[3] The Wolfpack Alliance was founded in 2010 in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia by the Hells Angels member Larry Amero as a "side project".
[4] The other leaders of the Wolfpack Alliance were Jonathan Bacon of the Red Scorpions and Randy Naicker and James Riach of the Independent Soldiers.
[4] The Wolfpack worked as distributors of cocaine from the Sinaloa Cartel of Mexico, whose leader was Joaquín Guzmán, better known by his moniker El Chapo ("the shorty").
[5] The Wolfpack soon took in other members, most notably the Alkhalil family; Johnny Raposo of Toronto; Martino "Lil Guy" Caputo of Niagara-on-the-Lake; Shane Maloney of Montreal's West End Gang; and Nick Nero, a drug smuggler from Niagara Falls.
[9] The Wolfpack leaders used encrypted texts on the Pretty Good Privacy system to communicate, and wrote frankly about plans to commit murders.
[11] Sergeant Brenda Winpenny of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – BC (CFSEU-BC) told the journalist Rattan Mall in 2017: “We’ve publicly confirmed in the past that the Wolfpack has a presence not only across Canada but internationally.
[15] Kim Bolan, the crime correspondent of The Vancouver Sun newspaper, wrote in 2018: "Dhak’s execution was the flashpoint for a near decade-long war that has raged across the province and left many dead and wounded in its wake.
[19] The gunmen fired at least 30 shots into the Cayenne, killing Bacon, wounding Amero, and leaving a 21-year waitress, Leah Hadden-Watts, a quadriplegic, as she took a bullet straight through her neck, severing her spinal cord.
[21] Edwards and Nájera wrote that Amero and Alkhalil "...tightened up their own connections with Mexican cocaine suppliers" during their time in Montreal.
Maloney was known as "Wheels", due to being confined to a wheelchair, as he is a paraplegic owing to a vehicle incident, but he was considered one of the most important Wolfpack leaders.
[32] A member of the Dhak-Duhre group, Manjot Singh Dhillon, took to posting images of dead wolves on his Facebook profile starting in early January 2013, as a public way of indicating he was planning to strike at the Wolfpack.
[34] The Montreal wing of the Wolfpack operated a smuggling ring, bringing cocaine via secret compartments in trucks into and from the United States.
[39] Found inside of Alkhalil's condo was a group photograph of the Wolfpack leaders taken in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
[25] On September 26, 2012, Lavoie called a meeting in a downtown Montreal bar with Mihale Leventis and another man who remains unidentified, who was working as a police informer.
[53] Raposo, Nero, Alkhalil and Caputo were planning to bring in a shipment of cocaine from Mexico via Chicago that was worth $5 million dollars, with the profits to be split equally four ways.
[61] Nero also wrote down his password and email address, which was found on another sticky pad note placed next to his laptop computer.
The initials stand for Pretty Good Privacy; alas, when the user thoughtfully provides his secret password on a sticky, it’s easily defeated.
[64] Raposo was aware that Alkhalil and Amero had become inexplicably distant towards him, and told his common-law wife Monika that was planning to visit Montreal soon to see the Wolfpack leaders, to resolve whatever the issues there might be.
[66] Wiwchar walked into the Sicilian Sidewalk Café dressed as a construction worker while wearing a dust mask and a wig.
I had the whole construction uniform on mullet helment [helmet] dusk mask orange side road shirt and rocker shades lol I sat down and orderd a corona".
[71] The cocaine shipment worth $5 million dollars arrived in a Toronto junkyard, but was stolen by an unknown person before Caputo and Alkhalil received it.
[75] Both Caputo and Alkhalil were returned to Canada following extradition requests to face charges of first-degree murder in connection with Raposo's slaying.
[77] In Colombia, Lavoie joined forces with a Canadian mixed martial arts fighter and gangster, Steven Skinner, in a drug smuggling ring.
[77] On the morning of May 11, 2014, the dismembered body of Lavoie was discovered on a bridge along La Vereda Pan de Azucar (Sugar Bread Footpath) in the countryside outside of Sabaneta.
[83] Despite the way that Sinaloa Cartel had pushed the Wolfpack aside, the group still retained a vestigial existence on the margins of Canadian organized crime.
[86] On 23 May 2016, Deo made the international news when he attended a Toronto Raptors basketball game at the Rogers Center, and abused the referees for supposedly favoring the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers team so violently that he was expelled from the building.
[88] Deo had parked his vehicle in the alley known locally as Cowbell Lane at the corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, and seemed to be waiting for someone.
On the other side are the old guard — the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] arm of the traditional ’Ndrangheta family of Cosimo "The Quail" Commisso of Siderno, Italy.
[95] It is believed that the murder attempt was to punish him for leaving his email address and passport to the Pretty Good Privacy network, out in plain view in Fletcher's condo.
[82] The Sinaloa Cartel is believed to have placed a contract on the lives of Caputo and the other Wolfpack leaders for losing $5 million dollars worth of cocaine in 2012, an incident that has not been forgiven or forgotten.