I do not know how these ankle bracelets work but how did he mange to leave his residence without the cops knowing about it ?

Nevertheless, I think that probably saved his life because I don't think those two intruders went there for a social visit.

The wons in mass are gps. Ya i bet he was gonna get a bullet to the face area. Maybe he seen them on survilence jumped out a back window ran into woods or a neighbors yard.

I agree, if it was a robbery I understand bringing a mask and a gun, but who shows up to your normal mid-day Saturday afternoon robbery in broad daylight, with an aggressively-trained guard dog? Doesn't the dog take the space in the vehicle of the items they were going to collect from the residence? Fact is: this was no robbery. It may not shed light on clearing up the bigger picture of who's running things on top, but what is clear is someone wanted Del Balso dead. The question for me is where does this leave Arcadi?

Maybe it had to do with the Loreto fire.

Pretty blunt for a hit to break into somebody's house, risking the neighbours to alert the cops and be arrested. Or give Del Balso the time to arm himself or call the cops or his buddies. This was a risky undertaking for a hit squad if that was the case. As we've seen before, hits are carried out swiftly so the hitter can get away without being caught or recognised..

It was pretty blunt to hit Sollecito within seeing distance of the police station too but yet they pulled it off. I wouldn't put anything past them anymore.

Like I said, the hitter had the opportunity to strike and get away quickly without being caught. Breaking into somebody's house can be time consuming for a hit.

Anyway, from what I understand from the latest article these guys didn't break into the house, but nevertheless they were arrested so this will be interesting because the police will now be able to find out who was behind this.

The Francesco Del Balso incident resembles closely to the Vincenzo Spagnolo hit. The perpetrator(s) rang the door bell. In Vincenzo incident he answered the door and was killed. In the Del Balso incident a woman answered the door and Del Balso wasn't home. Both Vincenzo and Francesco lived in Vimont Laval. Both incidents have the same signature.

Here's what TVA Nouvelles reported last night, before the public was provided a name of the resident of the house targeted:

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/05/06/deux-personnes-arretees-et-un-chien-abattu-par-les-policiers

Below is a link to the Service de police de Laval's Facebook post from yesterday. As would be expected, most of the comments are about the pitbull who was killed.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1500103296726473&id=212671012136381

The cops are really going to be hated now. Wait until PETA gets on their case.

Jeeze its snowing up there today.

If Del Balso answers that door chances are they are off in the woods before anyone gets a chance to get outside if they blew his head off. Plus if it's just one shot nobody would probably even look outside. Like many hits that need more than one thing to happen for it to be quick, this one just didn't present itself. It basically comes to what they consider a "break in". Maybe they wanted to kidnap him? Many many options here.

Whatever the case is, being a mobster in Canada is a bad career choice that's for sure.

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/05...menaces-de-mort

More on Del Balso and the Pittbull of course.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...es-suspects.php

The two men arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing at home in the residence of the mafioso Francesco Del Balso faced a string of charges this afternoon at the Palais de Justice in Laval

I wonder this is linked. Would be nice to know who this Laflamme guy was hired by. He has been in trouble since he is a kid
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/05/07/un-homme-grievement-blesse-par-balle-a-brossard

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-ne...ting-his-family

Men charged with breaking into Laval home of Montreal Mafia leader and assaulting his family

http://www.brossardeclair.ca/faits-divers/2017/5/8/fusillade-a-brossard--l-homme-est-decede.html

This source states that the individual shot in Brossard may be linked to organized crime. We will have to wait until they release more info.

I agree it would be nice to know who hired him.

From the article:



Lol, that sucks but at least he's alive

Wow they even slapped around the wife and kids. That's pretty damn bad there. Those names sound like French-Canadian right? Makes me wonder if Desjardins is making a play again? This was pretty personal and as they found out Del Balso hasn't shunned the mafia, he's well involved. Why else remove that tracker?

Surely we see a response? I'm sure we see Del Balso locked up for whatever the maximum is for getting busted like that. He's out of excuses.

HOME INVASION AT LE MAFIOSO FRANCESCO DEL BALSO
"THAT THEY CAME TO KILL HIM IS A POSSIBILITY"
DANIEL RENAUD
LA PRESSE
The police do not rule out that the purpose of the break and enter in the mafioso Francesco Del Balso on Saturday in Laval was to eliminate it or to remove it.

The two suspects in this case, Marc Laflamme-Berthelot and David Cormier, do not face such accusations. On the other hand, according to our information, it seems that the armed man who broke into Del Balso's house on Saturday was looking for him and would not have chosen this residence in the Vimont neighborhood by chance.

"Whether it is a settlement of accounts and they came to kill him, it is a possibility," a police officer told La Presse yesterday .

One thing is certain: to break into the house of a powerful mafioso , a few years ago, and threaten his family, it caused reaction in the police circles. "If the goal was to kill him, it's unusual. In broad daylight, at home, before witnesses, you never see that, "a source told La Presse .

"The actions of the suspects will be very badly seen in the criminal environment that will not accept the fact that they have attacked his family," added another source. "It's an amateur job," added a third.


Marc Laflamme-Berthelot, 33, and David Cormier, 25, both of Montreal, faced a string of accusations yesterday at the Laval Courthouse, including breaking and entering, kidnapping and death threats. The prosecution objected to their release.

A SUSPECT IN THE LAST PASS
Marc Laflamme-Berthelot has many criminal histories and has served two federal sentences, one for attempted murder of a 14-year-old boy. On two occasions, his parole was suspended or revoked; The second time in the fall of 2016 because in his transition house room the guards discovered a phone in which they found photos related to the Hells Angels. He was granted his last statutory release three months ago.

Francesco Del Balso, who was not at home at the time of the intrusion, is still under sentence of 15 years pronounced in the wake of Operation Coliseum. One of his sons warned him by text message that an armed man was in the house and was looking for him. Del Balso contacted 9-1-1, but when the authorities wanted to contact him, they noticed that he no longer wore his GPS bracelet to follow in his footsteps. He surrendered himself to the police and was returned to the penitentiary for non-compliance.

This is the same guy back in 2002.

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2002/04/19/un-jeune-homme-de-23-ans-sera-accuse-de-tentative-de-meurtre

Doesn't seem like a professional mob hit. Seems like anybody could have hired these maniacs. It looks like they were on drugs.

As for Del Balso, you'd have to wonder if he distanced himself from his mob buddies why he found it necessary to remove his bracelet.

They have reached a new low by going after family members.

It seems like anyone with money can hire an (wannabe) assassin nowadays to kill someone in the Montreal Mafia and create chaos. Doesn't seem like the all-powerful 'ndrangheta from Ontario would be behind this.

What could be the case is that there is an open contract out on Del Balso and these guys decided to collect it..

Maybe he really is part of a breakaway faction from the Rizzutos.

The open contract concept make sense. There is no other way to justify this.

On second thought, was it not Del Balso that rented an helicopter and start to shoot at the D'Amico's house with an AK-47.
If he gets another parole,he may go ballistic again for having gone after his wife and children.

I wouldn't come up with this theory--or the belief that Del Balso has left behind his life of crime--by basing it on a bad English translation by Google Translate.

What that part of the French-language article means is that Del Balso has made a claim on more than one occasion that he deserves to serve the rest of his sentence on the outside. So Del Balso has made the argument to the parole board that because he has decided to no longer be involved in organized crime, he isn't worried about being targeted the way Lorenzo Giordano was.

Recall, for example, when Montreal Mafia member Emanuele Ragusa once told the parole board that he planned to be a shopkeeper upon being released from prison.

Parole conditions for members of organized crime often stipulate no association with other members of organized crime (you may not even be able to have contact with members of your own blood family). I'm sure Del Balso has observed such strict conditions to some extent, but he also wanted to be immediately released from prison after Giordano was hit. And has already been noted by Sonny_Black, why would Del Balso remove his ankle bracelet if not to consort with people on the prohibited-contacts list?