Montreal underworld timeline

Carmelo Tomasino

2004

January 19: Carmelo Tomasino, 32,  disappears and Paolo Gervasi, onetime owner of the Castel Tina strip club on Jean Talon, and whose son Salvatore was killed four years earlier - was shot dead in a Jeep Cherokee in a St. Leonard parking lot. (possibly for being too friendly with the Rock Machine, while the Mafia was doing deals with the Hells).
January 21: Vito Rizzuto charged in connection with killings of Philip Giaccone, Dominick Trinchera and Anthony Indelicato in New York on May 5, 1981.
April 9: Rizzuto loses bid to block extradition for trial.
Feb. 10: Daniel Muir was stabbed on Mountain St. at 9:45 p.m after leaving Wanda's strip club. Muir had direct dealings with Colombian cocaine traffickers, without involving the Mafia. It was seen as too sloppy to be a Mafia hit.
August 17: Frank Cotroni dies of cancer at age 72.

2005
January 20: Vito Rizzuto arrested for murders
April 18: Lorenzo Giordano shoots Javal Mohammad Globe Restaurant
April:  Antonio Magi kidnapped
March 10:  Mike Lapolla murdered at the Moomba
May 1: Leonardo D’Angelo kidnapped
May 25:  Frank Martorana kidnapped and beaten inside a SUV outside a barber shop in St. Leonard and released one week later. He was a Rizzuto confidante. No charges laid.

Arcadi

August 11: Johnny Bertolo, 46, shot dead next to his SUV outside the Metropolis Gym on Henri Bourassa E. He was a Rizzuto man who had served 12 years for cocaine importation.
November 3: Nicola Varacalli kidnapped
December 1: Luca D’Amico comes to Consenza reads letter addressing "Zio Cola" (Nicolo Rizzuto Sr.) and debt owed
December 8: Vacarelli released.
December 8: Frank Cotroni's associate and golf pal of Vito Rizzuto, Alfredo Minisi, 42 was busted with 250 kilos of cocaine on Briquade St. in Blainville.
December 23: Alfredi Minisi, 41, of Blainville charged in 250 kilo cocaine seizure on Briquade St.
2006
February 16: Kahnesetake drug queen Sharon Simon caught delivering an AK-47 to Laval. She was the girlfriend of Sergio Piccirilli who was part of an ecstasy warehouse on Leman in Laval.
February 16: Sergio Piccirilli orders weapons to fight the Rizzutos with help from the Hamilton Violis. (Piccirilli is believed to have kidnapped Varacalli)
July 12:  Richard Griffin killed

Del Balso

April 26: Giuseppe Colapelle goes to Consenza talks to Francesco Arcadi about Granby dispute
August 23: Del Balso shoots Huneault's car outside Cavalli
August 30: Domenico Macri killed and Iannitto shot
August 31: Bar Laennec meeting with Renda, Del Balso, Giordano, Sollecito, and Arcadi.
September 6: Del Balso calls to buy armored cars.
November 22: Project Colisee arrests.
2007
March 9: Carmine Guarino, 32, shot dead at Café Albano. Small-time Sicilian drug dealer was shot inside the cafe on Jarry.
April 26: burnt body of  Ezechielle De Bellis, 37, found near Highway 125 near Rawdon. He was an enforcer for the Mafia.

Tony Mucci

July 5: Heroin dealer Hasan Eroglu, 39, shot three times with a silencer-equipped weapon in the West Island. Body found in backyard.
September 12: LaSalle loanshark Francesco Velenosi, 56, was found in the trunk of his Volvo beaten to death with golf clubs.
October: Messina arrests. (Zappia, Turrisi, Felice)
December 21: Tony Mucci shot at outside Café Maida on Lacordaire. (Mucci was working for leadership-hopeful Moreno Gallo, 61.)
2008

Nick Rizzuto Jr. 

January 7: Tony Stocola, 40, found dead at 7275 Beaufort Mafia hanground who once ran an escort agency in RdP.
July 24: Shootings at bars Le Ritz and Mare e Mondo
August 12: Antonio Magi shot at Cavendish and Monkland. He survives.
December 4: Mario Marabella disappears.
2009
January 16:Sam Fasulo, 37, shot and killed in his Jeep Cherokee at Henri Bourassa and Langelier. The SUV got away. Fasulo worked for Arcadi, Vito's lieutenant.
August 1: Pagliarulo assaulted by Paolo Catania
August 21: Fedrico Del Peschio, 59, of Laval, killed outside his La Cantina restaurant on the Main.
 September 2:  Cocaine dealers sentenced for Cafe Niro drug den on Pie IX. Nicola Di Lauro, 56, Angelo Messina, 32,  Aldo Leto, 43, and Serge Marin, 52 among those sentenced.
September 8: Paolo Catania, 43, charged with extortion and loasharking based on a statement by former friend Elio Pagliarulo.

October: Many cafes firebombed in Riviere Des Prairies.
Oct 1:  Customs agent Nancy Cedeno convicted of accepting bribes to help Mafia drug smugglers.
October 6: Ray Kanho sentenced to 14 years for drug importation, $4 million confiscated.
Oct 22:  Trial begins of Gerardo Nicolo, 41, a defence lawyer charged with trying to bribe a RCMP agent.
Nov 3:  Airport cocaine trial begins of Marco Pedicelli, 39, Emilio Rafeli, 31, Eugenio Reda, 32, Marco Cerone, 45 and Achille Torre, 40, Jose Merdardo Castillo Martinez, 41, Dany Cecere, 30, Gaetan Dugas, 33, accused of running drugs for Giuseppe Torre, 38, and Ray Kanho, 33.
Dec. 9: Mickendy Demosthene, 19, charged in connection with arson at Cafe Ferrari on Andre Ampere Ave. in Riviere des Prairies.

December 28: Nick Rizzuto Jr., 42, shot and killed on Upper Lachine Rd.
2010
February: Paolo Renda released from prison

Nick Rizzuto Sr. 

March 19: Ducarme Joseph shot at FlawNego, Peter Christopoulos killed.
May 19: Paolo Renda kidnapped
June 29: Agostino Cuntrera, 66, - and his bodyguard Liborio Sciascia, 40, killed at a picnic table outside a food warehouse on Magloire in St. Leonard industrial park.
July: Nicola DiMarco arrested
August 27: Tony Mucci arrested
September 22: Antonio Magi arrested
September 29: Ennio Bruni, 36, shot dead at 3 a.m. outside Cafe Bellerose in Laval.
October: Giuseppe DeVito arrested
November 10: Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. killed.
December: Biagio Marabella arrested
2011
January 31: Antonio Di Salvo killed

Sal Montagna

February 1:  Huge weapons seizure East End Warehouse tied to Rizzuto members
February: 2011 Nicola Cortese arrested
Summer Rocco Sollecito released
September 16:  Reynald Desjardins shot
October 24: Salvatore LoPresti killed.
November 11: Minor drugs dealers Matt "Dutch" Garner and Einick Gitelman killed in St. Henri.
November 24:  Salvatore Montagna, 40, was lured to Jack Simpson's house in Charlemagne and shot dead. Sal the Ironworker had moved in with a cousin in St. Hubert after being deported back to Montreal from New York City. He sought the top job here.
December 8: Nicola Vacarelli arrested
December 13: Antonio Pietrantonio shot
December 20: Desjardins, Mirachi, Racaniello, arrested for Montagna murder
2012
March 1: Giuseppe Colapelle, 38, killed in his SUV outside the Beaches Bar in St. Leonard.

Giuseppe Fetta

March 1 : Steven LaPorte killed
March 13: Salvatore Silletta killed
May 4: Giuseppe Renda kidnapped
August 11: Chenier Dupuy, 32, shot dead at the parking lot of Galeries d'Anjou. Associated shot but survived. His cousin Lamartine Severe Paul shot later on Samson. Thought to be a biker hit.
September 29: Tommy Pietrantonio shot twice outside the Rest-o-Pub Lac Masson. He survived.
September:  Charbonneau commission begins hearings on construction industry
October 5: Vito Rizzuto released
October 11: Vincent Pietrantonio and Frederick Murdock killed at home in Lac Masson. (His son Tommy survived an attack there weeks earlier, see above).
November 5: Jos Di Maulo, 70, killed at his home on du Blainviller St. in Blainville. He was seen as a leadership possibility.
November 17: Mohamed Awada, 47, a Lebanese heroin importer short dead outside his home at Leblanc and Prieur.
December 8: Emilio Cordeleone, 50, found dead in his SUV near Sauriol. Restaurateur had no criminal record but was believed to be a drug dealer in the De Vito crew.
December 17: Giuseppe Fetta shot but not killed on the Main near Fleury.
2013
January 22: Gaetan Gosselin, 69, shot outside of his home on Jean-Tvernier in the East End. He was the right hand man of Raynald Desjardins. Four were arrested.
January: Vincenzo Scuderi, 49, a drug dealer shot at Robert and Bonnivet.
June 1, Jamie Laramee, 37 and Cody Laramee, 25, shot to death in a bar in LaSalle.
September 12: Patrick Rivet, 45, was shot dead in the parking lot of Place Versailles very close to the homicide unit office. He had just been released prison following a cigarette truck heist.
July 8: Giuseppe "Ponytail" De Vito found dead of cyanide poisoning at Donnaconna prison.
December 23: Vito Rizzuto dies of lung cancer.
2014
June 12: 33 arrests in Project Clemenza, for drugs and arson, controlled by the Bastone brothers and Giuseppe "Ponytail" De Vito.
August 1: Ducarme Joseph, 46, shot dead at St. Michel and Michel Ange.