{"id":808620,"date":"2026-07-17T20:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808620\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:49:17","slug":"suspect-in-2022-st-michel-murder-arrested-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808620\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in 2022 St-Michel murder arrested in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal police say a man has been arrested in British Columbia in connection with a 2022 murder in Montreal\u2019s St-Michel neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Lee Van Smath Germain, 35, was arrested in the Vancouver area on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a charge of murder, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Germain is the third person arrested in connection with the May 2022 shooting death of a man in his 30s near the corner of Shelley Ave. and Cr\u00e9mazie Blvd. W.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Kela, 38, and Nicko B\u00e9lisle, 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/two-arrested-in-montreal-fatal-shooting-as-major-quebec-organized-crime-investigation-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">were arrested in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police say the arrest is part of a broader joint investigation with Quebec provincial police that is looking into multiple murders linked to organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Project Alliance, that investigation previously led to the arrest of several alleged Mafia leaders, including Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito.<\/p>\n<p>Project Alliance is believed to have been supported by testimony from Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Silva, a convicted hit man now serving multiple life sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police say a man has been arrested in British Columbia in connection with a 2022 murder in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-808620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}