While I'm glad I chose to write "whose crew?" as part of the thread title, I'm wondering whether including "Montreal Mafia" in the title was premature.
Again, there is a lot of conflicting information about the drug bust yesterday (May 29, 2013).
Below is a selection of articles on this subject.
Link:http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/drug-bust-targets-unaligned-mafia-ring-1.1301675Excerpt:Drug bust targets unaligned Mafia ringCTV Montreal Published Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:06AM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:04PM EDT
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The suspects formed a younger, unaligned segment of the local Italian Mafia which has no traditional clan loyalty and works with street gangs and other elements of the criminal underworld, according to Montreal police.
Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere described the group as up-and-comers, with the average age of those arrested being around 30.
"We are talking about young people who are taking the place of other people that have been there," said Lafreniere, a senior Montreal police spokesman.
Organized crime has been in a state of flux in the last few years with a series of attacks against Mafia-linked figures and analysts have wondered whether anyone was in charge.
Lafreniere said the arrests demonstrate a sharp change in how organized crime is functioning in the city. In the past, police have been able to identify individuals as being part of a certain group — be it a particular street gang or organized crime clan.
Now, Lafreniere said, it's all about money and greed and affiliations change quickly.
"I'd say that for the past year, it hasn't been the same and we're not talking about distinct groups anymore," Lafreniere told reporters outside Montreal police headquarters on Wednesday....
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Link:http://globalnews.ca/news/599411/drug-bust-police-arrest-young-up-and-comer-mobsters/Excerpt:Drug bust: Police arrest “young up-and-comer” mobstersBy Domenic Fazioli
Global NewsMay 29, 2013 4:38 pm
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Described by police as the “next generation” of mobsters, the gang allegedly has no connection to reputed godfather Vito Rizzuto.
“The average age of the people apprehended this morning is 30 years old. Why am I mentioning this? They are the new people,” Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters at a press conference Wednesday.
Police arrested at least 20 people and executed search warrants at 25 homes in St-Leonard, Anjou, Riviere-des-Prairies, and Terrebonne. The network is suspected of trafficking cocaine, marijuana and other drugs to Italian coffee shops.
“They were controlling all the dope that was distributed on the eastern part of the island. Yes, they were a big deal for us,” Cmdr. Lafreniere said.
Published reports said the network had links to mob leader Raynald Desjardins. He is currently behind bars awaiting trial for the murder of Salvatore Montagna....
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Below is a Google translation of an update to the
La Presse article first published online yesterday (May 29). In this updated article, attempted-murder victim Giuseppe Fetta is mentioned as a target of the police investigation and as someone who appeared to have an affiliation with Giuseppe De Vito.
Link:http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...78_section_POS4Google translation:Organized Crime: twenty traffickers arrestedDaniel Renaud and David Santerre
La Presse Published May 29, 2013 at 7:46 am | Updated May 30, 2013 at 07:54 am
When he was the victim of a murder attempt, before Christmas, the mafioso Giuseppe Fetta was one of the targets of the investigation that led to yesterday dismantling a network of drug traffickers linked to the Chief Clan Giuseppe De Vito, learned La Presse .
Fetta, 33, formerly a giant man hand Rizzuto clan convicted after the Colosseum operation was hit by several bullets as he left his car on the Boulevard Saint-Laurent, on December 17.
Following the attack, during which he was seriously injured, Fetta would be completely out of the radar of investigators from the Division of Police organized crime in Montreal. The latter, with the help of their colleagues in other sections and emergency response teams of Police of the City of Montreal (SPVM), the Sûreté du Québec and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, led 25 searches and arrests made almost as much yesterday.
4 to 30 pm, officers spent several residences, especially in the districts of Saint-Léonard, Rivière-des-Prairies and Montreal North. Everything was done quietly and stretched up a little before 7 am. The main suspects were arrested in the first, including Tomaso Massimo Paparelli and brothers. According to our sources, they would be among the main suspects in the case, but the two men have no criminal record, if it is a pending case for driving while impaired for the second. Sources put the Paparelli brothers not only in connection with Giuseppe De Vito, but also with Vittorio Mirarchi, protected the kingpin Raynald Desjardins.
A search was conducted in an apartment building in the rue Joseph-Renaud, in the borough of Anjou, which would be a cache of drug gang. Police came out - at the same time that parents from taking their children to school - an armful of bags which emanated a strong odor of marijuana.
Investigators seized an unspecified quantity of drugs and thirty weapons, including several hunting.
The majority of suspects are scheduled to appear today at the courthouse in Montreal.
"They have about thirty years. They are the next generation of organized crime. It is difficult to establish their loyalty, only greed motivates them. They ally themselves with opportunities to suit all kinds of people, "said Commander Ian Lafreniere, SPVM
Giuseppe De Vito, aka Ponytail, is serving a sentence of 15 years in prison for a case of importing narcotics conspiracy unearthed during Operation Coliseum. He and his lieutenant, Giuseppe Fetta, were not arrested yesterday.
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Link:http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/arre...l#ixzz2UpHwaTcMExcerpts:Men arrested in trafficking ring appear in courtBy Paul Cherry,
GAZETTE CRIME REPORTER
May 30, 2013 8:06 PM
A prosecutor objected to the release of nine of the 26 men who appeared before Quebec Court Judge Jean-Claude Boyer via a video link-up with the detention centre where they were held. Included among the nine men ordered to remain in custody for a bail hearing was Tommaso Paparelli, 30, of St-Léonard and his younger brother Massimo, 25, of Montreal North. According to a police source, the brothers are the suspected ringleaders in a drug trafficking ring that dealt in cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and ecstasy.
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The drug trafficking ring reportedly had ties to groups that tried to take control of the Mafia while its reputed leader, Vito Rizzuto, was serving a 10-year prison sentence in the U.S. for taking part in the murders of three mobsters in New York in 1981. But Montreal police downplayed this on Wednesday with a spokesperson saying the dealers who were arrested showed little sign of being allied to either the Rizzuto clan or the groups that opposed them....
