A weapons factory at home Terrebonne citizen accused of using a 3D printer to make gun parts
A restaurant owner accused of helping an alleged hitman during the murder of an ex-biker would have used a 3D printer to make firearms in his home in Terrebonne.
This is the astonishing hypothesis raised by the Montreal police (SPVM) in court documents the seizure of an arsenal and a printer in three dimensions in the bungalow Giovanni Presta Jr, February 23, learned the Newspaper .
It would be the first time in Canada that a murder investigation leads to such a discovery.
The 33-year-old man, detained for two months, is charged with premeditated murder, manufacturing and illegal possession of weapons and possession of drugs for the purpose of smuggling.
Three silenced guns were dropped at the scene of the crime, including a Cobray pistol identical to one of the 12 firearms found at the former owner of the Le Villagio's Terrebonne resto-bar. The famous 3D printer was "behind the kitchen" and was used to "manufacture" accessories and firearms, according to the court documents we consulted. In particular, the police found 13 black plastic "handgun pieces", a pistol gun and a charger also made of plastic, all of which could have been reproduced with this technology.
To find out, the police wait for the results of analyzes of the contents of the memory card of the printer.
Silencers and masks
The shed contained a "machine shop and storage of materials used to manufacture prohibited devices such as silencers".
Documents showing how to make a machine gun and a pistol were also seized. Presta had also set up a cache of weapons in the wall of a bathroom in the basement, behind a removable cabinet.
It contained "a hand-crafted black P80 gun with a gray silencer," three empty magazines, a license plate, and GPS tags that could have been used to track Beauchamps' real-time movements.
A fingerprint of Presta was found on the packaging of one of the masks found at Silva on Duke Street.
Presta's spouse, Sonia Langlais, is also charged with guns and drugs found in their home worth $ 251,000.
Considered an "offending property", the house could be handed over to the state in the event of guilty verdicts against the couple.
Between 2007 and 2016, Presta ran Projection SEXXXTASS, a company specializing in the "distribution of exotic films online", according to the SPVM.
Without a judicial record, he went bankrupt in January 2018, having reported to the tax office revenues totaling just $ 43,600 in the previous six years.
However, the SPVM specifies that "several analyzes and expertise remain to be done" before reaching that point, according to new court documents related to this case.
It could take several months before the police get the results of expertises on the contents of the computer equipment and the cell phones seized.
The same is true for comparative DNA analyzes of several potential pieces of evidence taken on murder scenes and inside the condo where Silva was hiding.
A dozen contracts
The police, who tracked Silva for two years before capturing him three months ago in Old Montreal, suspect him of having executed up to a dozen murder contracts, has already revealed Le Journal .For now, Silva is accused of two murders - Alessandro Vinci, killed in Laval on October 11, 2018, and Daniel Armando Somoza Gildea, who died outside the bar Les Amazones in Montreal, May 24, 2017 - and attempted to murder on the mafioso Salvatore Scoppa, Terrebonne, February 21, 2017.
This same Scoppa was shot dead in a family reception at the Sheraton Hotel in Laval on May 4th.
"This is one of the best organized crime killers in recent years," according to a police source, referring to the 38-year-old man, who used at least three false identities and different looks to escape the forces. of the order.
