Suspect to face murder charge in death of daughter-in-law of late Montreal mob boss
By The Canadian Press on June 7, 2023.
MONTREAL – A man has been arrested for the brazen daytime shooting in Montreal of a 39-year-old woman with alleged ties to organized crime. The Crown prosecutor’s office says Joel Richard Clarke has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Claudia Iacono. Jean-Sébastien Caron of the Montreal police’s major crimes unit told reporters today that the 28-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in Milton, Ont., near Toronto, with the help of Ontario Provincial Police. Iacono has been identified as the daughter-in-law of the late Moreno Gallo, a reputed mob boss who was killed in Mexico in 2013. Police arrived at a parking lot outside the salon Iacono owned in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district on May 16 to find the 39-year-old woman in a vehicle that had collided with a building and was still running. The Crown prosecutor’s office says the case returns to court on July 13. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 7, 2023. 8-7
