BIKER INFORMANT TEACHES COURT DRUG DEALING 101

Jury Introduced To Gang Lexicon. Stephane Gagne Implicates Five Others
In Third Day Of Testimony At Hells Trial

Green is for pot, white is for cocaine and beige is for
heroin.

So went the lesson in Drug Dealing 101 given yesterday by Stephane
Gagne, former biker turned police informer, in his third day of
testimony at the gangsterism trial of nine Hells Angels at the Gouin
courthouse.

But apart from providing a whole gang lexicon for the jury, Gagne, who
is testifying for the fifth time since his arrest in 1997, also
implicated five of them directly, in everything from puncturing patrol
car tires at a police station in Rosemont to murdering two prison
guards.

When prosecutor Francois Briore asked about one of the accused, who
can't be named because he is involved in another biker trial, Gagne
replied: "When I went to prison, our drug run was sold to him for
$45,000." The price included the drug dealers working for him in the
Gay Village.

Briore asked about another of the accused. He sold PCP with Gagne in
Carre St. Louis, Gagne replied, pointing him out among the accused in
the courtroom.

Soon, however, it was Gagne's turn to come clean himself. The Crown
listed his many convictions from stealing cars to first-degree murder
- - he is now serving a life sentence - before giving him the
opportunity to explain why he turned informer.

He was afraid for his life - in and out of jail - given that he was
one of few people who could link Hells Angels kingpin Maurice (Mom)
Boucher to the murder of two prison guards, he explained, and when his
lawyers weren't calling him back, he knew something was wrong.

Life can be dangerous as an informer, too, however, and police
attending the trial yesterday weren't taking any chances on security
around the courthouse.

Just after noon, two Hells Angels sympathizers who sat in court and
made gestures to the accused, were searched and briefly detained.

Then after 4 p.m., a burly man, wearing a T-shirt that read "Support
the red and white South" - a message for the Hells Angels chapter -
was questioned, and his Harley-Davidson motorbike searched outside the
courthouse.

Inside, it was defence lawyer Guy Quirion's turn to question Gagne,
also known as Godasse, poking holes in his 30 or so statements to
police.

Did he get $1,000 from Boucher or from Andre Tousignant for the
attempted bombing of the Rock Machine's headquarters in Verdun? Had he
bought the bolts to make the bomb at Reno Depot or Rona?

"You are a good liar, aren't you?" Quirion asked, finally.

"In this milieu that's how it works," replied Gagne, who just
yesterday admitted to the jury he had been plotting to kill defence
lawyer Pierre Panaccio, who is now representing Richard Mayrand,
before his arrest in 1997. "When you take someone into the woods to
kill him you have to be convincing. When I sold drugs at school and
the principal called me in, I wasn't going to admit it."

Quirion and seven other defence lawyers are to continue their
cross-examination Monday.