Glen Crossley, who was responsible for the death of Canadian Olympic hero Victor Davis in 1989 and more recently served time for a homicide in LaSalle, found himself behind bars again on Thursday after the RCMP in Montreal rounded up seven people on an extradition request from the United States.
Crossley, 56, appeared before Quebec Superior Court Justice Lyne Décarie Thursday afternoon through a video conference at the Montreal courthouse. A prosecutor in the case told the judge the seven people are wanted in the U.S. in a fraud case. She also said the RCMP made the arrests Thursday morning.
The other people named in the extradition request are Panagiota Fountotos, Cody Jodouin-King, Kyle Lesser, Evangelos Lohaitis, Mitchell Burna-Guarna and Luca Santalucia.
Crossley was held at RCMP headquarters in Westmount for the hearing. The judge agreed to set a date next week for a formality hearing in the bail stage of the case. All of the people sought on the warrant were ordered to remain detained.
The extradition request alleges Crossley and the six other people arrested on Thursday are part of a grandparent scam network. In 2025, the RCMP and Sûreté du Québec (SQ) arrested 23 people people as suspects in the same scam who are also wanted in the U.S. The request filed in court on Thursday states that the extradition requests made two years ago are still before Quebec Superior Court.
Crossley and the other people arrested Thursday “were identified following the execution of the U.S. federal warrants authorizing the electronic devices seized (back in 2025),” the request states.
SQ and U.S. investigate
An investigation in Vermont probed “a transnational fraud scheme in which participants in the scheme made phone calls to elderly victims in the United States posing as a family member who needed assistance in obtaining bail money due to a car accident or other legal issue.”
By February 2023, federal investigators in Vermont realized the calls to the elderly targets were coming from Quebec. Homeland Security investigators also learned the SQ was already investigating a scam that targeted people in New York. The Americans and the provincial police decided to team up.
According to the request, money that was collected in the U.S. was brought to Canada to a man who was among the people arrested in the Montreal area in 2025. As part of the investigation, SQ undercover agents brought money to the man while he was under surveillance. In some cases, it was sent to him through cryptocurrency transactions.
“Text messages between between (the alleged leader) and Crossley relate directly to the grandparent scam,” the extradition request alleges.
On April 23, 2024, the alleged leader in the scam was observed picking up Crossley at a building on Lakeshore Rd. overlooking the waterfront in Pointe-Claire. Crossley was driven to another building on Baie-de-Valois Ave. As the day continued, the SQ observed several other people alleged to be part of the ring as they arrived at the same building. It is alleged to have been used as a call centre.
Later on in the extradition request, investigators noted that while Crossley listed his address with government agencies as being in Kirkland, he actually appeared to be living in the apartment building in Pointe-Claire. The author of the request suggested he could be found at the address in Pointe-Claire when the arrest warrant was carried out.
At one point in the investigation, the alleged leader’s residence was searched by police and a notebook containing ledgers was found. The ledgers showed that “the gross proceeds from the grandparent scam during the time was more than $21 million U.S., of which $9 million (Canadian) was paid to call centre employees.”
The ledgers indicate Crossley was considered to be a “closer” for the ring, who went by the nickname Buju. He is alleged to have been paid more than $268,000.
An alleged “manager” of the call centres named Usman Khalid is alleged to have been paid more than $1 million.
Crossley’s criminal past
Crossley has a criminal record that includes the fatal hit-and-run in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue that claimed the life of Davis.
Davis, a member of Canada’s swim team, won a gold and two silver medals at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics as a member of the 4×100-metre medley relay team. Davis died of brain damage two days after Crossley struck him with his Honda Civic.
Crossley was convicted of failing to stop at the scene of an accident, and in 1992 he received a 10-month prison term along with one year of probation.
In a case that made headlines across Canada, Crossley admitted he drove away from the scene of the accident. But less than an hour after Davis was struck, Crossley turned himself into police and claimed that someone had thrown a bottle at his windshield while he was driving through Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. The judge who sentenced Crossley called his version of what happened an “unbelievable explanation.”
Several years later on Sept. 17, 2016, Crossley shoved 70-year-old Albert Arseneault during an argument in a bar in LaSalle. The push caused Arseneault to fall down a four-step stairway. He struck his head on the hard surface of the floor below and died in a hospital.
Crossley later said that Arseneault has accosted a young woman inside the bar and that when he shoved Arseneault, he was trying to separate him from her.
In that case, Crossley pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On Jan, 10, 2020, he was sentenced to a 15-month prison term.