over the wall" and there was blood everywhere as Croitoru had broken his nose, jaw and orbital bone. The Gravelle family were French-Canadians from northern Ontario, and Paul Gravelle in a 2005 interview stated when he moved to Hamilton, the only words in English he knew were: "Stick 'em up!" The Gravelle family were generally considered to be lesser players in the Hamilton crime scene, being only a fourth family behind the three main Mafia families in Hamilton, namely the Luppino, Musitano and Papalia families. Unlike the three Mafia families, the Gravelle family specialized in selling hashish. In 1992, the Gravelle brothers were arrested in connection with a shipment of 450 kilograms of hashish in Florida worth $14 million dollars, for which André Gravelle served four years in prison while Paul Gravelle served two years. After both Smiths were arrested at Toronto's Pearson Airport on February 11, 1998, with some $500,000 worth of hash in their bags while returning from Ocho Rios, they hired Lynn Gilbank as their lawyer. Gilbank felt that the Smiths were mere pawns and was outraged that members of the Gravelle family had been arrested many times, but had never done any serious prison time as they always shifted the blame onto their subordinates. Bill Smith stated that Lynn Gilbank had "a real hard-on for these people and she definitely was gonna step on some toes". Danny Gravelle was arrested with 314 kilograms of hashish in the tubing of his boat trailer while Denis Gravelle was arrested returning from Manitoulin island to Hamilton with some $20,000 worth of hashish. After Denis Gravelle was arrested, his lawyer approached Smith to tell him: "You're the one who ratted out Denis". Gilbank arranged for both Bill and Angie Smith to go into the witness protection later that day. At about 5:30 am on November 16, 1998, someone broke into Gilbank's home in Ancaster and executed her and her husband Fred with a shotgun. Murder accusations Croitoru's most famous encounter with the law occurred on January 6, 2005, when he was charged with the November 16, 1998, murders of Lynn and Fred Gilbank. The couple was shot execution-style with a shotgun. Police suspect that the murders were in response to Lynn Gilbank's assistance in getting William and Angie Smith into a witness protection program after William Smith gave the police information about the Gravelle crime family. Croitoru, who had several