Côté was arrested and incriminated Gallant, who later surrendered to police. Acting as the getaway driver, Gallant fled the scene after one of two accomplices, Gilles "Balloune" Côté, began shooting at police. On 24 October 1973, he took part in a failed armed robbery of a jewelry store in Chicoutimi. 59 days after his release, Gallant was arrested for the robbery of the Credit Union of Chicoutimi-Nord with an accomplice, for which he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. At the suggestion of other prisoners, he joined a gang of bank robbers after his release from custody in June 1970.
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Gallant was given his first custodial sentence on 27 October 1969, when he was sentenced to serve a 23-month term at Chicoutimi prison for a series of thefts. Although the minimum age for drivers' licenses in Quebec was 21 at the time, Gallant forged the birth date on his baptistery and fraudulently gained a driving licence at 18. Gallant also held various jobs, at a hotel in Chicoutimi, a Steinberg supermarket and as a peat installer. He joined a local gang, the Cossacks, with whom he began breaking and entering at grocery and convenience stores in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, stealing cigarettes and selling them onto a contact. Īn insecure and withdrawn teenager, Gallant became involved in petty crime in order to "feel accepted" by others. Other tests that Gallant underwent in detention showed that he possessed "above-average dexterity and digital coordination" in addition to being "accurate, focused and meticulous". According to tests he was given while in custody at the Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary in 1978, Gallant's intelligence quotient was estimated at 88 the prison's orienteer Jean Olczyk wrote that he "has an intellectual potential below average". When asked during a Sûreté du Québec polygraph test on 6 December 2008 what the most traumatic experience of his life was, Gallant responded: "My childhood". He later described her as the person he "respects the least in (his) life." Gallant struggled with a stutter, which made him the object of mockery from his family, and suffered from a heart condition and rheumatism in one leg. Gallant's mother was unfaithful to his father and, as a child, Gallant witnessed her infidelities with other men. His father was a meek man who worked as a foreman at the Alcan aluminum smelter in Arvida, and his mother was a domineering woman who physically and psychologically abused Gallant. The fourth of five children, Gallant was born in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec and dropped out of school with a fifth-grade education.
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