Ottawa

I haven’t seen anything on here about mafia etc in Ottawa.
Anyone have any info on mob activities in Ottawa??

I don't believe there is any info about Ottawa on here. Why? Do you have access to OC info about Ottawa?

We will welcome it

I was just curious. Hear lot about Hamilton, Bc, Gta, Montreal etc. Nothing about Ottawa

The Manasseri family is from Ottawa, Benny was seriously wounded in a shooting in November 2019. He is a friend of Calogero Milioto and Vittorio Mirarchi of Montreal.

I have never heard of any Mob presence in Ottawa. It's not a big city, little under a million people, and to my knowledge doesn't have a particularly robust Italian population. With Montreal being so close by, I'm sure that would be the dominant influence on anything going on in the City, if there is any activity at all.

It's worth noting that Liberal MP Alfonso Gagliano was the federal Minister of Public Works in the '90s and was revealed in Sal Vitale's testimony to have been introduced to him in the early '90's as a "friend of ours" by another member of the Rizzuto clan. In the interests of being apolitical, Conservative politician and one time opposition leader John Reynolds was often rumoured to have associations with the mafia as well out on the West Coast, where the Rizzutos have traditionally had representation through the Papalia brothers and a small street crew that no longer exists now.

In the city of Ottawa itself, it's a government/university town - I wouldn't think there's a whole lot going on that would give rise to a lot of traditional rackets. Certainly not that would be worth the mob's time.

ottawa has no formal mafia family now nor has it ever.
the manasseri family is that, a family with a last name that is italian.
there is no formal structure to the manasseri's IT IS NOT A CRIME FAMILY.it is a family where some of its members who share the same last name have committed crimes.
now benedetto manasseri was seen meeting w/ vittorio mirarchi,calogero milioto and antonio guido during the 2009-2011 mtl mafia war.
manasseri was busted in nov of 2012 as the alleged leader of an online gambling network that was also into pot grow ops and loansharking.
this network also included gary saikaley as #2 who comes from a long line of lebanese saikaleys in the ottawa area some of which have been involved in crime mostly kg level drug dealing (troy and alex come to mind most recently).the saikaley name is very common in the ottawa lebanese community most of whom are legit citizens.
back to 2012 bust domencio arecchi was the only other italian of note to have been arrested. arecchi had been busted previous in 2004 on similar gambling charges.
the interesting part of the nov 2012 bust (project amethyst) is that a certain daniele ranieri of bolton ontario was arrested at the same time. i have never found any info on ranieri and any time served from this bust. the takeaway for me from this bust was that this network was operating for the desjardins/mirarchi faction out of mtl. ranieri was always a loyal member of juan fernandezs crew which operated out of toronto/southern ontario. fernandez as most on here know was loyal to desjardins.
moving to manasseri's attempted murder in 2019 i have always thought it could be linked to online sports gambling in ontario seeing how around the same time in ontario there were many murders attempts and arsons related to gambling. as for who in mtl still holds any sway in ottawa i do not know and would hold to mirarchi or possibly francesco del balso as he had influence w/ gambling in the past albeit in 2004.
there have been some arrests over the past 5 years in ottawa w/ links to mtl but i don't know if it is bad reporting or canadas inability to print accurate crime info from law enforcement but it is very hard to figure out and follow these investigations. e.g. an arrest of individuals on a litany of charges: names given, no background info on those arrested no criminal affiliations given, they r usually given bail and then an ongoing period of no info. i can't figure out if its canadas long back logged court system or the medias afraid to say anything about those arrested so they don't get sued. or maybe the police not wanting to say anything to compromise the proceedings but you have to dig and stay on cases to find any good info.
hope some of this helps will post more about bikers and street gangs.

the biggest crime group operating in ottawa now is the HA.
founded in dec 2000 dissolved sept 2016 and re chartered in jan 2018 the nomads chapter.
first pres was former rock machine founder/leader paul porter aka sasquatch.
6'6 400 lbs of pure muscle and gut he controlled chapter on the street until 2011 imprisonment on minor drug charges. prior to his release porter gave up the biker life "allegedly". however this is an often used tactic by bikers to get early release and try to fool l.e. porter has long been a close associate of salvatore cazzetta and the 2 of them founded the rock machine mc. both have since patched over to HA obviously.
i am not sure of porters continued involvement in the cities crime scene as he has not been arrested in past 10 yrs or even mentioned in the media or other investigations as having any influence at all. however w/ the lifelong connection to cazzetta who himself is close to the mafia and has heavy influence amongst quebec HA it is easy to see a possible role for porter as the link for drugs moving into the ottawa area.
that being said ottawa is not a city where drugs arrive directly. there are very few cases of drugs of any kind moving directly from source country to ottawa. the cities drugs come from mtl or toronto depending on what crime group is dealing the weight. the HA are the only crime group that have the ability to do that in the ottawa area.
HA have in the past moved away from downtown street level drug dealing and "rent" the space or collect a tax from street gang dealers or independent dealers for the right to operate. HA deal in multi kg level cocaine dealing,pot grow ops,money lending and a litany of other crimes as most HA across canada do.
since the re opening of the chapter in 2018 things have been quiet in the city and surrounding country side w/ small arrests here and there. patrick lock was a name mentioned as a possible new leader of chapter. lock has a long history w/ HA and was purported to have been named by the powers that be in QC HA as leader.
the most recent HA news from 2020 was the murder of a soon to be full patch greg slewidge in carleton place which is about 30 min from downtown heading south. slewidge was found at his residence murdered and as usual....no info from police or media. his father used to sing national anthem before the ottawa senators hockey games and was a former opp officer. there is no evidence that his father being a former cop had anything to do w/ murder as it was common knowledge in the area.

the HA have a puppet club the red devils which operate across the city and into gatineau qc.

the only other biker mc of note is the outlaws mc chapter.
this chapter has been in ottawa since the 70's and has remained fairly quiet over the years as well as its puppet club the black pistons mc.
used to see some black pistons roaring around but not in a little while now.
i will also say that when there is a drug bust the media and l.e. like to state that there was biker paraphenalia found during the search or bust but do not say from which biker mc. vey frustrating and sometimes they don't reveal the club name for months or even years making it hard to decipher who is getting pinched.
to my knowledge the outlaws to not control much in ottawa but the chapter is still open.

ottawa street gangs are a JOKE.
you cannot apply the term organized crime to these gangs they r not.
greg woolley in mtl has gone to great lengths to organize street gangs in mtl. ottawa has noone like a greg woolley.
the street gangs like most in cities across north america align themselves to bloods and crips.
i will not give u info most that u can find online is outdated with way overblown numbers of gang members and influence.
in ottawa bloods fight each other over territory and crips do the same and they fight each other. the gangs in ottawa r the epitomy of the gang that couldnt shoot straight. don't believe it when u hear that ottawa has a gun and gang problem it doesn't. ottawa has a lazy police and overly sensitive PC politician problem.
all gangs are involved in regular street level crimes:drug dealing,car theft,extortion,home invasion etc...
there was a time not long ago when there appeared to be influence coming from gangs in mtl of haitian origin moving into city that may still be the case or they may have just given up.

https://www.insideottawavalley.com/...searching-for-killer-s-of-greg-slewidge/

just found this article about 2 HA deaths in ottawa area recently.

Nice find Vito, I also read somewhere that Slewidges father was an OPP, I would of liked to be that fly on the wall during Christmas, Thanksgiving dinners haha. I bet there were interesting conversations at that table!

The Casalesi clan has a presence in the city. Montreal has gambling, narcotics, legitimate businesses and a couple of other things going on in the city and surrounding cities. Known associates to the Rizzutos and Cotronis, are Remo Castelli, Frank Battista, and Phil Romani. The Manasseri family and Dominic Arecchi were associates, but they seemed to have split from the Rizzutos and each other in 2012, maybe even earlier in 2011.

Don't know where the info on Frank Battista and Phil Romani comes from.
They must be real sleepers in the city. The cotonis influence in Ottawa disappeared with Frank cotroni and Leslie Coleman in the 80s.
Remo Castelli was recently busted in project new haven.
Project was a collection of kg level cocaine wholesalers.
However there is no mention yet of Castelli being linked to Italian OC.
Most media and le reports connect new haven associated to outlaw Mc groups???
Whatever that means.

Paul Sasquatch Porter? Relevant at all?

Porter was still in Ottawa as of a few years ago before the chapter was closed in 2016.
Not sure of current activity as of chapter being reinstated 2018.

Not aware of the casalesi clan from camorra being active in city.
Seems odd considering the camorra being a Italian/Europe based org.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/two-charg...io-man-with-hell-s-angels-ties-1.5745870

big news in ottawa not often that police even make arrests in murder cases.
michael clairoux has long been a full patch member based in ottawa area. he was arrested in 2011 and 2015 on a variety of drug charges. recently was granted a stay under a jordan decision...meaning his trial took to long to come to court...CANADIAN JUSTICE!!!

lee marrazzo was most recently arrested in a pretty major drug bust in the area in 2020 linked to hells angels.

i guess we will have to wait to hear the reason behind the murder.

What ever came of the Benny Mannaseri shooting up there? Any ideas who ordered that? Seems similar to the Giordano hit in Montreal, as he was leaving the gym.

as of now going on 3 years later nothing which as i alluded to above is not surprising for the ottawa police service.

One among the arrested in the Project Clemenza case, Giovanni Gerbasi, was based in Gatineau, right across the river from Ottawa.

Despite the appearances of a quiet government town, Ottawa is gritty.

I stand by my earlier post that there's no real LCN activity in Ottawa, but you're certainly right that it's gritty. Some of the worst criminals in the country running some of the biggest rackets in the world can be found on Parliament Hill.

Absolutely it is a corrupt city full of dirty lobbyists and politicians.