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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   Man with ties to street gangs sees release from prison revoked   
      
      
   BY PAUL CHERRY, GAZETTE CRIME REPORTERJULY 30, 2014   
      
      
   MONTREAL — A man once tied to a Montreal street gang that clashed with   
   the Hells Angels has seen his recent release from a penitentiary revoked   
   after he was caught drinking in a bar with known criminals.   
      
   Eric Semino, 35, was released to a halfway house on Jan. 31 after   
   reaching the statutory release date on a 45-month sentence he received   
   in 2011. The sentence came with his guilty plea to charges related to   
   three firearms found in his apartment. That included a sawed-off shotgun   
   Semino kept under his mattress.   
      
   While the protection was illegal, Semino likely saw it as necessary. A   
   written summary of the Parole Board of Canada’s recent decision to   
   revoke Semino’s release reveals the Montreal police seized the firearms   
   because they suspected he committed a series of home invasions where   
   drug dealers were robbed of illicit stashes. The summary notes the   
   police suspect Semino carried out the home invasions for a street gang,   
   which he denies.   
      
   Police sources have also alleged in the past that Semino was once tied   
   to the K-Crew, a street gang aggressively involved in heroin trafficking   
   in Montreal around 2006. The gang’s leader, 39-year-old Hasan Eroglu,   
   was murdered in Pointe-Claire on July 5, 2007. The homicide remains   
   unsolved. But at the time, police sources said Eroglu ignored warnings   
   that drug trafficking turf the K-Crew tried to take over was controlled   
   by a powerful organized crime figure. The dispute involved members of   
   the Mafia and the Hells Angels.   
      
   Two months previous to Eroglu’s murder, Semino fired a shot into the   
   window of a bar on St-Laurent Blvd. while Normand Marvin (Casper)   
   Ouimet, a Hells Angel, was inside.   
      
   On April 29, 2011, Semino was still on probation from the sentence he   
   received for firing the shot into the bar when the Montreal police   
   raided his Aylwin St. apartment. That was when the police discovered the   
   three firearms involved in his current sentence.   
      
   The parole board imposed the condition that he reside at a halfway house   
   because, they determined in January, a full release “represented an   
   unacceptable risk to society.”   
      
   The summary details how Semino initially appeared to serious about   
   addressing what contributes to his criminality. Within weeks, he had   
   found a job and began a program aimed at curbing his violent ways. But   
   on April 19, he was “seen inside a bar about to consume alcohol. You   
   were also in the presence of people who are (members of) street gangs   
   known to the police.” His statutory release was suspended and he was   
   returned to a penitentiary the same day. Semino asked the parole board   
   for a second chance but a decision was made to officially revoke the   
   statutory release (most inmates who have not been granted full parole by   
   the time the reach the two-thirds mark of a sentence automatically   
   qualify for a statutory release.)   
      
   As a means of explanation, Semino told the parole board that he went to   
   the bar to meet with his brother. He said he consumed too much alcohol   
   and the drinks impaired his judgment when street gang members showed up   
   at the same bar and influenced his decision to remain. The parole board   
   noted that at the very least Semino admitted to having been inside a   
   bar, a violation of one of the five conditions imposed on his release in   
   January. Semino was also the longtime friend of Marilyn Béliveau, a   
   former employee of Canada Border Services Agency who was convicted on   
   ten charges filed in Project Colisée, a lengthy investigations into the   
   Mafia in Montreal. Béliveau, 34, was working as a customs agent when she   
   tried to help two Mafia-tied drug smugglers bring in a container of drugs.   
      
   In 2012, she was convicted on 10 counts, including breach of trust,   
   conspiracy and committing a crime for the benefit of a criminal   
   organization, but served no jail time for the offences.   
      
   During Colisée, investigators learned that Semino gave Beliveau advice   
   and support while acting as an intermediary between her and the drug   
   smugglers.   
      
   pcherry@montrealgazette.com   
      
   Man with ties to street gangs sees release from prison revoked   
      
      
   BY PAUL CHERRY, GAZETTE CRIME REPORTERJULY 30, 2014   
      
      
   MONTREAL — A man once tied to a Montreal street gang that clashed with   
   the Hells Angels has seen his recent release from a penitentiary revoked   
   after he was caught drinking in a bar with known criminals.   
      
   Eric Semino, 35, was released to a halfway house on Jan. 31 after   
   reaching the statutory release date on a 45-month sentence he received   
   in 2011. The sentence came with his guilty plea to charges related to   
   three firearms found in his apartment. That included a sawed-off shotgun   
   Semino kept under his mattress.   
      
   While the protection was illegal, Semino likely saw it as necessary. A   
   written summary of the Parole Board of Canada’s recent decision to   
   revoke Semino’s release reveals the Montreal police seized the firearms   
   because they suspected he committed a series of home invasions where   
   drug dealers were robbed of illicit stashes. The summary notes the   
   police suspect Semino carried out the home invasions for a street gang,   
   which he denies.   
      
   Police sources have also alleged in the past that Semino was once tied   
   to the K-Crew, a street gang aggressively involved in heroin trafficking   
   in Montreal around 2006. The gang’s leader, 39-year-old Hasan Eroglu,   
   was murdered in Pointe-Claire on July 5, 2007. The homicide remains   
   unsolved. But at the time, police sources said Eroglu ignored warnings   
   that drug trafficking turf the K-Crew tried to take over was controlled   
   by a powerful organized crime figure. The dispute involved members of   
   the Mafia and the Hells Angels.   
      
   Two months previous to Eroglu’s murder, Semino fired a shot into the   
   window of a bar on St-Laurent Blvd. while Normand Marvin (Casper)   
   Ouimet, a Hells Angel, was inside.   
      
   On April 29, 2011, Semino was still on probation from the sentence he   
   received for firing the shot into the bar when the Montreal police   
   raided his Aylwin St. apartment. That was when the police discovered the   
   three firearms involved in his current sentence.   
      
   The parole board imposed the condition that he reside at a halfway house   
   because, they determined in January, a full release “represented an   
   unacceptable risk to society.”   
      
   The summary details how Semino initially appeared to serious about   
   addressing what contributes to his criminality. Within weeks, he had   
   found a job and began a program aimed at curbing his violent ways. But   
   on April 19, he was “seen inside a bar about to consume alcohol. You   
      
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