The saga continues in MTL. All these articles state arenas past connections to the west end gang and the cotroni faction of the Mafia and I don't doubt the accuracy. The connections however are close to 20 yrs old.
Arena imported coke with WEG in 2002. Any reference to cotronis is pointless there is not a cotroni in MTL right now who has any influence with the Mafia. My question as usual is who was arena allied with since his release up until his murder. Arena must have joined with somebody. I have read in lapresse articles that he was related to or working with Franco Albanese and Domenico Agostino. Agostino...who has since died was proven in court to be paying tribute/tax to the violi bros on tobacco imports. If arena held his loyalty to the cotroni/violi of old perhaps he was still doing so after release.
