Salvatore Cazzetta is a Canadian convicted of drug-dealing with a long association with outlaw motorcycle gangs, in Quebec. Cazzetta and Maurice "mom" Boucher were members of a small motorcycle gang, the "SS", which was under consideration for an invite to join the Hells Angels. When the Lennoxville massacre took place the two friends made different choices. Elements of the Hells Angels' Montreal chapter had become convinced that five senior members of their club had been embezzling club profits, so they tricked them into a meeting, and killed them. According to true crime authorRJ Parker this killingtriggereddistrust within other elements of Canada's underworld empire. According to Parker, Cazzetta was closely related to senior member of the Quebec Mafia, and thus adopted the position that underworld members should not kill other members of their own gang. So, where Boucher did join the Hells Angels, Cazzetta formed his own motorcycle club, The Rock Machine, taking over turf formerly controlled by the weakened Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels. According to Parker, Boucher could not strike against his former friend, out of concern the powerful Quebec Mafia would intervene. He wrote that Boucher worked to rebuild his chapter's ties with other chapters and other underworld groups. He wrote that Cazzetta too forged alliances, principally with the Bandidos, another powerful motorcycle club, and that he forged ties with cocaine cartels, and became one of Montreal's principal importers of cocaine. Cazzetta's cocaine smuggling and distribution triggered extra police scrutiny, and 1994, he was arrested with 11 tons of cocaine. Cazzetta's detention triggered Boucher to attack the remainder of The Rock Machine. The struggle lasted six years, and many innocent bystanders were hurt or killed. Cazzetta was in prison during the war. By the time Cazzetta had served his sentence Boucher himself was serving a life sentence, the war was over, and The Rock Machine had been absorbed into the Bandidos. Cazzetta chose to join the Hells Angels, in 2005. He would rise to lead the Hells Angels in Quebec.
