Piero Arena whacked

Piero Arena, 63, was found lifeless, lying among cars in the basement of the building where he lived. He had been shot twice in the head. Arena was linked to the cocaine trade and was close to the Cotroni clan, the Calabrian family who reigned supreme until the end of the 1980s when they were dethroned by Rizutto. Arena was busted in 2013 for a plot to smuggle 275kg of cocaine into the country. Just before that Arena was out on statutory release for the same crime. Its said Arena was the person targeted on July 22 during a shooting that took place at Café Sorrento in Saint-Léonard in Montreal, not far from his residence.