A former gang leader who was deported from Canada in 2014 but returned two years later was arrested overnight Saturday into Sunday in connection with the attempted murder of a Russian national in Esterel on Friday. Pres.
Posted at 10:25 am.
Updated at 11:12 am.
The suspect is Richard Goodridge, 53, the leader of an “inclusive” biker group and former gang leader formerly associated with kingpin Ducarme Joseph.
According to our information, Goodridge was arrested by members of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the Tactical Intervention Team (GTI) at his residence in the Somedy sector in Laval on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
The SQ said his appearance was to take place by video conference later this week.
Valery Tarasenko, a businessman who has been the subject of fraud complaints, is suspected of participating in the attempted murder Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Esterel Resort Hotel in Laurentians. A young woman of Russian origin infiltrated former US President Donald Trump’s entourage last year.
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Last Friday, the Sûreté du Québec was contacted for an “armed attack” on Chemin Fridolin-Simard in the Laurentians at around 12:45 p.m.
Other suspects in the case are being sought.
Filed for a long time
In 2014, an immigration commissioner ordered Goodridge deported to his home country of Guyana for a serious crime, but he returned two years later because he challenged deportation and obtained citizenship, authorities have not confirmed.
Richard Goodridge made headlines again last year Pres He revealed that he was the leader of a new biker group, the Moors, who wanted to be more inclusive. Not sure if this group still exists.
In the 90s, Goodridge would have been part of the Scorpions, which drew around rockers, the now-defunct school club of the Hells Angels.
Photo by Alain Roberge, La Presse Archives
Richard Goodridge
According to some reports, he was close to Danny Kane, a member of the Rockers, who became a mole to the police in the spring of 2001, which led to the removal of this club-school and the Hell’s Angels Nomad.
In 1999, Goodridge was seen as a bodyguard in a motorcade in which Maurice Boucher, the militant leader of the Hells Angels, had died a few weeks earlier.
In the mid-2000s, Goodridge founded the street gang 67 in Montreal with the late King Ducarme Joseph. Then the two fell out and became sworn enemies. After Joseph left in 2005, Goodridge led 67 believers.
Four attempted murders
In the 1990s and 2000s, Richard Goodridge was the victim of at least four assassination attempts, including one in Toronto where a projectile severed his finger.
In March 2010, an attack on Ducarme Joseph’s Flawnego clothing store in Old Montreal left two dead and two injured.
In the hours following the attack, police contacted the Regie des alcools, des courses et des jeux and, fearing retaliation, hastily shut down a strip club in downtown Montreal.
Although he was well known to the police, Richard Goodridge had little criminal background. He was pulled from a car in Toronto in 2004 at gunpoint.
In Quebec, he was found guilty of two counts of possession of a weapon and credit card theft. He was acquitted or benefited from a stay of prosecution in several cases.
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