The Dejardins article is below...Looks like Desjardins still up to his old tricks and his son is involved... Police have been cracking down on the Mafia in general all over the streets over there...I added a couple of links. Lower level guys but they are really shaking up the organizations and the day to day business.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Mont...9140/story.htmland another
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Lava...8160/story.htmlDESJARDINS...
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Susp...9762/story.htmlMONTREAL — Raynald Desjardins, the man charged with murdering mafioso Salvatore Montagna within the context of an underworld feud, has been named in an indictment as one of several people who plotted to smuggle large quantities of cocaine and hashish into Canada.
Desjardins, 59, who is currently detained while he and five other men await a trial on charges they took part in the first-degree murder of Montagna in November 2011, does not face charges in the case that emerged at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. But both he and his son, Mathieu, are listed as non-indicted co-conspirators in one of five charges filed in the case.
The sole count that names Desjardins and his son alleges that several people, including at least four men from Ontario, took part in a plot to bring the narcotics into Canada between Jan. 1, 2011, and June 20, 2012. The charges are part of an RCMP investigation dubbed Project Célibataire and the charge involving Desjardins lists several cities all over the globe as meeting points for the people allegedly involved. The cities range from places as close as Laval and Pointe-Claire to France, the Netherlands and Pakistan.
Desjardins was arrested in December 2011, a month after Montagna was killed in Île Vaudry, a small island just east of Montreal.
Mathieu Desjardins was recently charged with the illegal possession of a firearm while he was in Montreal, and that case is still pending.
One of seven men who face criminal charges in Project Célibataire is Alain Charron, a well-connected underworld figure who was arrested last year in a similar case. He was granted bail, in June 2012, after posting a hefty bond of more than $1 million. Charron was ordered detained when he appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. Louis Nagy, 54, of Kirkland was also ordered detained. He has been arrested in two other RCMP investigations into large-scale drug smuggling in the past.
Constable Luc Thibault of the RCMP said the crime was still in the planning stages but based on an ongoing investigation, officers had enough proof to issue 13 arrest warrants and swoop down on homes in Montreal, the north shore, the Laurentians and Ontario.
“This was a criminal organization conspiring to import drugs for trafficking from Pakistan and Peru and we stopped them before they actually brought the drugs here, either to Montreal or Halifax,” Thibault said.
Five other men, allegedly directly involved in the conspiracy are Robert Bryant, 63, of Wheatley, Ont., Steven Woods, 46, of Gore, Marco Milan, 47, of Caledon, Ont., Yi Thong Savath, 44, of Markham, Ont., and Dean Copkov, 47, of Wasaga Beach, Ont. All but Copkov were picked up Tuesday. Copkov has promised to turn himself in on Wednesday.
Another five men were arrested on charges of conspiracy, possession and production of illegal drugs. They are: Jacques Gabay, 62, of St-Sauveur-des-Monts, Kenneth Slabotsky, 69, of Hampstead, Michel Perreault, 48, of Montreal, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, 59, of Verdun and Alain Gagnon, 46, of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts. The RCMP are still looking for Alain Godard, 46, of St-Jérôme.
