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nt task force conducted on February 12, 2009, where 500 Montreal police and 200 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers took part in a sting operation. [1] It began its investigation in January 2006, aimed at raiding The Syndicate (formerly known as the Crack Down Posse); a major street gang of Haitian immigrants headed by Gregory "Pissaro" Wooley that is loyal to the Hells Angels.
The Montreal police arrested the kidnappers as they were on their way to the Consenza Social Club intent upon shooting their way into the club to seize Arcadi. [14] In January 2003 during one of their annual trips to the Dominican Republic, Rizzuto in a conversation in Italian with Aracdi described to him how he was the gunman responsible for ...
Vito Rizzuto was arrested on January 20, 2004, in Montreal, for his involvement in the May 5, 1981, gangland killings of three rival Bonanno crime family captains (Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera) and was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence on May 4, 2007, after being extradited to the United States. [37]
In 1986, Simard turned informant after his arrest, confessing to five murders and involvement with Cotroni. Cotroni was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter in 1987. [36] After Simard turned Crown's evidence following his arrest in Toronto, his replacement was the boxer Eddie Melo.
At the time of her arrest in February 2015, the police found she had two bags of cash totalling $60,000 in her possession. [201] The willingness of drug dealers to pay Mongeau a "cut" of their profits shows that Boucher still had influence in the Montreal underworld despite being in prison since 2002. [201]
The Gargantua bar attack was a shooting and arson-attack that occurred at the Gargantua, a nightclub bar located on 1369 rue Beaubien Est in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 21, 1975, killing 13 individuals, including the manager. The Gargantua, which had been known for being a meeting place for underworld figures, was previously the scene ...
In southwestern Montreal, Matticks became celebrated for dressing up as Santa Claus every Christmas to hand out free food to the poor. [11] Matticks in particular was known for handing out frozen chickens and turkeys for Christmas and Thanksgiving, of which he seemed to possess an endless supply. [12]
After being arrested in 1999 on charges of welfare fraud, Simard escaped and was discovered in October 2004 to be working as a security guard at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a private high school in Montreal. [38] He had been working at the school for nine months under the false identity of Charles Bouchard. [39]