Operation Dead Hand

Since the start of Operation Dead Hand in 2022, cops have seized 845 kilograms of meth, 951 kilograms of cocaine, 20 kilograms of fentanyl and four kilograms of heroin. The haul is worth something between $16m to $28m. Leader was Canadian Guramrit Sidhu, 60, of Brampton, who used a network of drug suppliers connected to Mexican cartels to ship drugs from LA to Canada in long haul transport trucks. Drug distributors and brokers in Los Angeles worked with a team of truck drivers who were tasked with taking the contraband to Canada. Cops seized $940k in cash, 70 kg of cocaine and four kg of heroin in Canada.

Ayush Sharma

10 Canadians were arrested, including Roberto Scoppa, 55, Ayush Sharma, 25, of Brampton, Subham Kumar, 29, of Calgary and Ivan Gravel Gonzalez, 32, of Trois-Rivières. Guramrit Sidhu, also known as "King," is charged with one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and is the kingpin.

Ivan Gravel Gonzalez

Naji Sharifi Zindashti - Iranian assassin

Naji Sharifi Zindashti is an Iranian narcotics trafficker who leads "a network of individuals that targeted Iranian dissidents and opposition activists for assassination at the direction of the Iranian regime." Zindashti is involved in drug and human trafficking and has deep connections to the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards. (IRGC) Zindashti escaped from an Iranian prison and fled to Turkey, where he established a cartel. He has worked for Iranian intelligence in various plots.

Zindashti returned to Iran and leads an opulent, free life. In December 2022, he was honored by Iran's Education Ministry.

Zindashti's network is known as 'The Friends' Club', and includes senior IRGC officials, high-ranking members of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, managers from Tehran Municipality, and members of parliament. The IRGC's reach and control over transit routes and logistics have given Zindashti dominance in Iran's drug market. His gangs traffic more than 20% of drugs in Iran, and 35% of drugs in the capital, Tehran.

This is not the first time the HAMC has been tasked with domestic terrorism by Iran.
See ----->Ramin Yektaparast = HAMC Iranian terrorist

Nicole Kathleen Mann stole $456k meant for children’s charities

Calgary resident Nicole Kathleen Mann, who stole more than $450k destined for children’s charities, is headed to jail after losing an appeal of her 2022 fraud conviction. She argued the trial judge unfairly required her to prove her innocence, failed to consider her testimony that evidence was planted and didn’t scrutinize management of the charity account the money was stolen from, among other claims. The appeals panel rejected Mann’s arguments, finding her evidence was unreliable and contradictory. “The ability to deceive is an essential trait of those who engage in major frauds. The plausibility of their evidence will often be the decisive factor,” the justices wrote whilst slapping the conwoman down.

Mann was an operations manager at real estate firm Colliers when she became treasurer of the Colliers Cares Foundation, a charitable arm of the company. She was sentenced to 42 months after being found guilty of theft over $5,000, fraud over $5,000 and money laundering.

An audit determined 89 cheques totalling $456,685.13 made out to Mann had been cashed by her between 2013-17. If Nicole Mann fails to pay back the money she defrauded within five years of her release from jail, she earns another three years behind bars.

'Mob wife aesthetic' on the rise

'We're already seeing the cheetah prints, the sparkle, the glitz, the glam, the furs, the big hair. This is just a vibe. Carmela Soprano walked so you bitches could run.' So say the influencers. The hash-tag 'mobwife' returns lessons on how to look like a moll, tutorials on make-up, hair and manicures, and tips for fur coats. Inspiration includes Lorraine Bracco as moll Karen in Goodfellas: gold hoop earrings, tiger print, black leather, huge hair, red talon nails, heavy black eyes and fur, a lot of fur.

Mob wife-inspired regalia and accessories are the latest thing.

Lawrence Orubor - Calgary drug boss buys 10 years - update

Lawrence Chukwka Orubor ran ‘The Family’ in Calgary from 2015 to 2020 with an iron fist. The gang leader abused a vulnerable woman to sell drugs and herself. Already serving a decade for drugs, he is looking at another 6 years when he is sentenced in March. His lawyer said more punishment is 'unduly harsh'.

Orubor, 57, leader of 'The Family' was sentenced to 10 years. Orubor's criminal record dates back more than 30 years, with over 40 convictions. He goes away again after Operation Bloodline, a 6 month cop probe into The Family. The charges are rare: instructing drug trafficking and violent offences for a criminal organization. The Family was responsible for the "vast majority of violence in the downtown core" according to cops. Search warrants on two vehicles and four homes lead to meth, fentanyl, crack and GHB. Orubor's bust had an instant effect. The Family's drug set-up outside Calgary's injection site disappeared.

The Family operated under cop radar for years, selling drugs to the addicted and homeless. The 'down and out' are perfect for exploitation, they don't go to the cops. Violence, including a murder, motivated Calgary cops to tackle The Family. Orubor preferred underlings willing to 'work just for the dope' and were expendable.

Debt collection came from addicts willing to resort to violence for their drugs.

Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria fights deportation - win appealed

Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria won an IRB decision allowing him to stay in Canada because mountainous evidence he’s a mobster was deemed circumstantial. The Feds have appealed and believe cops, who say DeMaria is the top ’Ndrangheta boss in Canada.

Mafia boss Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria says he's a victim of anti-Italian profiling. "If you’re Italian, people say, 'We gotta watch this guy,’ says Jimmy DeMaria. "It’s a stereotype thing that unfortunately when you’re Italian you live in it." Heinous ethnic profiling and anti-Italian stereotypes are behind 40 years of efforts to deport him from Canada he says. Jimmy was back-peddling furiously about his power base of Siderno. “It’s a typical profiling here,” he said. “I have no knowledge,” said DeMaria. “I don’t know the answer. The only answer I know is what I read in the newspaper, like everybody else.” He says allegations he's a famous mafia boss as “insane” and “lies.”

An IRB hearing is the latest in a multi-generational struggle to deport mob boss Vincenzo DeMaria, 69. He has resisted being sent back to Italy for 40 years, a country he left when he was nine months old. He never became a citizen. His conviction for murder after he shot a man who owed him money in 1981 meant he could never become Canadian. DeMaria has a reputation as a powerful underworld player and the 'top guy in Toronto'. Prosecutors asked what he knew of organized crime. DeMaria replied he reads things in the papers that people he knows are in the mob. He denied knowing anything about the ‘Ndrangheta. A report in 2017 named Vincenzo DeMaria as one of seven senior ’Ndrangheta bosses and a leading member of its board of directors, called the Camera di Controllo.

See ----->Vincenzo “Jimmy” DeMaria

Conor D’Monte - homecoming yup

Gangster Conor D'Monte has dropped his appeal and the years of dead time involved. “I left Canada 13 years ago not to avoid trial and run from this allegation but to escape certain threats, putting the lives of my young children and family in extreme danger,” D’Monte said. Riiiiight.

D’Monte had been a fugitive since January 2011.

Conor D’Monte, after finally being ordered deported from Puerto Rico, has launched an appeal. A curious decision because ALL his time is 'dead time'. (Jail time is not subtracted from his eventual 25 year sentence in Canada.) D’Monte, 45, was busted in Puerto Rico on charges of murder and conspiracy. The extradition package provided by the Canadian government highlighted much evidence implicating D’Monte, including DNA, surveillance videos and photographs, and witness statements from former associates turned rat. D’Monte hit the daily double as both a “flight risk and a danger to the community” and was caged for the duration. When D’Monte was arrested in a suburb of San Juan on Feb. 25, 2022 he had a gun on him. D’Monte lived in Puerto Rico for six years, posing as Johnny Williams.

D’Monte was picked up after a routine traffic stop on the outskirts of San Juan.

He had a $100k reward posted on his head by CFSEU-BC in 2019. In 2008 and 2009 B.C.'s Lower Mainland was in the midst of some of the worst gang violence in its history. The two main rivals, the Red Scorpions and United Nations, were at war and people were being killed. D’Monte took over leadership of the UN gang when founder Clay Roueche was jailed in 2008. D’Monte had a direct hand in planning and ordering murders of rival gangsters.

22 tons of cocaine seized in Ecuador

A hidden stash buried in a pig farm in Estero Lagarto, an area in the coastal province of Los Ríos, about 155 miles from Quito was 733 jute bags, containing 22 tons of cocaine hydrochloride. The bricks were labeled with the airlines they were destined to go to: Iberia, KLM, Qatar, AB, JET2. 150 soldiers took part. The 21.5 metric tons of cocaine is valued at $1 billion. Only one person who was guarding the farm was arrested.

Emile-Haim Benamor - 7 killed in Old Montreal fire - update V

Convicted killer Denis Bégin was on the lam when the fire that killed seven people in Old Montreal was set in March. He admitted he was at the crime scene minutes before the blaze began. Bégin, 63, walked away from a minimum-security penitentiary in 2019 while serving time for a 1993 murder. He was arrested in May and returned to prison. The fire in March that killed seven is being investigated as arson. In a video, Bégin is seen going into the building and then coming out five minutes later. The fire is visible in the video shortly after. Denis Bégin's motive isn't clear. He is negotiating with cops for a reduced sentence. Emile-Haim Benamor is suing the City of Montreal for $7.5m claiming it didn't send enough firefighters.

Denis Bégin

The building where 7 died in March 2023 had many fire code violations between 2009 and 2018, including blocked and “dead-end” secondary exits on the second and third floors and a non-compliant fire alarm system. Inspectors contacted owner Emile Benamor, who refused to comply.

Inspectors visited the building at the corner of Place d’Youville and du Port St. many times to have the fire code violations corrected. Dozens of Airbnb rentals were being operated by Emile-Haim Benamor. Cleaners reported that rats, mice, bed bugs and electrical problems plagued the building.

Randy Sears lost his son Nathan, 35, in the fire on March 16 in Place d'Youville. Nathan Sears was passing through Montreal and rented accommodation in the building through Tarik Hassan and Airbnb.

Sears is suing Tarik Hassan, Airbnb, and owner Emile-Haim Benamor for $22m.

Firefighters at 135 Rue du Port.

The Montreal Gazette is reporting that multiple complaints were suppressed by Airbnb. One woman complained about windows nailed shut, no ventilation and blocked emergency exits. “My heart sunk so completely,” she said. “I felt guilty and so upset picturing them. I was in that bloody room. I can picture what it would be like to be stuck.”

Illegal Airbnb guests arriving at the Viger street building owned by Emile-Haim Benamor.

Quebec politicians criticized Airbnb after a building in old Montreal was used for multiple illegal rentals. There were 15 units in the building. In 2018, Airbnb-style short-term rentals were banned in the area where the building is located. Airbnb was asked by authorities to forbid rentals for people who didn't possess a certificate with Quebec's Revenue Department. Airbnb ignored the request. A lawyer for Benamor lied that Airbnb rentals in the building had nothing to do with his client. Benamor is a lawyer who pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He failed to report income of $469,591 from a "fraudulent scheme." Benamor's law firm is 'Benamor Avocats'. Benamor owned at least 21 Montreal buildings as of 2021 either in his own name, or through EP7 Consultants Inc.

'3x your income with a short term rental business w/ Tariq Hasan | Facebook'

Emile-Haim Benamor's goal was to turn them all into Airbnb rentals. He evicted long term residents to accomplish this. His front man was immigrant Tariq Hasan. He was running 7 Airbnb ads at 135 Rue du Port at the time of the fire. Hasan’s listings on Airbnb and other short-term rental sites have been removed. He is attempting to remove his internet presence.

Child pimp Meaz Nour-Eldin pulls 6 years

Meaz Nour-Eldin, who lured a 15-year-old Indigenous girl into prostitution, goes away for a bargain basement 6 years. He plied the girl with drugs and booze, and punished her with physical and sexual violence. The scumbag, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking a minor. The girl often slept on a dirty mattress on the kitchen floor of a Surrey crack house. She was forced to see between five and 10 men per night, and had a daily quota of $1,500. Nour-Eldin racked up criminal charges shortly after graduating from a Surrey high school in 2015. He committed a robbery in 2016, and assaulted a cop months later. Here's hoping this filthdog sees general population.