Vincenzo DeMaria

Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeMaria (born 1954) is an Italian-Canadian mob boss and businessman originally from Calabria, Italy now based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. DeMaria was named in a 2010 Italian police report as one of the top GTA leaders in the 'Ndrangheta's Siderno Group. He also has a seat on the Camera di Controllo.

DeMaria was born in Calabria, Italy in 1954.

In 1982, DeMaria was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Vincenzo Figliomeni, a man who owed him a $2,000 debt, behind a fruit market in Little Italy in 1981. At his trial, he said he had acted in self-defence, but evidence showed his victim was shot seven times in the back. For the murder, DeMaria served time in Millhaven maximum-security prison in Kingston and a medium-security prison in Joyceville. In the 1980s, DeMaria had filed a lawsuit after he was transferred back to a maximum-security prison based on a suspicion he smuggled cyanide into prison. When he faced no discipline or charge, and no cyanide was ever found, he took the warden to court and won a transfer back to medium-security. On another occasion in 1987, DeMaria was transferred to Millhaven from Joyceville after calling the office of then-Toronto MP John Nunziata about the prison conditions. He again took the prison to court and forced a reversal of his transfer and a judicial rebuke against the warden.

In 1992, DeMaria was released on lifetime parole.

In the 2000 murder of Gaetano "Guy" Panepinto in Toronto, allegedly executed by Salvatore Calautti, DeMaria was described in a 2009 police intelligence report as an "accomplice in the 2000 murder of Gaetano Panepinto."

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