https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2005/11/02/la-police-arrete-deux-presumes-fraudeurs

Police arrest two suspected fraudsters

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/police-seek-suspect-in-fraud-scheme-targeting-elderly

Police seek suspect in fraud scheme targeting elderly

Wonder if this is tied to Montreal in any way?

https://www.kwqc.com/2024/11/30/2-c...e-than-1000-pounds-cocaine-henry-county/

« La preuve est constituée de ouï-dire », déclarent les avocats du mafioso montréalais https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...t-les-avocats-du-mafioso-montrealais.php

Accusé de trafic de drogue aux États-Unis: un des frères Scoppa espère rester au Québec
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...es-freres-scoppa-espere-rester-au-quebec

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...ces-par-le-tueur-a-gages-frederick-silva

The alleged murderers of Joe Di Maulo and other big names of the Montreal mafia denounced by the hitman Frédérick Silva

The kingpin suspected of shooting the former number 2 of the mafia was murdered in turn, two years later

The murders of Di Maulo, formerly number 2 of the Italian mafia, and a lieutenant of the Rizzuto clan who allegedly eliminated him, Tonino Callocchia, are among the sixty plots that the Sûreté du Québec and the Montreal police could solve with the help of Silva in the Alliance project, the QMI Agency and our Bureau of Investigation learned.

Same fate for all

According to our sources, Silva's collaboration made it possible to identify the boss Arsène Mompoint, nicknamed BM (for Big Mouth), as one of the two shooters who allegedly fired at Callocchia, killed at the age of 53 in a bistro on Henri-Bourassa Boulevard, on December 1, 2014.

The other shooter allegedly involved in Callocchia's murder would be another deceased kingpin, Salvatore Scoppa, according to what his older brother and former interim mafia boss, Andrew Scoppa, told our Bureau of Investigation, a few months before his death in 2019.

Take a braid

Tonino Callocchia, a drug trafficker nicknamed Boots because he often wore construction boots, was himself denounced for a murder committed 25 months before his own. And not least.

This murder is that of Joe Di Maulo, shot dead at the age of 70 in front of his luxurious residence in Blainville, on the evening of November 4, 2012.

Following the murder of Di Maulo, Callocchia, who was also nicknamed Tony Coloc, would have been promoted to the rank of the Rizzuto clan.

"Coloc himself had asked Vito [Rizzuto] to give him permission to take care of it. Coloc took a hit after that," according to Andrew Scoppa, whose confidences were the subject of a book from our Bureau of Investigation entitled The Source.

MACHINE-BUILT WHILE HIS MAFIA FRIEND MARCO PIZZI WENT TO THE BATHROOM

A pressing desire to urinate possibly saved the influential mafioso Marco Pizzi from the same fate as his comrade Tonino Callocchia, the day the latter was riddled with bullets.

At least that's what the police wrote in judicial documents related to the Magot investigation, where they report details of the murder of the one nicknamed Boots or Tony Coloc.

On December 1, 2014, at 12:58 p.m. sharp, Callocchia, a high-ranking drug trafficker in the Rizzuto clan, showed up with Pizzi, of whom he was a relative, at Bistro XO+, located on Henri-Bourassa Boulevard East in Montreal.

Pizzi, also considered by the police as a drug trafficker associated with the Rizzuto clan, then left his friend alone at their table to go to the toilet.

The previous year, Callocchia had survived a murder attempt.

On the morning of February 1, 2013, a shooter hit him with two bullets in the left side of the chest as he was leaving his vehicle, in the parking lot of the Youlios restaurant, on Saint-Martin Boulevard in Laval.

He had then managed to escape his attacker and take refuge inside the restaurant.

But that noon, two shooters were waiting for him in the parking lot.

According to our information, it would be gang leader Arsène Mompoint and mafia leader Salvatore Scoppa.

Under the shock

Each carrying a hood, the two armed men got out of their vehicle, broke into the restaurant-bar and approached their target.

"They each hold a weapon that they point on each side of Tonino Callocchia's head, then a dozen shots break out. The suspects flee through the front door," the police said in a report obtained by our Bureau of Investigation.

At 1:03 p.m., Marco Pizzi himself notified the police on the spot that his friend Callocchia had been shot and that he had died.

Later that day, Pizzi, still "in shock", told an acquaintance that he was urinating in the toilet when he heard the firearm detonations.

"He says that if he hadn't been [to the toilet], who knows, he might have been shot," we can read in this court document.

Targeted in turn

Two years later, Marco Pizzi managed to escape armed men who were chasing him and who had slammed his Mercedes.

One of his attackers, Kevin Rochebrun, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for his role in the attempted murder at the expense of Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, who was hunted and shot while driving his luxurious SUV on Highway 440 West in March 2023 in Laval.

JOE DI MAULO "WHITE AS A SHEET" AFTER HIS LAST MEETING WITH GODFATHER VITO RIZZUTO

A few days before being murdered, the influential mafia Joe Di Maulo had met the godfather Vito Rizzuto. He was "white as a sheet" when he returned home.

This is what we learn from reading court documents related to the Magot investigation, which led to several arrests in the organized crime community in 2015, to which our Office of Investigation and the QMI Agency had access.

On the evening of November 4, 2012, at 8:22 p.m., the police were notified by a 911 call housed by the wife of Joe Di Maulo – who is also the older sister of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins – that the veteran mafioso lay lifeless in the parking lot of the family residence in Blainville.

On the spot, the first police found that the victim had received several gun projectiles to the head. Three, according to the autopsy performed on his body the next day.

His daughter Milena met with two police investigators the following January 3rd.

She told them that during the days before his death, her father went "to meet Vito Rizzuto, despite the fact that the latter [did not] want to see him".

"On his return, he was white as a sheet," she told the police.

As if he suspected it

In addition, Joe Di Maulo made "several unusual steps" during the last hours of his life, as if he felt that the end was approaching.

In particular, he "saw his accountant to pay his taxes", had his cellar evaluated "worth $305,000" and he left "a message of about an hour on a cell phone".

In a book that Milena Di Maulo co-wrote with criminologist Maria Mourani in 2018, she also recounted a "lively discussion" on the phone that her father had had with the godfather Rizzuto, a few days before being killed.

During this call, Di Maulo told Rizzuto, referring to Raynald Desjardins: "What do you want me to do? He's my brother-in-law!"

At the time, police suspected Desjardins of being part of a group that had tried to take control of the Montreal mafia during previous years, while Godfather Rizzuto was imprisoned in the United States.

more murders, more blame on those already dead.
the sq clinches just a little tighter.

Les meurtres de l’ancien chef intérimaire de la mafia Andrew Scoppa et de son frère Salvatore en 2019 pourraient demeurer impunis
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2024/12...tore-en-2019-pourraient-demeurer-impunis

it would be nice to think that silva being imprisoned in feb 2019 somehow excluded him from ever knowing who the scoppa bros shooters were is pretty rich. not only does it seem that getting a cell phone into a qc prison is easier than buying a new one, but from the frantz louis murder we learned silva had the contract for his hit which took place nov 2020. sacha nelson either purchased contract, took it over we are not really sure but the blame is currently on nelson and the 2 shooters since arrested. nelson was murdered in dec 2020 a month after louis.

It's not hard to believe Frederick Silva doesn't know who specifically killed the Scoppa brothers. The informant who worked under Sal Scoppa said the hit was arranged by Vittorio Mirarchi and that a black from Toronto killed Sal Scoppa.

You hesitate to trust Frederick Silva because a lot of the info he's given on these murders place the blame on dead people but so far a lot of his info that've we've learned about has been consistently with other sources. It's not just dead people he's placed the blame on either.

Serious question.....what was so unbelievable in the Scoppa book, that you found it unreliable, that's not present in Silva or Cicale?

Just the " Book" stuff alone seems to lend Scoppa credibility. All that was proven true.

This is what I mean with the cherry picking...lol

I don't think you know who you're replying to because I didn't say anything about Andrea scoppa's book or that it was unreliable. What cherry picking are you talking about?

Do we know why Mirarchi wanted Scoppa dead? Is he the new drug guy for the Sicilian's now? I've never seen this before (not insinuating anything, I'm just saying I haven't been reading up on everything like I used to and am behind on some things) and would seriously like to know why Mirarchi is involved with hitting either of the Scoppa's. I know Andrew mentioned in his book Mirarchi made peace with everyone when he got done with his case but I wonder what's going on these days with him and the rest of the family

The role of the 'Ndrangheta in Montreal is still a mystery, some Calabrese there had ties.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...rrete-en-possession-d-une-arme-a-feu.php

Traditional Irish Organised Crime Arrested in possession of a firearm

Well according to the hitman under Sal Scoppa who testified he said Vittorio Mirarchi was working with the Scoppa brothers to kill the Rizzutos and was planning on killing the Scoppa brothers when it was done. When he was approached by Charlie Renda he asked about killing Vittorio Mirarchi too but Charlie Renda told him no because they need him for the pipeline. Even though this was said Vittorio Mirarchi isn't the only trafficker in Montreal so I don't know why he was off limits.

Mirarchi has really seemed to have solidified himself as someone that has become one of the biggest importers in Montreal and this only helps him

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Like Mafia101 said, and others have said Canada has lots of importers. Now, if guys are brokering ships left and right from Colombia, then it is what it is. Here's the thing, I bet a VAST majority are importing from Mexico and over land.

To me, the other way of looking at it is the MEXICANS are EXPORTING to Canada. Thats how they had it in Chapos trial. Now, if you want to come down there and get it for a better price and can arrange your own transport, sure they will sell to a credible buyer. I might even go so far as to say the Mexicans are just subcontracting the export part. But they have brokers up there ready to do business. So to me, Miriarchi either maybe has a South American connect, or some very reliable means of continuous transport. Or some form of specialized corruption? A port? Alliance with Ndrangheta at the Toronto docks? Pure speculation understand. Or some corporate structure he can embed his shipments in. Otherwise, indeed...why would he be important for drug supply, right? If access to it is so democratized? To my eyes, it's ready access to coke that has so many gangs balking at paying a tax.


This dynamic to me weakens the Italians hold on the street neighborhood by neighborhood.

Drugs are how you control the streets. To borrow a phrase from Saviano, I consider it actually a sophisticated form of extortion, a " Forced acquisition of services". You extract street taxes in the form of " advantageous pricing", and reliable supply. You can operate by proxy through groups much more numerous and present in the streets. It's no surprise to see the Rizzutos operating by proxy through different street organizations. It's actually very similar to Naples clans. And I always tell people the CLAN are NOT the gangs they operate through. Or Joe Violi saying " he took over the city with the bikers". It's no surprise to me what the Bonnanos tried to do with Morena and the Violis.


It's why I've payed so much attention to it over the years....

I would never have known about this if a fellow poster on another board hadn’t provided the link.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/12/19/erratum---stefano-sollecito

Look like the JdM made an error

Wondering whether Québecor Media received a tip about Sollecito’s failing health.

Stefano Sollecito has cancer for a long time, he is probably to weak to lead any group by now.

Stefano Sollecito had a stroke in late 2021 or early 2022, spending his winter in either Turkey or Cyprus instead of Canada. This stroke resulted in one side of his body being paralyzed.

This News Day FR site to which I’ve linked an article below is a news aggregator, but I don’t know whether it ever paraphrases or just steals articles outright.

https://news.dayfr.com/Melanger/4103149.html

Interesting Turkey is a hotspot after Dubai tries to clean up house.

Behind a paywall:

GR EXCLUSIVE: Montreal Mafia Has A New No. 2 Man: Meet Rizzuto Crime Family Underboss Pete D’Adamo - The Gangster Report
https://gangsterreport.com/gr-exclu...zuto-crime-family-underboss-pete-dadamo/

Article synopsis on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mafia/s/yCla8n1cRX

MERRY CHRISTMAS ladies and gents.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/.../des-criminels-sur-les-dents-en-2024.php

SPVM Anti-Gang Report Criminals on edge in 2024

Merry Christmas my friend

Merry belated Christmas to you all !