The cocaine seized in Ohio came to Montreal |The press

The two Quebecers arrested with 130 kg of cocaine after their small plane arose urgently at the end of March in Ohio wanted to import drugs to Montreal on behalf of a criminal organization dismantled by the servicePolice in the City of Montreal (SPVM) last week.

For years, this autonomous organization, allegedly directed by four brothers of Lebanese origin, has passed under the police radar, and would have benefited from it.

But Tuesday of last week, investigators from the SPVM organized crime division rang the end of recess in one of their most important strikes in recent years, baptized affliction.

The SPVM suspects this organization of having imported cocaine and having elapsed up to 50 kg per week, especially in Montreal and the North Crown.She would have supplied clans of the Italian mafia, the Hells Angels and a network of cocaine traffickers operating in the Pointe-aux-Trembles district, in Montreal.

The criminal organization had its own trade in encrypted communication devices on boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest, in Laval, where several other groups of Montreal crime were supplied.."They sold aircraft to all members of the organized crime.It was $ 600 in cash, for three months, and it was only on reference.Did not enter the trade that wanted.The door was unlocked with a sound warning, "said Commander Nicodemo Milano, of the organized SPVM crime division.

The suspects also had a lachute laboratory, where sophisticated equipment would have allowed them to transform cocaine so as to make 3 kg with 2, and thus maximize profits, alleys the police.

Ohio breakdown

The investigation made it possible to establish a link between this organization and the two Quebecers - David Ayotte, 46, and Sylvain Desjardins, 57 years old - arrested on March 29 after having urgently posed their old twin -navajo twin -turn on the trackOhio University Airport following a mechanical problem.

The plane, controlled by Desjardins, had taken off from the Bahamas and headed for Windsor, Ontario, 300 kilometers from the location of emergency landing.In bags scattered everywhere inside the device, the police then found the 130 kg of cocaine.

"During the survey that started in 2016, we saw Ayotte with one of the network leaders of the network.The American authorities are continuing their investigation, but we already know that this drug came here.We believe that this arrival was linked, in part at least, with the organization that we targeted, ”explains Commander Milano.

During a search made last week, the police also found a fuel recipe for plane.

Ayotte and Desjardins were accused before a colombus court.Ayotte has given up asking for his freedom, when Desjardins was refused yesterday, his criminal history of heroin and marijuana production in Quebec who played against him.

Detours

The dismantling of this criminal organization demonstrates once again that the import of cocaine in Quebec is no longer just the case of the mafia or the Hells Angels.

"Now it's no longer true.It is the networking that allows this.The most difficult is to find new roads.We note that criminal organizations are detouring and moving away more and more, before bringing the drugs back to Montreal.Criminal organizations will share resources, to reduce risks and losses in the event of failure, ”concludes Commander Milano.

The four brothers, alleged heads of the network, were arrested, but not yet accused.This is explained by the Jordan judgment rendered in the summer of 2016 by the Supreme Court, which limits the deadlines for the judicial process and which encourages the police and the crown to accumulate all the proof before carrying accusations.

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The accused

• Daniel Poulin, 54 years old • Jihad Saoumaa, 25 years old • Jean Saoumaa, 57 years old • Tony George Saoumaa, 26 years old • Michel Jacques, 52 years old • Martin Lauzon, 45 years

The Figure Facts Project

• 225 SPVM, Laval, SQ and others police officers

• 21 searches in Montreal, Laval, Lachute and Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts

• 11 arrests

Seizure

• 34 kg of cocaine • 1 pistol.40 with silencer • 1 revolver.38 with silencer • 4 9 mm pistols with high-capacity high-capacity chargers • 35 long weapons • 3 crossbows • $ 47,000 in silver • 4 kg of chicha tobacco • 6 boxes • Various equipment