A Nuestra Familia drug trafficker was sentenced on Monday to over 11 years in prison. 34-year-old Ernesto Zibray, of Delano, California, was charged as part of Operation Red Reaper, a multi-agency operation that resulted in three federal cases chargi
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Two alleged members of New York’s Genovese crime family were sentenced to prison last week. Both men - one a reputed Mafia captain, the other a soldier - had pleaded guilty to racketeering charges earlier this year after being charged in April 2022.
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Authorities in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands dismantled a network of drug traffickers composed mainly of Albanian nationals. Last week, during a joint action, 35 suspects were arrested and 51 places were searched in the countries involved.
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Authorities in Italy, Belgium and Germany joined forces with Eurojust and Europol in a new operation against the Calabrian Mafia, known as the ‘Ndrangheta, and its drug trafficking activities. Today, 31 suspects were arrested and assets worth over €3
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A Boston man responsible for leading a large drug trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday for drug conspiracy and gun charges. 50-year-old Mujab Mubarak, who goes by the nicknames “Big Homie,” “Easy,” and “E,” was received a 10 year prison te
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A man working for the Nuestra Familia prison gang was sentenced Tuesday to over 21 years behind bars. 41-year-old Florentino Gutierrez, of Hanford, California, was behind the trafficking of 2 kilograms of methamphetamine.
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Three men have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in a Cape Cod drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin throughout the Cape Cod and Pawtucket, R.I., regions. The men committed a violent kidnapping recorded on video and
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Police in Italy and Spain arrested 33 suspects yesterday morning in a coordinated action against a globally active money laundering criminal network. The alleged perpetrators, who are of Italian, Albanian, Colombian, Moroccan, and Syrian nationality,
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German and Belgian authorities took down an Albanian organized crime group involved in large-scale drugs trafficking and money laundering across Europe. On 25 May, over 300 officers, including special intervention and K9 teams, carried out a series
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A member of MS-13 in Maryland went off to prison last week. 26-year-old Franklyn Edgardo Sanchez, who goes by the nicknames “Freddy,” “Magic,” “Miclo,” and “Delinquente,” was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison on Friday, for his participation in
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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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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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One of the highest ranking members of the Fruit Town Brims gang in Florida was sentenced to 6 years in prison last week. 31-year-old Michael Hankerson received the sentence for possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. As part of his s
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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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A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a member of a violent Chicago street gang of participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included murder and attempted murder. The multi-district investigation previously resulted in the convictions of 20 o
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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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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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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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