Longtime Hells Angel Stéphane Plouffe has vanished
He reportedly disappeared on Aug. 3 and his car was discovered in St-Eustache.
By Paul Cherry Montreal Gazette August 13, 2026
The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the disappearance of Stéphane Plouffe, a Hells Angel who has been a member of the biker gang’s Montreal chapter since 1998.
The 57-year-old Hells Angel vanished without a trace this month and the provincial police force was asked to take over the investigation a few days after he disappeared.
“The case was transferred (from the St-Eustache police to the SQ) on Aug. 7, given the past and the associations of Mr. Plouffe to organized crime,” said Lt. Grégory Gómez del Prado, a spokesperson for the SQ.
Del Prado confirmed that police found Plouffe’s car, but added he could not say much more about the investigation except that “all possibilities” behind the disappearance are being looked at.
Plouffe reportedly disappeared on Aug. 3 and his car was discovered in St-Eustache.
The 57-year-old man’s home in St-Joseph-de-Lac was firebombed early Wednesday morning. Brigitte Barabé, a spokesperson for the Lac des Deux-Montagnes police, said they received a call about the fire after 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
Barabé said people were inside the house at the time, but the fire caused little damage and no one was injured. No arrests related to the fire have been made yet,
In 2015, Plouffe admitted to being part of a general conspiracy, along with dozens of other Hells Angels, to murder members of rival criminal organizations who challenged the biker gang over drug trafficking turf across Quebec between 1994 and 2002.
He received a prison term of more than 12 years for his role in the conspiracy, but by the time he was sentenced, on March 16, 2015, he only had nine months left to serve.
In 2023, the same home that was firebombed on Wednesday was searched by police in an investigation into alleged drug trafficking. No charges were ultimately filed against Plouffe in that investigation, which also targeted Montreal Mafia leader Francesco (Chit) Del Balso, who was killed in the West Island in 2023.
pcherry@postmedia.com
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