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The Montreal police say they have dealt a blow to organized crime in Montreal by breaking up a cocaine trafficking ring that supplied drugs to the Montreal Mafia and biker gangs.

In a statement issued on Monday, the police force provided some of the details of an operation carried out last week that produced the arrests of 11 people, including a Laval businessman, and the seizure of 42 firearms and four crossbows. Thirty-five kilograms of cocaine were also seized as the result of the investigation carried out by the Montreal police organized crime division.

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According to the statement, police also seized accounting records that indicated the network was able to move 180 kilograms over the course of 90 days.

“(The investigation) allowed us to demonstrate that members of the network acted as suppliers of drugs to the (Montreal) Mafia and outlaw motorcycle gangs,” the Montreal police alleged.