Canadian Criminal Activity

The immigrant quotient in criminal activity within Canada is amazingly high profile, which leads the casual observer to the conclusion that it is also reflective of a high level of criminal propensity among the offspring of immigrants to Canada. The country is afflicted by the presence of gangs of youth of Chinese extraction, of Indian and of Somalian backgrounds. And most obviously, of Arab heritage.

One family appears to stand out for the number of young men all born into the same family who have made an outstanding contribution to crime in Canada. Thugs involved in the drug trade seem to proliferate everywhere, in every country of the world, reflective of a large underbelly of society that thrives in dealing proscribed street drugs, to service the needs of recreational drug users and drug addicts alike.

A current drug kingpin has been identified as 25-year-old Rabih Alkhalil, wanted on serious criminal charges in Vancouver, Montreal and Niagara Region. Vancouver Police have accorded this man the distinction of being responsible for having ordered assassinations of rivals in his very competitive business. Determined to take tighter control of cocaine import and distribution, he ordered the commission of well-planned and executed killings.

Rabih Alkhalil is in Europe, however. Arrested in Greece in February. Toronto Police are actively engaged in working toward his extradition on charges of first-degree murder. Accused in the murder of Toronto's underworld thug Johnnie Raposo, and British Columbia gangster Sandip Durhe. In Quebec police want him as the ringleader of a massive Montreal-based drug-smuggling operation.

But here's the thing about this man Rabih Alkhalil. Born in Saudi Arabia, his family removed to Surrey, B.C. as refugees in 1990. In 2001 his brother Khalil at 19 years of age was shot to death outside his family apartment block. Two years afterward, Mahmoud, another brother, was killed in a gunfight at a Vancouver nightclub.

The Alkhalil family obviously felt that life in Vancouver was far too dangerous for their family. The parents took their sorrowing dwindling family in a cross-country move to Ottawa. Where another brother, Nabil, soon after their arrival in the city was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on a conviction of assault. On his 2005 release police caught him smuggling cocaine from Toronto.

There are two other brothers of the Alkhalil family, still believed to be living in Canada.