Was Arab Power Gang Behind "Fess" Plouffe's Kidnapping and Potential M*rder?

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The recent disappearance of Stéphane Tessier-Plouffe, the vice president of the Montreal Hells Angels, has sparked intense speculation regarding the involvement of Arab Power in this high-profile case. Host Scott Burnstein suggests that while the Hells Angels are known for reckless violence and public displays of force, the specific tactics used against Plouffe—such as the arson attack on his home involving Molotov cocktails and the mysterious abandonment of his vehicle in Saint-Eustache—do not align with traditional gangster methods. Instead, these actions point toward a more calculated operation reminiscent of cartel-style enforcement, where controlling internal networks allows for dominance over external territories. The narrative indicates that Arab Power, led by Big Brother Attaki, has evolved into an independent force that no longer respects the old order held by the Hells Angels or the Sicilian Rizzuto mob, choosing instead to take contracts and eliminate rivals through any means necessary. A significant piece of evidence emerging from reports by French-language media outlets like La Presse and Journal de Montréal involves a Lebanese national who was last seen meeting with Plouffe at a hotel in Saint-Eustache before vanishing. This individual is described as a heavy hitter with known ties to Arab Power and a reputation for having bodies, raising serious red flags about who orchestrated the event. Law enforcement agencies, including the RCMP and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), intervened by pulling this suspect off a departing plane, confiscating his phone, and releasing him, an action that suggests he was under surveillance but perhaps not yet fully implicated in a murder charge. Furthermore, investigators have clarified that Plouffe's car was not abandoned by him at the park where he was initially reported to be seen, but rather driven there by someone else after he was last spotted in Camp Kanestake, an area historically controlled by Sharon Simon, a powerful figure connected to Marty Robert's inner circle. The situation is further complicated by allegations that Plouffe may have been turned into a cooperator or "rat," which could explain the sudden shift in alliances and the violence directed at him. Sources indicate that the arson attack on his residence might have served as leverage, threatening his family while he was potentially held captive or forced into witness protection. The transcript highlights the fluid nature of criminal underworld alliances, noting how Arab Power has recently declared war on the Rizzuto mob after feeling abandoned during Attaki's own legal troubles, and how they have since formed a new partnership with Tupac Anna's group. This shifting landscape suggests that enemies can quickly become allies or vice versa, creating a complex web where the Hells Angels might have contracted Arab Power to handle Plouffe, especially given the latter's potential betrayal of his former gang. Ultimately, the host concludes that while it is not certain whether Plouffe has been killed, kidnapped for ransom, or successfully disappeared into witness protection, the involvement of Arab Power appears inevitable in this scenario. The organization's fearless approach and willingness to operate outside traditional gang codes make them a prime suspect in an operation that involved both kidnapping and arson. As investigations continue with search warrants issued for DNA evidence on the day Plouffe vanished, the focus remains on understanding how these disparate criminal entities have converged. The case underscores the volatile reality of organized crime in Canada, where alliances are transient and power struggles between groups like the Hells Angels, the Rizzuto family, and Arab Power continue to reshape the underworld hierarchy in real time.

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Original Gangsters News with Scott Burnstein. Welcome to the Original Gangsters News Network and Podcast. I'm your host Scott Burnstein. We're wall-to-wall Canada organized crime right now. This last week, week and a half has been bonkers and we are here to give you the most elite uh access to information and insight all in real time. So, we're going to go back up to the Great White North and I'm going to update everybody on what I found out. I'm going to give a little bit of uh uh you know, a shout-out to Dan and Felix at the La Presse and Journal de Montréal for some great reporting that they've done. And I'm going to color up some of the information that they've put out either in uh their stories or or uh their social media accounts and then I've got my own analysis and and some uh breaking news to put out in regards to what I'm hearing. So, you know, the meat and potatoes of this pod and I'm not going to belabor this. It It shouldn't be a a long episode. I'm just going to kind of hit the the uh the bullet points here. No point uh pun intended. Uh so, really my big takeaway from the last couple days is that Arab Power might be playing a role in all of this and that the Hells Angels may have contracted Arab Power to deal with the Tessier Ploof situation. And as we all know, Stéphane Tessier Ploof, the uh street boss, vice president of the Montréal Hells Angels, the right-hand man and best friend to Montréal Hells Angels boss Marty Robert, went missing earlier this month. He was last seen on August 3rd. We got some information. Uh we're going to clear some some confusion up about where he was last seen. But there are some red flags here in regards to who might have been behind the actual deed. Uh and if you're reading the tea leaves here and you're talking to people that are in the know Arab Power is kind of looming. And we all know about Arab Power and and their ascension, uh especially in the last handful of years. They spring up kind of out of nowhere in the 2010s. Big Brother Attaki, who's in prison doing a lengthy sentence for a a murder back in the 2010s, um is the is the mastermind, the founder, and the you know, the guy that has taken that organization from a non-entity to the very top of the uh >> [clears throat] >> Quebec underworld food chain and pecking order. Arab Power is a major, major player. Uh and they've really taken a page out of the Mexican Mafia in the United States, where they have learned that if you control the inside, you can control the outside. So, and we also know that there's a history of Arab Power working with the Hells Angels and working with the Hells Angels in high-priority contract hits. There are a lot of uh rumors and um narratives out there that the Greg Woolley assassination back in 2023, the street gang Godfather who worked closely with both the Hells Angels and the Sicilian Rizzuto mob, Picasso Woolley, was gunned down in the parking lot of a medical center in front of his wife and young child. And there's been a lot of talk that that contract went from the Hells Angels to Tupac Anna and the and the Rat Pack mob and then they middle that Tupac and his guys middle that over to Arab Power. Arab Power was affiliated to the you know with the Rizzutos and the Hells Angels, but more recently has gone independent, has declared war against the Rizzuto mob. This was back in 2025 and has made an alliance with Tupac and his guys. Tupac's in a uh in prison right now fighting extradition to the United States related to Operation Giant Slalom and the Ryan wedding scenario. So again, a lot of moving parts as always. But based on talking to Felix and Dan, um it appears that one of the people that Fes Puf was last seen meeting with was a uh Lebanese national. And this Lebanese national, I'm told, is a heavy hitter, a guy that uh is known to have bodies, is known to have ties to Arab Power. This uh Lebanese national rendezvoused with Fes Proof and another Hells Angel at a hotel in Saint Eustache. In the hours before Faced Proof vanished that same evening or the evening afterwards or the day afterwards this Lebanese national was on a plane leaving Canada got pulled off the plane by RCMP and the SQ. They confiscated his phone and then let him go. Uh I think that you can read a lot into that. Um based on again talking to Felix and Dan um and I I I don't think they have an issue with me coming out with this because all their audience is French speaking and I handle kind of the the English speaking audience for this stuff. So, I'm just kind of I always want to credit where credit is due and it's important. Um Felix is reporting that the car that was abandoned that we've we've known about since the news started to break here, Faced Proof's vehicle which was found in Saint Eustache in a park uh wasn't left there by Faced Proof. That somebody else drove that car and abandoned it in Saint Eustache and that Faced Proof was last seen in Camp Kanestake. And you can read into that because that part of the Montreal area is always been uh controlled or at least the cannabis industry there has always been controlled by Marty Robaire's mother-in-law Sharon Simon the queenpin one of the most powerful crime lords in Quebec, definitely the most powerful female crime lord. The queen of cannabis. Uh so I think if we're to believe that, and I do, um it it clears some things up. We'd heard that he had he was last seen at the park. We had heard that he was last seen at the hotel. Now it appears he was last seen in Cancun estate. Um I also want to get into briefly stuff that I'm hearing regarding where this all stems from. And we're still heavily monitoring what's going on in the United States and in South Florida, and this very mysterious murder investigation tied to Hells Angels both in New York City and Montreal with a uh connection into Marty Robear's camp, as well as connections into La Cosa Nostra, the the mafia in the United States, groups in the Bronx and groups in South Philly. Uh this nightclub owner who might have had ties to the cartel end up ends up in the trunk of his car left at the airport less than 2 years ago, and at some point in late July that investigation caught fire. There were cooperators that have flipped, you know, guys that were allegedly involved in what what was going on down in in uh South Florida. At least one person I'm told is cooperating, and search warrants went out for DNA swabs on August 3rd, the same day that that Fest Ploof vanished. Now, we've broken down what we view as the most likely scenarios for this. And we kind of doubled down on our last pod that Fest Ploof is dead because of the arson fire at his house this past week, Tuesday night into Wednesday morning where two assailants, two masked assailants are caught on security footage throwing 10 Molotov cocktails into Fest Ploof's home. His son and his son's girlfriend were there. Luckily, they got out of there before they were hurt. But, this was uh some type of message. And we took it to mean that Fest Ploof was dead. Um some of what I'm getting from my sources, both guys on the street, guys connected to the Hells Angels, guys connected to Aryan Power, as well as law enforcement, it might not be that simple. I'm still, if I'm a betting man here, I'm still betting that Fest Ploof is dead, but I'm also hearing that he was possibly outed as a polecat. Fest Ploof was possibly outed as a cooperator at some point recently and that the allegations of him being a rat play directly into this. Now, does that mean that he's been killed? Does that mean he's being held somewhere uh against his will and that the the fire at his residence with his son in there was some type of leverage play uh saying that in unless you give us what you know, what you have or what you've done um we're going to we're going to kill your family. Uh or is it possible that Fess Pool has disappeared into some type of witness protection program, whether it be uh in Canada or in the United States? I don't know. I I talked to somebody that is very plugged in and he speculated that he's tied up in a basement somewhere right now. Um now that doesn't mean that he's going to be walking out of that basement alive but it was presented to me as if he's not dead, crow. I uh I don't know what to make of it but I I do know that I I trust some of the sourcing in terms of the the cooperation allegations that's coming from you know, really high quality places. Some of it has been confirmed by legacy media outlets. I'm not sure when they're going to go out with it but I know from talking to their uh reporters that that they're getting that as well. Um and you know, the Arab power thing it makes sense. I mean, I said on the last pod that the burning of the house and the disappearing act that Fess has done doesn't really fit with the way that Hells Angels carry out violence, you know, Hells Angels have really embraced, you know, since they're uh you know, since they've they've came on the scene, uh reckless violence. The the [snorts] kind of stuff that you see in the movies, cowboy stuff. We even bodies laid out in a parking lot, like you saw with with Tony McWhilkin last year uh in Ontario. Like you saw with Greg Woolley in 2023 in Montreal. Uh the the real you know, action movie inspired stuff that you saw with with Leo Rizzuto, the Sicilian Mafia Don who survived an assassination on on expressway. His rival, Chet D'Alfonso, who had been a member of the the Sicilian mob and then had been kicked out and joined forces with Marty Robert and the Hells Angels, was given the contract for Leo Rizzuto, [ __ ] up the contract, and then he's killed, laid out in a parking lot outside of a uh a gym on the West Island back in the summer of of '23, uh leaving a meeting with the Hells Angels. And Marty Robert in Fasteau. So, making people disappear doesn't really fit their MO, and attacking victims' houses and families doesn't really fit their MO. I speculated that there could be some cartel angle to this, but the Arab Power angle is kind of a cousin to the cartel angle in that as much as the Hells Angels give zero [ __ ] you know, Arab power has been fearless and unapologetic in everything they've done in the last year and a half. You know, the second that the Sicilian mob underboss Pete Biadomo gets locked up and he had been kind of the straw that stirs the drink on the street for everybody. The second he gets locked up, Arab power starts attacking Sicilian mob businesses. Shootings, firebombings. Then Leo Rizzuto and a lot of other uh administrators in the Rizzuto mob get locked up a couple months after Pete Biadomo does and the violence starts to erupt behind bars and Big Brother attackee's number two is underboss Salvatore Cazzola gets killed in prison. Beaten to death, stabbed to death uh in in in in prison just less than a month after Leo Rizzuto and his guys uh get uh incarcerated as they wait to go to trial later this year in Project Alliance, the biggest prosecution uh from the crown against the mafia in Canada in history. And Arab power is you know, they're the new order and they don't have any need or really respect for the old order. They come from the same schools, the the Blood Family Mafia and Nicolo Rizzuto where they're just like who cares that the Hells Angels or the the Rizzuto mob have had a a vice grip on this country or this province for 40 50 years. That's yesterday. This is today and we're taking our piece of the pie by any means necessary. Um Big Brother Attiki I'm told decided to turn against at least the Rizzuto mob because he felt that they left that the Rizzutos left him high and dry uh fighting his own murder case murdered a a Greek gangster. Um and that he he was expecting them to pay for legal expenses and take care of his family that never happened. And then, you know, he waited for just the right time kind of bided his time until the Rizzutos were at their weakest and then he springs on them. Uh you know, your your enemy's enemy is sometime your friend. A real power has real no you know, has no allegiances. They seem to be taking work wherever they can get it. Uh whether or not it's with people that they've been allied with in the past or not. You know, they they don't uh they don't seem to care. So, they've worked with the Hells Angels in the past. And now we have this Lebanese guy that was at the last meeting or one of the last meetings that Fest Flouf was seen at. We know that law enforcement had this Lebanese guy under some type of surveillance and has his phone now even though he's out of the country. Talking to some other people about how the arson was carried out. They These people that I'm that I'm talking to believe this this has Air Power written all over it and in regards to who did it, how it was done. Um I don't know if the people that did it knew that Fest Proulx had kind of a I don't know bulletproof glass or you know, something in his in in the front of his house that prevented you know, maximum damage here. But they speculated me the people that I'm talking about was that this this arson fire came from Air Power. Now, does it does Air Power carry out the murder or carry out the kidnapping? I don't know, but I don't think it's I don't think it's out of line to to do that to do that math. So, we could have a whole new angle on this and there's just there's so many you know, alliances and you know, it be it becomes such a cliche. I I keep on saying this, but it's true, you know, the guy that you're in the foxhole with on Monday could be on the opposite sides of the battle lines on Tuesday trying to kill you after you were with him 2 days before trying to kill your common enemy. I mean, these allegiances and alliances are shifting in real time very very fast and it's confusing and it's fluid and you got to have a you know, you got to keep a scorecard to quote a great movie The Town, you got to have a you know, a Venn diagram to keep all this straight. But I think it is likely now that Air Power played some role in what happened to Stefano Pirove, whether he's dead now, whether he's you know, been kidnapped and they're trying to get money out of him or get information out of him, or whether he's you know, he went on the run because of whatever he felt was going on in in his last couple meetings. And we know that he met with uh a Hells Angel that is a money guy and this Lebanese guy at the same time at this hotel that Fes was known to take meetings at. Um and we know based on my reporting that at some point that same day, he meets with the Canadian Hells Angel Godfather, the shadowy Walter Nugent Stadnick, who is like a uh a 1% samurai or ninja. You never know where this guy is going to show up. There's going to be no uh announcement of him going there. There's going to be no announcement of him leaving. He's going to get there quietly, do his business, and then disappear. And not disappear like being killed, like disappear back to his lair, back to the the the Nugent cave in Hamilton. Uh wow, this is uh this is just very very intense. We're getting information coming in to us you know, on almost minute-by-minute basis, and we're giving you what we hear after we vet it. So, that's the latest. Hope everybody sticks with us uh through our coverage of this. We've been wall-to-wall Montreal organized crime for the last week. Great interview that we have coming out with Peter Edwards of the Toronto Star giving us hint his insight to this. Check that out uh shortly. You should either have already consumed it or you'll be consuming it um after this video drops, this pod drops. And we'll be back with any and all information we get related to Fess Plouf's disappearance. This is uh This is hot stove, man. This the the the kitchen is getting steamy. And we're here to uh sort it all out for you and give you what we do here, which is the most uh you know, exclusive news and analysis that you're going to find. So, everyone, please like, share, and subscribe to Original Gangsters News Network and Podcast. Spread the word. We're here 365, 24/7 giving everybody their true crime fix. Nobody has as many moles as we do spread out across North America. 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