Investigators from the Sexual Exploitation and Child Pornography Unit of the Montreal police conducted a surprising search in a garage belonging to mafioso Marco Pizzi, located on Notre-Dame Street East in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in connection with a investigation for child pornography, Radio-Canada has learned.
According to our information, the police were not targeting Pizzi on Thursday afternoon, but rather his two henchmen, whom he hired a few years ago to monitor one of his garages in the east of the island. from Montreal. The two suspects permanently lived in the places which were targeted by several misdeeds in the past.
For several years, properties of Marco Pizzi, considered by the police as an importer of cocaine since the 1990s and former close friend of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, have been targeted by arson attempts and arson.
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The cyber investigations module at the SPVM allegedly found thousands of child pornography files in the computer of one of the henchmen of mafioso Marco Pizzi.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Martin Cloutier
Our police sources told us that Pizzi’s close guards would have been stunned and in shock to learn the reason for the operation when investigators met them.
The Italian mafia is almost never targeted by the police for child pornography cases.
Interpol notified the SPVM
Marco Pizzi, who is currently absent from the country, was therefore not targeted by the criminal investigation into technological crimes by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).
It appears that one of the two henchmen, who was simply supposed to watch the place, acted on the sly to occupy his time.
Sexual exploitation and child pornography investigators, assisted by their technological crime colleagues from SPVMallegedly found thousands of child pornography files after analyzing the hard drives of a computer located at the search site.
Still according to our information, it was a report by the Interpol agency which would have put the SPVM on the trail, after numerous downloads were reported to the international police agency.
According to the courthouse public records, Patrick Hébert was charged Friday morning with possession of child pornography and distributing child pornography.
According to the indictment, the alleged acts occurred between March 18, 2022 and April 11, 2024.
