João "Johnny" Raposo (1977 – 18 June 2012) was a Canadian gangster and one of the leaders of the Wolfpack Alliance.
[2] As a teenager, Raposo was the leader of the McCormick Boys street gang who sold drugs for the Mafia.
[4] Raposo idolized the boxer-gangster Eddie Melo, who served as the Toronto agent for the Cotroni family.
[2] Melo when introducing Raposo to his second wife Rhonda Sullivan said of him: "Don't like the good looks fool you.
[2] Under Melo's influence, Raposo started to import cocaine from Mexico and soon became one of Toronto's most successful drug dealers.
[6] Raposo's two principle drugs of choice were alcohol and coffee as the friend recalled: "Jonny was a hustler-bustler no-sleeper talker.
[6] On 6 April 2001, Melo was murdered in Mississauga by Charles Gagné, a hitman from Montreal working for the 'Ndrangheta.
"[8] Raposo was also close to Martino Caputo, the Toronto agent of Montreal's Rizzuto family.
[10] Raposo lived in a house in Toronto with common-law wife, who was the mother of his son, and who was pregnant with his second child in the spring of 2012.
[10] Raposo disliked Caputo's protégé, Nick Nero, whom he regarded as overbearing, insecure, and of very low intelligence.
[12] In 2011, Raposo beat up a man following a dispute over a gin rummy game in a gambling den in Mississauga and was due to face charges for the incident in 2012.
The Canadian journalist Peter Edwards and the Mexican journalist Luis Nájera wrote the waitress whom both Caputo and Raposo were dating was "...was not to be confused with either the mother of Raposo's son or Caputo's moneyed girlfriend".
[15] Raposo, Nero, Alkhalil and Caputo had an agreement with the Sinaloa Cartel to bring into Toronto a shipment of cocaine from Mexico via Chicago worth $5 million.
[10] To assist with the planned murder, on 18 May 2012 Caputo texted to Nero pictures of Raposo together with his address and that of the Sicilian Sidewalk Café (which was Raposo's favourite coffee shop), saying he should pass this information along to Alkhalil's hitman.
[16] On 21 May 2012, Alkhalil offered his favourite hitman, Dean Michael Wiwchar, $100,000 in cash for killing Raposo.
[18] Wiwchar, who was dressed as a construction worker, walked up from behind Raposo and shot him four times in the head and once in the neck.
[19] The shipment of cocaine from Chicago arrived in a Toronto junkyard, but was stolen by an unknown person before the Wolfpack could claim it.
[19] The Sinaloa Cartel was furious with the loss of a shipment of cocaine worth $5 million, and threatened to send up some hitmen from Mexico to torture and murder the Wolfpack leaders for their incompetence in losing the cocaine shipment.