http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/M...2307/story.html

Three men with B.C. and Hells Angels links have been arrested on cocaine trafficking charges as part of a massive police sweep headed out of Montreal.

White Rock Hells Angel Larry Amero was picked up in Montreal, along with Shane (Wheels) Maloney, a B.C. native living in Quebec who has been spending long stretches in Vancouver.

Also charged is Rabib Alkhalil, a former Lower Mainland man who now lives in Ottawa. Two of Alkhalil's brothers have been murdered in B.C. in the last decade. One was shot to death in Surrey. The other died in the infamous Loft Six shooting.

Amero, Maloney and Alkhalil are believed to have major drug trafficking links in B.C. and are considered to be part of the reason Metro Vancouver has been embroiled in a bloody gang war that has left dozens dead in the last three years.

Amero himself narrowly escaped death when the Porsche Cayenne he was driving in Kelowna in August 2011 was ambushed by masked gunman outside a casino. Gangster Jon Bacon was killed. Amero was left disabled.

Amero later moved to Montreal.

Maloney was charged in Montreal a year ago for allegedly beating a Montreal police man on vacation in Mexico in January 2011. The officer was attacked after he snapped photos of suspected Hells Angels at a bar.

Maloney has been staying in Yaletown during frequent visits to Vancouver.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-B.C. worked with police in Montreal on the case.

The huge police operation, led by the Sûreté du Québec and involved the RCMP, the Montreal police and other regional squads, took place before dawn Thursday to crack down on a vast drug operation implicating organized crime across Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

Over 1,000 officers armed with 100 arrest warrants swooped down on 30 towns and cities, including Montreal.

The focus of the arrest is trafficking of cocaine and other drugs, said SQ spokesperson Gregory Gomez. He declined to comment on which branch of organized crime was involved but speculation is that more than one recognized group was targeted.

By 7 a.m., dozens of arrests had taken place and the SPVM operations centres were kept hopping with a steady stream of squad cars bringing more people in to be processed.

In Laval, 70 uniformed officers were involved as well as both S.W.A.T. teams in the 21 arrest warrants for that region, said Laval police spokesperson Franco DiGenova.

The SQ will be holding a press conference at 2 p.m. to explain the process and the results of this latest investigation.

with files from the Montreal Gazette



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another big drugs bust with links to vancouver,this time with possible links to traditional OC. Alot of suspects of arab middle eastern descent seem to be involved.

For second time this week, police break up major international drug network with Vancouver links


BY KIM BOLAN, VANCOUVER SUN NOVEMBER 2, 2012



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Lower Mainland native Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, is charged in the Niagara case.
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For a second time this week, police have broken up a major international drug network with links to Vancouver that was importing a tonne of cocaine a month.
On Friday, Niagara Regional Police announced that a Vancouver man named Mohamed Reza Amin Torabi was one of six people charged in connection with the cross-border cocaine smuggling operation.
Amin Torabi, 49, was picked up by Vancouver Police Thursday and remains in custody in B.C. on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine, conspiracy to traffic and working for a criminal organization.
He is due to appear in Vancouver Provincial Court November 7.

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Also charged in the Niagara case is Lower Mainland native Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
Just a day earlier, the Surete du Quebec said Alkhalil was also wanted in a major drug smuggling operation in that province headed by gangsters from B.C. linked to the Hells Angels. More than 100 people have been charged so far.
And Alkhalil, 25, was also identified by Chief Officer Dan Malo, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, as one of the people behind a bloody gang war in B.C. that has left dozens wounded and dead in the last two years.
Alkhalil grew up in Surrey where an elder brother was shot to death in 2001. Another brother was killed in the Loft Six nightclub shooting in 2004.
Niagara police S. Sgt. Shawn Clarkson said Friday that Amin Torabi was identified as a suspect in the drug ring after five people were arrested last May in a related project.
He said the Vancouver man "was identified as a conspirator with [alleged gang kingpin Nicola] Nero and some of the others charged."
Niagara police are planning to bring Amin Torabi to Ontario to face the charges,
Amin Torabi has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court data base. He has a registered loan for a BMW which lists his address as a Homer Street condo in Vancouver.
Niagara Police described the drug gang as "a highly sophisticated international criminal organization with solid roots to traditional organized crime."
The gang was moving up to 400 kilos of cocaine a week from Mexico, through the U.S. and then into Canada where it was widely distributed.
Niagara Regional Police Chief Jeff McGuire said his agency worked closely with law enforcement partners on both sides of the border"to deliver a major blow to this dangerous criminal network of drug producers and traffickers."
"This investigation is part of our combined, ongoing efforts to disrupt supply chains of drugs before they can be dealt on the streets and in our communities," he said.
Also charged is Nicola Nero, who is currently in jail in Kingston, as well as Ontario residents Alfonso Inclima, Nebojsa (Nasho) Dronjak,
Tawnya Del Ben Fletcher and Martino Caputo. Caputo has not yet been located by police.



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heres an update on the first raid. One of the supsects was a member of the west end gang in montreal.

Three men with Hells Angels links who were charged in a massive cocaine trafficking investigation out of Montreal “are key figures in B.C.’s gang conflict,” the head of B.C.’s anti-gang agency said Thursday.

The charges against West Point Hells Angel Larry Amero; Shane (Wheels) Maloney, a B.C. native living in Quebec; and Rabih Alkhalil, a former Lower Mainland man, should ease gang tensions in B.C. that have led to dozens of shootings and murders in the last two years.

Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Chief Officer Dan Malo confirmed that the B.C. agency has been working with its Quebec counterparts on the organized crime case.

“Gang members continue to spread their tentacles from B.C. to other provinces,” Malo said. “These guys are on the radar of CFSEU-BC and law enforcement right across Canada ….as we see with the arrests today, the intelligence sharing and cooperation among law enforcement is unparalleled.”

Amero and Maloney, both 35, and Alkhalil, 25, are the alleged kingpins of the cross-country cocaine ring that led to 103 arrests Thursday by the Sûreté du Québec in Ontario and Quebec. Both Amero and Maloney are in custody, while police are hunting for Alkhalil.

SQ Insp. Michel Forget said the drug gang used a middleman to cooperate with Mexican drug cartels and appeared to have the capacity to import and distribute about 75 kilograms of cocaine per week. Police also seized an arsenal of weapons, including 400 firearms as well as explosives like 1,486 sticks of dynamite.

“The group did not hesitate to use violence to take control and expand their territories,” Forget told reporters at provincial police headquarters in Montreal.

Police also said Metro Vancouver gangsters set up shop in Montreal to take advantage of a void left by previous crackdowns on Quebec Hells Angels and the Mafia. Two dozen of the 128 charged are yet to be apprehended.

The accused face a range of charges, including conspiracy, trafficking and working for the benefit of a criminal organization.

Amero was a leading figure in the biker gang’s White Rock chapter before joining the breakaway Surrey-based West Point group earlier this year. He has been living in Montreal since an assassination attempt in Kelowna in August 2011 left him seriously wounded and his Red Scorpion pal Jonathan Bacon dead.

But Amero had been travelling back and forth between Quebec and B.C. regularly and was in Vancouver just last month.

Likewise, Maloney, part of Montreal’s Irish West End gang, was talking to real estate agents about purchasing Lower Mainland property just this past summer, The Vancouver Sun has learned. He had been staying in Yaletown for long stretches of time over the last year.

CFSEU officers were tailing him on a visit here in July. He was stopped and arrested for breaching bail conditions related to Montreal charges laid last year when Maloney and another Hells Angel associate allegedly brutally beat a Montreal police officer who was on vacation in Mexico and took a photo of the bikers in a bar.


Rabih Alkhalil

Alkhalil grew up in North Vancouver, but moved with his family to Ottawa. Police said Thursday they don’t know his current whereabouts. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Two of Alkhalil’s brothers have been murdered in B.C. in the last decade. One was shot to death in Surrey. The other died in the infamous Loft Six nightclub shooting in downtown Vancouver. Another Alkhalil brother, Nabil, has been ordered deported because of a cocaine trafficking conviction in Ontario.

Amero and his associates were identified as being part of a B.C. gang alliance dubbed the Wolf Pack that was locked in a bloody conflict with rivals from the Dhak-Duhre group.

The threat of violence was so great a year ago that the CFSEU issued an extraordinary public warning that anyone near the Dhaks or Duhres could be at risk.

Thursday’s arrests are anticipated to have a ripple effect in B.C.

B.C. Justice Minister Shirley Bond said “this will make our streets safer across the country.

“B.C. invests in public safety and supports the CFSEU so that they can contribute to investigations like this,” she said. “It’s essential for us to participate in these coordinated cross-Canada investigations and be able to contribute officers and expertise to make our province and country safer.”

Dominic Violi and the Calabrians from Hamilton are the main power now (or one of the three if you subscribe to the Consortium triumvirate power sharing commitee). That is who the people in Quebec think it is. The war with the Rizzutos was retaliation for the murder of Paolo Violi and for pushing them out of Montreal in the first place.

Whatever, the Hell's Angels and West End Gang have managed to keep a low profile media wise until now even though it is widely known by those on the ground that they have had a major role to play in this conflict whether directly or indirectly.

What is also clear is that the trimvirate power sharing commitee is still carrying on, business as usual and given the low rate of detection so far the West End Gang will be kicking themselves that they've taken a big casualty just as Maloney was about to get set up in Lower Mainland.

The Irish and Hell's Angels have got to stop this wild cowboy bullshit if they want to stay out of the joint. Same as in NYC, always brawling with Cops for some reason.

But not only are they acting like wild cowboys they're debt collecting on behalf of one, according to the mysteriously named "cowboy" who Lawrence Cooney was collecting repayments for recently. Sounds like a line he fed the authorities to me as they don't appear to have any other info regarding this other West End Gang "cowboy" but it made the print nonetheless.:-A man prosecutors portrayed as a thuggish enforcer for Montreal's West End Gang was denied bail Tuesday on extortion and assault charges, with the judge calling him a threat to public safety.

'Lawrence Cooney is accused of brutally beating a compulsive gambler who owed $20,000 to one of Cooney's associates, a man named Cowboy.

Three years ago, the poker player borrowed the money, and had repaid $15,000 to Cowboy within seven months when he was told those payments were just the interest'.

Proof if ever needed that the Irish and Outlaw bikers are a bunch of wild cowboys
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/08/15/montreal-lawrence-cooney.html

Update on the niagra bust involving $30 million worth of coke.
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2012/11/02/busting-a-billion-dollar-drug-ring

Paraplegic gangster gets day parole on sentence for weapons stockpile, cocaine trafficking

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...apons-stockpile-cocaine-trafficking.html

Sean posted this in 2012

^^^^
He was wrong more than seven years ago. His theory, which he presented as fact, is still wrong now.

Just before the epilogue to Mafia inc. was published in September 2011, co-author André Cédilot and one French-language Quebec media channel were rushing to let us know -- especially in light of the attempted murder of Raynald Desjardins that happened at the time -- that the Papalia, Musitano, and Luppino crime groups in the Hamilton area were collaborating and responsible for the decimation of the Rizzuto group (that had been in control of the Montreal Mafia for more than 33 years at that point). Recall, as well, that the Hamilton-area crime groups were (mis)identified by Cédilot and the media channel as 'ndrangheta clans.

Some of us had always known before then that, very often, those Hamilton-area crime groups did not always get along and very often couldn't stand one another. Hate is not too strong a word to describe how they each felt toward one another.

Now of course there is some evidence that Giacomo Luppino's own sons may not have been inducted into the 'ndrangheta, not to mention the revelations that grandson Domenico Violi is a made member of an American La Cosa Nostra family with Sicilian roots -- just as his father, Paolo, was -- and that Giuseppe Violi was headed toward becoming a made member of either the Buffalo Family or the Bonanno Family, the latter another American LCN family with Sicilian roots. Why is there doubt that Pat and Angelo Musitano were made into the 'ndrangheta? Were they even made men when they plotted the murders of Buffalo Family members Johnny Pops and Carm Barillaro (both of whom had Calabrian ancestry)? Were Domenico Musitano and brother Tony accountable to the 'ndrangheta clan back in Italy, whereas Pat and Angelo were accountable to a non-'ndrangheta crime group in Canada?

Hollander, as hard as you may try to convince us of the supremacy of the 'ndrangheta in Canada and the United States -- and you try a lot -- we forum posters are not dumb. The 10th anniversary of Nick Rizzuto Jr.'s murder is coming up, and the 'ndrangheta still hasn't been able to take over the Montreal Mafia after 10 years of trying -- 15 years if you count back to Vito Rizzuto's arrest in January 2004. The more recent the information is -- and more information is coming out -- the more I see that the 'ndrangheta was not ever trying to wrest control of the Montreal Mafia.

Over the years I have gone back and forth a number of times regarding whether the Greater Toronto Area Siderno Group was still on friendly terms with the higher-ups in the Rizzuto organization (Vito, Nick Sr., Arcadi, Sollecito, and Renda) after Vito's arrest in early 2004. For a while I had subscribed to the theory that some GTA Siderno Group clans were pro-Vito while some were anti-Vito. Then I changed my opinion and thought the GTA Siderno Group was acting as one man. Now I have gone back to the first theory.

Daniel Renaud's November 2018 book reveals that when the imprisoned Rizzuto was questioned by Quebec investigators at the ADX Florence in Colorado about whether criminals in Ontario had any involvement in in the murders and mayhem in Quebec, Rizzuto answered no. Was Rizzuto telling the truth? Maybe. Maybe not. When I see on social media that the wife of the GTA-based Cosimo Commisso is Facebook friends with a first cousin of Rizzuto's wife, you form impressions different from the ones you formed when you had previously read that Rizzuto had on his list of people to be targeted for murder a number of members of the Commisso family in Ontario.

The revelations uncovered this year by the Project Sindacato investigation here in Canada and the parallel Canadian 'ndrangheta Connection investigation in Italy may or may not have confirmed that there are obviously some criminal clans in the GTA Siderno Group that are at odds with one another over continued criminal ties to the Rizzuto loyalists in the Montreal area. Since approximately 2014 or 2015, we have all read about the internal dissent in the Siderno Group that has manifested in violence, and I have tried to argue that the schism dates back to August 2008 after Giuseppe Coluccio was arrested here the previous month, leading to his replacement as capocrimine of the camera di controllo by none other than Angelino Figliomeni.

If you closely follow these matters and are a true student of Italian organized crime in Canada and the US, you will have well-researched opinions and will propose theories that are grounded in fact, regardless of where you live in this world. The problem, as I see it, is that many posters, organized-crime reporters, organized-crime authors, and even law-enforcement personnel seem to dismiss the importance of the politics regarding the interactions of the various mafie in Canada and the US. You can't conduct illegal activities in another secret society's territory here just because you're an 'ndranghetista. You can't kill a made guy in another secret society here just because you're an 'ndranghetista. As influential and powerful as Domenico Violi was believed to be in Ontario's underworld going back to, let's say, in 2005, we now know that he didn't become a made man in the Buffalo Family till January 2015; so there would be serious consequences for him, his brother, and anyone else not made -- not to mention consequences for made guys who didn't get permission -- if they were directly or indirectly involved in the high-profile murders in Quebec from late 2009 to November 2010.

What a post!!! Some great observations and questions.

I won't argue with that, all I know is their supremacy in the rest of the world (Europe, Latin America, Australia). This is even stated by mafiosi in Palermo on wiretaps.

The demand for cocaine in Europe is high, it’s a more social, aka high society. I am no European but it’s graspable to believe that one Southern Italian Society is leading the way. It wouldn’t be surprising if its a result of joint venture between all Southern Italian Societies (CN, Camorra, Ndrangheta, Sacra, maybe even Stidda). The Calabrese seem to be the experts in the Yayo and its subsidiaries . Lastly, the unknown of rarely spoken (P2, Church, Rome/Politics). It’s a neat opportunity to see how what they call in Italy “Mafia” all controlling hand in action. Through this, it wouldn’t surprise if Europe is liberal, but progressive enough to legalize blow. Maybe the Orange can get it done, they set the trend is legal pot.

Whatever agreements where made after/before/during Rizzuto jail, are/where at the heart of what is transpiring. Thankfully for those involved the Secret part of the Society will eventually keep them safe.

Also I believe that the price of coke is very high in Australia, the Calabrese are huge there, lots of profit.

I wonder how LCN works for the one collective benefit, as might be the trend.

It's 40-50 euros per gram on the streets in Holland. You pay the most in New Zealand and Australia: 212 euros and 195 euros respectively.

This is interesting, but a couple of things I find confusing....

Is it confirmed that Coluccio was capocrimine, and Figliomeni replaced him? Where did you happen to read this?

I thought Nick Rizzutos murder had a different motive from the attempted coup. I thought Renauds book said this too, or no?

Your position on the Violis involvement is curious considering the Musitanos hit a Capo AND his lieutenant...
they wernt made, and nothing really happened.....

Mirarchi, is still alive, and apparently back in the fold, at least for the moment. I dont know WHO would be retaliating FOR Montagna, certainly NOT the Rizzutos, right?

more questions ....

Were the Scoppas made men? And if so, WHO made em? Massino? Rastelli? It can really only be one of the two, right?

What about the new guys, D'adamo, the ponytail, the Augtino- Albanese clan.... I mean, are they made, and if so... who made em?

When you say Sindaccato may or may not have proven that Siderno group was at odds, which one is it?


Also, that thing where the Commisos said the sicilians must, what was it? " Impute" a series of incidents? There was no conflict between them?

What a variation in price, I remember hearing that Chapo Guzman was the only CEO/Narco that was on 6 of the 7 continents. Antarctica being the only Sinola wasn’t present, supply always meets demand.

With these recent revelations, what is the situation of the lone arrested suspect in Musitano murder. There is so many veiled plays and rightfully so, crime is the business.

Reason being he is only alive known human, that knows anything. Great person to silence or talk with, what yard is he in? Same as Violis, in the States both are easy to do.

Gli uccelli volano in prigione, the prison element is harder to police, less likely to get undercover in OC in the prisons. Mom Boucher is a very interesting one in all this. Close with Rizzuto, stabbed in 2011, stabbed someone later on, was convicted on plot to try and Desjardins, voted out of HA in March 2014. In the states and other parts of the world (ie. Mexico) people inside can influence/control business interests.

Boucher getting voted could be the weak link in the broken promises of Rizzuto agreement prior to Rizzuto death, also the vote was cast a month or so before Verducci is killed.

The high cost of importing cocaine into Australia and New Zealand are believed to be the primary drivers of price. That's also why the cheaper Ice and Ecstasy is very popular over there.

Cool, aren’t the Triads partners in that, providing some type of chemical for producing meth and pills?

Shane Kenneth Maloney obtient sa libération conditionnelle totale

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-sa-liberation-conditionnelle-totale.php


Paraplegic mobster granted full parole, says he’s done with organized crime

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...-says-hes-done-with-organized-crime.html

^^^^
Alleged West End Gang leader not interested in returning to Quebec

https://montrealgazette.com/news/alleged-west-end-gang-leader-not-interested-in-returning-to-quebec

^^^^
Alleged West End Gang leader has parole revoked because of his paranoia

https://montrealgazette.com/news/al...s-parole-revoked-because-of-his-paranoia


Trafic de cocaïne: trop risqué de libérer un ex-leader du gang de l’Ouest

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...e-liberer-un-ex-leader-du-gang-de-louest

^^^^
Cross-posting.

High-level gangster vanishes while on parole in B.C.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/high-level-gangster-vanishes-while-on-parole-in-bc

^^^^
Tweet from reporter Kim Bolan (@kbolan) earlier today:

Vancouver Police confirmed today that gangster Shane Maloney is back in custody. Arrested downtown several days ago.

4:55 PM 2022-09-29

https://twitter.com/kbolan/status/1575575108043042817?s=46&t=Bx9T7GgYISM_JM9ncM-fMA