The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 5
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- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1997 A 5 Surtax foe, 2 allies fined for clash with riot police Montreal tax protester Peter Sergakis was fined $500 yesterday after being found guilty last month of obstructing police during a clash with riot-squad officers at city hall on April 5, 1993. Quebec Court Bernard Bilodeau also fined Ronald Donalley, a supporter of Sergakis, $300 for obstructing justice during the same incident, and fined Athanasios Metaxas, another Sergakis backer, $125 for disturbing the peace. The 1 lawyers for all three men had asked for absolute Peter or conditional discharges. Led protest Sergakis, the owner of several commercial buildings and a westend strip club, has said he probably will appeal his conviction. The convictions stem from a clash with riot police during a demonstration opposing the city's surtax on nonresidential properties.
Sergakis had organized 28 city-hall protests against the surtax by the time he and three colleagues were arrested. In September 1993, the surtax was declared unconstitutional in a 77-page Quebec Superior Court ruling by Justice Pierre Tessier. The Quebec Court of Appeal later overturned that judgment. The case is before the Supreme Court of Canada. Sergakis Despite the court challenge, the current administration of Mayor Pierre Bourque has pledged to eliminate the surtax and has already reduced revenues from the tax to $21 million this year from $110 million annually.
TEDD CHURCH, GAZETTE Constable Louise guards contraband as police showcase 353 kilograms of cocaine they seized. Weapons in drug bust studied Police looking for links to biker-gang war Police will pay close attention to the results of ballistics tests conducted on weapons seized along with 353 kilograms of cocaine. "If you ask me today if I have the (ballistics) results, the answer is no," RCMP Inspector Michel Currier said yesterday, during a press conference to showcase the cocaine and weapons seized over the course of a six-week police operation. "But we will be certainly verifying whether or not these weapons were used in any other crimes." Police said there's a chance the weapons taken in the investigation might figure in the gang war between the Hell's Angels and Rock Machine for control of Quebec's drug trade. The surveillance operation was gered by the arrival in Montreal in February of a freight container of Brazilian coffee shipped on wooden palettes that were stuffed with cocaine.
Investigators said the drugs could have been worth more than $100 million in illegal profit to biker gangs. what police described as "a motorcycle Three of the six people charged gang involved in criminal activity" at a Robert Johnson, Sherbrooke St. shopping centre. and Paul Fontaine were described On Feb. 21, police raids resulted in the yesterday by police as being affiliated drug seizure and two arrests.
Further with the Hell's Angels. raids the same day saw police seize 1.5 Johnson was described as a full kilograms of explosives and 15 blasting member of the Rockers, a gang allied caps. They also seized a rewith the Hells Angels. Fontaine and volver and a 9-mm were described as being as- tol with their serial numbers filed off. sociated with, but not members of, the Raids carried out at two MontrealHell's Angels.
area locations Tuesday resulted i in The narcotics investigation began more firearm seizures another Feb. 17, when Canada Customs calibre revolver and a 9-mm pistol as searched a container in Montreal well as a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun, a shipped from Brazil. Customs agents revolver and a bullet-proof discovered 353 kilograms of cocaine vest. Four more people were arrested. hidden between the planks of 10 wood- Marcos Mendes Elias and his wife, en palettes upon which 300 bags of cof- Lucie Kawoge, described as adminisfee had been shipped.
trators of the coffee company, have Police from an anti-gang task force been charged with conspiracy to imwere called in and the shipment was al- port and traffic 353 kilograms of colowed to proceed, under surveillance, caine, as has Johnson. to its destination, a wholesale coffee- Johnson and his wife, Nathalie distribution centre located in Laval. Robert, also face charges of being in ilOnce the coffee had been delivered to legal possession of explosives. the company on Feb. 20, the cocaine Fontaine is charged with possession of was removed and placed in a privately a restricted weapon, while owned vehicle.
It was then delivered to faces drug-trafficking charges. RCMP anti-smuggling raids nab 22 Twenty-two people were arrested yesterday as the Royal Canadian 1 Mounted Police capped a two-year probe into a smuggling ring based in the region, northeast of Montreal. The gang is suspected of smuggling more than $1 million worth of cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol into Quebec from the United States. Most of the contraband was carted across the border over unpatrolled roads near Lacolle and at the Indian reserve at Akwesasne, police said. More than 50 RCMP officers began the roundup shortly after dawn, carrying out simultaneous raids on homes in Montreal, Saint and Thetford Mines.
The RCMP's customs and excise section has seized more than $1 million worth of contraband since the police operation was launched two years ago, RCMP Constable Gilles Deziel said. a The ring was based in Joliette and Repentigny, just off the eastern tip of Montreal Island, Deziel said. The 22 arrested were arraigned in Quebec Court at Joliette on conspiracy and smuggling charges. Two more people targeted by the Mounties remained at large late yesterday. I PUBLIC AUCTION IMPORTANT AUCTION Included in this auction is a multitude of items for many private commercial interests, featuring: furniture, paintings, jewellery, silver, crystal, collectibles, porcelain, bronzes, rare coins, stamps, clocks, in a 5-SESSION 85-piece Limoges porcelain dinner service R.
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