A former haulage firm owner in England who was imprisoned for moving drugs and dirty cash across Europe has been ordered to pay back £630,000. 42-year-old Thomas Maher was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison in December 2020.
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Four men who conspired to supply drugs from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom and Ireland have been convicted following an investigation by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The “kingpin” of this operation was 49-year-old Anthony Terry, from
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A Philadelphia hitman was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences this week in connection with his role in murdering four victims in Philadelphia between 2017 and 2018, all in exchange for money. 43-year-old Ernest Pressley's was also convicted
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Four Northern Virginia MS-13 gang members were sentenced on Wednesday to prison sentences of 10 and 20 years for drug distribution, racketeering, and their roles in two attempted murders in Prince William County in 2019.
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The United States has seen its fair share of foreign crime groups making it big before disappearing into society. From the Irish to the Jews and Italians to the Chinese and Mexicans: each group rose and left its mark. Europe is currently undergoing t
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Drug traffickers have to be creative. Always one step ahead of the cops. They have to think outside the box in order to get their boxes filled with narcotics across borders. Authorities in Colombia discovered cocaine inside blood transfusion bags. Th
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The final of four defendants has been sentenced to federal prison for his part in a multi-state drug trafficking scheme. 40-year-old Charles House, of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last week after a federal jury found
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How does a mob boss become an international renowned boxing magnate? In The Business of Crime, VICE World News looks at different parts of the criminal economy, separating fact from myth. In this episode, we explore how the feared Kinahan cartel beca
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The Calabrian Mafia was dealt a big blow this week. 132 individuals linked to the ‘Ndrangheta were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday in Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Romania, Brazil and Panama. Multiple locations
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A drug trafficker operating in Portland, Oregon, was sentenced on Wednesday for his role in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of a Washington State man. 48-year-old Marcos Alonso Castillo-Bernal received a prison sentence of 26 years.
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Two men pleaded guilty on Monday to felony charges in connection with their roles in an open-air drug market in Southeast Washington DC. Douglas Campbell, of District Heights, Maryland, and his brother Delonte Campbell, of Southeast Washington D.C.,
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One of Italy’s most wanted and dangerous criminals was arrested on Thursday morning. 49-year-old Pasquale Bonavota was caught as he exited a cathedral in the port city of Genoa, in the north of Italy. He became a wanted man in 2018 when he went on th
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Two British crime bosses who conspired to buy and supply drugs and guns on the encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been imprisoned. Raj Singh, 45, and Waqas Iqbal, 41, plotted multi-kilo consignments of cocaine and heroin between March a
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A British pilot and career criminal was imprisoned on Friday alongside two other men in connection with a plot to fly four Albanian illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom. As the pilot was arrested he joked: “I normally get arrested for drugs, so
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A man from Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston for conspiring to distribute cocaine. 61-year-old Miguel Colindres got a sentence of over 4 years in prison.
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British authorities dismantled a network of criminal cash couriers that laundered over £100 million by smuggling it out of the United Kingdom (UK) to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The investigation was led by the National Crime Agency (NCA
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Four members of an organized crime group that ran an industrial scale amphetamine lab in Scotland, and trafficked heroin and cocaine, have been sentenced yesterday. A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation dismantled the crew which was based in Me
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The U.S. Justice Department has come at the Sinaloa Cartel hard. In “a clear message to the Chapitos”, authorities charged the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman with trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics, money laundering, and
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Raymond Betts, a high-level member of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last Friday for conspiracy to distribute wholesale quantities of heroin on the West Side of Chicago. 56-year-old Betts, who holds the rank
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The Spanish National Police (Policia National) and the Swedish National Police (Polisen), supported by Europol, dismantled a criminal network transporting drugs via trucks between Spain and Sweden. Swedish authorities initiated the investigation into
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