Branding is important. Even when you have a product as successful – and addictive - as cocaine. Though the stuff practically sells itself to everyone - from junkies and sports fans to Wall Street Gordon Gecko wannabes and vegan yoga instructors - it
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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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Members of the Bandidos and Waterdogs motorcycle clubs were involved in a deadly shootout in Red River, New Mexico, at the annual Memorial Day motorbike rally on Saturday. Three bikers were killed, five were wounded.
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A Pope County, Arkansas, drug dealer with connections to the New Aryan Empire prison gang was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. 55-year-old Marcus Millsap, of Little Rock, was convicted of conspiracy to violate racketeering laws, attempted mu
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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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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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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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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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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 member of the Solano County Hells Angels was sentenced on Tuesday to 3 years on gun charges. 30-year-old Michael Mahoney, of Fairfield, California, possessed a firearm with an obliterated or altered serial number and possessing an unregistered shor
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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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