Francesco Arcadi a former leader of the Montreal mafia has once again been released from prison to a halfway house.
The 63-year-old mobster became the interim leader of the Rizzuto crime family back in 2004 after the arrest of now deceased godfather Vito Rizzuto. He was arrested in 2006 along with other high ranking members of the Rizzuto family in an RCMP strike called Operation Colosseum. He was sentenced to 11 years behind bars in 2008 and was first released on parole back in 2016 for a short time before being sent back to prison. He was put back behind bars for his own safety after one of his former top lieutenants Lorenzo Giordano was gunned down just weeks after himself being released to a halfway house leading authorities to believe Arcadi was also in danger.
“Francesco Arcadi”
When Arcadi was released back in 2016 he told the Parole Board he had no fear for his safety and he was looking forward to living a quiet life at home maintaining a garden and raising animals. But according to authorities he and Giordano had put the word out the year before that they intended to take back control of the mafia in Montreal upon their release. Arcadi and Francesco Del Balso another of his former lieutenants who was recently released on parole are the only survivors from the group of six Rizzuto family leaders arrested in Operation Colosseum. Del Balso was the likely target of a home invasion at his Laval home just days ago which led to members of his family being attacked and has since been sent back to prison for not wearing his electronic tracking bracelet as reported in a previous article here at About the Mafia.
Arcadi still has two years of probation left to complete his 11-year sentence and will have to adhere to several conditions while living at the halfway house. He will not be allowed to communicate with anyone involved with organized crime or to frequent any establishments linked or associated with the mafia. Many believe that Arcadi is a marked man as the bloody Montreal mafia war remains unsettled and is likely to be targeted by his rivals. The Giordano murder and the Del Balso attack have proven that being under the watchful eye of authorities and the stern parole restrictions does little to assure one’s safety.
It would make sense that with Giordano already getting clipped and Del Balso just escaping getting clipped recently that Arcadi is definitely on someone’s hit list. Would imagine they will be keeping an extremely close eye on him but these guys (as was case with Del Balso) are going to find ways to get back into things if they so choose to and the police haven’t been so effective up there at stopping that. Seems like only a matter of time before someone tries or does take him out.
next on the hit parade
The attempted hit on Francesco Del Balso was a disaster. If they really wanted to take him out all they had to do was lie and wait for him to pull up in his driveway.
It’s been proven we are not dealing wit many Carlo types these day.
Delbaso is on house arouse he wears a GPS. that means at any giving moment the feds could be watching his house i don’t believe any (professionals) would take that type of job to risky. my theory who ever was responsible farmed it out to somebody who got to low life’s to knock on his door if he is home great dead if not oh welk try gain
I was thinking either someone farmed it out or it was an open contract that these yahoo’s decided to try and cash in on. Clearly the pro’s used in these previous hits were on on task here with this kind of mess.
ya open Contract probably worth a ton of money
https://panamericancrime.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/the-montreal-mob-war-redux/
if you have some time probably the best montreal mob artile i have read in a while. very insightful
Thanks Cedz!
Actually most of the hits up there have been smooth sailing, but every now and then you run into one that makes you shake your head. Apparently there’s a side involved that farms out bums.
I can’t imagine he last long. The new guard has erraticated old
D’amicos hate arcadi and he has a beef with HA same way delbalso does.
I don’t think he’s gonna be the guy to consolidate power, I think he gets clipped.
ya your forgetting Haitian street gangs despice him as well not very well liked guy. only thing that I can think of is the fact that he is Calabrian does have contacts in ontario
Raid on HA controlled ring in trois rivieres, seems somewhat significant but not sure names of who was taken down/ how big of a blow.
Coincides with fairly large drugs/gun raids a few days ago in GTA/southern ont few days ago but no OC links mentioned.
If my theory that HA are playing a hand in wiping out the old guard is accurate, these raids could have a potential impact on helping Arcadi stay alive longer
perhaps, there was also another mob linked murder last week. the guy killed was part of the lebanese mafia which is close to devito and scopa. in fact this guys was at the same restaurant with with scoppa the day he was shot back in february http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/faits-divers/201705/26/01-5101744-meurtre-a-anjou-la-victime-liee-aux-mafias-libanaise-et-italienne.php
there now saying it was a contract by italians
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/affaires-criminelles/201706/07/01-5105146-le-spvm-croit-avoir-resolu-un-meurtre-lie-a-la-mafia.php
the feds finally solved a mafia related murder, 6 haitian gang members arrested this morning
also saying these guys responsible for the rizzuto funeral home fire
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201706/19/01-5108948-meurtre-de-salvatore-montagna-la-sentence-encore-reportee.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_meme_auteur_5109231_article_POS3
Pat musitano house shot up today, no one injured.
And so it continues