Murder victim's boyfriend's dad has gangland connections

Detectives linking the brazen slayings of former gangland prince Angelo “Ang” Musitano and veterinary technician Mila Barbieri said the bubbly brunette was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But what they failed to mention was her 40-year-old boyfriend family has ties to organized crime.

Barberi was shot to death March 14 in her black BMW SUV. Her boyfriend was shot in the arm.

Their vehicle had been parked in front of Teknika Lighting, a company run by her beau, Saverio Serrano, and his brother.

The boyfriend’s father is Diego Serrano, 68, who pleaded guilty in January and was sentenced to four years, six months for two counts of drugs conspiracy and one possession of proceeds of crime.

Police sources told the Toronto Sun the 68-year-old former restaurant owner has long been connected to a ‘Ndrangheta cell in Vaughan.

Angelo Musitano – reportedly a born-again Christian who had turned his back on crime – was iced in the driveway of his Waterdown home last May.

On Tuesday, detectives from Hamilton and York Region said the murders were committed by the same hit team.

Published reports said underworld figures connected to Diego Serrano have been making inroads into the lucrative medical marijuana industry. 

One of Serrano’s associates was reportedly Tony “Tony Large” Sergi who was gunned down in the driveway of his Etobicoke home on March 31, 2017.

Sergi founded the Medical Cannabis Employees Union Local 1 in 2013 and announced his presidency with a media release, slick website and an office in Woodbridge, north of Toronto, Postmedia reported last summer.

It was a sham.

Underworld insiders now believe recent murders in the traditional organized crime milieu may be connected to a turf war over medical marijuana.