August 16, 2026
Black Sheep
Every once in a while, a news story comes along that makes me stop and look at what happened to my family from a completely different angle.
This weekend, it was a story out of Montreal.
The Toronto Star reported on August 15, 2026, that senior Hells Angels member Stéphane “Fesse” Plouffe had disappeared ahead of a major murder trial involving alleged Mafia boss Leonardo Rizzuto and ten other defendants.
Then came this rather remarkable detail:
After Plouffe disappeared, his luxury home was firebombed.
Think about that for a moment.
Plouffe isn’t some random suburban father.
He has been publicly identified for years as an influential member of the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels. Quebec media previously reported that he was considered among the province’s most powerful Hells Angels members and had connections within the Montreal organized-crime landscape. (QUB)
And now his house has reportedly been firebombed.
That is the kind of context most people associate with a firebombing.
Organized crime.
Biker wars.
Drug trafficking.
Intimidation.
Witnesses.
Retaliation.
Messages being sent.
And then there’s my family.
We Aren’t Hells Angels. We Aren’t the Mafia.
This is precisely why I keep asking the question that apparently nobody wants to answer:
Why the hell was my family’s home firebombed?
I’m a geologist.
My family isn’t a Mafia family.
We’re not Hells Angels.
We’re not running drugs.
We’re not fighting over territory.
We’re not collecting gambling debts.
We’re not involved in some Montreal underworld power struggle.
Yet on January 22, 2026, our family home was attacked with incendiary devices while my daughter and I were inside.
That isn’t normal.
It never was normal.
And comparing what happened to us with cases arising from the organized-crime world makes that point even more stark.
This Is What an Organized-Crime Context Actually Looks Like
Consider Plouffe.
Quebec reporting has described him as a full-patch Montreal Hells Angels member and a significant figure in the province’s biker world. Earlier reporting placed Plouffe among influential Hells Angels figures investigated in connection with drug trafficking, while also documenting associations between prominent bikers and figures connected with the Rizzuto organization. (QUB)
The Star story reports that Plouffe disappeared shortly before a major murder trial and that his residence was subsequently firebombed. A retired organized-crime investigator quoted in the story reportedly questioned whether his disappearance might somehow relate to the upcoming proceeding.
Nobody reading that story needs an explanation for why police would immediately examine organized crime as a possible context.
The context is staring you in the face.
Now look at my house.
Where is that context?
That’s the Problem
When our house was firebombed, there was something very different preceding it.
Warnings.
For months before the attack, I had been reporting threats and harassment to police.
In November 2025, the situation escalated to the point that the RCMP themselves delivered a Duty to Warn notification concerning a reported threat against my life.
I have maintained that investigators had information concerning an alleged plot to kill me.
I had been telling police that I believed the threat was real.
I sought permission to possess body armour because I believed my life was in danger.
And then, approximately two months after the Duty to Warn:
Our house was firebombed while my daughter and I were inside.
That sequence of events is why I refuse to treat January 22 as some inexplicable act of random vandalism.
But it also raises another uncomfortable question.
If This Wasn’t a Conventional Organized-Crime Hit, What Was It?
The Plouffe story actually helps illustrate the problem.
When the home of a senior Hells Angel connected to Montreal’s organized-crime environment gets firebombed, investigators have an obvious universe of potential motives to examine.
Rivalries.
Revenge.
Intimidation.
Drug territory.
Witness issues.
Internal disputes.
Criminal debts.
There are identifiable possibilities.
But what happens when somebody outside that world gets firebombed?
What happens when an ordinary family’s home gets hit after the father had already been reporting threats against his life?
What happens when police had already considered the threat sufficiently serious that officers physically delivered a Duty to Warn?
Then the events preceding the attack become enormously important.
That’s where investigators should be looking.
Who threatened whom?
Who knew where the target lived?
Who knew his routine?
What communications occurred?
What relationships existed between the people involved?
What information had already been provided to police?
What did investigators do with that information?
And perhaps most importantly:
What did police know before the firebombing that suddenly looks very different after the firebombing?
And Then Comes the Part That Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Serious
I have subsequently been told that there are people who apparently entertain the theory that I firebombed my own house.
LOL.
Seriously?
I supposedly threw incendiary devices at my own home while my daughter and I were inside?
Destroyed our family’s possessions?
Displaced my family?
Nearly destroyed the house?
And somehow engineered the whole thing after spending months reporting that I believed somebody was going to try to kill me?
If somebody genuinely believes that theory, then put the evidence on the table.
Investigate it.
Test it.
Because extraordinary accusations should require evidence.
What I will not accept is speculation being used as a substitute for answering the much harder question:
What happened to the threat information that existed before January 22?
The RCMP Cannot Make the Timeline Disappear
This is ultimately bigger than determining who physically threw the incendiary devices.
There is a separate question concerning what happened before they were thrown.
I had reported threats.
Police knew I believed my life was in danger.
A Duty to Warn was delivered.
There were multiple police files and detachments involved.
I sought additional protection.
Then the thing I had been warning about was followed by an actual attack on my home.
Those events exist independently of whatever conclusion investigators ultimately reach about who committed the firebombing.
That is why I have continued pressing for scrutiny of the RCMP’s handling of the information that preceded the attack.
Did investigators properly assess the threat?
Did the relevant detachments communicate effectively?
Was the available intelligence properly examined?
Were reasonable protective measures considered?
Was evidence followed wherever it led?
Those are legitimate questions.
Two Firebombings. Two Very Different Worlds.
Stéphane Plouffe reportedly comes from one of Canada’s most notorious organized-crime environments.
His house gets firebombed and everyone immediately understands why investigators would examine the criminal world surrounding him.
My family’s home gets firebombed and the circumstances are profoundly different.
We’re not bikers.
We’re not Mafia.
We’re not gangsters.
We’re a family in Castlegar, British Columbia.
And that is exactly why what happened on January 22 deserves serious scrutiny.
Because when something normally associated with organized-crime intimidation happens to a family outside that world — after police had already been warned about threats against the person living inside that house — the obvious question isn’t:
“Why would organized crime attack this family?”
The better question is:
What was really going on, who wanted me silenced or harmed, and what did authorities know before somebody finally attacked our home?
I don’t claim that the Plouffe firebombing and my family’s firebombing are connected.
They aren’t.
I’m making a comparison.
One occurred against the backdrop of a documented organized-crime world.
The other occurred against the backdrop of months of reported threats, a police Duty to Warn, and my repeated attempts to convince authorities that I believed the danger was real.
And that distinction matters.
A lot.
Because the January 22 firebombing didn’t occur in a vacuum.
There was a before.
And if we’re ever going to understand the after, somebody needs to take a very serious look at what happened during that before.
Source
Peter Edwards, Toronto Star, August 15, 2026: “Hells Angel vanishes on eve of Mafia mega-murder trial in Montreal.”
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