Le tapis rouge pour le crime organisé au Casino
https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/11/26/le-tapis-rouge-pour-le-crime-organise-au-casino

Sollecito appelle pour ses cadeaux
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/26/sollecito-appelle-pour-ses-cadeaux

Loto-Québec refuse une entrevue sur le crime organisé https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/26/loto-quebecrefuse-une-entrevue-sur-lecrime-organise

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Mafia VIP au casino: l’opposition réclame une commission d’enquête

https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/11/26/une-enquete-publique-sur-les-casinos-reclamee-1

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Alleged presence of individuals linked to organized crime at casinos - Loto-Québec wishes to elaborate on certain points

https://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rel...aborate-on-certain-points-831226826.html

Part of the article to which I’ve linked below is about the mother-in-law of Anthony Di Maulo, who is a nephew of Jos Di Maulo.

Des shylocks tentent de profiter des joueurs

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/27/des-shylocks-tentent-de-profiter-des-joueurs

Blog post by Canadian lawyer Christine Duhaime, who is an anti-money-laundering expert.

Well-known leaders of organized crime welcomed at Montréal area casinos

http://www.antimoneylaunderinglaw.c...e-welcomed-at-montreal-area-casinos.html

Le mafioso qui a joué 8 millions $

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/28/le-mafioso-qui-a-joue-8millions

Une résidence visée a été habitée par un homme lié à la mafia

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-habitee-par-un-homme-lie-a-la-mafia.php

not sure what relation vincenzo crivello shares w/ erasmo there appears to be another branch of the crivello family in mtl.
a passing observer couldn't tell that the entire province of quebec is about to go into a curfewed lockdown.
still arsons,a blues connected gang member was shot the other day and a few current HA connected drug busts for good measure...OC doesn't miss a beat.

Des requins de la finance qui prêtent à 150%... minimum

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/01/16/des-requins-de-la-finance-qui-pretent-a-150-minimum

La veuve d’un prêteur mafieux n’aura que des miettes

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/01/24/la-veuve-dun-preteur-mafieux-naura-que-des-miettes

Une résidence ayant été habitée par un proche de la mafia est rasée par les flammes

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...he-de-la-mafia-est-rasee-par-les-flammes

Tentative d’incendie criminel dans un café

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ive-d-incendie-criminel-dans-un-cafe.php

Last week The Sûreté du Québec and several American police forces struck a criminal network directed from Montreal which would have controlled a roving troop of fraudsters in the United States.

The investigation on the Quebec side is being carried out by the National Organized Crime Repression Squad (ENRCO), which seems to indicate that the suspects are linked to a structured criminal organization. The Press noted that the investigators had notably searched the residence of Francesco Sollecito, brother of Stefano Sollecito. The latter was still recently considered by several police sources as the leader of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia.

Francesco Sollecito and his brother are the sons of Rocco Sollecito, one of the former mafia leaders, assassinated in 2016. When Francesco got married, the witnesses to his wedding were Paolo Renda, the consigliere of the Sicilian clan, and his wife.

would be the first intell that francesco sollecito is involved criminally in anything.
2 of the arrested in the u.s. appear to have been arrested previous.
darlens renard of florida was picked up on I 95 on may 16 2020 w/ $155 000 in sumter cty s. carolina.
from article he had no way of explaining the large amount of cash inside a fire safe in car.

jasaun pope was arrested mar 25 2019 for crimes related to the exact same type of scam.

The police fear the return of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins

The imminent release of boss Raynald Desjardins, heralded as the event of the year in organized crime, could reignite a bloody war with his rivals in the Montreal mafia.

This will be the most important event in organized crime since the return to the country of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto in 2012 after being imprisoned in the United States for his participation in murders, ”commented a police source, recalling that Desjardins is at loggerheads with the Rizzuto clan, of which he was once a close collaborator.
Fight to finish
Several police forces are preparing for a war to be ended between the veteran Desjardins, who is associated with the Calabrian wing of the mafia, and the new generation of the Rizzuto clan led by the son of the late godfather, Leonardo Rizzuto, and Stefano Sollecito, son of ex-interim chief Rocco Sollecito.
According to our sources, it would be "very unlikely" that the Sicilian clan and that of Desjardins, both decimated by dozens of murders since 2004, come to cohabit peacefully.
Rather, the authorities predict that the two enemy groups will come to confront each other to "make a master" once and for all, using firearms.
In the police community, it is reported that the animosity of the Rizzuto-Sollecito clan is still alive in the place of Desjardins, which an informer in Italy has already identified as the one who "led the war" against the Rizzutos.

In addition, police do not believe that Desjardins will quietly retire from the underworld upon his return, when he still has scores to settle.
Since his incarceration in December 2011, at least a dozen people associated with him have been murdered, including his brother-in-law and ex-mafia number 2, Joe Di Maulo in 2012, his friend and business partner, Gaétan Gosselin. in 2013, and his older brother, Jacques Desjardins in 2017.

In addition, Raynald Desjardins himself was the target of a plot to kill him in a penitentiary in 2015.
It is none other than the former head of the Hells Angels, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, who admitted his guilt in this case in which the gang leader Gregory Woolley, closely linked to the sons Rizzuto and Sollecito, was also indicted. then released.
New soldiers
The police also believe that Desjardins, who still has considerable financial means, has already surrounded himself with new "soldiers" to protect him and help him get revenge.
The boss would have taken advantage of the time he was incarcerated in a maximum security penitentiary in the Maritimes to ally with the Spryfield MOB, a violent gang from Nova Scotia which has been raining and shining in this province for two decades (see other text below).
The presence in the Montreal area of ​​certain individuals linked to this gang is arousing police interest and apprehension within the Mafia, according to our sources.

Our Investigation Office had access to the interrogation that the investigator Steeve Girard, of the Sûreté du Québec, conducted with the gangster Gregory Woolley, the day the latter was accused of conspiring to murder Raynald Desjardins, the November 19, 2015. The following quotes are all from the police officer as Woolley, against whom the charge was dropped in 2018, has remained silent. The leaders of the Rizzuto clan, Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto, have never been charged with this plot.

Desjardins] possibly thinks it comes from [Stefano] Sollecito, for a lot of reasons. Sollecito may be the first person to whom Raynald Desjardins' doubts have gone. "
“Desjardins waged war on Vito [Rizzuto], we all know that. Sollecito [...] is on Rizzuto's side. His son, Me Leonardo Rizzuto, is with you in the alliance you have made. "
“It was easy to see that for about a month, Sollecito had feared greatly for his life. [...] It does not take the head with Papineau to know that Desjardins, it will take revenge. "

HANDS OF THE MARITIMES

Raynald Desjardins recruited his new henchmen from a penal colony in the Maritimes where he had been transferred after his head was put on a price by his rivals in Quebec in the fall of 2015.
The unlikely alliance between the mob boss and Spryfield M.O.B. is believed to have originated at the Atlantic Prison, a maximum security penitentiary located in Renous, New Brunswick.
According to sources from our Bureau of Investigation, Desjardins met another prisoner there, Brian James Marriott - alias "BJ" or Brian James Brumner, his mother's last name - who was incarcerated for manslaughter. and drug trafficking.
Marriott is one of the chief executives of the Spryfield M.O.B. Coming from a suburb of Halifax, this independent gang of criminals has been embroiled in a multitude of murders, bloody internal strife and other acts of violence in that province for two decades.
Armed and dangerous
“Marriott was the boss of his wing [detention wing] in Renous. When Desjardins got to his wing, he told her he had a contract on his mind. They made a deal and Marriott took care of protecting him. He is a very dangerous person, "according to one of our sources, who demanded that his identity be withheld for fear of reprisal.
When Marriott left the penitentiary, he moved to Montreal, in the borough of Saint-Laurent, two years ago. Other members of his clan followed him.
In addition to being suspected of being involved in interprovincial drug trafficking, some are said to be busy accumulating handguns and high-caliber assault weapons, according to our reports.
In July 2019, Marriott and four of his Nova Scotian comrades were arrested following a violent brawl at a Griffintown bar where seven other people, including a police officer, were injured.
The 38-year-old gangster, who is charged with inflicting aggravated assault on three alleged victims, has yet to be tried in Montreal.
These charges, however, resulted in him being returned to detention in his home province for violating release conditions decided by a judge.
Marriott, who learned French during a stay at Donnacona Penitentiary, near Quebec, must stand trial for the murder of a fellow inmate at Dartmouth prison, committed in December 2019 along with 14 other defendants.
The current detention of Marriott does not, however, prevent his cronies from preparing for the return of Desjardins, according to our sources.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/04/01/la-police-redoute-le-retour-du-caid-raynald-desjardins

Look like Brian James Marriott, Head of Spryfield M.O.B. and associate of Reynald Desjadrins is not only the leader of a street gang, but also the son of the leader of an Halifax crime family. There an article about the father of Brian james Marriot and his family.

https://www.capebretonpost.com/news...ifax-crime-family-dies-at-age-70-410916/

Terry Marriott Sr., patriarch of Halifax crime family, dies at age 70

The patriarch of a well-known Halifax crime family has passed away.

Terry Marriott Sr., 70, died “unexpectedly” Tuesday at his home in Spryfield, according to his obituary.

Marriott was in and out of prison for most of his life, lawyer Wayne Bacchus said at his last sentencing in August 2015, after he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

That charge was laid after police raided Marriott’s apartment on Herring Cove Road on July 31, 2015, and seized 95 grams of cocaine, scales, packaging, cash and 250 grams of marijuana.

A Halifax provincial court judge accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and the defence for a four-year prison sentence, less 42 days of credit for Marriott’s time on remand.


The defence lawyer told the court Marriott had endured a great deal of tragedy in his life and had serious medical issues, including problems with his heart, liver and lungs, and arthritis.

Marriott had more than 30 convictions on his criminal record going back to the 1960s, including at least 14 for drug-related offences.

In January 2012, Marriott was sentenced to two years in prison for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, after police searched his house on Woodcrest Avenue in Spryfield in April 2009.

The defence lawyer at that sentencing, Chris Manning, now a provincial court judge, admitted Marriott’s record was “unenviable” but stressed that his client’s most previous drug offence had been in 1999.

Manning said Marriott only got back into drug-dealing to try to get information about the February 2009 killing of his son.

Death of Marriott's son
Terry Marriott Jr., 34, was shot to death while taking a nap at a friend's house in Harrietsfield.

“Mr. Marriott was very, very distraught and upset,” Manning told the court. “He expected that because of the name and the family, there would be less effort expended by the police (to find the killer).


“He decided … that if he was active on the street, so to speak, he might find tidbits of information that would lead to the discovery of his son’s killers. He decided the best way to do that was to become involved in the drug business, where information is readily transferred and given for drugs.”

Jimmy Melvin Jr., a member of a rival crime family, was arrested in 2015 and charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Terry Marriott Jr. but was found not guilty in May 2017 after a jury trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

Five months later, in October 2017, a different jury found Melvin guilty on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, from a thwarted plot to kill Terry Marriott Jr. in December 2008.

Melvin, 37, is still awaiting sentencing on those charges. The Crown wants him declared a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely.

One of Terry Marriott Sr.’s other children, Brian James (B.J.) Marriott, 37, is among 15 men facing charges, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, from an assault on an inmate at the Dartmouth jail two months ago.

In November 1998, Terry Marriott Sr.’s brother, Ricky Marriott, 32, was shot to death. Ricky, who used a wheelchair, was facing three drug charges. His girlfriend, Gail Stone, was also injured in the Nov. 20 shooting and died in hospital four days later.

In August 2000, another brother, Billy Marriott, 38, hanged himself in jail as he awaited trial for first-degree murder in the killing of former Hells Angels associate William St. Clair Wendelborg.

Terry Marriott Sr.’s obituary says he will be remembered for how much he loved his family and friends and for his sense of humour.

He is survived by his wife Darlene, whom he married last July, four children, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A celebration of Marriott's life will be held Friday afternoon at J. Albert Walker Funeral Home in Spryfield, with a reception to follow at a house in Williamswood.

The Marriott's have long been active on East coast but Brian BJ Marriot is currently facing numerous charges for crimes committed in jail.
Don't know how his power and influence inside Halifax prison will translate to the violent streets of Montreal.
Do we know when Desjardins release date is?

Desjardins is supposed to get out on April 19.

Coming from Montreal, I disnt know about the Marriott’s family and the Spryfield MOB.

Look like Desjardins found himself some muscle.

The montreal mob scene could become hot again.
Desjardins and his crew, maybe some old time friends and the guys from Halifax.
Against The Rizzuto’s (Rizzuto, Sollecito and Woolley).

Desjardins could made an alliance with the factions of the bloods (B.M /Monpoint) who are fighting against the alliance of Wooley and were allied with Scoppa.

The ennemies of youre ennemies are youre firends ....

The Inside Story of How the Deadly Melvin vs. Marriott Feud Began

Halifax, Nova Scotia's most notorious criminal, Jimmy Melvin Jr., stepped into the courtroom Monday, facing murder charges for allegedly killing his long-time nemesis, Terry Marriott Jr. The Melvin and Marriott families are practically household names in Nova Scotia, infamous for a long and violent feud in a rough-ish suburb of Halifax called Spryfield, which I previously wrote 4,000 words about here.

Melvin Jr., 35, made national news numerous times during his decades of crime, but perhaps nothing is more memorable than the website, Real Live Street Shit (the url is now dead), which he launched four months after the February 2009 murder of Marriott Jr.

The short-lived website featured videos of him wearing only his underwear, proudly showing off his bullet wounds and colostomy bag while waving around multi-colored Canadian bills. It also featured local TV news clips about his various criminal activities set to hip-hop beats.

Although the website was quickly removed, highlights from the various videos can be seen in this old CBC News clip, including him shouting his most famous quote, "There is no rats in the Melvin family!" after an attempt on his father's life.

After the Marriott Jr. murder, Melvin Jr. appeared to feel invincible; nearly all his enemies were dead or imprisoned after a years-long feud. He felt so confident that in one video he referred to himself as "the cock of the walk, king of the talk."

The Melvins and the Marriotts have become synonymous with crime in Nova Scotia, and the root cause of the violence has long been a source of speculation for many in the eastern Canadian province. The media has often portrayed it as a battle for drug territory, however, inside information tells a different story—a tale of reputation and revenge

A source close to both families has spoken with me for many hours under the condition of anonymity. The source is a childhood friend of Jimmy Melvin Jr., his brother Cory Melvin, Terry Marriott Jr., BJ Bremner (Terry's half brother, son of Terry Marriott Sr.), and their cousin Wayne "Chop" Marriott and has been been publicly implicated in criminal activities with various members of both families.

The following is his explanation of the cause of Nova Scotia's most infamous feud, backed up by newspaper articles and court proceedings of various incidents.

Terry Marriott Jr. was murdered in February 2009, but during the late 90s he'd established himself as a crime figure in Spryfield involved in small time drug dealing. Marriott Jr. was several years older than the younger generation and eight years older than Jimmy Melvin Jr.

The younger generation consisted of a group of Spryfield residents who were childhood best friends: Jimmy Melvin Jr., BJ Marriott, Derek MacPhee (the Crown's key witness in the ongoing murder trial), as well as several others. They were followed by a second group a few years younger led by Wayne "Chop" Marriott, Cory Melvin, and Jeremy Leblanc.

"We always looked up to Terry, he was older, right," said the source. "He had everything."

As teenagers, the source claimed the younger group would often hang out at Terry Jr.'s residence, where drugs and women were plentiful, as they began committing crimes themselves. But Jimmy Jr. always used to get on Terry Jr.'s nerves.

"He used to always pick on Jimmy, like slap him, try to bitch him out in front of people," said the source. "He never used to slap anyone else, it was always Jimmy man."

But although they didn't get along, Jimmy Melvin Jr. and Terry Marriott Jr. had something in common—both their fathers and namesakes were in jail, Jimmy Melvin Sr. and Terry Marriott Sr.

Jimmy Melvin Sr. was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1994, along with nine others, for his role in the importation of a reported 3.5 tons of Middle East hashish to Nova Scotia three years prior.

His sentence was extended until the mid 2000s when he was also implicated in the attempted importation of $20 million of cocaine in 1992. Unfortunately for Melvin Sr., after a high-seas pursuit by the US Coast Guard the drug-filled ship sank and he and an associate reportedly spent two days hunting for the vessel and its shipment, unaware it was underwater.

Terry Marriott Sr. had been in and out of jail for a variety of offenses since the mid-1960s. During the 90s he was incarcerated while his brothers, Billy and Ricky, continued criminal activities on the outside. Billy specifically was said to have a close relationship with the Hells Angels after a previous stint in the shoe—a Nova Scotia slang word for prison.

After Marriott Sr. became a free man in the mid 90s, Terry Jr. was already a well-known Spryfield drug dealer in his own right. But little did they know, their lives would change as Marriott Sr.'s two brothers, Billy and Ricky, would both soon be dead.

It's unclear exactly what relationship Billy had with the Hells Angels, however, he was charged for carrying out a Hells Angels hit in 1998 on another Nova Scotia criminal named William St. Clair Wendelborg (this is explained in more depth in my previous Melvins and Marriotts article).

Weeks after Wendelborg's decomposed body was found, Billy Marriott claimed to have discovered his own brother Ricky, and Ricky's wife, Gail Stone, murdered in their home. Due to the positioning of their bodies police suspected that they were murdered by someone they trusted. Shortly after, police arrested and charged Billy for the Wendelborg hit, but before his 2000 court date, Billy hanged himself in his cell.

If yall want to read the rest of the article

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.vic...the-deadly-melvin-vs-marriott-feud-began

Is Montreal real a city you can just bring people in like that? Reason being, they must have permission from the Hells, especially if they are number one?

So the Hells would value Desjardins over Rizzuto? Also, wouldn’t the revenge of Sal Montagna also have to be considered by Desjardin, a lot has change specifically with Italian OC, since he went away, (Ie. GTA, Hamilton, Montreal, Buffalo/NYC).

Well I think every big city. To get involved you most allign yourself with people from the city.
And if Desjardins could bring people from the Eastern province of Canada, that only means that Desjardins still got people in Montreal.

Every cities in Canada have gangsters from other cities in there city.
Montreal gang members are known to be in Toronto downtown, calgary, vancouver, winniped and edmonton doing drug trafficking, prostitution and fraud.
But to do that, you most be align with an organization from the city.

Also, the Hells are big in Quebec,and are probably at the top of the food chain. But dont let the articles of the news fools you.
Other organizations are strong and are not scared of the hells angels. Sure they are less strong than the hells, but they will go to war against the hells if they need to.
And its probably like that in every canadian cities

I think the Sal Montagna thing is over. I think nobody from Canada will go to war because of Montagna.
To get revenge, it would probably come from people from the states, but I doubt it

Bikers and street gangs usually value one thing and that's with who they're going to make the most money. I can imagine the same goes for the Lebanese and whatever's left of the Irish in Montreal.
Hells Angels aren't going to go to war Desjardins just because he's French Canadian like most of them. They're not that clannish; at least not in the way the Sicilians or Calabrians are.

If the Sicilians decide to whack Desjardins, I doubt anyone will avenge him. It's all about the green.

We don't know which (calabrian) groups were behind the purge against the Rizzuto. 'Ndrangheta, Violis?? Desjardins and Montagna (before their fall out ) had some serious backing IMO.

Also New York City families probably.

I was under the impression that whatever NYC backing there was, was due to Montagna. Not sure how much they'd care about Desjardins.

Ray def was respected by them way back in 1973, he accompanied Di Maulo and Paolo Violi to New York for the election of Philip Rastelli as the acting boss of the Bonanno family.

1973 is a long long time ago haha
If there's any environment where minds and hearts can change in the blink of an eye, it's the criminal environment

The boss Raynald Desjardins obtains his release

King Raynald Desjardins, an organized crime heavyweight convicted of his participation in the conspiracy to murder an aspiring mafia godfather in 2011, has just been granted statutory release after two-thirds of his sentence. His return to society is closely watched in criminal and police circles.

Before the parole board, Raynald Desjardins said he considered himself "semi-retired". Several sources told La Presse that both criminals and police are monitoring the situation closely to see what the attitude of the 67-year-old career criminal will be.
Raynald Desjardins had been convicted of the conspiracy to murder aspiring mafia godfather Salvatore Montagna, which arose in the context of a war for power among organized crime in Montreal.
“You explained that because of the fact that you were respected in the field and even if you had retired, you were consulted by former compatriots in the context of the war between different parties which were evolving in the middle of the mafia, ”reads the parole board's decision.
The commissioners imposed a series of severe conditions on Mr. Desjardins: he will not be able to associate with criminals, will not be able to come into contact with the Montagna family, will not be able to frequent bars and cafes associated with organized crime and will have to provide the call register. from his phone to the authorities, as well as information about his finances.


https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ald-desjardins-obtient-sa-liberation.php

And Felix Seguin for the JDM

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/04/01/la-police-redoute-le-retour-du-caid-raynald-desjardins