Serge Quesnel (born 1970) is a Canadian gangster best known for his work as a hitman for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
Quesnel turned Crown's evidence in 1995 and testified against several Hells Angels members in exchange for a lesser sentence in five contract killings he performed for the club.
[1] Quesnel only had one legitimate job in his entire life, working as a cook in a fast food restaurant, which he held for all of two weeks.
[1] He began his criminal career as a professional shoplifter as a teenager before moving on to engaging in armed robbery and drug trafficking.
[2] Quesnel worked as an enforcer and debt collector for the local drug dealers, enjoying some success as he was physically very strong.
[3] Quesnel's request was granted and he served his sentence at the federal Donnaconna prison outside of Quebec City, where he was able to make contacts with "teachers" who gave him the underworld connections that he craved.
[1] In November 1994, upon his release from prison, Quesnel met Louis "Mélou" Roy, the president of the Trois-Rivières chapter of the Hells Angels.
[1] Roy hired Quesnel as a hitman, saying he would receive a weekly salary of $500 in cash and between $10,000 to $25,000 per murder depending upon the degree of risk.
He carried a booklet with the names, addresses, license plate numbers and descriptions of fifty or so undesirable individuals.
[1] To assist him, Thiffault provided as much information as possible about Ferland, such as his home address, place of work, and his favorite restaurants.
[5] Waiting for Quesnel on the street as the getaway car driver was Michel "Pit" Caron, a member of the Mercenaries, a puppet club for the Hells Angels.
[5] Impressed, the Hells Angels gave Quesnel another contract to kill Claude "Le Pic" Rivard, a Montreal drug dealer who worked the Pelletier clan who were allied to the Rock Machine.
[8] By 1995, the Crown were so desperate to recruit a Hells Angel as an informer in order to end the Quebec biker war that the police and prosecutors largely gave Quesnel most of what he wanted.
[9] Martin Tremblay, a lawyer for the Hells Angels, was able to obtain Beaulieu's photographs alongside an affidavit by her stating she regularly had sex with Quesnel in his jail cell and that he was allowed to drink and consume various illegal drugs as a ward of the Crown.
[9] Le Soleil newspaper ran a front-page photograph of Quesnel frolicking with a barely-dressed Bealieu in his jail cell.
[11] Quesnel provided information to the police about the murder of an American named Lee Carter, who had been killed on 29 July 1993 by a bomb planted in his car.