Major Crimes investigators from the Montreal Police Department have been carrying out a series of searches since early Thursday morning on the North Shore of the metropolis in an attempt to elucidate a murder linked to organized crime committed earlier this year, learned The Press.
Posted at 7:46 a.m.
According to our information, the sleuths are trying to gather evidence in order to possibly arrest the culprits of the murder of Stéphane Dupuis, 51, who was shot in broad daylight by several projectiles from a firearm while he was waiting in his SUV at the entrance to a car wash in the borough of Saint-Léonard, in the northeast of Montreal, on April 12.
Around 5 a.m., the investigators, accompanied by members of the SPVM’s Tactical Intervention Group (GTI), went to three residences located on rue du Hêtre in Terrebonne, on chemin Saint-Philippe in Mascouche and on rue Onulphe -Pelletier at Epiphany.
PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
A residence on rue Onulphe-Pelletier, at Epiphany.
No one should be arrested. It would be searches during the investigation.
Dupuis, a close associate of the Montreal Mafia and former Trois-Rivières Hells Angels Mario Brouillette, was reportedly hit by seven or eight projectiles in his Chevrolet Tahoe SUV while he was in the entrance to the car wash. a service station located on the Metropolitan Autoroute eastbound, at the corner of Boulevard Lacordaire.
Witnesses reportedly saw one or two suspects flee in a car that was later found partially burned, parked at the corner of Follereau and Montpetit streets, about 500 meters from the crime scene.
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Dupuis was considered by the police to be an importer and distributor of cocaine, and a lender, according to our sources.
He had survived an attempted murder with a firearm on the evening of October 24, 2020, while returning to his Laval home. He was reportedly seen flanked by a bodyguard at this time.
During an investigation dubbed Objection and led by the National Organized Crime Squad (ENRCO-SQ), Dupuis was seen a number of times in the company of former Hells Angels Mario Brouillette. In recent years, he had also been observed in Italian cafes in Laval or in the company of influential members of the mafia.
During the 2000s, Dupuis was arrested and convicted following an investigation called Ziploc during which he notably exchanged large sums of money with an individual he did not know was a mole for the police.
During this investigation, the sleuths had seen Dupuis in the company of Francesco Del Balso and had spoken about it to their colleagues from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had made him one of their main subjects of the Coliseum investigation by which they beheaded the clan. Rizzuto of the Montreal Mafia in 2006.
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