According to authorities Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito were active leaders in the Montreal mafia when they were busted in Project Magot. A Superior Court judge agreed to motions filed by both mobsters to have their trial separated from the others arrested in Magot as reported by the Montreal Gazette. Both have been charged … [Read more…]
Francesco Del Balso has been sent back to prison for violating the terms of his conditional release according to recent reports. This move comes after Del Balso may have escaped a potentially life-threatening altercation with two armed hoodlums who showed up at his Laval home looking for him. The alleged Rizzuto crime family mobster … [Read more…]
Calabrian mafia scion Angelo Musitano was shot to death in the driveway of his suburban home in Hamilton’s Waterdown community Tuesday afternoon according to various reports. According to authorities, several shots were fired at Musitano as he pulled into the driveway and he was found dead in his vehicle by emergency crews. Hamilton police … [Read more…]
The Loreto Funeral Complex on Grandes Prairies Blvd., in St-Léonard, was the target of an arson attack early Tuesday morning according to reports. The funeral home has links to the Montreal mafia as is owned by members of the Rizzuto family. Charlie and Domenica Renda, children of Maria Rizzuto are currently listed as the owners … [Read more…]
The Clemenza investigation by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) was the largest anti-mafia investigation since Operation Colisée that targeted the Rizzuto crime family back in 2006. It produced arrests of individuals linked to the Montreal mafia from 2014-2016 on various charges including drug trafficking, weapons possession, and kidnapping. But according to a recent … [Read more…]
Salvatore Scoppa the brother of Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa survived at attempt on his life as he left a restaurant in Terrebonne. Scoppa was shot at least once as he exited the establishment and according to reports his injuries are serious but not considered life-threatening. Both men have links to the Montreal mafia and the … [Read more…]
Francesco Del Balso a ranking member of the Rizzuto crime family has gained his freedom after more than nine years in prison and nine more months in a halfway house. The 46-year-old mobster was allowed to return home but is still under close watch being supervised electronically via a GPS bracelet. He was sent … [Read more…]
Andrew Scoppa considered by some to be an influential Montreal mafia clan leader has been arrested and charged with conspiracy, cocaine trafficking, possession of cocaine for trafficking, and receiving money according to the information gathered by Daniel Renaud in his LaPresse report. These crimes were allegedly committed last year between August 16 and October 26 … [Read more…]
A rise in arson attacks in and around Montreal in 2016 may be an indicator that more violence is on the way as the bloody Montreal mafia war continues into next year. According to authorities from the Montreal Police Criminal Section, these arson events have become more abundant in the last couple of months … [Read more…]
Montreal mafia leader Raynald Desjardins plead guilty last year to conspiracy to commit murder and has now been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Desjardins has been detained for the last five years on charges related to the 2011 assassination of mobster Salvatore Montagna the one-time acting boss of the New York-based Bonanno crime … [Read more…]
The Sicilian-based Rizzuto crime family continues to be dismantled as the body count rises in the ongoing Montreal mafia war. There have been plenty of theories over the last few years as to who may be responsible for these attacks on the Rizzuto clan. But according to reports some mafia experts and police sources … [Read more…]
Stefano Sollecito was arrested back in November along with Leonardo Rizzuto as part of a massive drug trafficking case targeting organized crime. Authorities alleged that Stefano and Leonardo were the new bosses of the Rizzuto crime family and sat at the head of a newly formed Montreal mafia leadership table. Both alleged mobsters were … [Read more…]
An effort to take control of the Montreal mafia from the Rizzuto crime family by a consortium of influential men led by Raynald Desjardins and Salvatore Montagna ended in bloodshed. It was an uneasy alliance between Desjardins and Montagna a former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family of the New York mafia according … [Read more…]
Hundreds of people showed up to pay their respects to former Montreal mafia leader Rocco Sollecito as he was laid to rest. Sollecito was the latest victim of the ongoing bloody Montreal mafia war which remains unsettled. It seems the old guard which sat atop the Rizzuto crime family and controlled the mafia in … [Read more…]
According to reports, the recently murdered Rocco Sollecito had become the acting head of the Montreal Mafia after the arrests of his son Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto. Both Stefano and Leonardo were alleged heads of the mafia “management table” put into place to maintain Rizzuto crime family control after the death of former … [Read more…]