build a bomb. Juretta was a former soldier in the Canadian Army and was accustomed to handling explosives. Croitoru and Juretta then drove to Sudbury to hand over the bomb to Dubé and vice president Brian Davies of the Sudbury chapter in a Tim Horton's coffee shop where Highway 69 and Notre Dame Avenue intersected in South Sudbury. They changed their minds and decided to bomb the local police station instead. The bombing on December 15, 1996, caused $133,000 in damages to the Sudbury, Ontario, police station and a nearby bank and injured a police officer. Croitoru seemed surprised that Dubé had decided to bomb the police station instead, shouting on his phone (which unknown to him had been tapped by the police): "What do you mean the police station? It was supposed to be the Solid Gold!" Croitoru, Dubé, and Juretta were arrested and charged, but the trial did not begin until almost two years later. Kenneth Murdock, a hitman, has claimed he was hired by the Musitano brothers to kill Croitoru but instead chose to spare his life. Murdock was given a list of four men to kill by his employers, Pasquale "Fat Pat" Musitano and his younger brother Angelo "Ang" Musitano. Murdock was to kill Johnny "the Enforcer" Papalia, the boss of the Papalia Mafia family; Carmen Barillaro, the right-hand man to Papalia; Mario Parente, the president of the Outlaws' Hamilton chapter, and finally Croitoru. The Musitano brothers wanted Croitoru killed because of his connections with the Hells Angels as they feared that he might allow the Angels to establish more influence in Hamilton at their expense. At the time, the Hells Angels had no chapters in Ontario, through their national president Walter Stadnick lived in Hamilton. Additionally, Croitoru had started to work for the rival Luppino family, which "Fat Pat" Musitano regarded as a betrayal. Murdock assassinated Papalia on May 31, 1997, and on killed Barillaro on July 23, 1997. On August 20, 1997, Murdock knocked on the door of Croitoru's house to tell him: "John, I've been sent here to kill you. But I'm not going to do it". Croitoru was left speechless for a moment before thanking Murdock. Shortly afterwards, Murdock was arrested on unrelated charges of extortion for the Musitano family, and while in police custody, the detectives played audio tapes of the Musitano brothers mocking and laughing at him, which inspired him