[1] Cazzetta was born in Montreal and grew up in the Saint-Henri neighborhood in the south of the city, a crime-ridden area which was a territory of the Dubois brothers gang.
[3] By 1981, Cazzetta was returned to prison for minor offences and he had been involved in a series of break-ins and robberies of local businesses, including the theft of 26 leather jackets from a clothing store (presumably to be turned into biker vests).
[6] By 1984, the SS biker club's membership had increased and its ranks included several high-profile figures in the Canadian biker scene, including the Cazzetta brothers, Paul "Sasquatch" Porter, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, Normand "Biff" Hamel, Gillies Lambert, Louis "Mélou" Roy, Normand Robitaille, Salvatore Brunetti, René "Balloune" Charlebois, André Chouinard, Denis "Pas Fiable" Houle, Gilles "Trooper" Mathieu, Michel Rose, Richard "Dick" Mayrand, and Frédéric "Fred" Faucher.
[12] Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, the club began to use their contacts in the West End Gang to purchase large and import amounts of narcotics though the Port of Montreal.
The pair did not have enough money so they were reliant on the Rock Machine and other aligned motorcycle clubs to provide most of the $875,000 (modern equivalent of $1,847,546) in U.S. currency needed for the initial purchase.
[16] Both the Rock Machine and the Hell Angels remained on peaceful terms for years, a situation to which there were multiple factors; Cazzetta and Boucher were "longtime friends" and possessed a great amount of respect for one another.
As the Rizzuto family imported large amounts of narcotics through the port of Montreal, the Rock Machine acted as one of the Mafia's distributors by supplying their product to street-level operations to be sold.
[17] According to Parker, another possible theory the Hells Angels would not instigate any issues against the Rock Machine were out of concern the powerful Rizzuto Family would directly intervene on their behalf.
The then Rock Machine national vice president and "right hand man" of Cazzetta, Fernandez was arrested in Montreal and was able to serve his time in Canada because he won his extradition case.
[18] With Cazzetta imprisoned, the Hells Angels began attempting to gain a monopoly over the street-level drug trade in Montreal, bringing them into direct conflict with the Rock Machine.
In August 1996, Cazzetta, who was being held in the Parthenais Detention Center prior to his extradition to the United States, was attacked and wounded by six other prisoners in a "jailhouse contract".
[22] Cazzetta claimed that as he was in prison, he had no involvement in the biker war, and blamed the conflict on the Hells Angels and other members of the Rock Machine.
[23] Authorities in Canada heavily disputed this, stating that Cazzetta had been giving orders to the members of the Rock Machine via telephone and message while incarcerated at Archambault Prison in Quebec.
The charges against them included trafficking in contraband cigarettes and other drugs such as crack cocaine, as well as committing crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization.
[27] On 22 November 2022, Éric Thibault and Félix Séguin of Le Journal de Montréal reported that Cazzetta had been forced into retirement in "good standing" from the Hells Angels after falling out of favour with other senior members of the club.