No one is above the law. But some gangsters become so powerful that they begin to think they are. Mexico’s narco elite can’t be faulted for thinking that they are untouchable. They get away with mass murder regularly. Bribes and threats are enough to
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If you were told Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, a man responsible for countless murders and a known snitch, was placed in a prison’s general population, what would you say? Probably that he was a dead man walking, right? It is this aspect of
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Two Colombians pleaded guilty late last year to conspiring to distribute large quantities of cocaine for importation into the United States. The pair were caught up in a DEA sting operation aimed at drug traffickers linked to the terrorist group know
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911 is our lifeline. If things go bad and we, our loved ones or complete strangers need help, we call that number. But what if police were using that call to place you on top of their suspect list? A recent investigative piece on ProPublica discovere
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Six alleged members of the Black Guerilla Family were indicted for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise. They are charged with some heinous crimes, including murdering innocent women and one construction worker in cold blood
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Europol and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a joint analysis report on December 14 shedding light on the involvement of Mexican criminal actors in the European drug market. The report shows that Mexican cartels and Euro
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Spanish authorities together with Europol and Eurojust took down a criminal gang laundering dirty money linked to the Magnitsky case, a €219 million corruption case in Russia, Europol reported last week.
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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 convicted after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.
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The Sinaloa Cartel is flooding the United States like Walmart. With its infrastructure in place it seeks to push all sorts of narcotics onto the American user and do so from a location near them. The latest example of this corporate way of handling t
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Steven Mazzone, the underboss of the Philadelphia Mafia family, was sentenced on Thursday to 5 years behind bars for leading a racketeering conspiracy which engaged in illicit gambling, extortion, and loansharking.
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A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on December 8 that adds four counts of murder in aid of racketeering against five Aryan Brotherhood members alleging that four murders were committed in furtherance of criminal acts perpetrated b
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It took a while, 12 years to be precise, but the man they call the “Merchant of Death” walked out of a U.S. prison a free man despite having been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Notorious arms trafficker Victor Bout is currently back in Mosc
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A high-ranking leader and member of the Aryan Circle were sentenced this week for crimes they committed as part of their roles in the white supremacy prison gang. 40-year-old William “Big Head” Glenn Chunn, of Conroe, Texas, was sentenced on December
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In a move that will shock the global underworld, Italian Mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale has decided to become a witness for the government and testify about his crimes. Imperiale is seen as one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world and has clos
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VICE News dives deep into the secret world of the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful and mysterious mafia group, revealing how they revolutionized the global cocaine trade.
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An associate of the Texas Mexican Mafia was sentenced to 33 months in prison last week. 37-year-old Anthony “Tono” Mercado was guilty of narcotics trafficking on the streets of Laredo, Texas, and also tested positive for cocaine while on bond for the
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Fentanyl sent shockwaves through the drug underworld of the United States. A synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, fentanyl is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S
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In the name of God, let’s get high. Of course, things aren’t that simple. Though God’s laws apply, the laws of justice tend to overrule those set by God. Especially when you are just using religion as a way to bypass the justice system, like a crimin
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Ten members and associates of the Nuestra Familia prison gang pleaded guilty on Tuesday to drug trafficking offenses. Among them are leading figures who arranged narcotics transports from inside Fresno County’s Pleasant Valley State Prison.
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Fourteen members of the Young Gunnaz were charged today with committing various racketeering, narcotics, and firearms offenses. Among them 23-year-old Kashad “Shoca” Sampson, the gang’s leader, who is charged with participating in multiple assaults w
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