Really good post Antonio. Also Rocco Sollecito was arrested again on a parole violation served the rest of his sentence and then released again this summer.
Also Salvatore Scoppa was arrested today on Drug Trafficking charges and Domenico Manno Vito's Uncle was released from US Prison today.
The Scoppa's are at or near the top of Montreal right now and Daniel Renaud of La Presse has insinuated a few times in the last few weeks that the Scoppa family maybe being targeted by the Rizzuto's right now. The Scoppa's have had had close connections to the last 4 or 5 people hit in Montreal all of whom seem to come from the side which tried to take control from the RIzzutos. The have also been targeted in some arsons in the past while
Here is the Scoppa Arrest article and I will post a couple of others related to my comments above below.
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec...n-seul-coup.phpMontreal police dismantled yesterday two networks of drug traffickers linked to the brothers Scoppa associated with the Italian Mafia, told La Presse.
According to our sources, a dozen people have been arrested, including Salvatore Scoppa, 42, who was in his luxurious residence in Laval, protected by many cameras. The suspects are expected to appear this afternoon at the courthouse in Montreal, where they are likely to be accused of drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of a weapon.
At dawn Wednesday, about 150 police officers were forty searches, including Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Blainville, under two separate baptized Stethoscope and Narco, led respectively by investigators Southern and Northern Service Police of the City of Montreal (SPVM). The Sûreté du Québec investigators and arson section SPVM have also participated in the operation.
During the raids, which targeted homes and vehicles, including investigators got hold of tens of grams of heroin and cocaine, unspecified quantities of marijuana, hashish and ecstasy, bulletproof vests , stun guns, at least
$ 25,000 in cash and a drug press.
According to our sources, one of the two networks, possibly linked to gang the West, especially students used to sell its drug center and west of the island of Montreal. The other drugs flowed mainly in the north of the island of Montreal and Laval.
Salvatore Scoppa has two brothers, Roberto and Andrea Scoppa. The latter, called Andrew, is considered by the police as a very influential chieftain in Mile End, Parc-Extension and Little Italy.
Scoppa name is closely linked to the Italian mafia for years and resonates regularly in the news for some time criminal.
In mid-November, Mohamed Awada, 47, who had been charged with Salvatore Scoppa in a kidnapping case in 2008, was killed near his home.
A month earlier, a fitness center on boulevard Saint-Laurent, linked to Andrew Scoppa was the target of a Molotov cocktail.
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