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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).
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
Arcadi
August 11: Johnny Bertolo murdered
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.
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. ("Someone's toes get stepped on," as his girlfriend later told me)
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.
October: Many cafes firebombed in Riviere Des Praries
November 24: Ennio Bruni, 36, shot dead at 3 a.m. outside Cafe Bellerose in Laval.
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 killed
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 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.

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