Montreal's street gangs have grown from groups of teenagers banding together in the 1980s for protection to, at one point, being the Montreal police department’s top crime-fighting priority.
They work with other criminal gangs to traffic drugs, weapons and sex.
As he was being extradited to the U.S. on racketeering charges in 2006, Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto warned the police street gangs were going to become a force to be reckoned with. A prediction that appears to have come true.
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Introducing She's Gone
Gangs of Montreal: Who controls the underworld?
Gangs of Montreal: Taking down the Rizzutos
Gangs of Montreal: Vito Rizzuto, Global Superboss
Gangs of Montreal: The biker war
Gangs of Montreal: The West End Gang and the robbery of the century
Gangs of Montreal: Kings of coke
Gangs of Montreal: How it all began
Coming soon: The Dark North
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