Sacra Corona Unita, which translates as United Sacred Crown, is Italy’s fourth largest Mafia group and hails from Puglia region in the south of Italy. It was founded in 1981 as the Nuova Grande Camorra Pugliese by Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo, who ga
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Shopkeepers in the area around the Italian city of Foggia were treated to an explosive start of the new year. Eight bomb attacks have rocked their businesses. It is believed that the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth largest Mafia group, is behind t
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A local drug boss with ties to the infamous Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to 25 years in prison last week. 28-year-old Donte Holdbrook was one of 12 individuals charged by a Cincinnati federal grand jury in March 2018 in a narcotics and money launderi
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Three members and an associate of Florencia 13 (F13), a Los Angeles street gang, were charged Thursday with violating a federal racketeering statute for their roles in the robbery and fatal shooting earlier this week of Los Angeles Police Officer Fer
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Convicts get a bad rap, but when it comes to them having drugs or phones behind bars there is only one responsible party: the prison personnel. 43-year-old Anibal Navarro worked as a corrections officer at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, bu
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The world keeps changing. The underworld is no different. As citizens spend more and more time online, criminals follow. In this cyber world they sell drugs, commit fraud or connect hitmen to those seeking death on demand.
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A member of the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced Monday to over 15 years in prison for supervising the smuggling of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin from Mexico into the United States and the smuggling of money back the o
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On the last full day of his life -- October 6th, 1966 -- Eduardo Tirella flew into Newport, RI, the storied summer colony of America’s wealthiest families. Doris Duke, the third richest woman in the world picked him up at the airport and they drove t
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A Portland-area drug trafficker was hit with kidnapping and murder charges on Friday. 46-year-old Marcos Alonso Castillo-Bernal allegedly committed the crimes as part of his narcotics operation. The victim owed him and his group money.
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The beginning of 2022 ushered in many of the same old New Year’s resolutions. Some people want to exercise more, others want to meditate or do yoga. A lot of folks want to stop smoking. Then there are a select few who never stopped celebrating New Ye
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The Nigerian Mafia has been popping up in news reports around the world ever more frequently. Its members operating globally and in all sorts of criminal businesses – from cyber crime to prostitution and drug trafficking. One of the biggest Nigerian
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Never before did gory violence look so stylish and classy. Television series Peaky Blinders raised the bar with its depiction of a 1920s Birmingham street gang. Its characters and plot are steeped in realism and history, but what was real and what is
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Consider it a job well done. The U.S. Marshals Service arrested 84,247 fugitives (27,399 on federal and 56,848 on state and local warrants) in 2021. On average, the agency arrested 337 fugitives per day (based on 250 operational days), including 6,24
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Ending 2021 with a bang! Police in Italy discovered a shipment of three tons of pure cocaine hidden in a load of bananas, peanuts, and pepper coming from South America. The discovery was done in the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro, which is alleged to
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Formed in 1829, the London Metropolitan Police Service (universally known simply as The Met,) whose mantra has always been policing by consent rather than force, has known the horror of multiple police officers killed in the line of duty at the same
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One of the last remaining powerhouses of the Ohio underworld passed away last week. Cleveland crime family mobster Ronald “Ronnie the Crab” Carabbia died December 22, 2021, at age 92. He was one of the leading figures that ran the rackets in Youngsto
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Haiti has been hit by one crisis after the other. The country’s president was assassinated in early July by a team of mercenaries, while a massive earthquake rocked the already shocked citizens barely a month later. With a nation in turmoil, gangs ha
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Gang boss Steven “BI” Brown was sentenced to over 21 years in prison on Wednesday for participating in the August 2, 2009, murder of Derrick Moore in the Bronx. The 42-year-old had pleaded guilty and had already been handed a 9-year sentence for drug
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Dominican drug lord Cesar Emilio “El Abusador” Peralta-Adamez was extradited from Colombia to the United States last week to face drug trafficking charges filed in the District of Puerto Rico. He allegedly leads a transnational criminal organization
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A member of the Aryan Brotherhood, one of America’s most notorious prison gangs, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to methamphetamine trafficking. 44-year-old Jimmy Jack Pinkley isn’t the brightest criminal and law enforcement didn’t have a
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