In Montreal, QC Canada a man drove his car through a cafe after arguing with some patrons at the ungodly hour of 5:15 in the morning, and police say the establishment had a reputation as reported by Peter McCabe for The Gazette: "It was shut down in April 2009 after a lengthy Montreal police investigation revealed the café, which didn't even have a liquor licence, was being used primarily to move drugs for the Montreal Mafia."
Memo to law enforcement everywhere: the best place to buy drugs is not on the street corner but at a neighborhood bar, and perhaps more undercover narcotic detectives or mob investigators should be planted at the watering holes. There's actually a high correlation between alcohol consumption and cocaine usage: the more you snort, the more you can drink.
Indeed, the Mafia long has used food and booze establishments in New York City through which to move its drug product. Vito Genovese was put away in 1959 for trafficking heroin through his gay bars, and in the mid-1980s the feds busted the so-called Pizza Connection ring in which the Mafia distributed $1.6 billion of heroin through pizzerias between 1975 and 1984.
