On 7 December 1995, police arrested Yves "Flag" Gagné, a prominent member of the Hells Angels' Trois-Rivieres chapter, and Guy Majeau, a member of the Rowdy Crew in Lanaudiere, a Hells Angels support club. Authorities also arrested Normand Lortie, an associate of the Angels and owner of a Laval strip club. All three were charged with conspiring to murder prominent members of the Rock Machine and the affiliated Dark Circle; the targets of the plot were founding members of the Rock Machine, including Porter and Richard "Bam Bam" Lagace, and Dark Circle member Louis-Jacques Deschenes.Marcel "Le Maire" Demers oocities.org On 31 May 1997, Porter was driving down a rural highway near the town of L'Épiphanie, when a car driven by a Hell Angel sped by and he was shot in the left arm. Porter stated: "It wasn't my time to die". In March 1998, Porter was again shot when driving down Highway 25 near Lachenaie. In April 1998, Porter attended a biker "Show and Shine" in Georgetown. During the show, a bomb was found wrapped in a Toronto Sun newspaper. The bomb was a remote-controlled device of 2.2 kilograms of C-4 explosive filled with thousands of nails. These events caused him and some other members to go into hiding in Ontario in 1999.'Turncoat' bikers jolt Quebec gang Tu Thanh Ha, The Globe and Mail (26 December 2000)
