One hundred and eleven members of the Italian Mafia and the Hell's Angels were arrested in Operation Loquace in Quebec, after the 150 members of the Hell's Angels were already swept off the streets in the HA Biker Mega-trial. About 30 Hell's Angels had been released in the Mega-trial, I'm wondering how many of them are now back in custody thanks to this new mass arrest.
The release of the 30 Hell's Angels members was before one of the deciding Judges in the Mega-trial was found doing drug deals with the defendants, which by the way all major news sites took the report of that corruption down, the only one who kept an article about it is little ol' me.
The list of confiscated contraband gets interesting, 1,486 explosives? That's new to hear for me.
Quoting the the news report:
"A police news release says a total of $255,000 in cash, 6,000 pills, nine kilograms of cannabis, three kilograms of cocaine, 13 barrels of GBL (a solvent used in creating date rape drugs) and 35 vehicles were seized in today's operation.
Police also seized five residences with a total estimated value of $1.5 million.
Before today, police seized 153 kilograms of cocaine and 46,100 units of methamphetamines, along with 161 guns, 291 prohibited weapons, 1,486 explosives and 50 detonators in a sweep connected to the latest raids."
'Prohibited weapons' would be high powered assault rifles and machine guns to my knowledge.The source of the Hell's Angels' cocaine, a Mexican cartel, was dismantled as well.
26 of the investigated gangsters in Operation Loquace are still at large, but it seems they won't have too much of a stronghold in Quebec to operate in any more if they wanted to.
References:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-police-dismantle-massive-drug-network-1.1236172
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