On Thursday morning, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) conducted six searches related to organized crime in Laval, Mirabel, Rosemère and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot. The same operation took place in the last 48 hours in the Vaudreuil-Dorion area, as part of a major criminal investigation. 

This major investigation is aimed at solving several murders linked to organized crime that occurred in Montreal and on the North Shore, from the mid-1990s to the present day. Certain individuals associated with notorious groups such as the Italian Mafia, the Hells Angels and criminal street gangs are targeted by the investigation. The searches carried out this week are aimed at gathering additional evidence.

Among the homicides the investigators are trying to solve are those of victims who were mistakenly targeted:

-Ms. Lida Phon, 32, who was murdered in a residence on Brunel Street in Laval in August 2012;

-Mr. Domenico Facchini, 37, who was shot dead in a café on boulevard Provencher, in Saint-Léonard, in December 2012;

-Mr. Nicolas Lavoie-Cloutier, 18, killed near Montée Major, Terrebonne, in June 2018.

Public collaboration

The joint investigation will continue. Anyone with information is invited to contact Info-Crime Montréal anonymously and confidentially at 514 393-1133 or the SQ's Centrale de l'information criminelle at 1-800-659-4264.