The Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ) extradited the right arm of Dave “Pic” Turmel from Portugal on Thursday.
Roobens Denis, 31, was arrested in a Lisbon hotel where he was hiding on March 1. He is back on Quebec soil after being brought back by the police aboard a flight which landed in the last minutes at Montreal-Trudeau airport.
Portuguese authorities handcuffed him at the request of the SPVQ and the Sûreté du Québec last winter. Extradition procedures were then immediately initiated so that he could be brought to justice in Canada.
The Quebec City police force then explained that this process could take “a week, a month, or even a year”. It ultimately took almost four months to achieve this objective.
Waited before the judge
The thirty-year-old will be taken to the Limoilou police station of the SPVQ upon his arrival in the National Capital, according to our information. He is expected to appear at the Quebec courthouse on Friday morning.
“Photo courtesy, SPVQ”
At a press briefing to announce this coup which was to “have an impact” on the activities of the Blood Family Mafia (BFM), former communications sergeant David Poitras stressed that new charges could arise. add against Roobens Denis on his return.
Summary of facts
Denis was wanted for drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit drug trafficking. The leader of the BFM, Dave “Pic” Turmel, is still on the run and is the subject of an arrest warrant for the same reasons.
In July 2023, Turmel and his sidekick managed to slip through the cracks of a large-scale operation carried out by the SPVQ’s MALSAIN project.
– With the collaboration of Félix Séguin, Bureau of Investigation
