Montreal street gang leader Jean-Philippe Célestin was acquitted at the Montreal courthouse of obstructing cops. Célestin, 45, and Bastian Rituit, 25, were given a pass for the 2022 incident. The judge spanked the cops for not taking any notes of the encounter.
Jean-Philippe Célestin joined the Marauders in the spring of 2024. Considered by police to be the most influential member of street gangs since the murder of Gregory Woolley, he was first seen wearing a Marauders jacket on March 21.
He didn’t have to climb the ranks to wear club colours. The murder of his youngest brother, Brandon Jean, on February 17, and shots fired at his mother’s condo on March 24 2024 prompted the crime boss to seek a powerful ally. Cops believe Jean-Philippe Célestin was targeted in the shooting death of his brother.
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Jean Brandon Célestin at the funeral of Gregory Woolley. |
Head of the Montreal chapter, Martin Robert, is the most influential member of the Hells Angels in Quebec. He would have promoted Célestin. In return, Célestin allegedly ceded part of his drug territory on the Island of Montreal to the bikers. In 2015, the Montreal Police Service (SPVM) established that Célestin controlled the lucrative downtown sector, in addition to the boroughs of Plateau-Mont-Royal, Rosemont and Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Martin Robert sports a tattoo of the Kremlin on his chest, as seen in photos posted on Facebook by his partner, Annie Arbic, in 2024. Robert is the subject of a national security investigation by the RCMP due to his travels to Russia.
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