by antimafia » Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:28 am
Ontario man named boss of huge cross-border drug smuggling ring slipped out of Canada and into U.S. court
https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-trucker-cocaine-2
When Operation Dead Hand was announced in Los Angeles on Jan. 30, 2024, Sidhu and some of the other Canadians swept up in the drama were overshadowed by big allegations and better-known names.
In the United States, there were wanted fugitives linked to Mexican drug cartels and distracting mountains of cocaine surrounding the podium at the press conference; in Canada, there was a man with a notorious last name: Roberto Scoppa, brother of two leaders in a faction of the Montreal Mafia who were killed in 2019 during a mob war.
Ontario man named boss of huge cross-border drug smuggling ring slipped out of Canada and into U.S. court
https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-trucker-cocaine-2
[i]When Operation Dead Hand was announced in Los Angeles on Jan. 30, 2024, Sidhu and some of the other Canadians swept up in the drama were overshadowed by big allegations and better-known names.
In the United States, there were wanted fugitives linked to Mexican drug cartels and distracting mountains of cocaine surrounding the podium at the press conference; in Canada, there was a man with a notorious last name: Roberto Scoppa, brother of two leaders in a faction of the Montreal Mafia who were killed in 2019 during a mob war.[/i]