An individual whose trial is being held in Montreal reminisced, in spite of himself, of bad memories when the prosecution broadcast a recording of his spectacular arrest.
This one, carried out by the Tactical Intervention Group (GTI) of the Police Service of the City of Montreal (SPVM), took place on March 3, 2017.
It has the particularity of being recorded by a microphone that the police had installed in the car of the suspect, which gives a spectacular intervention as the public is rarely lucky enough to hear.
Period of tension
The accused, Vladimir Laguerre, 29, a resident of the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles, is on trial for a robbery robbery and possession of a weapon.
He was among five Mafia and gang-related individuals who were being tapped in an investigation called Fuel Oil and intended to elucidate the murder of Angelo D'Onofrio, an innocent client of Hillside Coffee, committed on June 2 2016.
The mafia was experiencing yet another moment of tension in 2016. The Mazout project was also intended to elucidate the murder of another individual, Ali Awada, committed in January 2017, according to court documents obtained by La Presse . No one has been charged for this crime.
The Major Crime Investigators and the SPVM Organized Crime Division obtained a listening authorization on February 23, 2017. On March 3, they heard on the Laguerre lines and an accomplice talk about "three kis", and the police concluded that the suspects were preparing to rob traffickers to seize 3 kg of cocaine.
"One of them asked," Do you have your hood? " They also said to bring a big, which means a large-caliber weapon, suggesting they were doing a drug burn, "said the prosecutor, M e Martin Joly, in its statement of opening.
Laguerre made headlines in the fall of 2017 when he swallowed a cell phone mini-phone at the Rivière-des-Prairies Detention Center to hide him.
Two of the five individuals heard in the Fuel Project are Jeff Joubens Theus and Ebamba Ndutu Lufiau.
The first was convicted by a jury of the murder of Angelo D'Onofrio and sentenced to life imprisonment, while the trial of the second for the same charge is still ongoing.