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The murder of Mauricio Castro, a major Canadian drug trafficker, was a "shared business" venture by key members of a criminal organization, jurors heard today.
"Castro's murder was not personal," prosecutor Steve Sherriff told jurors today in his closing address in a Brampton courtroom.
"Castro had to go for business reasons..."
Jaime Restrepo, 34, a Mississauga man with ties to Colombia and Costa Rica, Michael Allen, 36, of Mississauga and London and Zacky Deleon, 34, of Barrie have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Castro, who was shot inside his Ford Escape on July 26, 2005 at Mississauga's Square One shopping centre.es
"We say we have the mastermind (Restrepo), the killer (Allen) and the go-between (Deleon)," Sherriff said. "These men had a shared reason to commit the murder..."
Justice Ron Thomas has told the jury they must decide whether the accused men are guilty or not on an individual basis.
To do that, Sherriff said they're each responsible for different roles in the planned murder of Castro, which was a "joint venture" driven by "greed" as they were "taking care of business."
Four days after Castro was slain, his father Humberto, 71, a judge, was also murdered near his home in Periera, Colombia, a contract killing Sherriff said was also orchestrated by Restrepo.
It's the Crown's case that Allen used either a .357 calibre or a .38 calibre handgun, both revolvers, to pump four bullets into Castro outside of the mall's Burger King.
Sherriff and co-prosecutor Mike Morris allege that Restrepo paid Allen two kilos of cocaine worth between $50,000 to $60,000 to murder his cousin and that the drugs were delivered by Deleon, who was also well aware of the murder plots and had a financial interest in seeing Castro dead.
It's the Crown's case that Restrepo ordered the murder to avoid paying Castro a $1 million debt, his share of having $2.4 million seized by U.S. Customs at the Detroit/Windsor border on Aug. 18, 2004.
With Castro and his father dead, Restrepo's crew, which also included his younger brother Jorge, 31, of Mississauga and a Toronto man Jorge Acosta, 31 — both of whom testified as Crown witnesses — would take over their lucrative Colombian cocaine importing operation.
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