Ottawa police are investigating an arson at a Nepean bungalow for connections to a infamous worldwide crime household, Ontario Chronicle has discovered.
The arson at 95 Rossland Ave. occurred round 3:45 a.m. on Oct. 8. Firefighters arrived to seek out two folks on the entrance garden who had escaped the blaze. Paramedics handled one man and one woman for burns and smoke inhalation.
A number of doorways down Rossland Avenue is one other residence as soon as owned by alleged cocaine trafficker Hisham “Terry” Alkhalil, one in all 5 gangster brothers from the identical household. He offered that property, no less than on paper, in 2021.
However even after the sale, in February 2022, a longtime gang affiliate of the Alkhalils was discovered hiding out within the residence and was arrested by RCMP.
The house at 95 Rossland Ave. is owned by a numbered firm registered to Neveen Alkhalil, confirmed by police sources with intensive data of the Alkhalil felony group as a sister of the Alkhalil brothers.
The deal with of that numbered firm is a Kanata North townhouse registered to their mom and father.
Who’re the Alkhalils?
The Alkhalil crime household has ties to British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. They’re synonymous within the felony underworld with cash, affect and violence.
Two of the 5 brothers had been murdered in gangland disputes in British Columbia within the early 2000s. A 3rd was killed in Mexico in 2018. The youngest escaped from a federal jail whereas awaiting trial for homicide and stays at massive.
In line with eldest brother Nabil Alkhalil’s 2011 immigration resolution, the household got here to Canada in 1990, touchdown at Montréal-Mirabel Worldwide Airport and making a refugee safety declare.
Household patriarch Hossein Alkhalil fled Palestine throughout the 1948 Arab-Israeli battle, travelling first to Lebanon after which to Saudi Arabia earlier than coming to Canada throughout the Gulf Warfare together with his spouse Soumaya Azzam and their youngsters.
In 2004, after the dying of two brothers, the household moved to Ottawa.
RCMP deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald stands subsequent to a wished signal for fugitive Rabih Alkhalil, who escaped from a B.C. jail whereas awaiting homicide charges. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
In 2014, police seized the Rossland Avenue residence registered to Terry Alkhalil throughout development in an operation known as Venture Anarchy.
Police seized 24.5 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated road worth of $12.5 million, 4 weapons and the house, whose worth was pegged at $1.2 million. The charges in opposition to Terry Alkhalil had been finally stayed after the case took too lengthy to get to courtroom.
Infamous gangster discovered hiding out in residence
The next 12 months, RCMP arrested Hells Angel Damion Ryan, an Alkhalil household affiliate and fellow gangster discovered hiding out within the former Alkhalil residence. Police have described Ryan as “possible one in all most prolific organized crime members in our nation.”
RCMP allege that bust dismantled a global Mexican cartel drug smuggling ring.
Court docket data allege Ryan was discovered within the former Akhalil residence the place weapons had been discovered saved contained in the kitchen, household room, laundry room and workplace.
Months later, Rabih Alkhalil escaped from a B.C. jail whereas awaiting homicide charges. He stays at massive on the high of Canada’s most wished checklist, and is believed to be overseas.
Alkhalil members of the family proceed to personal a number of houses in Ottawa. Ottawa police weren’t accessible for an interview however stated they proceed to analyze.
