Ten members and associates of New York’s Gambino crime family and the Sicilian Mafia were indicted in Brooklyn federal court this week. They are charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, and union-related crimes committed
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A green light seems like such a positive term. Unless it is issued by a member of the Mexican Mafia. When a person is green lit by them, it means certain death. Still, greed is a funny thing. Why not a bit of drugs and cash? How will the imprisoned
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The boss and two members of the Brooklyn-based Real Ryte gang pleaded guilty to racketeering charges stemming from Real Ryte’s gang war with the Breadgang crew of the 5-9 Brims, a subset of the Bloods, including a shooting in which Real Ryte members
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A member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips gang admitted to his role in a racketeering conspiracy. 22-year-old Tre Byrd, aka “Bands,” aka “G Bandz,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a superseding indictment that charged him with Racketeer Influenced and
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An Albanian drug dealer who supplied more than £1 million of cocaine in just four months was imprisoned last Friday. Investigators of Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) identified Xhuljan Shehu as a prolific drug dealer who used the encrypted comm
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“Loose lips sink ships.” It’s a line that can be found in many a Mafia social club as a reminder not to talk about, alleged, crimes. Why? Because that sort of talk gets you locked up. Something Crips gang boss Duane “Keffe D” Davis found out when he
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A former high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel entered a guilty plea last week to a conspiracy to import tons of cocaine into the United States. 43-year-old Jose Maria Guizar-Valencia, of Tulare, California, is considered one of the last number
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Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro passed away today. He was 61. The elusive Mafioso was viewed as the last man to know the people on both sides of the law involved in some of Italy’s most heinous and profitable crimes. He took those secrets t
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Two Kansas City, Mo., men who led 246, a violent street gang, were sentenced in federal court on Monday for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that included illegal firearms and a drive-by shooting outside a daycare center where children we
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A New York man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Boston to leading a sophisticated international money laundering organization that also distributed large quantities of cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy).
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The story of a successful narco kingpin always has the same arc. There is the rise and the inevitable fall. The fall comes in the form of death or prison. No amount of power, money, bloodshed or a combination of all three can stop that. Not even when
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A Colombian man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston this week for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy connected to organized crime in the Republic of Colombia. 41-year-old Mario Zapata Velez, of Medellín, was sentenced to five years i
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A senior Hoover Criminal Gang member was sentenced to federal prison on Monday for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. 39-year-old Eugene “Big Truth” Michael Brown was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and three years’ supervi
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was released from prison this week. She had been locked up since her 2021 arrest on drug and money laundering charges.
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Trevor Scott Sparks, a Kansas City, Missouri, federal defendant who escaped after trial and was recaptured, was sentenced in federal district court on Tuesday for his role in leading a $4.1 million heavily armed drug-trafficking conspiracy, and direc
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The life of an outlaw is one lived outside the rule of law. Those part of the one percenter biker world thrive on it. Unfortunately for them the rule of law isn’t something they can ignore. Whenever their actions cross that boundary, the law comes kn
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A West Yorkshire-based organized crime group that trafficked cocaine were sentenced Wednesday to a combined 49 years behind bars. Their prison terms follow a National Crime Agency investigation under Operation Venetic – the UK’s response to the taked
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A Boston man pleaded guilty Friday to his involvement in a sophisticated international money laundering and drug trafficking organization. 57-year-old Mariano Santana pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Angel
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A kingpin at the center of a narcotics trafficking plot on behalf of notorious gangs MS-13 and the Mexican Mafia received over 17 years in prison this week. 52-year-old Nelson "Mula" Alexander Flores was sentenced for trafficking large quantities of
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A Florida Bloods gang boss was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison on Monday. 36-year-old Antonio Eugene Brutton had pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl
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