenced to a 10-year prison term for conspiring to kill Desjardins.
Mongeau received a 21-month prison term she could serve in community. The first six months of the sentence involve house arrest. She is required to be home 24 hours a days, seven days a week except for the purposes of work, school or medical reasons. She is also allowed to leave her home on Saturdays between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to do things like purchase groceries.
One condition of her sentence called on her to “keep the peace and be of good behaviour.” She now faces the possibility of being charged with having breached the conditions of her release.