Mar 17 2007
As police tapes rolled, conversation flowed at cafe
Renda then asked about the funeral arrangements and ordered they “do whatever is needed to be done.” He added the victim, Macri, was “a very nice young man.”
The conversation turns to Arcadi’s safety and they suggest he go into hiding.
Renda: “See, what you gotta do now, find an island, take your wife and leave.”
Giordano: “Even your wife, come on, I feel bad, Compare, all this s–t.”
Renda: “Arrange, Compare …”
Arcadi: “I have to decide if I go or don’t go. Maybe I go to Italy with my brothers.”
Renda then leaves.
Arcadi: “Nobody is going to get rid of me, but … we are looking, we are looking for that pig, we are looking for him because he’s a sea of problem. What do we do, us, what we do, us, when one of us has been killed? To tell you the truth, we do what we have to do.”
According to the court documents, Arcadi left the country for Europe, where he took a cruise with his wife. He returned to Montreal two months later, about Oct. 27, when he is again seen at the Consenza.
After Macri’s murder, police observed Giuseppe Fetta, Danny Winton, Martinez Canas and Charles Edouard Battista, who police claim are Mafia bodyguards, examining a handgun with a silencer in a warehouse garage on St. Laurent Blvd. At one point, Battista fired a shot into the ground. Battista was seen giving a machine gun to Fetta while he assembled a second machine gun. Fetta was also seen with a 12-gauge shotgun, according to court documents.
On Sept. 12, Montreal police seized two AR-15 semi-automatics, a machine gun and a 12-gauge shotgun from the warehouse garage that belonged to Francesco del Balso.
Police also seized two bulletproof vests and some ammunition. The documents don’t say what happened to the other machine gun or the silencer and pistol.
According to police, del Balso then made arrangements to buy two armoured SUVs from a company that he found on the Internet called Streit Manufacturing. The company is located in Innisfil, Ont. According to its website, it also has sales offices in Dubai.
