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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]
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]
Cazzetta was born in Montreal and grew up in the Saint-Henri neighborhood in the south of the city, a crime-ridden area which was a territory of the Dubois brothers gang. [2] Cazzetta became involved in low-level crime as a young man, and his first arrest was in 1975 when he stole a Ford Mustang and scrapped it for parts. [3]
Gregory Woolley (26 February 1972 – 17 November 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]
Vito Rizzuto (Italian: [ˈviːto ritˈtsuːto]; 21 February 1946 – 23 December 2013), also known as "Montreal's Teflon Don", [1] was an Italian-Canadian crime boss alleged to be the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada.
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 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 ...
Operation Axe was one of the biggest sting operations in Montreal and was aimed at smaller groups associated with major organized crime groups like the Hells Angels. [5] Montreal is no stranger to the impact the Hells Angels has on a city; during the 90's the gang took part in a major turf war for drugs on the streets of Montreal which has now ...