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This article lists the notable gangs, security threat groups, criminal enterprises and related syndicates which participate in organized crime within various parts of Canada. Some of these organizations are based elsewhere (in other countries), but have members, chapters and/or operations set up in Canada.
Dec 10, 2021 · According to Nájera, one of Canada's most notorious gangs is the Wolfpack Alliance, which he described as a group of ethnically-diverse and geographically-dispersed millennials, who traffic...
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- Johnny ‘Pops’ Papalia. Born in 1924 in Hamilton, Ontario, Papalia moved from petty crimes all the way to the top of Canada’s arm of the super-powerful Cosa Nostra family from Buffalo.
- Rocco Perri & Bessie Starkman. This husband & wife duo became some of the most prominent Prohibition-era gangsters around. The ‘King & Queen of the Bootleggers’ even became known as distributors of liquor to NYC’s Frank Costello and Chicago’s Al Capone.
- Richard Blass. Now, this Montreal-born gangster was a very, VERY bad man. He had his hands in over a dozen murders and was pretty much a life-long criminal.
- Nicolo & Vito Rizzuto. It’d be a toss-up between Nicolo and his son Vito to determine who is the most notorious leader of the Rizzuto crime family, so instead, we’ll combine them.
The Rizzuto crime family ( Italian: [ritˈtsuːto]) is an organized crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whose criminal activity covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. [4] The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers the family a faction of the Bonanno crime family, [4] while Canadian and most other ...
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Nov 20, 2015 · Some of the most well-known names in Montreal’s underworld were arrested Tuesday in sweeping raids. Sûreté du Québec Chief Inspector Patrick Bélanger said the arrests targeted “very ...
Feb 7, 2006 · Toronto Mafia. In Toronto until the mid-1980s, at least four major Mafia-style criminal organizations existed. They were run by Canadians of Sicilian or Calabrian origin. Two of them were named as members of the Mafia during the Valachi hearings: the organizations run by Paul Volpe and Johnny “Pops” Papalia.
