2nd suspect arrested in fatal Montreal shooting with alleged ties to mob | 24CA News
Montreal police say a second arrest has been made after a lady with alleged ties to organized crime was fatally gunned down within the spring.
Claudia Iacono, 39, was killed in a parking zone in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood on May 16. She was behind the wheel of her automobile when she was shot within the later afternoon and her automobile ended up crashing into a close-by constructing, in keeping with police.
Iacono was married to Antonio Gallo, the son of the late Moreno Gallo, a reputed mob boss within the Montreal mafia. He was killed in Mexico in 2013, a couple of years after he was deported.
Police mentioned Monday {that a} 30-year-old suspect was arrested in Toronto, the place he’s at present in custody on a firearm cost. The man is anticipated to be charged with first-degree homicide in Iacono’s loss of life on Tuesday on the Montreal courthouse, the place he’ll seem by video.
Citing proof gathered by investigators, police imagine the person helped plan the homicide.
This is the second arrest in Iacono’s loss of life. Joel Richard Clarke, 28, was arrested in early June close to Toronto with assist from the Ontario Provincial Police. He was charged with first-degree homicide.
Iacono’s loss of life is town’s eighth murder of 2023. The investigation is ongoing and police say anybody with details about the capturing can name 911 or their native police station.
— with information from Global News’ Annabelle Olivier and The Canadian Press
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