GANGLAND GODFATHER

Paul Fontaine, 41, guilty of the murder of Pierre Rondeau. On Sept. 8, 1997, the provincial prison guard was shot while behind the wheel of an inmate transport bus as he approached the Riviere des Prairies detention centre. His partner Robert Corriveau was not injured in the ambush by Fontaine was also convicted of attempted murder as well.In this and other previous trials, Stephane Gagne, the other gunman in the ambush, testified that the murder and an earlier one the same year were carried out on the orders of Maurice Boucher, a Hells Angels leader. Boucher was convicted of the murders in 2002.

Three people appeared in Montreal court to face charges indirectly related to a series of shootings in the city's north end more than a week ago. The arrests made yesterday are a result of an investigation into a robbery and extortion attempt made at a café on July 7, said Montreal police Constable Anie Lemieux.The robbery is suspected of setting off events that led to three people being shot in less than two hours the night of July 23. The first victim, a 30-year-old drug trafficker with ties to the Bo Gars street gang, was shot inside Le Ritz, a café-bar in St. Léonard. A little over an hour later, a man walked into Mare e Mondo, a café in Rivières des Prairies with ties to the Montreal Mafia, and opened fire, striking a 36-year-old man who is believed to have been an innocent bystander. Shortly afterward, a 19-year-old man was shot as he sat in a vehicle parked behind another café in Rivière des Prairies. He also was believed to be an innocent victim. All three men suffered non...