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Canada's most wanted fugitive, Dave "Pik" Turmel, has been arrested in Italy, according to Italian police sources.
The 28-year-old, who had been on the run for over a year, is believed to be the leader of the Blood Family Mafia (BFM).
The notorious street gang is involved in brutal turf wars with the Hells Angels in Quebec during which victims have been tortured and have had their limbs amputated.
In a news release issued Friday in response to CBC News inquiries, Rome District Police announced they arrested the head of "a notorious criminal organization." Turmel was not named in the release, but in a call with CBC News, police confirmed the individual arrested was indeed Turmel.
The 28-year-old, who had been on the run for over a year, is believed to be the leader of the Blood Family Mafia (BFM).
The notorious street gang is involved in brutal turf wars with the Hells Angels in Quebec during which victims have been tortured and have had their limbs amputated.
In a news release issued Friday in response to CBC News inquiries, Rome District Police announced they arrested the head of "a notorious criminal organization." Turmel was not named in the release, but in a call with CBC News, police confirmed the individual arrested was indeed Turmel.
The style of the BFM is closely modelled after the Bloods gang of Los Angeles. The same gang name was once used by the Haitian-Canadian gang, but is now used by the gang of largely French Canadians.
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Who is Dave Turmel?
Dave 'Pik' Turmel was the number 1 suspect of the Bolo Program for Canada. Italian police said Turmel specialized in the sale of narcotics of various kinds, including cocaine and methamphetamine and was taken "by surprise in his hideout" by the officers of Rome's Casilino district."It was almost midnight when officers broke into the holiday home where the man had taken refuge," read the news release. "He immediately tried to barricade himself in, only to give in shortly afterward."
He reportedly handed over a fake passport as identification and police found and confiscated drugs, several SIM-cards and an agenda. They said he is now in jail at Regina Coeli awaiting extradition.
His presence was initially signalled by an alert sent to police by the Interpol International Police Cooperation Service, according to Italian police. According to Radio-Canada sources, Quebec police officers received a tip about Turmel in recent days, which helped accelerate the investigation to locate him on the run in Italy. Sources say the informant was motivated by the reward of up to $250,000 being offered for any information leading to Turmel's arrest.
The police agency Interpol had also issued a red notice for him, a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender or similar legal action.
Wanted Since 2023
He had been wanted since July 24, 2023 by Quebec City police for several charges, including drug trafficking, conspiracy and armed assault. |
Last year, Roobens Denis, 31, considered by police to be Turmel's right-hand man, was arrested in Portugal.
The second most wanted fugitive in Canada is All Boivin, who is believed to be Turmel's sidekick. Police say Boivin is also involved in the violent drug-related turf wars that have erupted in Quebec.
“Dave is believed to be the head of a criminal organization (BFM) controlling a distribution branch (that traffics in) cocaine by the kilogram and methamphetamine in the cities of Quebec and Lévis.” The website also says that the investigation into “Turmel’s criminal organization (BFM) was initiated in May 2022.”
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| In September of last year, a burned car with the body of a Red Devils support club member was found left near a Hells Angels clubhouse. |
Hells Angels Gang War
Involved in a bloody war with the Hells Angels for the past year-and-a-half, BFM is said to have refused to buy drugs from the Hells Angels or pay them for operating on their territories. They sourced them from Montreal-area gangs instead.
The BFM traditionally paid a 10% tax to the Hells Angels, but in 2023 the group came into conflict with the Hells Angels after it ceased paying the tax.Tortures & Murders in Quebec
In February 2024, members of the BFM were arrested by the Sûreté du Québec police in connection with the kidnapping, torture and murder of a man in Saint-Malachie. The man was subjected to what the Quebec media called "a night of horror" with his body being burned and his ears cut off.He was not associated with the Hells Angels. The victim was reported to be a drug dealer who decided to stop working for the BFM and was invited to attend a farewell party. The victim was beaten several times and subjected to waterboarding three times before his feet were burned.
SPVQ Director Denis Turcotte said “Dave Turmel and BFM are willing to do anything to take control of drug trafficking, not only in Quebec City, but throughout eastern Quebec.”
SPVQ Director Denis Turcotte said “Dave Turmel and BFM are willing to do anything to take control of drug trafficking, not only in Quebec City, but throughout eastern Quebec.”
This guy couldn't wash Ryan Weddings car he may be most wanted but no where near his level. SocialJ you should look into Rabih Alkhalil. Interesting guy and said to be aligned with CDS
ReplyDeleteYea, the Alkhalil family was big in Canada with the Independent Soldiers and Wolf Pack that worked with Sinaloa. His prison escape a few years ago was wild!
DeleteHe is the leader of wolfpac along with Damion Ryan
Delete7:59 Damion Ryan is in prison in Canada, waiting extradition to the US on the Iranian government murder for hire plots revealed last year.
Delete816 correct
DeleteThe Canadians in this thread are all right and no disrespect to any of those guys they mentioned because they're all actual scary motherfuckers but even they are not high ranking in the Canadian organized crime structure. George Wooley outranked them all by a mile and most people didn't know who the fuck he was until he was already dead. You won't even see the name of the guy leading the Hell's Angels in the papers or on the news up here. You need actual power to get that.
DeleteAlso the Wolf Pack does not actually exist outside of that stupid fucking book. Find me one time, one video, once incident where someone claimed membership of "The Wolf Pack". Even just one publicly identified member who actually claims it. It's like the Canadian version of Cartel de los Soles in Venezuela - I have never once in my life heard of organized crime organizations who have no arrests, nobody claiming them, claiming zero territory, no seizures, no murders, no gunmen, but just some journalists swearing they exist. Literally unprecedented in organized crime and apparently Venezuelans and Canadians figured it out before Mexicans and Italians. I know a lot of you hate that Chavista shit but seriously, think about that for two seconds.
Fighting the Hell's Angels isn't worth it in Canada. They have more cops on the take than you do gang members and most of the street gangs are happy to pay the tax for access to their goodies. They do generate more than enough resentment to keep themselves busy not only for the tax but also because of their debt model with younger, stupider drug dealers - HA fronts them ounces to pounds knowing they'll blow the money they make on themselves or just sit around getting high and after that they can press you to be their little crash dummy and "no" isn't one of the answers you get to give. If you go against them it's just you and your friends vs a gang that goes from Nova Scotia to California, actively seeks out cops to corrupt in Canada and has every other street gang around you happy with the status quo and making money off of it, ready to fuck up anyone disrupting it. Running is pussy at that point, you knew what you were starting when you started kidnapping and killing people in that situation. Drag your nuts and die like a gangster if you really don't give a fuck like that.
Just because no one claims to be wolfpack does not mean they do not exist.. they're a multi ethnic group one of them including a high rankinging HA member that's convicted for murder and they have a lot of presence in the game more than you think.. moving weight to Europe and Australia not just Canada
DeleteWolfpac 100% exists it started in Vancouver. In BC they are strong in the penitentiarys. That large meth lab bust in BC was 100% wolfpac. Never read the book did not hear good things.
DeleteWhat’s the difference between a cartel and a mafia ? Legit question.
ReplyDeleteMafia, and cartel for that matter have been blanket terms for organized crime groups mostly. But the differences at the core would be that Mafias might not have drugs as their primary source of income/function. While drug cartels are setup for that. Also, cartel's are usually multiple groups/smuggler factions working together for numbers, reputation and efficiency. Mafias would be more structured and hierarchical.
DeleteFor example, the American Mafia/LCN in New York did have what law enforcement called 'concrete cartels.' With the leaders of some of the 5 families working together on construction/labor union rackets in order to control whole projects and bids.
@4:29 summarised the primary distinctions between the two groups. I give the fashion + etiquette version for past not the present:
DeleteCommisso 'ndrina aka the Commiso brothers Calabria/Toronto mafia were always well-groomed and smartly dressed jeans/suit. When in mixed company with women and children they were well-mannered and respectful. When only males socialised - boys, adolescents or elderly, the brothers would sit with legs crossed sipping their espresso/wine and listened to whomever in their group wanted to speak. They were cordial and gentlemanly.
Most bikers came together for a 'brotherhood' of drink, drugs and women. Less sophisticated and worldly than 'mafia'. Bikers mostly wore jeans, t-shirts and flew their colours. Although respectful to a 'brother's' wife/girlfriend some treated women very poorly and raped them in groups at their clubhouse.
The infamous Toronto Satan's Choice biker Gary 'nutty' Comeau was notorious for carrying a small jar of vaseline which he used when he raped multiple women over the years. Rumour had it that he was so small endowed the vaseline was simply something he fooled his ego into thinking he needed. Karma came for him as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder -- a murder he did not commit (don't ask me how I know). However, scores of women too afraid to go to the police to press charges against Nutty, they were thrilled that he suffered years in prison and went on to have a heart attack.
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Thanks , that was some good info! Cheers !
DeletePut Canadian girl 💋on the cover of Vogue!
Deleteyou could say they are the same thing, mostly nationality determines which you are called. mafia are assosciated with protection rackets, but so are cartels. ditto drugs. ditto corruption. they are functionally the same thing with the major difference being that cartels produce drugs and mafias mostly just buy and sell them.
DeleteAre mafias enemy with any cartel ? I feel like they share the same buyers and might have a dispute over their business? Or might be that mafias are in Europe and cartels in the American continent?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say any are at war with any cartel..The groups are different parts of the drug world chain and work in conjunction with each other on supply, smuggling or distribution areas. Its more competition in the same circles that causes wars. If there's a disagreement or issue along the chain, its usually handled (for example some of the traffickers from Canada killed in Mexico in the last few years) to not burn their suppliers.
DeleteThere are many 'Mafia' (Italian, Albanian, Irish, Balkan, Russian, etc) reps transplantet to South America or Mexico. The main player for decades in drug trafficking in Canada is still the Mafia. They handled the importation deals with the bikers wholesaling and gangs distributing/selling. They also worked with the West End Irish gang for smuggling in. But none were cartels, the Mafia had direct connections to Europe and Colombian cartel suppliers.
DeleteThey controlled the Hells Angels/bikers and street gangs that handled. That has now been a war for the last 10-15 years with HA taking over much of what the Mafia/Rizzutos once handled.
Im surprised you know your continents… nowadays people think mexico and United States are in two different continents lmao.
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DeleteActually, "western hemisphere" would have been more concise than American continent
@1:10, @7:38 and 7:29
DeleteAll of you are in incorrect. There's no such thing as "American Continent" , it's either North or South American Continent . If you want to include both you write "Americas".
7:29
Western hemisphere would not be concise since that encompasses the ocean, it begins at the prime Meridian.
Dude looks Hispanic mix with white lol.
ReplyDeleteBasic Quebecois..
Deletefrench-canadians sometimes appear weasily 🦨
Yeah, especially when you confuse cultural terms with racial ones.
Delete5:10 : what do you mean ? Plz share, not trying to be an ignorant idiot.
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DeleteThe word "white" is a racial term while the word "Hispanic" is cultural.
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DeleteSorry, professor, but @111 is how people think and talk
@8.30 yeah hispanic refers to spanish speakers or ex spanish empire right. white is a racial term yep. but what is the racial word for mexicans, etc? i don't know. if he said mixed white and mexican/latin american you'd have a problem with that too since that is also not a race.
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DeleteYup, but it doesn't follow they're correct, they're still wrong. Sorry.
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Racial terms for Mexicans depends. If you're part Spanish mix, you're mestizo. If you're of almost full Spanish or European stock, you're white. If you're a black Mexican then you're black. I never understood why people want to racialize nationality when that's a separate thing.
@12.44 well because to americans you are a distinct group of people known to them as mexicans. conflating it with race isn't weird. most countries are racial in origin and it's in the names, pakistan, england, finland, etc etc etc .. used to be your country and your race were one and the same thing. nation actually derives from the latin word for race.
DeleteBloods don't play
ReplyDeletePero este guero desabrido andava de muy salsita.
ReplyDeleteinvited to attend a farewell party? If They Invite You To Some Shit Like That. I Would Say It’s Best Not To Go. Because What Happened To Him. He Had To Have Known Some Shit Was Not Right. He Had To Have Been Way To Trusting Or Just Stupid. Because How Many Gangs Host A Farewell Party After You Tell Them You Decided To Stop Selling Drugs For Them And On Their Behalf.
ReplyDeleteDude misread the invitation..
DeleteIt was a farewell to your ears party..
2:43 Just so you know - in English We Don't Use Upper Case For Every Word. Just Names For People and Places.
Delete12:37 Just So YOU Know It’s Not That Serious For You To Feel The Need To Comment. 😂
Delete12:37 he flunked English class, just like the no period kid.🤣
DeleteSome One Using All Capital Letters Must Make You All Butt Hurt. So Here You Go.
Delete3:57 You get your dirty ass corrected, and you get butthurt lol. Now you know why it's important to stay in school.
DeleteSic006 le gusta los hombres grandes.
ReplyDeleteTambien le gusta la variedad, aveces se junta con alvañiles panzones los Viernes despues del trabajo para que se pungan borrachos y lo pisen.
DeleteApoco le atora a la longaniza, hijole se las da de muy listio con sus comentarios tontitos.
DeletePues que esperavan? Sicario 006 es Gilbertona 🤷🏼♂️
DeleteLos juevos*
DeleteApoco le gusta las pelotas bien chayotudas.
DeleteBig bad gang member.
ReplyDeleteDetroit for President 2028!!
DeleteThat dude looks like Sicario 006
ReplyDeleteI've seen a real pic of sicario 006 and looks nothing like this, he looks more like el hummer from the zetas.
DeleteWhat kind of dumb name is "blood family mafia"? Does it mean that only people who are blood relatives can join? If that is the case then why is the black dude in the picture with him. I doubt they are related. They should've been called the "mix race blood mafia". Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, Nuffy 😟
DeleteIf you would take the time to read the article (and have Buffy help when you come across a big word), you would have noted that these lunatics modeled themselves after the west coast crips for some reason, maybe because they cripple their victims, also!
..Nuff is King! 👑
6:11 jesus nuff! Quebecs street gangs are mostly bloods and crips. Come on or you just sTROLLING?
DeleteGoogle informs us there's 422,000 black folks in Quebec, about 5% of the total population.
DeleteMostly living in urban areas, so presumably they're not out there tapping maple trees for syrup.
Montreal home to the biggest Haitian community in north America.
Bloods & Crips constantly at each other's throats, they get along together about as well as cats & dogs do!
12:43am Hey I'm sorry. I don't have data on my Nuff computers regarding Canada gangs. Most of my info is on U.S gangs and Latin cartels. I will update my computers to include Canada. Nuff Said!!!
DeleteBuffy's family BEGGED her not to marry the irascible Nuffy, but she was in love and so SURE she could get him to straighten up and fly right and change his evil ways..
DeleteIf she's having second thoughts now, who could really blame her? 🤔😟
Canada’s most wanted!?! Tf he slangin?? Brussel sprouts????
ReplyDeleteFrench Canadian bloods. Lmfao!Ⓜ️Ⓜ️
ReplyDeleteCanadian “gangsters” are hilarious. They lifted one dude, subjected him to amateur torture and the press in Canada calls that “a night of horror” 😂
ReplyDeleteI hope they never go looking for trouble in Mexico, then they will find out what real horror is. This guy looks like an inbred white-trash hillbilly who steals from Walmart in his free time.
Getting your ears cut off constitutes a night of horror, don't you think? 😟
DeleteSeriously mods what happened to back in the day comments when we all aided with knowledge? Knowledge now is comments on nuffy and buffy bearing in mind these are men, what kind of men? The kind that would run a mile from violence
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DeleteHate to be the one to have to break the news to you, but word on the street is that BB is soon to be officially re-named "Nufferland Beat!!!
..Act accordingly 😟