MONTREAL — Benoit Roberge spent years cultivating and working organized crime sources before becoming a mole himself for the very people he investigated — the Hells Angels —in the twilight of his law-enforcement career.
On Friday, the ex-Montreal police officer was given an eight-year prison term for selling sensitive intelligence to criminal bikers in what a judge described as a betrayal of the justice system.
Quebec court Judge Robert Marchi agreed with a joint Crown-defence recommendation that Roberge be sentenced to four years each for breach of trust and gangsterism, with the two to be served consecutively.
Marchi said he considered the maximum sentence allowed by law — 10 years — but decided the recommendation was reasonable.
The judge had harsh words for Roberge in handing down the sentence as the accused sat impassively in the prisoner’s box.
