Montreal’s Rizzuto crime family targeted in major police sweep [Video]

In what police are calling the most significant operation to take place in Quebec in a decade, officers have arrested the suspected heads of Montreal’s Italian Mafia, including the presumed leader, Leonardo Rizzuto. 

Nearly 150 police officers descended on addresses across Quebec early Thursday morning. They arrested Rizzuto at his home in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal. 

Officers arrested 11 people in total, all men between the ages of 27 and 57. Five people remain wanted by police. The arrests took place in Montreal, Laval, Blainville, Shefford, Saint-Lazare, Repentigny, Quebec City and Rosemère. Three of the men arrested were already incarcerated.

Also arrested was Rizzuto’s alleged co-leader, Stefano Sollecito and other prominent alleged Mafia members, Pietro D’Adamo and Davide Barberio.

All of the men — even those who are still at large — are wanted in connection with murders, police said at a morning press conference.

Police charged seven …