The West End Gang is a powerful criminal organization based in Montreal, Quebec, active since the early 1900s. It includes both Irish and French-Canadian members and is recognized as part of the Irish mafia, with close ties to the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. The gang is involved in small crimes, arms trafficking, and drug dealing, and was a key member of the Consortium, a drug cartel with Italian-Canadian families and the Hells Angels. Current membership is estimated at 100-150, and it remains active under the leadership of Gerald Matticks.
CRIMENET has extracted 55 linkages for this organization, including 53 cooperative ties across 17 organizations, 1 conflicts across 1 organization, 1 other connections and footprints in 4 countries.
On 27 October 2011, an officer with the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal on vacation in Playa del Carmen in Mexico saw two other officers... socializing with members of the West End Gang... the Hells Angels and the West End Gang members proceed to beat the policeman bloody...
shipments of up to 200 kilograms being sent to the Netherlands
and the United Kingdom.
with some members working out of Florida.