A British drug boss who went on the run for 8 years over his role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot has been jailed for 12 years. 37-year-old Michael Paul Moogan, who was one of the UK’s most wanted men, fled in October 2013 after
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In the Mafia, people tend to have a long memory. Once you are on a hit list, you never get off. Unless you’re dead. After the murders of Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. and Nicolo Rizzuto Jr. and the death of mob boss Vito Rizzuto, it seems someone still feels th
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A convicted drug dealer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston to trafficking counterfeit oxycodone and Adderall pills that contained fentanyl and methamphetamine. 30-year-old Vando Gvozdarevic had pleaded guilty on July 7, 2022, to posse
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A Sureno gang member pled guilty Tuesday in federal court in Spokane, Washington to “assaulting a federal law enforcement officer with a gun”. 25-year-old Randy Coy James Holmes, who goes by the nickname “Whispers”, walked right into an undercover tr
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Since its beginnings, the Sicilian Mafia was led by and comprised of men. Cosa Nostra was the ultimate “Man’s World.” Men went out to commit crimes while wives sat at home. Sons followed in their fathers’ footsteps, while sisters stayed at home. As t
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If you are an inmate and want to flaunt your influence behind bars, what do you do? Well, one Mexican crime boss got himself a $2,000-dollar cat and tattooed it with a pirate flag and bald eagle, because… Well, Narcos Mexico, I guess.
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Twelve members of 18th Street gang were indicted on Friday and charged in a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act conspiracy that included kidnapping, murder, robbery, witness tampering, and drug trafficking. The crimes occurre
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Seven people were indicted last week in an investigation into a drug trafficking ring in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Three people were arrested in Arizona and four in Seattle. In addition, two people named in indictments in Pittsburgh were arrested in
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Three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit armed robberies and shootings in Hillsborough, Polk, Pasco, and Lee Counties while dressed as police officers. 22-year-old Reginald Roberts, 28-year-old Nathaniel Keith Carr, and 22-year-old Chrishawn
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The nephew of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was extradited from Mexico to the United States Wednesday on charges of participating in a large-scale narcotics distribution conspiracy and using one or more firearms in connection with narcotic o
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The FBI, the United States Attorney’s Office, the LAPD, the Hawthorne Police Department, and the Inglewood Police Department joined on Tuesday to announce an investigation and reward offer related to a series of armed robberies over the past year in
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One of the leaders of a violent international drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine in the Puget Sound region was sentenced Tuesday over 12 years in prison. 37-year-old Jose Elias Barbosa, of Kent, Washi
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A man who supplied firearms to organized crime groups across the United Kingdom was imprisoned yesterday for over 19 years after law enforcement cracked the encrypted communications platform EncroChat. 50-year-old Michael Derrane orchestrated, suppli
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The last of fifteen members of a large-scale methamphetamine distribution conspiracy based in Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced last week. The case revolved around members and associates of the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club.
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A leader of the Bounty Hunter Bloods (BHB) gang pleaded guilty on February 17 to federal drug and firearms charges for running a manufacturing and distribution of crack cocaine conspiracy in and around the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in
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A joint investigation led by the Spanish Guardia Civil resulted in the arrest of 20 suspected money launderers and drug traffickers and the seizure of over €5.5 million in criminal assets and over 2 tons of drugs. Based in the South of Spain, the cri
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A French-Israeli criminal gang involved in large-scale CEO fraud was busted last month, Europol reported. The group targeted companies located in France and made off with tens of millions.
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The United States brought us some of the greatest gangster series ever shown on television. From The Sopranos and The Wire to Breaking Bad and Narcos; American television has gotten audiences hooked on productions so addictive they should be illegal.
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Two brothers with ties to Cartel de Jalisco Nuevo Generación, one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, have been sentenced last week to a combined 70 years in federal prison for methamphetamine and money laundering offenses.
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A Mexican man involved in a Mexico‑based drug trafficking organization that was distributing significant amounts of methamphetamine in the Waterloo, Iowa, area was convicted by a jury on Thursday after a three‑day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapi
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