[3] The journalists Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso described Arcadi as a "crude and thoughtless" man who needlessly alienated black outlaw bikers such as Gregory Woolley.
[5] Arcadi seized control of Montreal Trudeau Airport, putting dozens of Canada customs agents and baggage handlers on the Rizzuto family's payroll in order to smuggle in cocaine from South America.
[4] Arcadi served as the leader of the "Young Turk" faction of the Rizzuto family whose most important members were Francesco Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano whose usual meeting place was the Bar Laennec in Laval.
[9] In the spring of 2000, Arcadi met with Paolo Gervasi to ask him to stop selling cocaine to the Rock Machine which threatened the Rizzuto family's alliance with the Hells Angels.
[10] On April 20, 2000, Salvatore Gervasi, the son of Paolo, was murdered with his corpse being found inside of the trunk of his Porsche, which was parked outside of his house.
[11] Gervasi met with Arcadi, who denied being responsible for his son's murder, but again told him to stop selling cocaine to the Rock Machine.
[14] In January 2003 during one of their annual trips to the Dominican Republic, Rizzuto in a conversation in Italian with Aracdi described to him how he was the gunman responsible for the murder of three capos in the Bonanno crime family in 1981.
[20] During Project Colisée, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police videotaped Arcadi visiting the Consenza Social Club 616 times to see Nicolo Rizzuto between 2004 and 2006.
[22] On August 11, 2005, Giovanni "Johnny" Bertolo, a Rizzuto family soldier who tried to sell cocaine in his old territory after his release from prison that had been taken over by Arcadi was killed, which led to a breakdown in relations with Raynald Desjardins.
[26] In January 2004, Arcadi ordered Del Balso, the "head bailiff" of the Rizzuto family to "talk" to the owner of a precise machine company in Rivière-des-Praires to make him pay $6,000.
[27] In a phone call, Del Balso told the owner of the company "the guy that's going to make you eat out of a straw for six months if you don't pay him", followed up by the statement "you hear me?
"[27] Arcadi was visited at the Consensza Social Club by a rival gangster, Lugi D'Amico, who claimed that the Rizzuto family owned him $900,000 following a failed attempt to smuggle marijuana into the United States in alliance with the Hells Angels Sherbrooke chapter.
[30] The RCMP bugs at the Consenza Social Club revealed that Arcadi was terrified and hysterical as he expressed much fear of "the Frenchmen" (his term for the Hells Angels) whom he believed were acting with D'Amico against him.
[30] Luca D'Amico arrived at the Consenza Social Club with a letter addressed to Nicolo Rizzuto that blamed Arcadi for the kidnapping and promised to release Varacalli in exchange for him resolving the dispute in their favour.
[30] To apply more pressure, Luca and Patrico D'Amico walked into the Consenza Social Club with their guns drawn in an implied threat.
[31] After the D'Amicos left, Arcadi was heard to say he was afraid of the "crazy guys" and did not want to leave the Consenza Social Club as he feared he would be shot down the moment he stepped out.
[40] Arcadi was arrested along with dozens of others including Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Del Balso, and Lorenzo Giordano as part of the four-year Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation known as Project Colisée.
[41] Arcadi pled guilty on September 18, 2008 to "general conspiracy to commit extortion, bookmaking, illegal gaming as well as being in possession of the proceeds of crime" and was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.