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Walter Gutierrez, a money launderer for the Rizzuto family, was shot to death in West Montreal on July 16, 2012. [88] Vito Rizzuto was released from prison on October 5, 2012. [ 89 ] On November 5, 2012, Rizzuto family confidant-turned rival 70-year old Giuseppe "Smiling Joe" Di Maulo was executed by a hitman waiting outside his home in ...
Zito was known as an advocate of closer ties with the Montreal underworld, a stance shared by the Commisso brothers, while Racco wanted to keep a distance from the Montreal underworld. [17] Racco sat on La Camera di Controllo, the board that governed 'Ndranghta activities in Toronto, making him one of the most important 'Ndranghetisti in Canada ...
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 ...
Gregory Woolley (February 26, 1972 – November 17, 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. [4]
The murder weapon was a long rifle, which is an unusual weapon as most gangland murders in Montreal are done using handguns. [27] The marksman fired at a distance of 90 meters. [27] A Montreal policeman stated: "The way in which Francesco Del Balso was killed is unusual, to say the least. With this way of doing things, we are at another level.
Demonstrators gathered in Montreal, Canada, on Wednesday, September 21, in support of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in hospital days after she was taken into custody by Iran ...
The raids took place in Montreal, Laval and Longueuil in Quebec, and Ottawa and Kingston in Ontario. Items seized included 11 kg of hashish , 41 kg of cocaine , 2,300 crack rocks, 225 kg of marijuana , mix match of pills including speed, viagra, and ecstasy, computers and other electronic devices, Kevlar vests, $60,000 cash and 25 weapons and ...
In mid-August, an 18-year-old from Turkey was arrested in the stabbing of five people outside a mosque in a city southeast of Istanbul. He wrote in his manifesto that he had used Terrorgram’s ...