Arrests In Quebec Hit Alliance Among Mob, Bikers And Street Gangs

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 19 Nov, 2015 11:30 AM

MONTREAL — Police say they have disrupted an organized crime alliance among the Italian Mafia, criminal biker gangs and street gangs that controlled drug trafficking and money laundering in Montreal.

Several arrests today are the result of a massive 34-month police operation that targeted a criminal alliance authorities say was set up to take over the city's drug-trafficking trade.

Police say 45 people have been arrested, including former Hells Angels boss Maurice (Mom) Boucher, who has been incarcerated for several years for murder; the son of deceased Mob boss Vito Rizzuto; and Rizzuto's longtime lawyer, Loris Cavaliere.

Authorities are also looking for other people.

Police say many of the alliance's major decisions were made at the offices of Cavaliere, a well-known Montreal criminal attorney.

More than 200 officers from the RCMP, Quebec provincial police and Montreal force took part in the arrests.

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