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One of the seven men who plotted to kill Mafioso Salvatore Montagna when he tried to take control of the Montreal Mafia has been ordered to reside at a halfway house out of concerns for his safety.

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Steven Fracas, 35, is scheduled to be released from a penitentiary in December when he reaches the two-thirds mark of the 39-month sentence he received on Sept. 12, 2017 after he pleaded guilty to taking part in the plot to kill Montagna in 2011. Fracas was part of group of men who worked under Raynald Desjardins while he also was trying to take control of the Montreal Mafia.

Desjardins and Montagna briefly worked together before having a falling out, and an attempt was made on Desjardins’s life in Laval in September 2011. He was already being investigated by the RCMP when someone tried to shoot him. As part of a drug trafficking investigation, the Mounties were already monitoring text messages that Desjardins, Fracas and several other men had been exchanging for months. After the failed hit on Desjardins, the subject of most of their exchanges switched to a plan to kill Montagna.