Anti-gang investigators from the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) carried out around ten searches last night, and arrested four individuals linked to a mafia clan in the southwest of Montreal.
Posted at 2:22 p.m.
According to our information, during these searches which were carried out in residences and vehicles in the district of LaSalle, the sleuths allegedly got their hands on a sum totaling 2.5 million, a few kilograms of cocaine and firearms. some of which are prohibited.
These strikes would constitute phase two of an investigation called Americano.
During a first series of searches, which took place last January, investigators from the SPVM’s Organized Crime Division allegedly found several dozen kilograms of cocaine and kilograms of crystal meth.
The four suspects arrested during the night were released pending further investigation.
They could later be charged with trafficking cocaine and other substances, weapons possession and gangsterism.
With Pietro D’Adamo
According to our information, one of the individuals arrested is Giuseppe Arcoraci, 58, considered by the police as one of the right-hand men of Pietro D’Adamo, head of a Montreal mafia clan active for years in the southwest of the metropolis.
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Giuseppe Arcoraci
The D’Adamo clan is an ally of the Sicilians and close to traditional Irish organized crime.
According to our research, Giuseppe Arcoraci owns at least two restaurants, a cheese factory, a company operating non-residential buildings and holding companies. He has no criminal history.
In 2015, he was arrested in a major investigation called Clemenza in which the C Division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police targeted mafia clans who were trying to take over after several leaders of the Rizzuto clan had been apprehended and convicted in the wake of the major anti-mafia Colisée raid.
Arcoraci, like several other accused, however benefited from a stay of proceedings subsequently.
According to our information, the police found 1.7 million and a handgun at Arcoraci.
With the collaboration of Hugo Joncas.
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