Michael Moy has a unique perspective on New York’s underworld. As a member of Chinatown’s Fuk Ching gang he was an integral part of it. When he decided to leave his life of crime behind him, he joined the New York City Police Department. Now, he take
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Gangs control three prisons in Mississippi housing over 7,000 inmates, according to a Department of Justice report released last month. It pointed out that the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, South Mississippi Correctional Institution, and
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Camporeale is a mediocre town in a landscape filled with the emptiness of broken dreams. It lies twenty-two miles to the south and west of the city of Palermo. On the island of Sicily, a place of endless despair on the edge of Italy, that makes you a
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Moroccan-Dutch crime boss Ridouan Taghi was sentenced to life in prison today in a court in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was found guilty of six murders, four attempted murders, and several murder plots. Taghi is viewed by the DEA as one of Europe’
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug. With the emphasis on “hell”. It makes drug cartels so much money that they can corrupt every layer of society. The prize is so big that the fight to win sows death and destruction everywhere. Most of us are familiar with
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The ‘Ndrangheta, Calabria’s Mafia, is Europe’s chief cocaine importer. It has managed to reach that top spot not just by having close contacts in South American drug cartels, but also many corrupt contacts at ports throughout Italy. On Tuesday, Itali
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U.S. authorities are turning up the heat on Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia. Last week, a fifth superseding indictment was filed in federal court in Brooklyn charging the 76-year-old narco kingpin with the manufacture and distribu
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Ever wondered what it’s like being a member of a gang? Not just any gang, but the Latin Kings, one of the biggest in the United States. Andy Pellerano was a soldier for the Almighty Latin King Nation and sat down with Business Insider.
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Someone once claimed Plug Shuman said, “Shoot ‘em twice in the back of the neck and they won’t wiggle.” The guy who killed him remembered and faithfully followed the dictum. To the bullet. Albert Shuman was thirty-four when he died and, according to
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Iran’s security apparatus has a very long reach using some of the underworld’s most shady figures to get rid of its enemies. On Monday, one Iranian national and two Canadian Hells Angels were charged with murder-for-hire as they targeted two Iranian
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A Juarez Cartel boss admitted his role in a drug plot last week. 41-year-old Carlos “El 80” Arturo Quintana, the leader of La Linea, which also has been called the New Juárez Drug Cartel, was extradited to the United States in August of 2022 and pled
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The job of a secretary is anything but frightening or adventurous. Making appointments, administrative duties, all while working from nine to five under a boss is usually monotonous and generally looked down upon. So imagine being a secretary for the
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“Europe ends at Naples and ends badly,” said French poet August Creuzé de Lesser in 1806. “Calabria, Sicily, and all the rest belong to Africa.”
Antonio Gramsci, in 1926, was even more forthright in his declaration: “Southerners are biologically inf
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In 1935, Charles Lucky Luciano was perched pretty on top of the criminal world. He was the godfather of the powerful Genovese crime family, headed the Commission that oversaw all mafia activities in the U.S. and had taken out fellow mobster, the unpr
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A member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang pleaded guilty to murder and racketeering charges last week. 49-year-old Brant Daniel, of Sacramento, was caught up in a long-running investigation into the California Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, and was sent
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The leader of a Colombian drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. 38-year-old Hugo Gomez-Garcia, a/k/a “Simon,” “Guava,” and “Guavita,” used semi-su
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The Mafia of Sicily has been at war for years with another Sicily-based criminal fraternity.
This is called La Stidda. The Star. According to two prominent pentiti (informers), the organization grew during the 1980s, its member, disgruntled or per
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Hartmut “Hans” Graewe, one of Cleveland’s most notorious Mafia hitmen, died behind bars on October 27, Cleveland.com reported last week. Graewe was 78. Before passing away in a federal prison in Texas, he was feared on the streets of Ohio. Nicknamed
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According to the official web page of the New York Police Department:
“There is no delineated time frame for cold cases.”
The killing of police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino on the evening of March 12, 1909, in the city of Palermo, Sicily, is per
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The FBI and police are currently looking for buried bodies at two horse farms in upstate New York, several news outlets report. The dig is in connection with a recent indictment of ten Gambino crime family mobsters.
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