Organization Files
Organized Crime Profiles
In-depth investigative profiles of the criminal organizations, families, and networks operating across Canada’s underworld. Each dossier tracks structure, leadership, history, and current enforcement activity.
Special ReportContraband Tobacco in CanadaWhat police, border agencies and courts have documented about contraband tobacco, who paid for the market-size estimates, and what has not been established.Special ReportAuto-Theft Export Networks in CanadaWhat police, border officials and courts have documented about stolen-vehicle export networks, the port limits, and what has not been established.Special ReportTriads in CanadaWhat Canadian courts, governments and police have documented about groups called triads, who used each label, and what has not been established.Subject ProfileSalvatore Montagna and Raynald DesjardinsA Bonanno figure deported to Montreal, a former Rizzuto associate, and the 2011 killing that ended in conspiracy pleas.Street GangsThe Indian Posse and the Manitoba WarriorsTwo Winnipeg-born gangs, Canada’s first major anti-gang prosecution, and what courts found versus what police allege.Criminal OrganizationThe United Nations GangFounded in 1997 in B.C.’s Fraser Valley – its founder’s 30-year U.S. sentence, the Bacon-brothers murder-plot convictions, and what has and has not been established.Subject ProfileAtna OnhaArrested in Montreal in November 2025 on a U.S. request, he is accused of being a hired hitman in the Wedding network’s murder of an FBI informant in Medellín. He has not been convicted.MafiaRizzuto Crime FamilyThe Montreal Mafia dynasty – power struggles, killings, and the fight to control the city’s underworld.Investigation FileProject Alliance150 officers, eleven arrests and one cooperating killer – the SPVM and SQ case against Montreal’s alleged underworld leadership, and the four trials now arriving.NdranghetaThe Siderno GroupThe Calabrian families who arrived in Toronto in 1952 – and the $35-million case against them that collapsed without a single conviction.Outlaw Motorcycle GangHells Angels CanadaThe country’s dominant biker network – chapters, drug distribution, and clubhouse seizures.Outlaw Motorcycle GangHells Angels Support Clubs in CanadaThirty clubs to ten chapters in B.C. alone – the Red Devils, the Rockers, the Zig Zag Crew and the rest of the farm system, province by province.Criminal AllianceThe Wolfpack AllianceThe coalition of bikers, Red Scorpions and Independent Soldiers behind B.C.’s gang war – and the convictions that followed.Criminal OrganizationThe Independent SoldiersThey took the name because they answered to nobody – then became the Hells Angels’ proxy in B.C. Two of the four Wolfpack founders came from here.Criminal OrganizationThe Brothers KeepersIts founder was killed in his North Vancouver penthouse in 2017 and nobody was ever charged – the gang outlived him, and the Whistler killing of Meninder Dhaliwal ended in first-degree murder convictions in 2026.MafiaBlood Family MafiaInternal fractures and the power struggle reshaping one of Montreal’s emerging crime factions.Prison-Formed SplinterThe North Savage Gang and All BoivinFormed inside a Quebec City jail cell, it became the Hells Angels’ top rival in eastern Quebec – before its founder was caught on a Spanish beach.Street GangsMontreal Street GangsThe street-level networks feeding violence, extortion, and drug turf wars across the metro area.Street GangsToronto Street GangsEighteen police projects against named crews since 2004, from the Malvern Crew takedown to the Jamestown Crips – who police targeted, and what the courts actually found.Criminal GroupThe Greeks of ChomedeyThe Laval-based crew tied to extortion campaigns and Project Vigilance enforcement action.Crime NetworkAlkhalil BrothersThe interprovincial criminal enterprise with a long trail of violence and drug trafficking.Crime NetworkArab Power – Youness AithaqiThe rise of Arab Power and the figure at its center in Canada’s shifting underworld.Transnational TraffickingThe Wedding Criminal EnterpriseThe transnational narcotics empire of ex-Olympian Ryan James Wedding, now in U.S. custody and facing murder charges.Listed Terrorist EntityThe Bishnoi Gang in CanadaThe India-based network Canada listed as a terrorist entity in 2025 – diaspora extortion, the student-visa pipeline, and the Surrey assassination allegation.Extortion NetworkThe For Brothers NetworkThe Brampton crew Peel police blame for half the region’s illegal gunfire – 17 charged, 106 counts, 324 rounds fired.NdranghetaNdrangheta Locals in OntarioThe chamber of control, the nine locali, Thunder Bay and Hamilton – documented by Italy for sixty years, and almost never proven in a Canadian court.Subject ProfileDamion RyanA full-patch Hells Angel with live matters in three jurisdictions – a 24.5-year Manitoba sentence and two untried cases.Subject ProfileLarry AmeroThe Hells Angel who founded the Wolfpack Alliance – and his co-accused ties to Rabih Alkhalil across two separate criminal cases.Subject ProfileRabih Robby AlkhalilTwo first-degree murder convictions, a plasma-torch jailbreak, and three years as Canada’s most wanted – now held in Qatar with no treaty to bring him home.Subject ProfileDean WiwcharThe contract killer behind two of Canada’s most notorious hits – convicted in one province, guilty-pleaded in the other, thirteen years apart.Subject ProfileSalvatore CazzettaHe started the Quebec Biker War by refusing to join the Hells Angels – then spent a decade leading the club he once fought.Subject ProfileFrédérick SilvaA freelance hitman who killed for the Mafia, the Hells Angels and street gangs alike – then turned informant and triggered the biggest blow to Montreal’s Mafia in a decade.Subject ProfileShane Kenneth MaloneyA paraplegic West End Gang leader whose 2012 arrest uncovered one of the largest weapons caches in Canadian history.Transnational NetworkThe Kinahan Network in CanadaOne sentence in a US court file is the only thread tying the Irish cartel to this country. Here is that sentence, and everything missing around it.Outlaw Motorcycle GangSatan’s ChoiceOntario’s own outlaw club – founded in Oshawa in 1965, it handed the province to the Hells Angels at Sorel in 2000, and came back in 2025.Criminal OrganizationThe Red ScorpionsThe B.C. gang behind the Surrey Six – every conviction and plea, the Mountie scandal, and the nineteen-year litigation that ended in August 2026.Organization ProfileThe Bacon BrothersOne murdered in Kelowna, one convicted over the Surrey Six, one still surfacing in police files – the family police linked to leadership of the Red Scorpions.AnalysisUnderworld in ExileHow Canadian organized crime figures operate, hide, and run empires from abroad.Subject ProfileFrédéric LavoieOne of two men running the Wolfpack’s Montreal cocaine pipeline for Amero and Alkhalil – he fled Project Loquace in 2012 and surfaced eighteen months later in four garbage bags outside Medellín.
