The police seized more than$ 3 Million in cash and drugs

Photo Agence QMI, Marc-Alain Trudeau

Benoît Philie

Friday, February 23, 2018 15:39

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The police has laid hands on more than $ 2 million in cash, 20 kilos of cocaine and a thirty firearms during searches at the senior level of the organised crime quebec these past few weeks.

The Squad’s national crackdown on organized crime (ENRCO) has conducted nearly 50 searches since the 24th of January in the framework of the investigation Objection, which attacks a wide organisation of drug trafficking linked to Hells, of which their new boss is being alleged, the influential Mario Brouillette.

The police have continued their offensive this morning with a search in a residence of one of the founding members of the Hells Angels in Quebec, Michel “Sky” Langlois, Longueuil.

Yesterday, the ENRCO seized several tens of thousands of dollars to the trade of fishing on the ice of Daniel-André Giroux, a future member of the Hells, based in Saint-André-d’argenteuil.

The “prospect” of the chapter of Montreal was preparing to go to take a flight to the dominican Republic when the squad has broken through the enclosure mesh of his residence in the Laurentians with a tank, to carry on the excavations.

The man, however, has not been apprehended and is not the subject of any charges.

Major offensive

On Tuesday, police had conducted 22 raids against criminal groups in the regions of Montréal, Lanaudière and Laurentides. They have searched the luxurious residence of Carmelo Sacco Jr. In Sainte-Adèle, that the police view at the time as a relative of the Hells, of the Italian mafia and street gangs in montreal.

The residence of Mario Brouillette has also been the object of a search in Repentigny, the last month, learned VAT News.

No charges will weigh on Sacco or on Brouillette.

In all, over fifty sites have been the subject of visits by the police officers, residences, warehouses and shops.

More than 300 police officers have worked within the framework of this project, and the investigation continues.

— With the QMI agency and Éric Thibault

Balance sheet of the searches

+Fifty searches from the January 24,

+20 kilograms of cocaine (gross value of$ 1 Million, at $ 50,000 each)

+ $ 2.3 million in hope

+200 000 tablets of methamphetamine

+23 long guns

+11 handguns

+4 flak jackets

+3 hydraulic press (used to press kilograms of cocaine)

+Derivatives of the Hells, of which t-shirts “support 81”