Louis Roy (20 July 1959 – disappeared 23 June 2000), better known as "Mélou", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, said to have been the richest Hells Angel in Quebec.
[3] Roy founded and led Satan's Guard with Richard "Crow" Émond as his second-in-command, and the club became the dominant gang in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region by eliminating any rivals.
[9] On 27 February 1995, Quesnel killed Claude "The Peak" Rivard, a Montreal drug dealer who worked for the Pelletier clan who were allied with the Rock Machine.
[9] On 23 March 1995, Quesnel killed Richard "Chico" Delcourt, a Montreal drug dealer who refused to work with either the Rock Machine or the Hells Angels.
[12] Besides for Roy, the other members of the Nomad chapter were Walter Stadnick, Maurice Boucher, Donald "Pup" Stockford, David "Wolf" Carroll, Gilles "Trooper" Mathieu, Richard "Bert" Mayrand, Pierre Laurin, Richard "Rick" Vallée, André Chouinard, Michel Rose, Denis "Pas Fiable" Houle, Normand Robitaille, Normand "Biff" Hamel, and René "Balloune" Charlebois.
[14] At the same time, Roy sent out Hells Angels to search the houses of the vanished members, removing various items over the protests of the girlfriends and wives of the missing men.
[14] The missing men are Ormand Dorant, Guy Mageanu, Benoît Lachance, Clermont Carrier, Edward Villiers, and Sylvain Bernard.
Roy was alerted by the sound of Gallant's wet shoes as he approached, and he was able to evade most of the hitman's gunfire but suffered a wound to the chest.
Gallant, who fled the scene when he ran out of ammunition, was paid $20,000 by Rock Machine member Marcel "Le Maire" Demers for the failed assassination.
Prior to the shooting, Gallant's mistress and accomplice Jacqueline Benoît had rented a room at the motel to carry out surveillance on Roy.
[17] The informer Dany Kane mentioned in his notes to his police handlers that Hells Angel David Carroll had told him that Boucher had reached an agreement with Vito Rizzuto that price of cocaine in Canada was to be $50,000 per kilogram.
[4] Finally, Kane mentioned that both Boucher and Rizzuto were very annoyed that Roy persisted with selling cocaine below $50,000 per kilogram, and wanted him to join La Table.
[4] On 23 June 2000, Roy disappeared after departing to attend a party at the house of Boucher's father to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Nomads.
[18] In July 2001, Elias Lekkas of the West End Gang testified that Roy went from the Boucher household to a meat-processing plant owned by Gerald Matticks.
[24] Scoppa maintained that Boucher had tolerated Roy selling cocaine below $50,000 per kilogram as a way to pressure Rizzuto to act against Gervasi, who had taken a very pro-Rock Machine line.
Gervasi ran a strip-club, the Castel Tina, along with his son Salvatore, where members of the Rock Machine always had reserved tables and were allowed to wear their gang colors.
[25] The Rock Machine had been supported financially by the Dark Circle, a group of outwardly 'respectable' Montreal businessmen who covertly engaged in organized crime, hence the name.
[33] Paul Cherry, the crime correspondent of The Montreal Gazette, wrote that Roy's sudden and unexplained removal from the Hells Angels membership lists indicated that he was dead.