MAN SLAIN IN POINT WAS DRUG DEALER

Was Out On Parole After Prison Term For Trafficking Heroin

A 56-year-old man whose body was found in the parking lot of a company in
Point St. Charles was known to police for a history of drug trafficking.

Kamal Mina Ibrahim's body was discovered by a truck driver in the lot on
Bridge St. early Monday morning.

According to a Montreal police major crimes investigator, the killing
appears to be related to drug trafficking. The victim was shot.

No arrests have been made so far.

Ibrahim was out on parole and still living under the conditions of a
lengthy prison term he received in 1997 for attempting to smuggle more
than 600 grams of heroin into Canada from Damascus, Syria.

His plans were foiled in September 1994, after Montreal police arrested
two girls who were acting as drug mules at Mirabel Airport.

The girls were carrying nearly 200 grams of heroin. A New Brunswick man
who also acted as Ibrahim's drug mule was arrested at the airport later
the same month.

Ibrahim initially managed to escape arrest but was later tracked down in
Jordan and extradited to Canada, where a judge in St. Jerome sentenced him
to 15 years for drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic drugs.

The investigator said yesterday that evidence gathered so far suggests
Ibrahim had resumed his illicit activities in spite of being out on
parole.

Prior to his 1997 conviction, Ibrahim had also served sentences for three
different drug trafficking convictions in 1989 and 1993.