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The charges against Nerva (Lion) Lovinski, 49, come long after three other people were sentenced for 2018 deaths.
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The former leader of a street gang that ran a teen prostitution ring in Quebec City years ago was charged Friday with two counts of manslaughter for his alleged role in a double homicide in St-Léonard.
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The charges against Nerva (Lion) Lovinski, 49, come long after three other people were sentenced for what happened inside an apartment on Jean Talon St. E. on Dec. 24, 2018.
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He appeared Friday before Quebec Court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos at the Montreal courthouse where he was charged with manslaughter in the deaths of Davis Arbour, 38, and Marc Hilary Dasilma 41.
Dasilma was part of a small group of people who tried to rob Arbour, a drug dealer, inside his apartment after someone learned he kept drugs and cash inside his home.
A woman named Kim Savard Pichette, 31, accompanied the men who wanted to rob Arbour. She knocked on his door and and was probably the only person Arbour saw when he checked to see who was standing outside his apartment.
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Once the door was opened, Dasilma and at least two other men stormed inside. Arbour and Dasilma were killed by the same shot that was fired during a struggle that ensued.
Lovinski was also charged on Friday with armed robbery and with breaking into Arbour’s apartment. He will remain detained for a bail hearing on Monday, and Galiatsatos ordered that he not communicate with Savard Pichette and the other people who have been convicted in the case.
Lovinski, a resident of Montreal, came to notoriety in 2002 after he and several members of the Wolf Pack street gang were arrested as suspects in a teen prostitution ring that operated in Quebec City. The case caused a scandal in the provincial capital because a few celebrities, including a well-known radio host, were charged with paying to have sex with minors controlled by Lovinski’s gang.
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On Sept. 10, 2004, Lovinski was sentenced to a 72-month prison term after he pleaded guilty to 16 charges, including procuring, sexual exploitation and uttering threats.
During Lovinski’s first court appearance in the manslaughter case on Friday, Galiatsatos expressed concern that Lovinski might cross paths with the two men currently serving time for their roles in what happened in St-Léonard in 2018. But the judge was informed both are incarcerated at federal penitentiaries while Lovinski is detained at a jail.
In November 2021, Gabriel Jasmin, 37, pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and one of armed robbery. He was sentenced to a 16-year prison term.
Fodil Abderhamane Lakehal, 25, underwent a trial before a jury and was found guilty on Oct. 16, 2021, of two counts of manslaughter. On March 8, 2022, he was sentenced to a seven-year prison term.
Savard Pichette pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and was sentenced on April 2, 2020, to a prison term of two years less a day.
pcherry@postmedia.com
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