A major cocaine trafficker wants to go to a minimum penitentiary. A cocaine trafficker linked to the Montreal mafia, who has received the largest drug narcotrafic sentence ever passed in Quebec, wants to be transferred from a medium-security penitentiary to a minimum, to better prepare for his release.
Vincenzo Armeni, 61, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2007 for trafficking more than 250 kilograms of cocaine. Since he committed the crime when he was already under a 10-year sentence for another case of trafficking in cocaine dating from 1998, a judge sentenced him to serve the two sentences consecutively - 29 years in total - without being able to apply for parole for ten years.
