Drug queenpin Elizabeth Barrer's life in Montreal

      Fugitive American drug queenpin Elizabeth Barrer, who was killed a few weeks ago in a gangland slaying in Ville St. Pierre, was - according to a source - connected to a local crew.

   Someone who had met her several times told me that she seemed nervous, had dyed her hair blonde and had a slight Russian accent. She was Jewish.

  She also wore knee-high boots in the winter here in Montreal but she was not a stripper or an escort.     Her skin was bad on her face but her backside was a thing of beauty, according to my source.

   She wore tight clothes and was a little rough around the edges.

 

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The gangsters that she was reputedly seen with were unaware of her real identity or fugitive status. She may or may not have been involved in credit card scams but another source close to her refuted that and said that she was strictly involved in marijuana.

   Another man from Philadelphia said that he went to camp with her in Philadelphia and was quite smitten with her.
  Yet another person reports to having perhaps known her in the summer of 2010. He said he believes she was working as a waitress at O'Regan's on Bishop.

Barrer in her 20s

  "One of the waitresses was avoiding prosecution in the US and was very open about it. This woman had a friend that I had seen on occasion but only met once. Her friend came in calling herself Anna. She didn't draw much attention. She had a non-alcoholic drink and sat at the corner of the bar where she could scan the door. Anna (Barrer) looked more like the first picture. She was 'dressed-up' kind of like she was 'working'...... but it was the middle of the day. Expensive clothes, she had a silk shirt on that was open, exposing her chest. She had found a phone and was exchanging sim cards.".
   Another source - who was good friends with Barrer - said that Barrer was involved only in selling marijuana and nothing else. I had a long interview with that woman in which she expressed fears that she too would be killed by whoever killed Barrer.
  In another discussion I had with yet another acquaintance of the victim, it was pointed out that Barrer was killed on the same day that Alexander Lembersky was sentenced to prison.
  Lembersky and Richard Rizzi were charged with drug counts according to Spotsylvania Circuit Court records. Rizzi was released in 2011. Barrer was not charged, according to my source following the May 2007 seizure of 39 pounds of marijuana and $50,000 in cash in connection with a MySpace drug ring.
   "She was a great person everything else doesn't matter. I knew her well, she wasn't Russian or Ukrainian. She was American and had a lot of Russian friends. Liz wasn't stupid or new to the game, she would never let anyone drive her car that she didn't know," a old friend of her recently told Coolopolis.