 In the summer of 2000, Michel Auger, the crime correspondent of "Le Journal de Montréal", wrote a series of article in "Le Journal de Montréal" stating that Boucher had turned on his former allies such as Desjardins, Savard and the Craigs and was systematically killing them off.On 12 May 2000, the Angels tried to kill the two Rock Machine members, Tony Duguay and Denis Boucher, suspected of killing Hamel, leading to a wild car crash, during which Duguay took bullet wounds to his arms, right hand and thigh.Tony Duguay, the Rock Machine member who was convicted of killing Hamel in 2006, was acquitted in 2016 when it was established that the eye "witness" who gave the testimony that had convicted him had been fed information incriminating him by Detective Benoît Roberge, the senior anti-biker detective with the Montreal police who was secretly working for the Hells Angels, and that the "witness" had not actually seen Duguay killing Hamel as he had testified during his trial.