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On 28 March 2001, in Operation Springtime, a joint investigation of the Hells Angels by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Montreal police resulted in the arrests of Hells Angels all over Canada, with 138 being arrested in Quebec and 51 being arrested in Calgary on 30 March 2001. [31]
Salois recorded this conversation and got Dupuis charged with obstruction of justice. With the witness unfit to testify, Rizzuto was acquitted in 1989. [ 23 ] In the early 1990s, the RCMP secretly ran a phony currency exchange in Montreal as part of an elaborate sting operation, called Project Compote , ending with 46 arrests and a Rizzuto ...
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]
Through his work, Savoie came to know a prominent Montreal lawyer, Sidney Leithman, who usually defended gangsters. [6] Although it was a major breach of ethics on the part of both men, Leithman and Savoie started to trade information, with Leithman informing on his own clients, while Savoie told Leithman much about what the RCMP knew about Montreal gangsters. [6]
Harry Davis (born 1898 in Romania, [1] died on July 25, 1946, in Montreal [2]) was a Montreal gangster and the city's last "edge man" (a strictly Montreal term used to signify the go-between for gamblers, politicians and police, the ‘edge’ was the undisputed boss of all vice in the city) [3] back when the ‘Jewish Mafia’ ran the city.
In June 1999, a 16-year-old inmate sexually assaulted a female staff member who was left alone in an unlocked building at the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School outside of Baltimore, according to state court documents. Problems at Hickey became so dire that the Justice Department initiated an investigation.
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]
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