Raynald Desjardins

What happened to this guy after Vito Rizzuto's death what's his story etc.

Here's a good start for anyone wanting to catch up:

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=625841

His brother Jacques Desjardins, also an influential gangster, became a victim of lupara bianca in 2017.

I as well wonder about Desjardins' current reputation in the underworld. I also wonder how he got enough big players behind him to rally against the Rizzuto's. Is/was he THAT profitable and/or feared? I mean, just going by the looks of him, he seems like a bit of an arrogant ass.

Desjardins was one of many that wanted to take down the Rizzuto's. Rizzuto's enemies had formed an alliance and I wouldn't describe it as they rallied behind Desjardins. The different leaders of this alliance each had their own reasons. In my opinion, this alliance failed because they couldn't rally behind one leader.

The Sicilian Carbone did testify in Palermo that Fernandez was killed because he wouldn't take a side in the feud and that the rebellion was led by Desjardins.

A lawyer for the caïd Raynald Desjardins under strong pressure

Gunshots, fire, seizure by bailiffs: while the boss Raynald Desjardins is preparing to leave the penitentiary, the tax lawyer who managed part of his investments in his absence finds himself under great pressure, La Presse learned.

Raynald Desjardins is incarcerated for his participation in the plot for the murder of Salvatore Montagna, aspiring mafia godfather killed in Charlemagne in 2011. His sentence was 14 years, but he should normally be released at two-thirds of his sentence, at the end of the month of April.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ynald-desjardins-sous-forte-pression.php

So Desjardins will be out by the end of April ....

I wonder how long he lives once released? I’d have to think Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito will be looking for vengeance

I wonder if more violence will occur once released ..

Raynald getting released? More potential for violence in Canada? Doubtful lol

The Rizzutos are old style sicilians,for sure they will try to whack Desjardins.

Rizzutos will take out Desjardins for sure. Maybe not right away, he'll probably have the benefit of lots of surveillance hoping to catch the revenge in the act and no doubt he will be cautious, but unless he does the smart thing and gets out of dodge immediately he most likely will be killed before too long. The Rizzutos even got Da Vito in his prison cell. They have enormous reach and political clout, even no longer in their heyday.

I was being sarcastic

Don't underestimate Raynald he still has many supporters.

who r desjardins supporters???
mirarchi? doubtful. i only say that because well hes alive.
mirarchi has been on the street since dec 2017 and not dead. to me that would mean he is not allied w/ desjardins anymore.
desjardins has a son mathieu who had a gun charge from 2012 and his nephew hugo a onetime bodyguard maybe.
jonathan mignacca and giuseppe bertolo(bro of giovanni)
after that...? none of the above are considered even minor OC figures.
desjardins had connections to the QC HA in the past but now who knows doubtful.

The Canadiens also still get people whacked that run to Mexico. Not sure he will make it long no matter what he does. Bad Blood probably helped make him a much bigger name there too. If he's seeing what happens in America he will likely start a podcast lmao. It would be nice to hear some mob lineage from someone who didn't rat especially in Montreal

Several media reports said he is still considered one of the most powerful crime figures in Quebec. How much influence he still has on the streets is not known, but one thing is sure he is a survivor.

And let's not forget that Desjardins will have conditions upon release, while Rizzuto & Sollecito & crew won't....it's personal now, it's not business only
(Hi all, new to the forum here!)

The police fear the return of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins

The imminent release of boss Raynald Desjardins, heralded as the event of the year in organized crime, could reignite a bloody war with his rivals in the Montreal mafia.

This will be the most important event in organized crime since the return to the country of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto in 2012 after being imprisoned in the United States for his participation in murders, ”commented a police source, recalling that Desjardins is at loggerheads with the Rizzuto clan, of which he was once a close collaborator.
Fight to finish
Several police forces are preparing for a war to be ended between the veteran Desjardins, who is associated with the Calabrian wing of the mafia, and the new generation of the Rizzuto clan led by the son of the late godfather, Leonardo Rizzuto, and Stefano Sollecito, son of ex-interim chief Rocco Sollecito.
According to our sources, it would be "very unlikely" that the Sicilian clan and that of Desjardins, both decimated by dozens of murders since 2004, come to cohabit peacefully.
Rather, the authorities predict that the two enemy groups will come to confront each other to "make a master" once and for all, using firearms.
In the police community, it is reported that the animosity of the Rizzuto-Sollecito clan is still alive in the place of Desjardins, which an informer in Italy has already identified as the one who "led the war" against the Rizzutos.

In addition, police do not believe that Desjardins will quietly retire from the underworld upon his return, when he still has scores to settle.
Since his incarceration in December 2011, at least a dozen people associated with him have been murdered, including his brother-in-law and ex-mafia number 2, Joe Di Maulo in 2012, his friend and business partner, Gaétan Gosselin. in 2013, and his older brother, Jacques Desjardins in 2017.

In addition, Raynald Desjardins himself was the target of a plot to kill him in a penitentiary in 2015.
It is none other than the former head of the Hells Angels, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, who admitted his guilt in this case in which the gang leader Gregory Woolley, closely linked to the sons Rizzuto and Sollecito, was also indicted. then released.
New soldiers
The police also believe that Desjardins, who still has considerable financial means, has already surrounded himself with new "soldiers" to protect him and help him get revenge.
The boss would have taken advantage of the time he was incarcerated in a maximum security penitentiary in the Maritimes to ally with the Spryfield MOB, a violent gang from Nova Scotia which has been raining and shining in this province for two decades (see other text below).
The presence in the Montreal area of ​​certain individuals linked to this gang is arousing police interest and apprehension within the Mafia, according to our sources.

Our Investigation Office had access to the interrogation that the investigator Steeve Girard, of the Sûreté du Québec, conducted with the gangster Gregory Woolley, the day the latter was accused of conspiring to murder Raynald Desjardins, the November 19, 2015. The following quotes are all from the police officer as Woolley, against whom the charge was dropped in 2018, has remained silent. The leaders of the Rizzuto clan, Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto, have never been charged with this plot.

Desjardins] possibly thinks it comes from [Stefano] Sollecito, for a lot of reasons. Sollecito may be the first person to whom Raynald Desjardins' doubts have gone. "
“Desjardins waged war on Vito [Rizzuto], we all know that. Sollecito [...] is on Rizzuto's side. His son, Me Leonardo Rizzuto, is with you in the alliance you have made. "
“It was easy to see that for about a month, Sollecito had feared greatly for his life. [...] It does not take the head with Papineau to know that Desjardins, it will take revenge. "

HANDS OF THE MARITIMES

Raynald Desjardins recruited his new henchmen from a penal colony in the Maritimes where he had been transferred after his head was put on a price by his rivals in Quebec in the fall of 2015.
The unlikely alliance between the mob boss and Spryfield M.O.B. is believed to have originated at the Atlantic Prison, a maximum security penitentiary located in Renous, New Brunswick.
According to sources from our Bureau of Investigation, Desjardins met another prisoner there, Brian James Marriott - alias "BJ" or Brian James Brumner, his mother's last name - who was incarcerated for manslaughter. and drug trafficking.
Marriott is one of the chief executives of the Spryfield M.O.B. Coming from a suburb of Halifax, this independent gang of criminals has been embroiled in a multitude of murders, bloody internal strife and other acts of violence in that province for two decades.
Armed and dangerous
“Marriott was the boss of his wing [detention wing] in Renous. When Desjardins got to his wing, he told her he had a contract on his mind. They made a deal and Marriott took care of protecting him. He is a very dangerous person, "according to one of our sources, who demanded that his identity be withheld for fear of reprisal.
When Marriott left the penitentiary, he moved to Montreal, in the borough of Saint-Laurent, two years ago. Other members of his clan followed him.
In addition to being suspected of being involved in interprovincial drug trafficking, some are said to be busy accumulating handguns and high-caliber assault weapons, according to our reports.
In July 2019, Marriott and four of his Nova Scotian comrades were arrested following a violent brawl at a Griffintown bar where seven other people, including a police officer, were injured.
The 38-year-old gangster, who is charged with inflicting aggravated assault on three alleged victims, has yet to be tried in Montreal.
These charges, however, resulted in him being returned to detention in his home province for violating release conditions decided by a judge.
Marriott, who learned French during a stay at Donnacona Penitentiary, near Quebec, must stand trial for the murder of a fellow inmate at Dartmouth prison, committed in December 2019 along with 14 other defendants.
The current detention of Marriott does not, however, prevent his cronies from preparing for the return of Desjardins, according to our sources.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/04/01/la-police-redoute-le-retour-du-caid-raynald-desjardins

Look like Brian James Marriott, Head of Spryfield M.O.B. and associate of Reynald Desjadrins is not only the leader of a street gang, but also the son of the leader of an Halifax crime family. There an article about the father of Brian james Marriot and his family.

https://www.capebretonpost.com/news...ifax-crime-family-dies-at-age-70-410916/

Terry Marriott Sr., patriarch of Halifax crime family, dies at age 70

The patriarch of a well-known Halifax crime family has passed away.

Terry Marriott Sr., 70, died “unexpectedly” Tuesday at his home in Spryfield, according to his obituary.

Marriott was in and out of prison for most of his life, lawyer Wayne Bacchus said at his last sentencing in August 2015, after he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

That charge was laid after police raided Marriott’s apartment on Herring Cove Road on July 31, 2015, and seized 95 grams of cocaine, scales, packaging, cash and 250 grams of marijuana.

A Halifax provincial court judge accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and the defence for a four-year prison sentence, less 42 days of credit for Marriott’s time on remand.


The defence lawyer told the court Marriott had endured a great deal of tragedy in his life and had serious medical issues, including problems with his heart, liver and lungs, and arthritis.

Marriott had more than 30 convictions on his criminal record going back to the 1960s, including at least 14 for drug-related offences.

In January 2012, Marriott was sentenced to two years in prison for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, after police searched his house on Woodcrest Avenue in Spryfield in April 2009.

The defence lawyer at that sentencing, Chris Manning, now a provincial court judge, admitted Marriott’s record was “unenviable” but stressed that his client’s most previous drug offence had been in 1999.

Manning said Marriott only got back into drug-dealing to try to get information about the February 2009 killing of his son.

Death of Marriott's son
Terry Marriott Jr., 34, was shot to death while taking a nap at a friend's house in Harrietsfield.

“Mr. Marriott was very, very distraught and upset,” Manning told the court. “He expected that because of the name and the family, there would be less effort expended by the police (to find the killer).


“He decided … that if he was active on the street, so to speak, he might find tidbits of information that would lead to the discovery of his son’s killers. He decided the best way to do that was to become involved in the drug business, where information is readily transferred and given for drugs.”

Jimmy Melvin Jr., a member of a rival crime family, was arrested in 2015 and charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Terry Marriott Jr. but was found not guilty in May 2017 after a jury trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

Five months later, in October 2017, a different jury found Melvin guilty on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, from a thwarted plot to kill Terry Marriott Jr. in December 2008.

Melvin, 37, is still awaiting sentencing on those charges. The Crown wants him declared a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely.

One of Terry Marriott Sr.’s other children, Brian James (B.J.) Marriott, 37, is among 15 men facing charges, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, from an assault on an inmate at the Dartmouth jail two months ago.

In November 1998, Terry Marriott Sr.’s brother, Ricky Marriott, 32, was shot to death. Ricky, who used a wheelchair, was facing three drug charges. His girlfriend, Gail Stone, was also injured in the Nov. 20 shooting and died in hospital four days later.

In August 2000, another brother, Billy Marriott, 38, hanged himself in jail as he awaited trial for first-degree murder in the killing of former Hells Angels associate William St. Clair Wendelborg.

Terry Marriott Sr.’s obituary says he will be remembered for how much he loved his family and friends and for his sense of humour.

He is survived by his wife Darlene, whom he married last July, four children, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A celebration of Marriott's life will be held Friday afternoon at J. Albert Walker Funeral Home in Spryfield, with a reception to follow at a house in Williamswood.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/04/01/la-police-redoute-le-retour-du-caid-raynald-desjardins

Just out

Libérations conditionnelles | Le présumé garde du corps de Raynald Desjardins demeure détenu

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...de-raynald-desjardins-demeure-detenu.php

^^^^
Alleged bodyguard for Mob boss Raynald Desjardins has release revoked

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...s-raynald-desjardins-has-release-revoked

any info on desjardins alleged links to the marriott family?
seeing as the alleged leader is in jail and there has been no intell on there activities in MTL i think that alliance if it ever existed is over.

Law enforcement def has enough intelligence to anticipate something happening once he hits the streets again. They know its going to be a problem when hes back.

The son of a notorious mobster associated with the Hells Angels
Raynald Desjardins boy reportedly runs a biker loan business

The son of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins would be associated with two "very influential" members of the Hells Angels who have close links with the Rizzuto clan.
This is what internal police documents on organized crime in Quebec reveal in 2021, to which our Investigation Bureau had access.

This information would partly explain the lull that has reigned in the Montreal mafia since 2019, after fifteen years of deadly blood feuds between rival factions.

Information is circulating that a truce could have been intervened earlier this year in the conflict between Raynald Desjardins and the Rizzuto clan.
Imprisoned for plotting the assassination of a mafia opponent, Raynald Desjardins was himself the target of a murder plot orchestrated in 2015 by ex-Hells Angels chief Maurice "Mom" Boucher.
The latter is imprisoned for life for the murders of two correctional officers in 1997.
Private loans
The Hells Angels Martin Robert and Stéphane Plouffe are at the head of a criminal organization "with considerable financial means" which has for several years controlled the "lucrative" narcotics market on the North Shore of Montreal and in the Laurentians, according to reports that we were able to consult.
Mathieu Desjardins, 32, is identified as one of the "associates" of this group.
The Sûreté du Québec writes that Martin Robert is allegedly involved in the financing of a private loan business held by Raynald Desjardins.

The latter's son, Mathieu, "would have taken back control of this business since his father's imprisonment," according to these documents.

The organization led by the two members of the Hells from the Montreal chapter also maintains good contacts with most of the other major factions of Quebec organized crime.

Mafia financier

Among other things, the police consider Plouffe and Robert among the associates and financiers of the Rizzuto clan, which has once again become the dominant group of the Montreal mafia.

They are also in a "relationship" with Davide Barberio, the "street boss" of the Mafia that the police recently instigated to calm things down in the northeast of the city, struggling with an outbreak of shootings between gangs, as our Bureau of Investigation reported last week.


? Police believe that Robert and Plouffe's group has expanded its activities elsewhere in the country as well as abroad, where it has "extensive contacts" in cocaine trafficking and money laundering.

Arrested with a gun downtown

Raynald Desjardins’s son was caught with an illegally acquired pistol after his father was targeted by a killer with an AK-47 ten years ago.

On the morning of September 16, 2011, a gunman fired 17 times in the direction of Raynald Desjardins's SUV, in full traffic, in Laval, but the kingpin escaped unscathed.

On June 6 of the following year, Mathieu Desjardins, then 23, was arrested in possession of a loaded 9mm caliber pistol while in a jewelry store in downtown Montreal.

"Stupid" gesture

The latter then pleaded guilty, while qualifying his gesture as "stupid".

He claimed in court that he obtained the weapon because he was "afraid for his safety" after the attempted murder of his father.

In April 2016, Judge Jean-Pierre Boyer imposed 12 months in prison on him, concluding that it was an "isolated act" by a young man whose only criminal record remains.

The magistrate also noted at that time that Mathieu Desjardins was "not known to be affiliated with any criminal organization".

“He knows that being the son of Raynald Desjardins has earned him a certain prestige with various people, but he claims to have been able to remain detached from it. He denies having any attraction for marginality and delinquency, "said Judge Boyer.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/10/26/le-fils-dun-mafieux-notoire-associe-aux-hells-angels