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Steven Gault
Steven Gault (born 1973) is a Canadian outlaw biker and police informer who played a key role in the Ontario Provincial Police's (OPP) Project Tandem operation against the Hells Angels between 2005 and 2006.
Gault was born in North Bay and dropped out of high school in grade 10. In 2008, Gault testified that he started working as a police informer in 1990 at the age of 17 as he became involved in various criminal activities while at the same time informing on his associates. Gault stated: "I was just providing information to them [the police] for money about drug dealing operations in the area". When asked by the Crown Attorney Mitchell Flagg "Other than the money, was there any other reason that you provided information to the police when you were a teenager?", Gault flatly replied "No". Gault was first convicted of a criminal offense at the age of 17.
Gault became a member, together with several of his relatives of a nomadic band known variously as "the Travelers" or "the Wanderers" that operated in the rural areas of eastern Ontario that targeted elderly farmers by engaging in home renovation scams. Gault testified in 2008 that he felt justified in targeting elderly farmers "because they have a lot of money". At the same time, Gault informed on his associates in his band, sometimes being paid $1,000 by the police for his information, but he testified that he informed on his brothers-in-law who were members of his band for free. Gault testified that knew what barns and homes he and his associates had worked on because the work done "was horrible". Besides specializing in cheating senior citizens out of their life savings, Gault bit off the ear of a man in a bar fight in Campbellford. About the ear-biting incident, Gault stated: "It was a consensual bar fight". Over the years, Gault has been convicted of multiple counts of fraud, assault and uttering death threats.
In 1996, Gault became involved with an 18-year-old woman named Linda Sebastiao, whom he started living with a month after they met and in 1997 he fathered a daughter by her. Sebastiao described Gault as: "He was very charming and swept me off my feet." Sebastiao claims that he once cheated one elderly farmer by billing him for some $260,000 for home renovation work that was never done. Sebastiao stated she was well aware that Gault did not make his living honestly, but that: "He gave us everything we wanted. Everything that we needed. We bought a nice, cute little place." However, as the years went on, Sebastiao alleges that her relationship with Gault moved into a darker direction as she stated that he became jealous, dominating, possessive, and brutal. Sebastiao alleges that Gault did not allow her to have a driver's license and that he frequently beat her, once because the toilet paper did not roll in a manner pleasing to him.
In 1999, Gault was living in Northumberland County. Gault was working on a house in Warsaw, Ontario when he met a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, William "Mr. Bill" Lavoie, by chance and ending up befriending him. In the fall of 1999, Gault joined the Satan's Choice's Oshawa chapter. The club's rules required that a new member be sponsored by a member who had known him for at least five years; Gault's sponsor Lavoie had only known him for five months and had been bribed in the form of $12,000 by Gault to say otherwise. Gault joined Satan's Choice solely with the aim of selling information about the club to the police. Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, boasting about he how had bitten off a man's ear, and adopted as his biker name "Hannibal". The nickname Hannibal was not a reference to the Carthaginian general, but rather to the fictional serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter. Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, claiming that the ear-biting incident had left him with a taste for human blood. Gault's ex-wife recalled: "When we would make him steak for supper, his was just with spices, raw, not even on the grill for a little".
The national president of Satan's Choice, Bernie Guindon, who lived and still does live in Oshawa, recalled about Gault: "He had a cocky attitude. That's what I got from him. I always had a gut feeling about him. The questions he'd be asking me. You always had to be careful how you answered him". Guindon was also suspicious of Lavoie, whom he suspected was a police informer, stating: "He hadn't worked, but he always had money. I always wondered where he got the money". Gault entered Satan's Choice as a "hang-around", the lowest level in an outlaw biker club and was promoted up to a "prospect", the second level in an outlaw biker club in late 2000. One Satan's Choice member, Lorne Campbell, stated that Gault would never nod his head until he had nodded his head first, which he found disconcerting. Campbell said of Gault: "He looked sneaky. He just didn't look right".
On 29 December 2000, Satan's Choice "patched over" en masse to join the Hells Angels and in this way, Gault became a Hells Angel. On that day, in a much publicized ceremony, most of the Ontario outlaw biker gangs such as Satan's Choice, the Vagabonds, the Lobos, the Last Chance, the Para-Dice Riders and some of the Loners travelled to Hells Angels' "mother chapter" clubhouse in Sorel-Tracy, just south of Montreal to join the Hells Angels, making them at one stroke the dominant outlaw biker club in Ontario. One police officer told the journalist Jerry Langton about the mass "patch over" in Sorel: "They [the Angels] were truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. They were trading patch for patch the legendary Hells Angel patch for some of the lowest of the low".
Gault testified that after joining the Hells Angels: "I contacted one of the officers I was providing information to...I told (the police) if I could make my way into the Hells Angels and make my way up to full patch, I would take down any drug dealers I could". In early 2002, Gault became a "full patch" Hells Angel, the highest level in an outlaw biker club, making him a member of the Hells Angel elite. Sebastiao stated: "After he got his full patch he thought he was king of the world." As a Hell Angel, Gault promoted the image of himself being a "wild man", waving about his handgun, showing off the newspaper reports about his assault conviction for the ear-biting incident, and hinting very strongly that he had committed a murder. The Hells Angel David Atwell who worked as a police informer described Gault as "...a real hardcore criminal-he had even bragged about killing people". The journalist Jeff Mitchell wrote: "His way of settling a beef was to throw the first punch and keep on throwing until he'd made his point: the new Angel once squared off against the Oshawa club's Sergeant At Arms, who serves as the charter enforcer." In outlaw biker clubs, the office of sergeant-at-arms who is in charge of enforcing discipline within the chapter is generally held by the toughest member of the chapter. Gault later testified that about his fight with Oshawa chapter's sergeant-at-arms: "I pretty much mopped the floor with him." Shortly there afterwards, Gault became the treasurer of the Hells Angels' Oshawa chapter, making him in charge of the finances. Sebastiao states he became paranoid and had the windows of their house bricked in to reduce the chances of him being killed in a drive-by shooting.
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Steven Gault
Steven Gault (born 1973) is a Canadian outlaw biker and police informer who played a key role in the Ontario Provincial Police's (OPP) Project Tandem operation against the Hells Angels between 2005 and 2006.
Gault was born in North Bay and dropped out of high school in grade 10. In 2008, Gault testified that he started working as a police informer in 1990 at the age of 17 as he became involved in various criminal activities while at the same time informing on his associates. Gault stated: "I was just providing information to them [the police] for money about drug dealing operations in the area". When asked by the Crown Attorney Mitchell Flagg "Other than the money, was there any other reason that you provided information to the police when you were a teenager?", Gault flatly replied "No". Gault was first convicted of a criminal offense at the age of 17.
Gault became a member, together with several of his relatives of a nomadic band known variously as "the Travelers" or "the Wanderers" that operated in the rural areas of eastern Ontario that targeted elderly farmers by engaging in home renovation scams. Gault testified in 2008 that he felt justified in targeting elderly farmers "because they have a lot of money". At the same time, Gault informed on his associates in his band, sometimes being paid $1,000 by the police for his information, but he testified that he informed on his brothers-in-law who were members of his band for free. Gault testified that knew what barns and homes he and his associates had worked on because the work done "was horrible". Besides specializing in cheating senior citizens out of their life savings, Gault bit off the ear of a man in a bar fight in Campbellford. About the ear-biting incident, Gault stated: "It was a consensual bar fight". Over the years, Gault has been convicted of multiple counts of fraud, assault and uttering death threats.
In 1996, Gault became involved with an 18-year-old woman named Linda Sebastiao, whom he started living with a month after they met and in 1997 he fathered a daughter by her. Sebastiao described Gault as: "He was very charming and swept me off my feet." Sebastiao claims that he once cheated one elderly farmer by billing him for some $260,000 for home renovation work that was never done. Sebastiao stated she was well aware that Gault did not make his living honestly, but that: "He gave us everything we wanted. Everything that we needed. We bought a nice, cute little place." However, as the years went on, Sebastiao alleges that her relationship with Gault moved into a darker direction as she stated that he became jealous, dominating, possessive, and brutal. Sebastiao alleges that Gault did not allow her to have a driver's license and that he frequently beat her, once because the toilet paper did not roll in a manner pleasing to him.
In 1999, Gault was living in Northumberland County. Gault was working on a house in Warsaw, Ontario when he met a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, William "Mr. Bill" Lavoie, by chance and ending up befriending him. In the fall of 1999, Gault joined the Satan's Choice's Oshawa chapter. The club's rules required that a new member be sponsored by a member who had known him for at least five years; Gault's sponsor Lavoie had only known him for five months and had been bribed in the form of $12,000 by Gault to say otherwise. Gault joined Satan's Choice solely with the aim of selling information about the club to the police. Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, boasting about he how had bitten off a man's ear, and adopted as his biker name "Hannibal". The nickname Hannibal was not a reference to the Carthaginian general, but rather to the fictional serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter. Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, claiming that the ear-biting incident had left him with a taste for human blood. Gault's ex-wife recalled: "When we would make him steak for supper, his was just with spices, raw, not even on the grill for a little".
The national president of Satan's Choice, Bernie Guindon, who lived and still does live in Oshawa, recalled about Gault: "He had a cocky attitude. That's what I got from him. I always had a gut feeling about him. The questions he'd be asking me. You always had to be careful how you answered him". Guindon was also suspicious of Lavoie, whom he suspected was a police informer, stating: "He hadn't worked, but he always had money. I always wondered where he got the money". Gault entered Satan's Choice as a "hang-around", the lowest level in an outlaw biker club and was promoted up to a "prospect", the second level in an outlaw biker club in late 2000. One Satan's Choice member, Lorne Campbell, stated that Gault would never nod his head until he had nodded his head first, which he found disconcerting. Campbell said of Gault: "He looked sneaky. He just didn't look right".
On 29 December 2000, Satan's Choice "patched over" en masse to join the Hells Angels and in this way, Gault became a Hells Angel. On that day, in a much publicized ceremony, most of the Ontario outlaw biker gangs such as Satan's Choice, the Vagabonds, the Lobos, the Last Chance, the Para-Dice Riders and some of the Loners travelled to Hells Angels' "mother chapter" clubhouse in Sorel-Tracy, just south of Montreal to join the Hells Angels, making them at one stroke the dominant outlaw biker club in Ontario. One police officer told the journalist Jerry Langton about the mass "patch over" in Sorel: "They [the Angels] were truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. They were trading patch for patch the legendary Hells Angel patch for some of the lowest of the low".
Gault testified that after joining the Hells Angels: "I contacted one of the officers I was providing information to...I told (the police) if I could make my way into the Hells Angels and make my way up to full patch, I would take down any drug dealers I could". In early 2002, Gault became a "full patch" Hells Angel, the highest level in an outlaw biker club, making him a member of the Hells Angel elite. Sebastiao stated: "After he got his full patch he thought he was king of the world." As a Hell Angel, Gault promoted the image of himself being a "wild man", waving about his handgun, showing off the newspaper reports about his assault conviction for the ear-biting incident, and hinting very strongly that he had committed a murder. The Hells Angel David Atwell who worked as a police informer described Gault as "...a real hardcore criminal-he had even bragged about killing people". The journalist Jeff Mitchell wrote: "His way of settling a beef was to throw the first punch and keep on throwing until he'd made his point: the new Angel once squared off against the Oshawa club's Sergeant At Arms, who serves as the charter enforcer." In outlaw biker clubs, the office of sergeant-at-arms who is in charge of enforcing discipline within the chapter is generally held by the toughest member of the chapter. Gault later testified that about his fight with Oshawa chapter's sergeant-at-arms: "I pretty much mopped the floor with him." Shortly there afterwards, Gault became the treasurer of the Hells Angels' Oshawa chapter, making him in charge of the finances. Sebastiao states he became paranoid and had the windows of their house bricked in to reduce the chances of him being killed in a drive-by shooting.