3 Montreal men accused of running human-trafficking ring between western Canada, Quebec…….
February 13, 2025.
Alberta police have arrested three Montreal men who they allege ran a human-trafficking operation between the prairies and Quebec for more than a decade.
The case, dubbed Project Endgame by authorities, was opened in May 2023 after a 911 call about a sex worker being violently assaulted.
Over the course of their investigation, police say they learned of a human-trafficking ring operating in the Alberta communities of Edmonton, Calgary, Lloydminster, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray and Cold Lake, as well as Vancouver, B.C., and Estevan, Sask.
“The perpetrators allegedly controlled the victims through coercion by forcing them to perform multiple sex acts on multiple clients every day. If the victims questioned the traffickers or disputed the situation, they were often violently assaulted, degraded, and/or threatened with further loss, violence, and isolation,” the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) agency said in a Thursday press release.
Clyde Elien-Abbot, 31, Kevin Dorcelus-Cetoute, 31, and Jean Rodnil Dubois, 31, together face 23 charges, including human trafficking, sexual assault, procuring, and material benefit from sexual services.
Dorcelus-Cetoute and Dubois were also charged with assault and uttering thefts. They were arrested in Red Deer in July 2024.
Elien-Abbot was also charged with advertising sexual services, money laundering and animal cruelty. He wasn’t arrested until Jan. 31 in Edmonton.
ALERT said he was also charged in a 2021 human trafficking investigation, which is connected to that investigated in Project Endgame.
Only Elien-Abbot remains in custody.
All three are due in court in February and March.