Link: http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Montreal/2011/12/20/004-montagna-suspect-arrestation.shtml

I'll copy and paste a Google translation shortly.

That was fast, as far as OC murder cases go.

Below is a Google translation of an earlier, shorter article:

Link: http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archives/2011/12/20111220-120259.html

Google translation:

Montreal Mafia
Raynald Desjardins arrested by the SQ
QMI Agency
20/12/2011 12:02 pm

MONTREAL - Former right-hand man Vito Rizzuto, Raynald Desjardins, was arrested by the police of the Sûreté du Québec, Tuesday.

It is not known at this time, what charges he will face. It is possible that this arrest is related to the attacks carried out on members of the Italian Mafia in Montreal in recent months.

Raynald Desjardins has himself been the victim of an attack in Laval last September.

Google translation of article I linked to in my first post:

Murder of Salvatore Montagna: Raynald Desjardins apprehended by police
December 20, 2011 12:31 pm

Raynald Desjardins is regarded as one of the leaders of organized crime in Montreal.

He had himself been the target of an attack on September 16 in Laval.

Murder of Salvatore Montagna

The body of Salvatore Montagna, one of the most prominent figures of the Montreal Mafia, was found on November 24 on the banks of the River L'Assomption, Charlemagne. The man was hit at least one projectile firearms.

Salvatore Montagna, who was tipped as a possible successor to the godfather Nicolo Rizzuto, who was assassinated last year, was hit by a bullet while he was on the island Vaudry. He tried to escape her attacker with a dip in the Assomption River to reach the other shore by swimming.

The lifeless body of Salvatore Montagna was drafted by the river shortly after by police patrol in Repentigny.

City Police Repentigny had then referred the case to investigators from the Sûreté du Québec. Montagna do not live in Charlemagne. The police had set out to determine what he was doing in this area at the time of his death.

Salvatore Montagna led the clan of New York Bonanno in 2006. He was deported from the United States to Canada in April 2009 .

Montagna was born in Canada but grew up in Sicily before emigrating to the United States at the age of 15. Canadian citizen, Mr. Montagna could be denied entry into the country by the Canadian government during his deportation from the United States. He was married with three daughters.

I perhaps posted too soon. More than one person has been arrested.

Link: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Cops+make+arrests+Montagna+slaying/5887613/story.html

As far as hits go this was sloppy...once they found out what house was involved and arrested the landlord i am sure they got a lot of info. As far as leads go this was a real gem and extremely fortunate for the Montreal police.

pietrantonio was probably on desjardins side
the montagna's faction could take over now since desjardins and his men was caught and pietrantonio virtually dead

Link to press release issued by the media-relations department of the Sûreté du Québec:

http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/898411/a...vatore-montagna

Google translation (which I have modified for easier comprehension):

December 20, 2011 2:10 p.m
Arrests made in connection with the murder of Salvatore Montagna

MONTREAL, Dec. 20 2011 / CNW Telbec / - The Service des enquêtes sur les crimes contre la personne, of the Sûreté du Québec, in collaboration with its partners, today arrested five persons for the murder of Salvatore Montagna, which occurred last November 24 in Charlemagne.

These are Raynald Desjardins, 59, of Laval, Vittorio Mirarchi, 34, of Sainte-Adèle, and Felice Racaniello, 27, of Montreal. Two other people were arrested without a warrant this morning. The arrest warrant for Jack Simpson, 69, of Charlemagne, who is currently imprisoned, will be executed later.

In addition, police are conducting searches of 16 locations and vehicles in connection with those arrested.

All suspects will appear in the Joliette courthouse to answer charges of first degree murder.

Note that following the various events that affected organized crime in recent years, the Quebec Provincial Police, RCMP Canada , the Police of the City of Montreal, Department of the protection of citizens Laval and the Police Service in Longueuil have intensified their efforts against Italian organized crime. This partnership has enabled the police to make rapid progress in their investigation and make arrests today. More arrests could follow.

For further information:
Service des communications avec les médias
Sûreté du Québec
Montreal
514 598-4848 www.sq.gouv.qc.ca

Wow. The frenchman had montagna wacked. New York doesn't count for shit in Montreal.

Excuse the ignorance, why is Desjardins fighting Montagna? Is Desjardins still loyal to the Rizzuto side? Or are they fighting over the Rizzuto spoils?

From what it seems and what's been said by journalists, the coalition of criminals that took out the Rizzuto core are now fighting over the spoils.

Or we could speculate just as easily that a Rizzuto loyalist had him whacked on orders from Vito. Who knows, but there is no doubt in my mind Vito will seek revenge for the deaths of his son and father even if he dies in the process. He has millions stashed away and one has to think revenge is pretty high in his priority list on what to spend his $ on.

the frenchmen can't be boss since he is not even a member of the mafia although related to dimaulo... mirarchi, milioto and his other italian friends are a different matter
i wonder if dimaulo was behind all this
it's clear anyway at this point that after the decimation of rizzuto's two groups were fighting eachother
the montagna-lopresti (?) and the dimaulo-pietrantonio (?)

I dont get this, its like an arab hair out there. Can anyone please clarify whats going there, i am trying to understand it. And was doing pretty good, untill he was arrested for the murder of Montagna.

it was at first a coalition of young turks and some older boss getting ride of the old guard (rizzuto's)
after that the same groups who destroyed rizzuto's empire started fighting eachother
montagna wanted to be the boss of bosses because of his links with ny but somebody stopped him

M2W, you are right, he can't be a member. Muk has him listed as a soldier of the Rizzuto family. That can't be correct. He also has Catelli as a member of SJ, but Catelli was only an associate. Muk's a good guy, though.

i think he's a carsmatic leaders with several though guys and ambitious mafiosi around him and he's related with important mafiosi

That all may be true, but that was a lousy hit. No surprise they got caught.

I am surprised no one is asking the next question: "will any of the arrested parties flip and turn on the higher ups?"

New thread?

lopresti & pietrantonio same side.

Both English and French media based in Quebec are reporting today that the interception of BlackBerry messages between Raynald Desjardins and Vittorio Mirarchi (another co-accused) was instrumental in the Montagna murder investigation. One radio station in Montreal actually states that retrieval of messages from Montagna's BlackBerry was helpful.

Links and excerpts:

http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10332067

Blackberry may have given up clues in Montagna murder
Posted By: Andrew Peplowski
1/5/2012 6:10:00 AM

The BlackBerry owned by murdered mob boss Salvatore Montagna may have been a silent witness to his murder.

La Presse reports Surete du Quebec investigators managed to retrieve messages from the device which led them to laying murder charges against Raynald Desjardins.

[snip]
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/BlackBerry+mails+report/5950365/story.html

Sûreté du Québec investigators accessed BlackBerrys: report
BY JAN RAVENSBERGEN, THE GAZETTE
JANUARY 5, 2012 9:07 AM

MONTREAL – A spokesperson for Quebec’s provincial police Thursday morning refused to confirm or deny a media report that investigators obtained access to a series of encrypted BlackBerry messages during their probe into the Mafia-style slaying of Salvatore Montagna.

“We do not reveal our investigation methods,” Sûreté du Québec Sgt. Ronald McInnis said.

No spokesperson for Research in Motion (RIM), which operates the Blackberry smartphone service, could immediately be reached at company headquarters in Waterloo, Ont., to confirm if a court order was involved or if the company co-operated.

Warrants for interception of communications in the Montagna case remained sealed.

[snip]

Holy shit that's awesome........so many gangsters are probably freaking out right now since all of them use blackberry's. This will be interesting!

Di Maulo is reported to be using an iphone though.

An online article published just after 2:00 pm today suggests that law enforcement arrested Raynald Desjardins not a minute too soon. The reason? Sources have told TVA Nouvelles that a contract was put on Desjardins right after Montagna's murder and that Desjardins was to be hit immediately.

Link:

http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archiv ... 40549.html

Google translation:

Raynald Desjardins rescued by the police?
Agence QMI
05/01/2012 2:05 p.m

Joliette - Was Raynald Desjardins, accused of the murder of Salvatore Montagna, rescued by police when he was arrested last month? It suggests that certain information obtained by TVA Nouvelles.

According to this it was possible to learn a "contract" was put on the head of Desjardins, to be shot down quite quickly after the murder of Montagna, occurred Nov. 24.

However, Desjardins, former right hand of Vito Rizzuto, was arrested on December 20 in this matter, which was immediately put away for a possible attack against his person.

Security

The first appearance of Raynald Desjardins, Thursday, has also been marked by an impressive security. Plainclothes officers of the Emergency Response Team of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), wearing bulletproof vests, were in the convoy and several police officers stood guard in the corridors and in the courtroom of the courthouse Joliette.

Betrayed by his BlackBerry

Moreover, it was possible to learn that Raynald Desjardins have been especially betrayed by his BlackBerry. His arrest caused a surprise by the speed, just one month after the murder of Montagna, occurred in Charlemagne, east of Montreal Island.

The police have successfully intercepted PIN messages, encrypted messaging service that is renowned Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry. It is unclear how they did it. RIM Has worked with the police? The SQ she found a way to hack the mail?

The defense dissatisfied

Raynald Desjardins was back in court on Thursday. His attorney and counsel for co-defendants in this case were trying to gain access to all the evidence accumulated by investigators.

The lawyers said they did not have read all of the search warrants and the wiretap evidence.

Still confused over who was on Montagna's side. Actually surprised that he had so much support up there as an outsider. Is it DiMaulo and the old Cotroni group?

Also, don't quite understand the rumors mentioned on this board that Tony Magi may have been behind the Nick Rizzuto Jr. shooting. Is he a made guy? If not, how does he get away with killing the boss' son?

Calogero Milioto was one of the men who was arrested on December 20, 2011, in relation to Montagna's murder but was not charged with murder. Rather, Milioto was charged with a long list of firearms-related charges.

The trial of those accused in the murder of Montagna resumed today in Joliette, Quebec. A new murder charge was laid this morning against Milioto.

Some background about Milioto:

*In Paul Cherry's December 22, 2011 article about those picked up two days earlier, Milioto is identified as being related to an associate of the Rizzuto clan.

*Franceso Milioto is the name of the father of Nick Rizzuto Sr.'s older half-brother. Nick Sr.'s mother was married first to Milioto and bore him a son, Liborio Milioto.

*I can write with a fair degree of certainty that Calogero Miloto, one of the accused, has ancestry that descends from the Rizzutos' hometown in Sicily. The poster eurodave had looked into this before me and is also convinced of Milioto's ancestry.

Link to French-language article:

http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archives/2012/01/20120111-115438.html

Google translation:

Milioto accused of murder
DANIEL RENAUD
Le Journal de Montréal
11/01/2012 12:08

JOLIETTE - A new murder charge was authorized on Wednesday morning against one of the alleged accomplices of Raynald Desjardins in the death of Salvatore Montagna.

Colagero Milioto had to undergo an investigation to be released at the courthouse in Joliette, but instead the subject of this new accusation. Since his arrest on December 20, Milioto was merely charged with possession of a weapon.

Milioto and the other defendants in this case, either Raynald Desjardins, Peter Magistrale, Vittorio Mirarchi, Racaniello Felice and Jack Simpson, were back in court Wednesday.

In addition, Judge Maurice Parent, the Court of Quebec dismissed the motion of one of the co-defendants Raynald Desjardins to obtain copies of affidavits warrants for wiretaps.

These mandates include details of the famous incriminating messages sent by BlackBerry before and after the murder of the candidate to sponsor Charlemagne November 24.

Link to French-language article about this topic:

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec...e-en-prison.php

Translation (aided by Google Translate):

Right arm of Raynald Desjardins remains in prison
Daniel Renaud
La Presse
Posted December 20, 2012 at 1:17 am | Updated December 20, 2012 at 1:17 am

Vittorio Mirarchi, accused with other individuals, whose boss is Raynald Desjardins, of the murder of godfather aspirant Salvatore Montagna, remains in prison.

This was decided this afternoon by Judge Marc David, of the Superior Court, following a release inquiry, which was held in September and at the beginning of this month, at the Joliette courthouse.

Mirarchi, alias Victor, who is represented by Isabel Schurman and Toronto lawyer Edward Greenspan, was the only accused to have such an inquiry.

A publication ban prevents us from revealing what was revealed during the inquiry, but remember that the evidence is mainly based on PIN messages intercepted by the RCMP that the accused would have exchanged on their Blackberry devices before, during and after the murder of Montagna, on November 24, 2011 in the island of Vaudry, in Charlemagne.

The other defendants in this case are Jack Simpson, who rented the house where the crime was committed, Felice Racaniello and Calogero Milioto.

Mirarchi, who has links with the Calabrian families of Ontario, is considered by the police as the right arm of Raynald Desjardins. After the death of Mirarchi's father, Desjardins raised Mirarchi like a son.

Another reason to hate the French, they use snipers! (Nicolo Rizzuto). At least we Americans do it up close!

That's what I was always wondering about. Why don't the Americans use snipers? That's how professional hitmen theoretically should operate, in my opinion.

They all watched the Godfather 500 times, and in the words of the great late Santino Corleone, " you gotta get up close and blow thier brains all over your nice Ivy Leaugue suit"