Former UFC and ACA fighter Alex Garcia, actual title Lenin Billy Garcia Ciriaco and nicknamed ‘The Dominican Nightmare,’ was arrested together with two different males lately, after the authorities carried out a significant raid on December 8, 2025, and seized greater than 100 kgs of cocaine, which is value greater than $2.3 million, as per reviews.
The aforementioned operation was carried out by the Anti-Gang Unit of the Organized Crime Part. A number of Montreal boroughs, together with LaSalle, Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Lachine, and Ville-Marie, amongst others, had been scanned as per police statements. The investigation stays ongoing.
Right here’s what we find out about Alex Garcia’s arrest
The authorities arrested Victor Julio Sanchez Medrano (45), Michele Laddaga (49), and Lenin Billy Garcia Ciriaco (38). Apart from enormous quantities of cocaine, the crime department additionally seized different proof essential on this investigation. Three firearms, $306,000 CAD in money, two automobiles, 20 liters of GHB, and 5 kgs of heroin had been additionally seized.
As per media reports, the suppliers in Toronto had been sending medicine to Montreal, after which the unlawful substances had been bought at larger costs.
The police have mentioned this in a press launch assertion:
“Launched in July 2025, this felony investigation revealed that the Toronto space was getting used as a provide supply and that the medicine had been then being resold at a better value in Larger Montreal.”
Alex Garcia and Victor Julio Sanchez Medrano have been charged with trafficking and receiving funds from the drug commerce. Michele Laddaga has been charged with extra severe expenses, together with trafficking and possession of narcotics.
The 2 accomplices who’re on the run, Rattana Sem (40) and Veronique Plouffe (37), haven’t but been detained. Nonetheless, their arrest warrants have been issued, and police have introduced rewards for many who can present data that may result in their arrests.
Garcia, who has a UFC document of 5-5, was launched from the promotion on September 20, 2019. His last UFC bout was in 2018 vs. Court docket McGee, which ‘The Dominican Nightmare’ misplaced by unanimous choice.
After his UFC launch, Alex Garcia fought beneath the ACA banner twice and was knocked out each instances. After a 4-fight shedding skid, he retired in 2020 with a 15-8 document.
