The Siderno Group is turning in on itself.

"Firebombing north of Toronto adds urgency to warnings of brewing mob war in city"

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada...mob-war-in-city

There has been another murder, very likely mob linked, in Toronto. I'm posting in this thread because I am fairly certain who the murder victim is.

'Armed and dangerous’ suspect surrenders to Toronto police in what may be Mafia-linked slaying

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada...linked-shooting

Link to the Toronto Police Service news release:

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/33847

Thanks for sharing antimafia!

The latest murder victim is senior Siderno Group figure Rocco Zito.

"Toronto police identify Playfair Ave. shooting victim as Rocco Zito"

http://on.thestar.com/1WTvvrL

5 foot two inches and 87 years old? What could he have done to cause his son in law to murder him?

Guy liked his violence. Clubbing people with bottles then shooting them to finish the job how many people this little old guy kill. Dig up his cellar.

Murder of mob boss Rocco Zito: Hit or domestic dispute? Two Canadian mob experts weigh in - “The killing of Rocco Zito is the most significant Toronto underworld murder ever to happen since the killing of mob boss Paul Volpe in 1983.” http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/murder-of-mob-boss-rocco-zito-hit-or-domestic-dispute by Gangsters Inc.​

Wow!.....They aren't playing around in Canada. When will the bodies stop piling up?...Sounds like they all believe in the LCN teachings of, Little Nicky:
"‘You gotta kill people. And you gotta keep on killing ’em,'”

My little reading into this sounds like the son n daughter was going threw bad times and dad even at 87 was talking shit so the son in law killed him new he fucked up and turned himself into the police cause he was a dead man oR jail for life. I've said this before I never new shit about Canada I thought this month is the revanent was still happening up there but now they got drake and the mob don't give afuck up there. Also when I was I little kid I would go for a week to cape cod and all the French people dudes from Canada were spedos on the beach and not give a fuck. Hairy fat scary. 80 90tys. Fargo season 2 just banged out that was classic.

Yup, sounds like a surprising coincidence. Considering the ties both the victim and the son-in-law have to the 'Ndrangheta clans, I can see why one would expect this to be a hit though. Would be interesting if that actually turns out to be the case, but so far it sounds like it had little to do with Organized Crime, other than the names involved.

I was poking around on the Net for information about Dean Wiwchar, the suspect charged in the murder of Portuguese-Canadian criminal John Raposo back in 2012 at the Sicilian Sidewalk Cafe in Toronto--see my latest post from yesterday at http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=904345#Post904345.

I came across an article/blog published exactly one year ago. The link is

https://panamericancrime.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/the-mafia-and-toronto-an-update/

I don't agree with a number of statements made by the writer but I did want to share the excerpt below (all of you should read most or all of the blog to get some idea of where he's coming from).

In fact, the issue may already have degenerated into armed conflict. Verduci’s murder, now believed to be related to him being discovered by Italian police to be the official messenger between the Camera di Controllo in Toronto and the Crimini Provincia in Calabria, was just the first that can be attributed to the mounting tension. On June 24, 2015 a gunman named Jason Hay, a man with a documented violent criminal past, walked into the Moka Espresso Bar in Woodbridge and opened fire on four people, two of whom were killed. Police believe that Hay, in a move that is a hallmark of Toronto’s ‘Ndrine, was hired by opposing Toronto ‘Ndrine. The actual target of the Moka shooting has not yet been identified by police but police assume it is related to a Calabrian power struggle in Toronto. As was the case with Hay, it is believed that a Toronto ‘Ndrine may also have been responsible for the murder of John Riposo on College Street in Toronto in June, 2012, and that his murderer was Dean Wiwchar. Police sources believe that Wiwchar’s identity as the killer was subsequently leaked by Toronto ‘Ndrangheta members to law enforcement as he was known to attack his employers in order to avoid any future legal repercussions if they were to eventually become cooperating witnesses. These killings point to tensions between the Toronto ‘Ndrine and a capacity for violence in order to resolve the underlying issues.

I think that we will have to wait to see whether the respective lawyers for Dean Wiwchar and Jason Hay even decide to go to trial before entertaining the possibility that either suspect will spill the beans about who hired them.

Anti did they ever solve the murder of the man whose last name was patriarca in toronto think it happen last year. Was just wondering cause they said he was related to the guys in rhode island? Sounded like a hit.

Good Question! The murder was never connected to the Montreal war, but Patriarca was picked up frequently on Rizzuto wiretaps.

pmac:

No, the murder of Alfredo Patriarca in January 2016 remains unsolved. (The VICE Canada reporter was way off the mark in connecting the murder victim with the Patriarca Family. There is no such relation.)

Hollander:

Patriarca's murder could be connected to the June 2012 killing of Raposo, and, in contrast to the theory of the writer whose blog I quoted from just a bit farther above, both murders could be related to tensions between Montreal and the Siderno Group before and after Vito Rizzuto died in December 2013. As many posters who have read the articles about Patriarca's murder know, he was hit by a stray bullet when Raposo was killed, but Patriarca wasn't identified in newspaper articles at the time of Raposo's murder.

Below is a good summary taken from http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/databa...to-march-2016/.

On January 20, Alfredo (Freddy) Patriarca was found shot to death in the garage of an Etobicoke home. Police have not arrested anyone in the shooting. However, a Toronto police spokesperson did tell the media that the murder had all the signs of a professional hit in that the killer took just eight seconds inside the garage to shoot Patriarca dead.

The 42-year-old Patriarca has long been suspected of having ties to Italian-Canadian mafia families. Citing an unnamed police source, the Toronto Star wrote that he was frequently overheard on police wiretaps that were part of Project Colisée, a major investigation into Montreal’s Rizzuto crime family of Montreal during the mid-2000s. During the investigations, police were conducting surveillance on one relative of Rizzuto and two twin brothers who were associated with the Rizzuto family. “The deceased had a close relationship with the twins and Rizzuto loyalists,” the police source said. “He was close to both brothers.”

Patriarca was previously wounded in a high-profile homicide allegedly connected to Italian-Canadian organized crime. As CBC News describes, “he was one of two men shot in the summer of 2012 as they sat together on the crowded patio of a College Street cafe. The men were among hundreds of people watching a Euro Cup soccer match in the neighbourhood’s bars and restaurants that day when a gunman, dressed in a hard hat, construction vest and dust mask covering his face, approached them and opened fire with a handgun. Patriarca was sitting with John Raposo who was shot five times in the head and died from his injuries. Toronto police have since said Raposo was the intended victim of ‘the targeted hit.’” Four people have since been charged in connection with that shooting, including Rabih Alkhalil (see earlier story on the Alkhalil brothers). Police have said the murder was likely related to an underworld dispute involving large quantities of cash and cocaine.

According to CBC News, Patriarca and his family “live in homes that are heavily secured, and rigged with surveillance cameras. But Patriarca’s residence was under renovation, so he, his wife and two children recently moved into a rented home. It was his wife who called 911 after discovering his body.”

A Toronto police spokesperson said that Patriarca “has never been charged with an offence in relation to organized crime.”

Sources: CBC News, January 26, 2015, Etobicoke murder victim survived 2012 Little Italy patio shooting; Toronto Star, January 31, 2016, Murder victim Alfredo Patriarca was picked up on Rizzuto wiretaps: police source; Torstar News Service, February 18, 2016, Police downplay mob angle in Etobicoke man’s murder

Thanks anti. Toronto is alot more midwest or as americans i would say its next to chicago or detroit its funny there stiring the pot in montreal all the way from over there. I no im wrong but i swear theres got to be a little old guy on long island causing all the shit in montreal. And like my boy dixie says i love reading about this shit show up there from all the Canada poster or others who gives a fuck chill. Dixie didnt say that but whats up dix. Roll tide. Lol.

Thanks antimafia for the above post.

What's your take on the Raposo-Patriarca situation? I haven't researched the topic much but from what I gather the murder was linked to that biker dude Nero?

Do you think that Raposo and Patriarca were possibly targeted by the Siderno group?

Patriarca was probably involved with the C untreras.

What makes you think so?

Because he was tied to the Caputo twins one of them was charged last year in the same bust as Liborio C untrera.

Antimafia, did you ever came across information about the ties between Canada and Australia?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/allege...ppeal-to-courts

Alleged Toronto Mafia boss wins new parole hearing in latest appeal to court

^^^^
"Accused mob boss wins right to challenge parole decision"

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/...e-decision.html

Australia has overtaken Reggio Calabria by number of locali
Published: January 17, 2017

Today we find more local 'Ndrangheta in Canada or Australia to Reggio Calabria

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/ras...-di-locali.html

The Police of the Province of Reggio Calabria prohibits the funeral in public for Pietro Commisso.
Yesterday, at 7:00 am, at the cemetery of Siderno, in Reggio Calabria, was held, strictly private, the funeral of Pietro Commisso, 85, died on January 22, leading member of the homonymous gang operating in Siderno, with branches in Canada, Argentina and Australia, active in drug trafficking, in infiltration in public procurement and extortion rackets.

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/2017/01/ndrang...iQprISuaUBSe.99

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/01...b1a5f0d788.html

Eight tonnes of cocaine seized in 'Ndrangheta probe

Dave,

I missed your post above. Sorry.

I don't have any profound insights into the murders of Raposo and Patriarca, as there were many articles, published about both killings, that contained information about the links each of them had to other criminals and, of course, to each other.

We all know who the four suspects in the Raposo murder are: Nick Nero, Rabih (Robby) Al Khalil, Martino Caputo, and Dean Wiwchar (the shooter).

Nero has ties to the Hells in Niagara Falls, Ontario (but is not a biker himself) and, at the time of his being charged in the Raposo murder, was already in prison as a result of the Project Ink investigation(s) into cocaine smuggling/trafficking.

Al Khalil has ties to Shane Maloney of Montreal's West End Gang and to the British Columbia Hells Angel Larry Amero--all three were already facing cocaine smuggling/trafficking charges and all were working in Montreal. Al Khalil is likely an associate of Amero.

Caputo and his twin brother, Antonio, at times when both have been based in Toronto, had long been known to be associates of Vito Rizzuto; Martino, the one charged in Raposo's murder, has been in the news more often. Martino had ties to the missing-and-never-been-found Giuseppe (Joe) Renda, as both were caught up in the Montreal Mafia-tied gambling-ring bust in Ontario in the early 2000s. Martino, who has been described as Nero's right-hand man and was also caught up in the Project Ink investigation(s), was also charged at the same time that Liborio Cun-trera and Marco Pizzi were in relation to phase 3 of Project Clemenza, which investigated cocaine importation (about 220 kg smuggled from the US into Canada via commercial vehicles).

Wiwchar has roots in British Columbia and just recently lost an appeal on firearms convictions he faced in that province.

Raposo was described in one or two articles as a former associate of Nero and Caputo, which suggests a possible fallout. I'm fairly certain Raposo's murder had more to do with his drug-related criminal activity than with illegal gambling--mention had been made in one or two articles that Raposo may have had unpaid debts, and his connection to Caputo does then raise the question about illegal gambling.

As to how Raposo may have connections to GTA Siderno Group members, my guess is that Raposo (Portuguese-Canadian) could have been introduced to the 'ndranghetisti in the GTA by the much older Eddie Melo (former well-known Canadian boxer, killed in 2001, who never actually obtained his Canadian citizenship after arriving in Canada from Portugal as a young boy). Melo, who was a driver for Frank Cotroni Sr. whenever the latter was in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s, was actually identified in a Calabrian document in the early 1990s as a member of the Siderno Group--I can double check the date of the document when I get home if anyone is interested; the mention of this document is made in Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso's Deadly silence: Canadian mafia murders. Melo and Raposo's friendship was mentioned in an article or two. My guess is that Raposo may have been involved in distribution of drugs imported by Siderno Group members.

Patriarca, who was at the ice cream patio when Raposo was killed, was hit by a stray bullet that day. But the media didn't know anything or much at all about Patriarca's criminal ties at the time--as a victim, he wasn't even identified. Only later did the information come out about Patriarca and Raposo knowing each other, as well as Patriarca's being overheard on Project Colisée wiretaps.

So did Patriarca set up Raposo, as has been theorized? If yes, does it necessarily follow that Patriarca was killed because of the setup? If no, are their murders still unrelated or are they in fact still related because the same people who wanted Raposo dead also wanted Patriarca dead? The possibilities regarding motives are endless, but I still think that, as I wrote in the other thread, both killings could be related to tensions between Montreal and the GTA Siderno Group before and after Rizzuto died toward the end of 2013.

Firebombings of Italian bakeries in Ontario cities were a hallmark of Calabrian crime groups in an earlier era. Arson was suspected in a number of fires, usually set for one of two reasons: to eliminate competition through intimidation; and insurance fraud (intentionally set fires).

I don't know what to make of the latest firebombing of a bakery in Vaughan, immediately north of Toronto. Too early to tell.

Links:

https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/73...re-suspicious-/

http://www.cp24.com/news/vaughan-bakery-fire-being-considered-suspicious-1.3454106

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/suspicious-fire-vaughan-bakery-1.4156203

http://globalnews.ca/news/3519773/vaughan-bakery-suspicious-fire/

http://www.cp24.com/news/police-investigating-suspicious-explosion-at-cafe-in-woodbridge-1.3481549

Police investigating 'suspicious' explosion at cafe in Woodbridge

https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/73...oodbridge-cafe/

More on the explosion.