Armand Sanguigni (1951-8 October 1984) was a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster, and hitman for the Cotroni family who was one of the accused in the Port Hope 8 case.
[2] The hitman Cecil Kirby recalled in his 1986 memoir Mafia Enforcer: "Armand Sanguigni was Goobie's number - one guy , his trusted courier and distributor .
[4] On 9 March 1973, Sanguigni killed William Lee Graham, a 21-year-old man who was one of the Crown's main witnesses against a group of Satan's Choice bikers on trial in Toronto for drug charges.
[4] Graham had been spotted by a group of Satan's Choice bikers at a Toronto motorcycle shop, was kidnapped, beaten, and while still alive his body was weighted down and dumped into the waters of Rice Lake outside of Peterborough by Sanguigni, where he drowned.
[7] Sanguigni's usual partner in robbing homes and businesses was Gerard Michael Vaughan, a vicious rapist who was later found not guilty by reason of insanity for series of brutal sexual assaults on Toronto area women.
[12] On the night of 18 October 1978, Sanguigni was one of a group of Satan's Choice bikers who went to the Queen's Hotel in Port Hope following a call for help from Richard Sauvé.
[12] The American journalist Mick Lowe wrote that Sanguigni "was by far and away the scariest" of the group who went to the Queen's Hotel that night.
[12] Upon arriving at the Queen's Hotel, Sanguigni recognized one of the Outlaws present, Fred Jones, as a former member of Satan's Choice.
[14] When William "Heavy" Matiyek of the Golden Hawk Riders was shot and killed, Sanguigni fled the Queen's Hotel via the John Street exit.
[26] Sanguigni was found dead along with his common law wife Katalin Dobrovolszky in his west Toronto home on 8 October 1984.
[27] Kirby described Sanguigni's death as a murder as he accused someone of giving Sangigni and Kobrovolszky intentional overdoses of heroin.
[27] On 5 December 1991, Joe Bastos, one of the lawyers for one of the "Port Hope Eight", Merv Blaker told a private detective who summarized his statement as: "The group jerked around for a long time before producing the gunman.