While he operated as a drug smuggler and trafficker, police believed Armeni was closely linked to Agostino Cuntrera, a Mafia leader who was killed in 2010, likely because he remained loyal to the Rizzuto organization while it was under attack. Armeni was also the brother-in-law of Tonino Callocchia, a high-ranking member of the Montreal Mafia who was fatally shot on Dec. 1, 2014, outside a restaurant in Rivière-des-Prairies.


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