The arson attacks against a lender close to the Irish underworld continues with a fifth attack in just a few months against properties owned by members of his family.
At approximately 2:30 am on Friday, two individuals were reportedly seen by witnesses when they threw a Molotov cocktail inside the Save N Ship courier on Sainte-Catherine Street West in the Wesmount neighborhood of Montreal.
The company is owned by Jennifer McKenzie, the sister of John McKenzie, a usurious lender known to be close to the West gang.
If police officers called to the scene quickly surrounded the fire with fire extinguishers, the investigation to find the perpetrators and the sponsors is still ongoing.
Since June, the 48-year-old has been the target of a fierce vendetta that began with an attempted shooting in Laval in broad daylight.
Then, at the end of the summer, two commercial buildings owned by his wife in the Lower Laurentians were set on fire on the same weekend.
Last September, it was a residential development in Mirabel in which he was involved that was visited by incendiaries, throwing innocent families into the street.
Several residents of the area had then confided to the Journal.
In January 2017, it was the luxury Laval couple's house on the Commissioner's Road that was fired while they were away.
John McKenzie is known to police circles as a "friend for life" of Richard Griffin, a notorious member of the Western Gang murdered more than 40 bullets in 2006.
At hearings for O'Neil's pubs in Rosemère and Saint-Eustache, run by his sister Jennifer McKenzie, the investigator alleged that the individual had extorted the two companies as debt payers.
