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One of Britain’s most wanted drug traffickers caught in Dubai
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2021-05-11T08:55:42.000Z
2021-05-11T08:55:42.000Z
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<p>Police in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates last month arrested a British man wanted in the United Kingdom for his alleged role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot. 35-year-old Michael Paul Moogan, from Croxteth, Liverpool, was a fugitive for 8 years.</p>
<p>He was featured as part of the Operation Captura most wanted fugitives campaign, was apprehended on 21 April as a result of joint working between <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Dubai" target="_blank">Dubai</a> Police and the National Crime Agency (NCA). For operational reasons details could only be revealed now.</p>
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<p>Moogan was using numerous false identities to avoid capture. Dubai Police believe that after entering the UAE using a different identity, he tried to avoid CCTV in an attempt to elude detectives. Utilizing the latest capabilities, including the Criminal Data Analysis Centre, they were able to track him down.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Cocaine café</span></strong></p>
<p>He had been on the run since a raid that took place at a café in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Rotterdam" target="_blank">Rotterdam</a>, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>, suspected of being used as a front for meetings between drug traffickers and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">cartels</a>, and central to a plot to bring hundreds of kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> into the United Kingdom every week.</p>
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<p>Working with the Dutch National Crime Squad, the NCA became aware of information that linked Moogan and two other British men to the Café de Ketel – a business not open to the public that could only be entered via a security system. NCA officers suspected that Moogan and his associates were involved in plans to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">Latin America</a> to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">Europe</a>.</p>
<p>At the time of the raid, only one of the men, 71-year-old Robert Hamilton, from Manchester, could be found. He was jailed for 8 years in 2014 after pleading guilty to drug charges.</p>
<p>The other man, 57-year-old <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fugitive-liverpool-drug-boss-robert-gerrard-turns-himself-in" target="_blank">Robert Gerard</a>, from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a>, handed himself in to the NCA after 3 years on the run claiming the pressure was too much. He pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and was jailed in 2017 for 14 years.</p>
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Drug dealer who impersonated MMA champion Conor McGregor jailed
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2021-04-26T10:00:00.000Z
2021-04-26T10:00:00.000Z
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<p>Some guys just don’t get it. When you’re involved in crime it is best to keep a low profile. It is a bad idea to impersonate the most famous Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion on the planet and hand out business cards with his name on them while dealing drugs. Yet, here we are.</p>
<p>As you can see by looking at his mugshot, Mark Nye does resemble an ageing <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=McGregor" target="_blank">Conor McGregor</a>, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UFC" target="_blank">UFC</a> champion who made hundreds of millions in both <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=MMA" target="_blank">MMA</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Boxing" target="_blank">boxing</a>. But the 34-year-old look-a-like from Surrey, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a>, upped the ante when he handed his drug clients business cards with the name “McGregor Enterprise” written on the front and “Best drops in Surrey” on the back.</p>
<p>You won’t see Nye doing his impersonation on the road anytime soon. He’s been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for drug trafficking.</p>
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The Pablo Escobar of Great Britain’s cocaine trade
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2021-04-17T06:16:10.000Z
2021-04-17T06:16:10.000Z
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<p>This is an excerpt from Ron Chepesiuk’s forthcoming book, The Real Mr. Big: How A Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom’s Most notorious Cocaine Kingpin. The book will be launched April 20, 2021. Jesus Ruiz Henao, the Real Mr. Big, was the UK’s first billion pound cocaine kingpin. He is described by MI6, British intelligence, as “the Pablo Escobar of the UK’s cocaine trade.” </p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>THE RAID</strong></span></p>
<p>November 27, 2003, 91 Herndon Way, London, United Kingdom</p>
<p>JESUS RUIZ HENAO: “I knew they would come for me, but I did not think it would be at 4 o’clock in the morning in front of my wife and kids. I had another restless night. I awoke, naked, and had made my way to the bathroom. I could hear the movement in the street down below, doors opening and closing, men getting out of the vehicles, mumbles that sounded like orders. I looked through the window, and my heart pounded. It was a police raid.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159061,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159061?profile=original" /></a>“I hurried to my desk in the bedroom and grabbed a piece of paper with my most important phone numbers. I barely had time to swallow the paper before the police barged through the front door and fanned out through the house, shouting, “Police, police!” Two of the officers, guns drawn, dashed up the stairs and were at the bedroom door.</p>
<p>“Christ, look at this,” one of them, the tall police officer, said as he peered into the bathroom and gawked at my naked form. The second officer flashed his warrant card and introduced himself. He asked: “Are you Jesus Ruiz Henao?” I nodded, “Yes”. He then said: “You are under arrest for conspiracy to supply a controlled drug, namely cocaine, and conspiracy to launder the proceeds of money laundering. I advise you that anything you say from this point could be used against you in a court of law.” I was stunned and did not reply.</p>
<p>“They gave me some clothes from the bedroom, and I got dressed. I could hear my wife, Maria, and children, Stephanie and Anthony, crying. I wanted to comfort them, but the tall officer advised me to let them be. For some reason, he asked if I spoke English. I said, “Yes.” Then I was asked if I could read and write English and again I replied, “Yes.” </p>
<p>“Back downstairs, they put handcuffs on me and sat me down on the sofa. My wife was brought into the living room, shivering. With a look of despair, she mumbled, “What is going on, Jesus?” I tried to reassure her, but I could tell she didn’t believe me. I was pissed. They had arrested me in front of my family. They didn’t have to do it in my house. They had plenty of chances to do it in the street. They had been following me for months.</p>
<p>“I watched as one of the officers took video footage of each room. Computer equipment, mobile phones and a digital satellite receiver were put carefully in plastic bags and carted away. A policeman grabbed a hundred year old bottle of Scotch I had stored in the liquor cabinet for special occasions, opened it and took a swallow. He looked at me and licked his lips. The arrogant bastard smiled.</p>
<p>“Finally, I was told to stand, and I was escorted to an unmarked police car. I watched as my wife was put in another car. I was told I was going to Charring Cross Police Station where I would be interviewed.</p>
<p> “We drove through the streets in silence, watching the Londoners hustle off to work. I thought about my own “work,” which I had pursued in earnest, becoming what MI5 would later describe as the United Kingdom’s first billion pound cocaine dealer. I had been so careful for ten years, hiding my identity, making sure of the people with whom I dealt.</p>
<p>“Even now I was smug in my belief that I would never be caught. I was out of the drug trade. What could they possibly do to me? </p>
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Drug trafficker who used messaging apps to arrange drug parcels gets 11 years in prison
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2021-03-10T06:18:25.000Z
2021-03-10T06:18:25.000Z
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<p>A man who went on the run after he became wanted for his part in a drug smuggling ring was sentenced to 11 years in prison. 42-year-old Ajah Onuchukwu and his associates became a target of Britain’s National Crime Agency in 2013 when cocaine was found in a parcel that had been sent from St Martens in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Caribbean" target="_blank">Caribbean</a> to an address in North London, England.</p>
<p>NCA investigators were able to link Onuchukwu and his group to at least 77 drug parcels that had been intercepted by Border Force, across 14 different addresses, between June 2008 and August 2014.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Drugs via Skype, WhatsApp, iMessage</strong></span></p>
<p>They organized the transport of at least 4.8 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and 210 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">cannabis</a> over the time they were operating – worth an estimated £1.8 million if sold on the streets of the United Kingdom. The group utilized messaging services such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger, iMessage and WhatsApp to communicate with drug distributors in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Africa" target="_blank">Africa</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Asia" target="_blank">Asia</a> and South America, advising them where to send the parcels.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: From the Caribbean to Dubai and Europe:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-the-caribbean-to-dubai-and-europe-profile-of-international-d" target="_blank"><strong>Profile of international drug boss Shurendy “Tyson” Quant</strong></a></li>
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<p>After his initial arrest Onuchukwu fled the United Kingdom in 2015 while on bail and was listed as wanted by the NCA. He was captured on a European Arrest Warrant in the Netherlands in 2018 and extradited to Britain a year later. He appeared before Isleworth Crown Court in December [2020] where he was found guilty of three charges relating to attempting to import both Class A and B drugs.</p>
<p>He was sentenced at the same court on Friday, March 5, 2021.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Boss and others</strong></span></p>
<p>Two other men were convicted in 2015 for their part in the conspiracy. 39-year-old Patrick Udensi was believed to be the leader of the group and was sentenced to 14 years for conspiracy to import class A and B drugs.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-untouchables-how-britain-s-top-gangsters-rich-off-armed-robbe" target="_blank">The Untouchables</a>: How Britain’s top gangsters got rich off armed robberies and smuggling tons of drugs</strong></li>
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<p>47-year-old John Arinze Nwosu was found guilty of importing class B drugs but absconded before trial. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in his absence and remains wanted by the NCA.</p>
<p>“The seizures we identified probably only cover a fraction of what this group managed to bring into the country,” Ian Truby, from the NCA’s Heathrow border investigation team, said. “Organized crime groups have been known to exploit infrastructure like the post and fast parcel system to bring illicit commodities into the UK, and cause further exploitation and harm to communities."</p>
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A Death in London
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2020-12-05T14:20:03.000Z
2020-12-05T14:20:03.000Z
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<p>This is a story of gangs of London, or at least one of them, the ruthless murder of a truly innocent man, and the irony of coincidence on a scale that is almost impossible to believe: A man shoots a man dead in broad daylight in the West-End of Britain’s biggest city. Another man walks by the scene a few minutes later, sees the victim being attended to and carries on. A few months later, this man will kill the killer. Legally.</p>
<p>In 1947 England, hanging was the ultimate corporal punishment. Murder is illegal. Citizens cannot kill each other. The State, however, retains the right to kill its citizens. The executioner maintains social order.</p>
<p>This is their story.</p>
<p>I am not Jack Webb but I want the facts. These are they, perhaps. After over seventy years, it’s still difficult to pin down even some basics.</p>
<p>The victim is Alec de (De) Antiquis. His name spelled in various ways and his age varies from 26 to 31 or 34 according to the source used. He was in fact born in 1911 in London, to an Italian father and English mother, surname Spense. (1)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237162101,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237162101?profile=original" /></a>There seems to be no image of him in the public domain, other than the famous photograph taken by press agency photographer, Geoffrey Harrison, which shows only a crumpled figure lying in a gutter being attended to by two men crouching by his side.</p>
<p>Married to Gladys Irene Collins, three years younger than her husband, they have six children. He has a small repair shop called L & A Motors in the High Street, in Colliers Wood, South London catering to local motor-bike and car owners. He’s up to his neck in debt and struggling to make things work. A good man, doing his best in hard times.</p>
<p>He is shot dead a little after 2:30 pm on the afternoon of Friday, April 29.</p>
<p>The man who walks past the scene is Albert Pierrepoint, the official hangman for the British government on his way to meet some friends in a nearby pub. Before he left England to go to Germany and execute convicted war criminals. The most prolific hangman ever in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a>, he dispatched 430 men and women over his twenty-five-year career.</p>
<p>Or was he actually already in the place, The Fitzroy Tavern, down the street already, and watched the whole thing from a bar stool?</p>
<p>Except the public bar is a hundred yards south of the corner where all the action was taking place.</p>
<p>He may have seen three men running past the pub as they fled the crime scene.</p>
<p>Someone once said how outstanding the human capacity was for self-delusion. Or is it the law of unintended consequence in action?</p>
<p>The one thing we know for sure is that in five months, less ten days, Albert will execute two men in a double hanging for the crime committed in this part of North Soho, known as Fitzrovia.</p>
<p>The brutal killing traumatized the capital and the country and for many people, its random, almost off-hand cold-blooded ferocity seemed to personify the ever-growing crime wave that threatened post-war <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>. The gangs were murdering anyone who got in their way. Of course, it wasn’t quite that bad. Then again, maybe it was. By 1947, over 10,000 men between fourteen and twenty had been convicted as members of criminal gangs.</p>
<p>In a metro area of over 7 million people, there were twenty-five <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robberies</a> involving guns in the first four months of 1947. (Hansard. London. May 8, 1947 (2)). The gangs of London would grow and expand as the city slowly returned to normal following the end of the Second World War in 1945.</p>
<p>The Billy Hill mob, the Krays and Richardsons and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/british-boss-terry-adams" target="_blank">Adams</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-london-crime-boss-bekir-the-duke-arif" target="_blank">Arifs</a>, thieving and extorting, murdering each other and those around them. Along with the scrawny packs of illiterate tearaways like the one prowling the streets of North Soho on a gray, spring day long before <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-boys-from-bethnal-green-how-the-infamous-kray-twins-ruled-the" target="_blank">Ronnie and Reggie Kray</a> and their peers would come to haunt the streets.</p>
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<p>It began that afternoon, just after two, when three men attempted to rob Jay’s the Jewelers near the corner of Charlotte Street and Tottenham Street. A second-hand precious metal dealer and pawnbroker. It looked an easy nut to crack but turned out anything but.</p>
<p>They stopped their stolen black 14 Vauxhall car in front of the shop, adjusted their hats and face masks, and checked their guns. One carried a.455 English Bulldog revolver, and another a.320 revolver. Hand guns were easy to buy from dodgy dealers in London’s West End, especially in Ham Yard, off Great Windmill street, a veritable kasbah for the up-coming criminal on the prowl for a piece. The third, the driver, dropped his gun in the street after their abortive raid. He was also the youngest. A mere seventeen-year-old. As events would proceed, his youth was everything he had going for him on this day.</p>
<p>The men who stormed into the small, grubby-looking building were:</p>
<p>Charles Henry Jenkins, 23 years old, a lighter-man (small barge operator) from Bermondsey,</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237162664,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237162664?profile=original" /></a><em>Photo: Charles Jenkins</em></p>
<p>Christopher James Geraghty, 20, a laborer from Finsbury</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163280,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163280?profile=original" /></a> <em>Photo: Christopher Geraghty</em></p>
<p>and the youngest, 17 year-old Terence John Rolt, a warehouse man, also from Bermondsey.</p>
<p>Jenkins and Geraghty both had previous form and had served time either in prison or Borstal (young offenders detention.) (3)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163289,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163289?profile=original" /></a>Shouting and brandishing their guns, one of the gang went to grab a tray of rings and was blocked by one of the staff, who he slashed with his pistol. The owner, 70-year-old Betram Keats, slammed the safe shut and another staff member threw a stool at the gunmen, as one of them fired a wild shot. Keats then set off the shop alarm. People started to gather at the street corner and the robbers decided retreat was the only option. Now farce turns to tragedy.</p>
<p>Scrambling into their car, they discover it is blocked by a truck that had arrived and parked in front of the Vauxhall. Unable to flee the scene, they abandon the vehicle and head east on foot, down Tottenham Street. Two of them try to hi-jack a taxi, and even though one is armed, the driver, Albert Grub, dislodges them. George Grimshaw, a surveyor is passing the store and tries to intervene. Luckily for him, he only gets punched and kicked to the ground as the thugs scuttle away.</p>
<p>Racing down the street in their direction is a man riding a big, red, Indian motor-bike. He wears a leather jerking, goggles and gauntlets. A knight riding in to rescue. He’s finished his jobs for the day and is heading home.</p>
<p>As he reaches the corner of Charlotte Street, he slides his bike into the men, trying to slow or stop them. One of the thieves, shoots him once at point-blank range, tumbling the rider into the gutter, dropped like a bundle of laundry on its way to the cleaners, as the thieves scramble off towards Whitfield Street, before heading towards a building at 191 Tottenham Court Road a few hundred yards away.</p>
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<p>For some reason, one of the men will leave something here. For the police, it will break the case.</p>
<p>Back outside Jay’s the Jewelers the crowds gather and soon the police arrive and the area is swarming with Bobbies in their blue uniforms and custodian helmets. (4)</p>
<p>People rush to help the man sprawled in the gutter. It’s claimed he died of a gun-shot wound to the head. To the chest. He died in the street. Two hours later in Middlesex General Hospital, only minutes from the scene of the shooting, in the ambulance on the way.</p>
<p>The facts and truth are getting confused so often in this story. People seem hungry to consume lies. Perhaps innuendo and gossip have been triggered by so many years of tight war-time censorship. The autopsy on di Antiquis, performed by the famous pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, did in fact confirm that Alec had been shot in the head, the bullet falling out as the doctor probed the wound.</p>
<p>The Bulldog revolver is later found, along with the murder weapon on the mud flats of the River Thames by schoolboys fossicking for river treasures.</p>
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<p>Firearm expert, Robert Churchill, the country's foremost authority in investigation and courtroom testimony, proves the.32 revolver is the gun used by the shooter.</p>
<p>The police interview twenty-seven witness. Take statements. No one actually saw a face, so we have, long raincoats, flat caps, scarves around faces. Variable heights and weights. No forensics, no prints, no nothing. Leading the investigation is Superintendent Robert Fabian, who will become a legend in his lifetime, his career and exploits triggering a famous movie and long-running police television show.</p>
<p>Brook House becomes the catalyst for the investigation. The office block a few minutes from the crime scene is the key to unlocking the mystery of the de Antquis murder. Just why two of the suspects stopped here is hard to know. Without police or court records, none of which are on-line, it’s a mystery.</p>
<p>Solving this case hinged on the information supplied by a cab driver, who had been carrying a fare along Tottenham Court Road moments after the murder when a man jumped on the running board, wearing what looked like a bandage round his jaw. The man was pushed off by the driver and vanished into an office block called Brook House. This incident may have somehow morphed from the one reported just after the shooting in Charlotte Street. Someone once said truth evolves over time. Multiple sources often present the same incident in different way.</p>
<p>Three days passed before this news came to the police, and when they searched the building, they found the key to the getaway car, a raincoat and other outer clothing, plus a scarf which had obviously been used as a mask. As it turned out, there was a numbered maker’s ticket, 7800, sewn in the raincoat, which led to a manufacturer in Leeds and then to Montague Burton Limited, a retail outlet in Bermondsey, South London, which recorded the sale to a George Vernon.</p>
<p>Whoever bought the raincoat needed wartime clothing coupons, as rationing was still in force in England. The buyer’s name hit the spot with Fabian, because he knew of someone called George Vernon, a known-criminal, who had a young and violent relative, recently released from Borstal. The cousin was Charles Henry Jenkins and Vernon said he had purchased the coat and loaned it to Jenkins, who had been released a week before the raid on Jay’s.</p>
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<p>Jenkins wasn’t picked out at an identity parade held on May 10 at Tottenham Court Road police station, and had to be released, but his loose tongue generated remarks about the raincoat before the police had even mentioned it. He claimed he had himself loaned it to a man called William Henry Walsh, who’d been involved in a previous robbery with Jenkins and his accomplices, another jeweler, in Bayswater, about two miles to the west of Charlotte Street.</p>
<p>Walsh admitted the earlier offense but had no intention of going down for murder and he named the other members of the gang: they were Christopher James Geraghty and Terence Peter Rolt. (5)</p>
<p>Geraghty under questioning admitted shooting de Antquis, claiming he had not meant to kill him, only frighten him. And then it was all over.</p>
<p>On May 19, the three men were remanded for trial at the Central Criminal Court, better known as the Old Bailey, which began on July 21 and lasted a week. After less than an hour, the jury found all men guilty of the murder of Alec di Antiquis and sentenced them to death under the law. Rolt is too young, so is to be held in His Majesty’s Pleasure, a quaint euphemism for time in the nick. He served nine years before his release in 1956.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163492,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163492?profile=original" /></a>The circle turns full wheel when the two other men end their day standing side by side in the execution wing of Pentonville Prison in North London. Friday, 19 September, Albert Pierrepoint (right), executioner extraordinaire, leads them from their cells at nine in the morning, and with the help of two assistants, Harry Allen and Harry Critchell, has them dead within minutes. His fastest solo hanging on record was seven seconds.</p>
<p>Britain’s hangman’s second job was running a tavern in Preston, in the north of England, which had a sign behind the bar declaring, “No hanging around.”</p>
<p>The tragic story of Alec de Antiquis is now lost in the pages of history. Although there was great public protest at the hanging of his killers, the true victim in this story was an ordinary man who decided to do an extraordinary thing and sacrificed his life in the process.</p>
<p>George Orwell, the famous author saw developing in England a new casual approach to murder, victim meeting killer purely by chance, with no depth of feeling in it. It was in post-war Britain becoming the norm, rather than the exception.</p>
<p>In our modern world of gratuitous, self-entitlement, it’s hard to conceive there once were people, like Alec, who performed acts of immense courage without hesitation in order to help strangers in peril. His family would live out a lifetime without his love and support that would be sorely needed in the long years that stretched ahead.</p>
<p>The gangs of London would keep growing like a huge, noxious weed. The National Crime Agency (the British government-controlled agency, that leads the UK’s fight to cut serious and organized crime, protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK,) estimates there are in excess of 200 criminal cartels in the greater London area. </p>
<p><em>(1) Ancestry.com</em></p>
<p><em>(2) Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth Countries.</em></p>
<p><em>(3) In an almost implausible prequel to this senseless killing of an innocent victim, in December, 1944, Captain Ralph Binney of the Royal Navy, attempted to stop a similar robbery taking place in Birchin Lane in the City of London and was killed for his efforts. The passenger in the stolen getaway car was Thomas Jenkins, brother of Charles. He was serving time in prison for this crime (eight years penal servitude) when Alec de Antiques died for his efforts. It was also suspected, but never proved, that Charles Jenkins was also in the car that night. This group and the killers of de Antiquis, may well have been part of the same Bermondsey mob, known as “The Elephant Boys.”</em></p>
<p><em>One of the complex, interlocking gangs of London, the “Boys” had historical links to the other forty or so criminal groups across the city, many of which emerged as early as the Victorian period of 1850-1900.</em></p>
<p><em>(4) London and eventually all British police became known as “Bobbies” after Sir Robert Peel who headed the London Metropolitan police when they formed in 1829.</em></p>
<p><em>(5) Some accounts claim a similar story line but refer to a Thomas Kemp who was a brother-in-law to the Jenkins brothers. He was not a known criminal.</em></p>
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British drug boss once involved in 100KG heroin plot goes on lam after new charges
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2020-10-22T14:28:43.000Z
2020-10-22T14:28:43.000Z
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<p>The prospect of years behind bars isn’t a nice one. Especially when one just got out of prison. So when Khaliq Ur Rehman, dubbed a “career drug trafficker” by British police, faced new charges after just serving 7 years, he decided to go on the lam. He now is a wanted man.</p>
<p>47-year-old Khaliq Ur Rehman (photo above) was jailed for 16 years in September 2011 over a conspiracy to import and supply more than 100 kilograms of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Turkey" target="_blank">Turkey</a> to sell in the United Kingdom. He was released on probation in 2018 after serving half his sentence.</p>
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<p>As part of the conditions for his early release, Rehman had to notify law enforcement of details around his communication devices, his vehicles and his money. National Crime Agency officers discovered Rehman did not disclose all his mobile phone numbers and email addresses, raising suspicions he is still involved in serious and organized crime.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Long history of crime</strong></span></p>
<p>Investigators arrested him on 17 September 2020 on suspicion of breaching the conditions of his release, and he has not been seen since he was set free. Rehman has a long history of crime. He was convicted for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug dealing</a> in 2002 and jailed for 12 years. He also has trouble complying with the rules while under supervision. He was previously caught in possession of a mobile phone in prison.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Career criminal”</strong></span></p>
<p>“Khaliq Ur Rehman is a career criminal who we believe is still involved in serious and organized crime,” Mick Pope, Operations Manager at the NCA, said. “We need your help to recall him to prison. If you know of Rehman’s whereabouts or have any information that can help us find him, don’t hesitate to pick up the phone to report your suspicions. Anyone helping Rehman or frustrating law enforcement efforts to locate him could find themselves being arrested.”</p>
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The Milkman always delivers - Profile of British drug boss Brian Wright
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2020-04-27T08:42:06.000Z
2020-04-27T08:42:06.000Z
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<p><br /> By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a><br /> <br /> Brian "The Milkman" Wright is one of Britain’s biggest drugs barons. His organization smuggled hundreds of millions of pounds (£) worth of cocaine into Britain. Wright was known as a heavy gambler. He would bet £50.000 or £100.000 a time on horse races. But it is said he had fixed some of those races. When former amateur champion jockey Dermot Browne was interviewed by police he said that Wright put corrupt jockeys on his payroll with bribes of up to £5000 per race. Twenty-four leading jockeys have been accused of being associated with Wright. However Wright was never charged with anything.<br /> <br /> The horse races kept the attention away from Wright’s true business: cocaine smuggling. Authorities claim Wright’s organization smuggled £300 million worth of cocaine between 1996 and 1998 alone. Wright got his nickname because of his "job" as a drugsmuggler. They called him "The Milkman" because he always delivered. Wright owned an expensive villa in Spain and rented a £20.000 a month flat in the luxury Chelsea Harbour complex in West London.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9236984894,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9236984894?profile=original" /></a><br /> In September of 1996 a boat, a 60ft converted fishing trawler, was caught in a storm, abandoned its course to Britain and was forced to dock in Ireland. Customs officers in Cork searched the ship and found 599 kilos of cocaine, worth £80 million, welded inside a disused goods lift. They also discovered a parachute, leading them to believe that the drugs had been dropped to the ship from a plane. The boat’s skipper, an American named John Ewart, was arrested and later convicted of drug running and sentenced to 17 years. The rest of the crew was acquitted. But mobile phone records and items found on the boat made it clear to authorities that Wright was the man behind the shipment.<br /> <br /> After the discovery of the drugshipment by John Ewart British authorities started operation Extend, aimed at eliminating Brian Wright’s organization. They set up a surveillance operation from information gathered from that they saw who were Brian Wright’s most trusted allies. They were his son Brian, Kevin Hanley (from Fulham, London) and Ronnie Soares (a university educated Brazilian). Soares was the link between Wright and the Colombian cocaine bosses.<br /> <br /> In 1998 authorities closed the net and arrested 15 gang members among them Brian Wright Jr. Wright Jr was sentenced to 16 years for importing cocaine. But Brian Wright Sr fled to Northern Cyprus, which does not have an extradition treaty with Britain. In 2003 Wright returned to Spain. On March 15, 2005 Wright was recognized and arrested by Spanish police. He was extradited to Britain to stand trial. He denied the allegations against him. After a two month trial Wright was convicted of conspiracy to evade prohibition on importing a controlled drug and conspiracy to supply drugs. On April 3, 2007 Brian Brendan Wright (60) was sentenced to 30 years in prison.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE APRIL 2020:</strong></p>
<p>On April 14, 2020, halfway through his sentence, now 73-year-old Wright was released and reunited with his children.</p>
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From a Spanish strip club straight to jail – Fugitive British drug boss arrested after 6 years on the run
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2020-03-04T09:55:53.000Z
2020-03-04T09:55:53.000Z
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<p>The alleged leader of a Merseyside <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> trafficking group that expected to bank more than £1 million pounds sterling every month has been arrested in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> after more than six years on the run. 29-year-old Dominic McInally (photo above) was arrested when officers from the Spanish National Police raided the Casa Masa strip club, near <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marbella" target="_blank">Marbella</a>, in the early hours of February 28.</p>
<p>McInally was a subject of Operation Captura, which targets fugitives from British justice suspected to be hiding out among the British national community in parts of Spain. Jointly run by the National Crime Agency, Crimestoppers, and British and Spanish authorities, Operation Captura has now resulted in 85 subjects being apprehended since 2006. Just ten remain at large.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237137464,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237137464?profile=original" /></a>Following his arrest, McInally was taken to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Madrid" target="_blank">Madrid</a>, where extradition proceedings will begin. He has been wanted by Merseyside Police since January 2014, when officers intercepted a car in Crosby and recovered 6 kilograms of cocaine in a hidden compartment. Five members of the group allegedly led by McInally were later sentenced to a total of 48 years in prison.</p>
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<p>“The arrest of McInally in Spain is another fine example of forces and agencies working together across borders to apprehend a suspected serious and organized criminal,” Assistant Chief Constable Ian Critchley from Merseyside Police said. “We await the extradition proceedings and in finally seeing McInally put before the courts.”</p>
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Albanians sentenced on charges they plotted to traffic £500K of cocaine
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2020-02-12T12:09:34.000Z
2020-02-12T12:09:34.000Z
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<p>Three <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanian</a> men were sentenced to prison on Monday over a plot to supply high purity <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> worth £506,000 and having false identity documents. 26-year-old Endri Cena (above, left) and 29-year-old Denis Markeci (above, right) both admitted possession with intent to supply coke and possessing false identity documents after being caught in December last year.</p>
<p>They were jailed for seven years and five years eight months respectively. A third man, 25-year-old Dorian Zili, faced one charge of possessing false identity documents and was sentenced to six months.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Resisting arrest</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237137862,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237137862?profile=original" /></a>NCA officers moved in to arrest the three men – all illegal immigrants with no fixed address - on 6 December as Zili (right) left a property in Britton Gardens, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bristol" target="_blank">Bristol</a>, where the other two men were. Markeci also left the property to get in a VW Golf, and as he was arrested, he tried to escape and caused a violent scuffle with officers. A package of cocaine was found in the Golf.</p>
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<p>Cena, who was carrying a rucksack with four packages of cocaine inside, tried to escape from the Britton Gardens property through a ground-floor back window. As he was caught he also violently tried to escape but was restrained by officers.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>6 kilos of cocaine</strong></span></p>
<p>The property was searched and false identity documents were found including four Italian and two Romanian identity cards, and illicit bank cards. Around £6,300 in cash was recovered and the flat appeared to be used as a drugs warehouse, containing wrapping, latex gloves and scales showing trace amounts of the cutting agent benzocaine.</p>
<p>In total, officers found 6.3kg of cocaine with a street value of £506,000.</p>
<p>Upon completion of their sentences the men will be deported.</p>
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Britain’s biggest ever drugs pipeline busted by National Crime Agency – Billions worth’ of drugs smuggled
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2019-10-10T20:30:00.000Z
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<p>Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) calls it “an industrial-scale operation – the biggest ever uncovered in the United Kingdom” involving the importation of over 50 tons of drugs worth billions of pounds from the Netherlands into the UK.</p>
<p>Thirteen men, aged between 24 and 59, were apprehended during dawn raids on Tuesday, in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manchester" target="_blank">Manchester</a>, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Leeds" target="_blank">Leeds</a>. They are believed to be part of the British arm of a well-established organized crime group that used Dutch and British front companies to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">cannabis</a> – secreted within lorry loads of vegetables and juice – through United Kingdom ports over an 18-month period.</p>
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<p>Four men and two women from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">the Netherlands</a> were also arrested in April by the Dutch National Police on European Arrest Warrants. They are currently awaiting extradition to the Britain.</p>
<p>“We suspect these men were involved in an industrial-scale operation – the biggest ever uncovered in the UK – bringing in tons of deadly drugs that were distributed to crime groups throughout the country,” Jayne Lloyd, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NCA" target="_blank">NCA</a> Regional Head of Investigations, said. “By working closely with partners here and overseas, in particular the Dutch National Police, we believe we have dismantled a well-established drug supply route.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Start of investigation</strong></span></p>
<p>The full extent of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a> operation the NCA allege these men were involved in was uncovered following the interception of three consignments in September 2018. They contained 351 kilos of cocaine, 92 kilos of heroin, 250 kilos of cannabis and 1,850 kilos of hemp/hashish, with a total street value of more than £38 million.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237125889,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237125889?profile=original" /></a>Subsequent enquiries led officers to believe they had imported drugs on numerous occasions between February 2017 and October 2018. This investigation linked to an NCA operation, where 13 individuals were jailed for a total of 176 years, after the seizure of more than 100kg of heroin in 2015.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-of-british-drug-boss-robert-the-voice-dawes-he-was-prepar" target="_blank"><strong>British drug boss Robert “The Voice” Dawes</strong></a></li>
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<p>Europol, Eurojust, Police of Finland National Bureau of Investigation, Border Force, HMRC and numerous police forces have also supported the NCA with the investigation.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The accused</strong></span></p>
<p>The following men have been remanded to custody: Paul Green (DoB 26/03/65), of Eccleston, St Helens; Sohail Quereshi (DoB 08/07/60), Wood Crescent, White City, London; Mohammed Ovais (DoB 18/01/78), of Bournlee Avenue, Burnage, Manchester; Khaleed Vazeer (DoB 09/11/62), of Westwood Avenue, Timperley, Manchester; Steven Martin (DoB 12/04/71), of Chorley Old Road, Bolton; Mark Peers (DoB 07/02/64), of Norbeck Close, Warrington; Oliver Penter (DoB 01/07/82), of Gladstone Street, Stockport.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237127056,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237127056?profile=original" /></a>Andrew Reilly (DoB 24/11/81) of Grange Park Road, St Helens; Paul Ruane (DoB 25/01/65), of Bewsey Rd, Warrington; Ghazanfar Mahmood (DoB 03/12/70), of Green Lane, Bolton; Ifthikar Hussain (DoB 26/08/73) of Upland Grove, Leeds, West Yorkshire; Vojtech Dano (DoB 23/09/81), of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire; and Ivan Turtak (DoB 30/08/85), of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, have been released on bail.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/london-based-albanian-cocaine-gang-sent-to-prison" target="_blank"><strong>London-based Albanian cocaine gang sent to prison</strong></a></li>
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<p>All are due to appear at Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square, on November 7, 2019.</p>
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Profile of British drug boss Robert “The Voice” Dawes - “He was prepared to use extreme levels of violence”
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2018-12-23T10:41:24.000Z
2018-12-23T10:41:24.000Z
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<p>British crime boss Robert Dawes is one of Europe’s biggest drug traffickers. His influence reaches beyond the borders of the United Kingdom and into dozens of countries where he has the power to make men rich and end lives with one call.</p>
<p>Born in 1972 in Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, it was clear from the start that Dawes was no Robin Hood. He grew up in a family notorious for its disregard of the law and quickly found his niche trafficking narcotics.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237119284,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237119284?profile=original" /></a>Kingpin in over 60 countries</strong></span></p>
<p>As he made connections, he became known under various nicknames such as “The Derby Man”, “The Voice” and “Franky”. He traveled far and wide to set up <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug</a> pipelines around the world, establishing contacts in mainland Europe, South America, the Middle East, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Russia" target="_blank">Russia</a>, and Asia. One prosecutor claimed Dawes was involved in around 60 countries.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>From Nottingham to Dubai and the Costa del Crime</strong></span></p>
<p>Narcotics moved one way, cash another with Dawes at the center of it all. By 2001 he had become too big and international for the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>. He left the British isle and made luxurious homes in the flamboyant city of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Dubai" target="_blank">Dubai</a> in the United Arab Emirates and on the Costa del Sol – more commonly referred to as the Costa del Crime – in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> while his associates held down the shop in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Nottingham" target="_blank">Nottingham</a>.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangster-turned-cage-fighter-lee-murray" target="_blank"><strong>British Gangster-turned-Cage Fighter Lee Murray</strong></a></li>
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<p>From his villas and mansions in the sun he directed his criminal empire and all the bloody violence that came with it. One particular case perfectly illustrates not only Dawes’ far and deadly reach but his stone-cold manner of doing business.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237119657,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237119657?profile=original" /></a><em>Photo: Dawes' mansion in Spain</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Killing a teacher in the Netherlands</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>, Dawes worked closely with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a> crime boss Gwenette Martha. The pair was involved in the production of ecstasy pills, among other things. On November 24, 2002, Martha and several other men got in a car in Amsterdam and made the long journey north to the Dutch city of Groningen. They were accompanied by a second car with two Englishmen inside.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Their destination was the house of Gerard Meesters, a 52-year-old teacher. The Englishmen rang his doorbell and handed the perplexed man a piece of paper with a Spanish telephone number on it. They told him to call that number and give the person on the other end of the line the location of his sister Jeanet. If he didn’t phone the number, the men said, they’d come back. “And not to have a talk,” one adds.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/smirking-and-laughing-as-his-victims-died-violent-deaths-profile" target="_blank"><strong>Irish mob hitman “Fat Freddie” Thompson</strong></a></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Unbeknownst to Gerard Meesters, his sister Jeanet got herself in deep trouble with Dawes’ organization. She and a friend allegedly stole a shipment of 1000 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Hashish" target="_blank">hashish</a> in Spain of which Dawes owned a portion.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Meesters had no idea where his sister was and when he called the number he quickly hung up after the man on the other end of the line refused to say his name. The move sealed his fate. The Englishmen returned four days later. Again they rang the doorbell. When Meesters opened his door, he was shot eight times and died on the scene.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Daniel Sowerby is eventually convicted of this murder and sentenced to life in prison. His accomplice who drove the car received an 8-year sentence. Prosecutors point to Dawes as the man who ordered the killing.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Amsterdam crime leader Martha was convicted of making threats against Meesters, but escaped further punishment. He died in a hail of bullets when he was killed in a gangland execution in 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Nothing personal, just business</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Though Dawes has been linked to other murders, including two more in the Netherlands, this one illustrates how serious he takes his criminal activities. Like the <em>sicarios</em> in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mexico" target="_blank">Mexico</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Colombia" target="_blank">Colombia</a>, he does not care if he kills innocent relatives. You mess with his business, you die.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangster-pets-animal-tales-from-the-american-mafia-to-pablo-escob" target="_blank"><strong>Pablo Escobar and his personal zoo</strong></a></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Using bribes, intimidation, violence and murder to run his narco empire, Dawes moves tons of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> across the globe. Perhaps he feels his modus operandi protects him from prosecution. But by now he has become too big to ignore.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237119468,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237119468?profile=original" /></a>Intercepting calls and coke</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In 2013, police in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands and South America set their targets on him. French authorities seize 1300 kilos of cocaine at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in September. The drugs were packaged in 31 suitcases on a flight from Caracas, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Venezuela" target="_blank">Venezuela</a>, to Paris.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) had intelligence about the shipment when it tracked members of Dawes’ organization who had traveled to Venezuela to organize the shipment with the De Los Soles Cartel, which translates as Cartel of the Suns. Working with the French Police Nationale and Spanish Guardia Civil they began collecting evidence against the elusive drug baron.</p>
<ul style="text-align:left;">
<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-real-narcos-profile-of-miguel-angel-felix-gallardo-mexico-s-e" target="_blank">The Real Narcos</a>: Profile of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Mexico’s “El Padrino” of drug lords</strong></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">On wiretaps, Dawes was heard bragging about his involvement in the Paris drug shipment and his ability to move large amounts of narcotics to a member of a Colombian drugs cartel during a meeting in a hotel in the Spanish city of Madrid.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In November of 2015 investigators had enough proof to link Dawes to drug crimes. An elite team of armed police, accompanied by officers from the NCA and French police, raided Dawes’ mansion in Benalmadena in Spain and arrested him. Guns, cash and encrypted mobile phones were seized from the mansion.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Following the cocaine bust in Paris in 2013 the NCA worked with the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and Nottinghamshire Police to target members of Dawes’ group active in the United Kingdom. Around 80 people of Dawes’ organization were arrested.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Prepared to use extreme levels of violence”</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dawes himself was on an airplane to Paris, France to stand trial. After two weeks, the verdict was out: guilty. On December 21, 2018, he was convicted of involvement in the plot to smuggle over a ton of cocaine from Venezuela to France. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">“Dawes was one of the most significant organized criminals in Europe with a network that literally spanned the globe,” National Crime Agency deputy director Matt Horne stated in a press release. “He had connections in South America, the Middle East, Asia and across Europe, which enabled him to orchestrate the movements of huge amounts of drugs and money. This was often facilitated by the utilization of corrupt law enforcement, port workers and government officials.”</p>
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<li><strong>READ: “For him, I am a god” – Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/for-him-i-am-a-god-profile-of-russian-mafia-boss-and-vor-v-zakone" target="_blank"><strong>Russian Mafia boss, and vor v zakone, Razhden Shulaya</strong></a></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Horne continued: “Dawes was prepared to use extreme levels of violence in order to further his reputation and take retribution against those who crossed him. Members or associates of his criminal group are known to have been involved in intimidation, shootings and murders. Finally bringing him to justice has been an international effort and we have worked closely with partners in France and Spain as part of this investigation.”</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Still, some justice remains to be served. The murder of hard-working teacher Gerard Meesters has only resulted in the conviction of the shooter and his accomplice. The man who ordered the death sentence has not faced Dutch courts yet. That is why prosecutors in the Netherlands are currently building a case against Dawes.</p>
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“Good jobs, boys!” fugitive Liverpool gangster tells cops when they arrest him
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2018-10-03T12:30:00.000Z
2018-10-03T12:30:00.000Z
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<p>Dark humor. What else can you do when you’re facing over three decades behind bars? That’s what fugitive Liverpool gangster Shaun Walmsley must’ve thought when cops slapped handcuffs on him after he spent 18 months on the run after breaking out of prison with the help of some of his machine gun-wielding friends.</p>
<p>“Good jobs, boys” 29-year-old Walmsley told the arresting officers after they tasered him and dragged him out of the car he was in. Necessary violence for a very violent man. A man who was kicking and screaming the entire time as agents tried to subdue him, as a video posted by British tabloid <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/733747/shaun-walmsley-hmp-liverpool-escape-capture-machine-guns" target="_blank">The Daily Star</a> shows. </p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fugitive-liverpool-drug-boss-robert-gerrard-turns-himself-in" target="_blank"><strong>Liverpool drug boss Robert Gerrard turns himself in</strong></a></li>
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<p>Back in June of 2015, Walmsley and three other men were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 33-year-old Anthony Duffy, a rival <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug dealer</a> who was stabbed 28 times in May of 2014.</p>
<p>Facing such serious time spooked Walmsley and he decided to plot his escape. He lost weight and told prison authorities he had bowel issues. He was allowed to go to the hospital under an escort of armed guards on February 8 of last year and was told to return on February 21 to undergo a minor endoscopy procedure.</p>
<p>Upon exiting the hospital, two men - one armed with an Uzi submachine gun, the other with a knife and a gas canister - threatened the guards and ensured Walmsley’s successful escape. It took police 18 months before they located the fugitive killer in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Leeds" target="_blank">Leeds</a> and arrested him.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, October 2, he pleaded guilty to a single count of escape from custody. As a result of his prison break, the Judge tacked on another eight years to his sentence.</p>
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Smirking and laughing as his victims died violent deaths - Profile: Irish mob hitman “Fat Freddie” Thompson
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2018-09-08T11:44:11.000Z
2018-09-08T11:44:11.000Z
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<p>Irish gangster Frederick “Fat Freddie” Thompson’s name is notorious in and around Dublin, Ireland. As leader of a squad of hitmen he orchestrated countless bloody murders in two gang wars that ravaged not just the Irish city, but Europe’s mainland as well.</p>
<p>Thompson was born in 1980 in South <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Dublin" target="_blank">Dublin</a>. Growing up he had quite the reputation for being aggressive and violent. At age 16, he was convicted for the first time. His crimes centered around the theft of a car. Once, he even drove a car at an Irish cop who was trying to arrest a friend of his.</p>
<p>“Freddie has always been a mouthy type – most big players play a game with gardai, they are polite and businesslike in their dealings but not [him],” one Dublin cop told <a href="https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/freddie-thompson-david-douglas-murder-13167548" target="_blank">The Irish Mirror</a>. “[He] always became aggressive – there’s a famous story of him as a young fella telling guards he was going to be the next John Gilligan [one of Ireland’s most famous crime bosses].”</p>
<p>“He wasn’t just involved in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">killings</a>,” former detective Con Cronin told newspaper <a href="https://www.thesun.ie/news/3063617/freddie-thompson-untouchable-al-cappone-top-cop/" target="_blank">The Sun</a>. “He would often slash drug addicts who owed money and attack people with machetes if they looked at him the wrong way. He was an animal.”</p>
<p>Though police might not have appreciated his behavior, he was welcomed with open arms by those inhabiting Dublin’s underworld. Pretty quickly he moved from stealing cars to dealing <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> and making connections to established gangsters like George “The Penguin” Mitchell.</p>
<p>While honing his skills as a teenager, Thompson came into his own as a gang leader by the late 1990s. At that time, Dublin was flooded with drugs and there were untold riches at stake for those with the balls to grab it.</p>
<p>The city’s various gangs fought deadly wars over the spoils of the drug trade and Thompson found himself in the thick of it. He and his gang went to war with Brian “King Rat” Rattigan and his crew after Rattigan stabbed Declan Gavin, one of Thompson’s friends, to death outside a kebab shop in Crumlin, South Dublin, in 2001.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/irish-godfather-eamon-kelly-gunned-down-in-dublin" target="_blank"><strong>Profile of Irish mob boss Eamon "The Godfather" Kelly</strong></a></li>
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<p>Sixteen murders followed as members of the two gangs were gunning for each other. Sources claim Thompson pulled the trigger in at least four of them, including the killings of 18-year-old Joseph Rattigan, who was shot dead in July 2002, and Gary Bryan, an armed robber and suspected hitman, who was shot in front of his girlfriend as he fixed a car in September 2006.</p>
<p>“[Thompson] was seen smirking and laughing in the area shortly after Bryan was killed. That is what he is known for,” a source told <a href="https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/jailed-gangster-fat-freddie-thompson-13179097" target="_blank">The Irish Mirror</a> newspaper.</p>
<p>The dust settled in 2013 when “King Rat” Rattigan was convicted of murder and sent to prison.</p>
<p>With his reputation for murder well-established, Thompson hooked up with the big drug trafficking organizations, mainly the Kinahan cartel led by Christy Kinahan, whose son Daniel is close to Thompson. The Kinahans have close ties to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">drug cartels</a> in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Colombia" target="_blank">Colombia</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mexico" target="_blank">Mexico</a> and are one of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">Europe</a>’s most prolific narcotics trafficking groups.</p>
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<p>His successes fighting a gang war didn’t translate into a successful run as a drug trafficker, however. It was hit and miss. He was arrested in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">the Netherlands</a> when he arrived to collect a drug shipment and narrowly escaped a prison sentence after the case against him there collapsed.</p>
<p>Daniel Kinahan then brought him to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>, where he worked as a chauffeur and bodyguard. He was also put in charge of organizing material – cars and guns – and hitmen for assassination plots.</p>
<p>When a feud erupted between Daniel Kinahan and Gary Hutch, the nephew of drug boss Gerry “Monk” Hutch, the two groups went to war and Thompson found himself back at home doing what he did best: Organizing murders.</p>
<p>“Freddie loves the whole killing thing,” one source told <a href="https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/jailed-gangster-fat-freddie-thompson-13179097" target="_blank">The Irish Mirror</a>. “Organizing the cars, guns, shooters: that was his job for nearly 20 years, and he was always in the vicinity of the murders.”</p>
<p>Thompson was indeed all too willing to participate. Especially when rival gunmen targeted his cousins Liam and David Byrne. David was shot dead during a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Boxing" target="_blank">boxing</a> match weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in 2016, an audacious hit that was plastered on the frontpage of many newspapers. Both brothers worked closely with Thompson and the Kinahans and were considered to be amongst the organization’s hierarchy.</p>
<p>The murder of David Byrne caused a fiery rage within the Kinahan cartel as its hitmen went on a killing spree that left thirteen dead. “Thompson was […] the leader of the Kinahan murder squad,” a source told The Irish Mirror. “He never had the balls to pull the trigger himself but instead sat around nearby sniggering and laughing as the attacks were carried out. He enjoyed the murder and enjoyed being part of it – he never thought he would be caught because he was simply the organizer.”</p>
<p>His assumption turned out to be wrong.</p>
<p>On a summer day on July 1, 2016, 55-year-old David Douglas, a former member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=IRA" target="_blank">IRA</a> now working with the Hutch gang, was shot dead when a gunman fired six bullets in his head, chest and arm while Douglas was standing at the entrance of his wife’s business in South Dublin eating a microwaved curry. The man’s teenage daughter was in another room and found her dad lying dead in a pool of his own blood.</p>
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<p>Thompson’s crew had been surveilling Douglas that day and knew his daughter was present but still went ahead with the hit. A few hours later, Thompson and his associates enjoyed a good meal at Little Caesar’s restaurant in Dublin’s city center to celebrate another successful killing operation.</p>
<p>But they hadn’t been as successful as they thought. Irish detectives were able to piece the puzzle together when they found the getaway car used in the murder. Using CCTV footage they were able to pinpoint other cars and the movements of the men involved.</p>
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<p>Once they identified the cars used in the murder plot, they found more evidence, such as fingerprints and DNA samples which placed Thompson in the vehicles used on the day. He was even caught on CCTV driving one of the cars.</p>
<p>Armed with this evidence, authorities finally arrested Thompson in November 2017 when he visited Ireland to meet with other crime leaders. On August 30, 2018, a non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin found him guilty of Douglas’ murder – stating that though he himself did not pull the trigger he was directly involved as the leader of the operation - and sentenced him to life in prison.</p>
<p>As he heard the verdict, Thompson smirked and rolled his eyes, just as he had done after committing many of his most heinous crimes.</p>
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Camorra boss Antonio La Torre charged with plotting murder of Anti-Mafia prosecutors
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2018-09-01T10:00:00.000Z
2018-09-01T10:00:00.000Z
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<p>Alleged Camorra boss Antonio La Torre (photo above) was arrested in Italy this week after police say they have evidence that he and his imprisoned brother Augusto plotted to assassinate two Anti-Mafia prosecutors. The two brothers made a name for themselves as they built an empire from Italy to Scotland and left the streets littered with dead bodies in the process.</p>
<p>The La Torre brothers led the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-overview" target="_blank">Camorra</a> clan based in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mondragone" target="_blank">Mondragone</a>, a seaside town near <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Naples" target="_blank">Naples</a>. Following in the footsteps of their mob boss father Tiberio La Torre, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-boss-augusto-la-torre" target="_blank">Augusto</a> took center stage of the organization with his willingness to kill. With their reputation for violence, the brothers quickly built a multimillion-dollar empire which stretched from Italy to other parts of Europe, mainly the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a> and the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>.</p>
<p>Antonio settled in Aberdeen, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Scotland" target="_blank">Scotland</a>, in 1984, married a Scottish woman, and opened up several successful businesses using the clan’s ill-gotten gains. It took authorities 20 years to realize the La Torre brothers were laundering their dirty cash through their British business empire.</p>
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<p>Now, however, the two men are back in the news. Police claim they have evidence that the brothers threatened to murder two prosecutors: Alessandro D’Alessio and his deputy Maria Laura Lalia Morra. The plot allegedly originated from Augusto’s prison cell and was uncovered by authorities when they used wiretaps and intercepted phone calls to listen in on discussions about the sinister plot.</p>
<p>In one recorded call, Augusto tells Antonio he “kills people” and orders him to “call” D’Alessio. According to authorities these words are a veiled threat. As Italian prosecutors are all too familiar with Mafia violence against them, they pounced quickly, arresting 62-year-old Antonio and three other men in a series of police raids and charged them with illegal possession of firearms, attempted extortion, attempted robbery and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a> association. Antonio has denied being guilty of any crimes.</p>
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A deadly weasel moving tons of cocaine – Profile of Montreal’s West End mob boss Allan Ross
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/a-deadly-weasel-moving-tons-of-cocaine-profile-of-montreal-s-west
2018-08-25T07:30:00.000Z
2018-08-25T07:30:00.000Z
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<p>Allan “The Weasel” Ross was one of North America’s biggest drug bosses. He shipped weed and blow from Colombia to the United States, Canada, and even into Europe. As leader of the West End Gang, Montreal’s Irish mob, he oversaw a violent organization in partnership with the Italian Mafia and Hells Angels.</p>
<p>Like most criminal powerhouses, Ross too started out small. He dealt a bit of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> and stole some things. One would qualify him either as the life of the party or a loser with no future, depending on your love of dope.</p>
<p>By the 1970s, Ross showed he was destined for more than just those two things. Thanks to international connections, he began moving serious amounts of narcotics, weed, hashish and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> mostly, first into <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Montreal" target="_blank">Montreal</a> and later into other parts of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in" target="_blank">North America</a>. One such contact was Jairo “El Mocho” Garcia, a Colombian who lived in Montreal in the 1980s. He was a major distributor for the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-cali-cartel-the-takedown-of-history-s-biggest-drug-mafia" target="_blank">Cali Cartel</a> and a good friend of Ross.</p>
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<p>Despite his successes in the criminal underworld, he received the less than honorable nickname “The Weasel” by his brothers-in-crime because, author D’Arcy O’Connor wrote in <em>Montreal’s Irish Mafia</em>, “of his ferret-like features and his ability to weasel out of being busted for many years. The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=RCMP" target="_blank">RCMP</a> and the Montreal drug and homicide squads had been trying to get hard evidence on him since 1976, as did the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> and [<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=DEA" target="_blank">DEA</a>] in later years. He proved to be frustratingly elusive.”</p>
<p>As a member of Montreal’s West End gang, a combination of gangsters of Irish and Anglo descent, Ross held much sway in the Canadian city. The West End gang was one of three groups with a seat on the committee overseeing the region’s underworld – the other two being <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-mafia-of-montreal-a-short" target="_blank">Montreal’s Italian Mafia</a> and the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a>. These groups pooled their resources and manpower when it came to enforcement work, like contract killings, and drug trafficking, setting a fixed price for narcotics dealt in the city.</p>
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<p>The organization was run by Frank “Dunie” Ryan, a crime boss estimated to be worth up to $100 million. As a steady source of much of Montreal’s drugs, Ryan tended to thumb his nose at the Italians and bikers. Never a smart move. Other West End gang members sensed weakness and decided to capitalize.</p>
<p>On November 13, 1984, they lured Ryan to a hotel room where they tried to tie up the crime boss in hopes of interrogating him about the whereabouts of some of riches. During the subsequent struggle things took a different turn and Ryan was assassinated by a shotgun blast to the chest.</p>
<p>Ross was thrusted into the top spot and, together with the other West End gangsters loyal to Ryan, quickly avenged their slain leader. At the same time, Ross established his dominance by showing his deadly capabilities.</p>
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<p>“A television packed with 30 pounds of explosives was delivered November 25, 1984 to a Montreal apartment where Paul April, the hit man believed to have been behind Ryan’s murder, was staying. The blast killed April and three other men and knocked a massive hole in the building on de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. According to court documents […] Ross ordered [the bombing] and paid for [it] by erasing huge cocaine debts that members of the now-defunct Laval chapter of the Hells Angels owed to the West End Gang,” journalist Paul Cherry writes in the <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/the-notorious-west-end-gang-leader-allan-the-weasel-ross-has-died" target="_blank">Montreal Gazette</a>.</p>
<p>In the years that follow, Ross’ influence only increased as he became one of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in" target="_blank">North America</a>’s premier drug traffickers. His cocaine flowed from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">Colombia</a> into the United States and Canada. The West End gang had a crew operating in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Florida" target="_blank">Florida</a> to oversee distribution there. He even sent shipments as far away as <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">Great Britain</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">The Netherlands</a>.</p>
<p>Ross frequently used Bertram Gordon to fly drug loads across the various borders. Gordon hit a snag when he was arrested in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, the Netherlands, on cocaine trafficking charges in February of 1989. Rather than do the time, Ross’ trusted pilot decided to cooperate with authorities and testify about Ross’ illicit business.</p>
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<p>Armed with several other informants and countless wiretapped phone calls, prosecutors in Florida indicted the West End mob boss. His trial began on April 6, 1992. On May 15, Ross was found guilty of trafficking thousands of kilos of cocaine and marijuana and sentenced to life in prison.</p>
<p>If that wasn’t enough, prosecutors also convicted Ross in another case in which he was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and conspiracy in the murder of David Singer, who had witnessed a murder committed by the West End gang. That conviction added 30 more years to his sentence.</p>
<p>He died at age 74 on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, at a prison hospital in North Carolina.</p>
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British career criminal shot in head and left for dead in Amsterdam
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2018-05-21T16:00:00.000Z
2018-05-21T16:00:00.000Z
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<p>A British career criminal was shot in the head and left for dead on the streets of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, the Netherlands, on Saturday night. 55-year-old Allan P. (his last name has not been released by Dutch authorities) was seriously injured and is currently in the hospital.</p>
<p>The attempted hit occurred around 23:30 p.m. While P. was walking on the Stromarkt, an unknown assassin wearing a dark sweater with a hoody <a href="https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/slachtoffer-schietpartij-stromarkt-is-brits-amsterdamse-crimineel~a4598609/" target="_blank">aimed a gun</a> at his head and fired one bullet. P. then crumpled to the ground where he was found in a pool of his own blood by passersby.</p>
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<p>Though a British citizen, P. has resided in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">the Netherlands</a> since 1979 and has had frequent run ins with law enforcement. He was convicted of several drug and gun offenses and spent two months in prison after showing a fake South African passport to a Dutch police officer.</p>
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<p>In 2015, he was charged in the notorious case targeting One2Spy, a shop in Amsterdam where one could buy hidden cameras, bugs, GPS-tracers, encrypted mobile phones and the like. In this case “the like” also meant guns. P. was charged with showing a firearm to two British undercover agents who were investigating the spy shop. He was acquitted in court after prosecutors were unable to prove the gun functioned properly.</p>
<p>It is unknown why he was the target of a hit and police are still searching for the gunman.</p>
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Fugitive British drug boss who got 11 years for crimes sought by police after going on the lam
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/fugitive-british-drug-boss-who-got-11-years-for-crimes-sought-by
2018-04-11T06:48:48.000Z
2018-04-11T06:48:48.000Z
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<p>Police in Great Britain are asking for information leading to the arrest of a drug boss who went on the lam before being sentenced to 11 years in prison for orchestrating the attempted importation of liquid amphetamine with a street value of around £8 million pounds in April 2016.</p>
<p>51-year-old Richard Wakeling headed an organized crime group which trafficked drugs from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Belgium" target="_blank">Belgium</a> to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>. Three other men involved in the operation did stand trial, including 59-year-old Lesley Muffett, who drove a truck carrying the drugs, and gang members Stuart Davidson (65) and Darren Keane (34).</p>
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<p>All four were found guilty on Friday April 6 of conspiring to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> following a 12-week trial. Keane was sentenced to 9 years, Davidson received 8 years and Muffett got 6 years in prison.</p>
<p>National Crime Agency officers began their investigation after plastic drums carrying liquefied drugs were discovered by Border Force on Muffett’s truck as he attempted to board a train through the Channel Tunnel on 9 April 2016.</p>
<p>He was transporting furniture from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Italy" target="_blank">Italy</a>, but stopped at Ternat in Belgium where phone evidence showed he was directed by fellow trucker Davidson to collect the drugs. The entire importation was set up by Wakeling, who liaised with Keane and Davidson to arrange the journey.</p>
<p>Evidence showed both Muffett and Davidson had taken similar journeys previously, and officers believe the group had organized previous importations before the April 2016 seizure. “These men were involved in a serious conspiracy to import a large quantity of dangerous drugs,” NCA senior investigating officer Paul Green said. “We know they had links into other organized crime gangs in Europe and it is almost certain that this wasn’t the first time they had done it.”</p>
<p>Shortly before trial started Wakeling disappeared. NCA investigators have established that he took a bus from Heathrow to Glasgow on 5 January, and then a ferry from Stranraer to Belfast the following day. A warrant was issued for his arrest on the first day of the group’s trial.</p>
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<p>Wakeling has a prosthetic leg and needs regular medical treatment. “We strongly suspect that Wakeling fled abroad, possibly to Thailand where he has strong family links,” Green stated. “But it is likely there are people here in the United Kingdom who hold clues about his movements after he arrived in Belfast on 6 January, and I’d appeal for anyone with information to come forward.”</p>
<p>Green is certain justice will be served. “The NCA has an international reach and he should know distance isn’t a barrier to us finding him. We are determined he will be returned to the UK to serve his sentence. Until we find him, he’ll spend every day looking over his shoulder.”</p>
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London-based Albanian cocaine gang sent to prison
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2018-03-17T08:44:10.000Z
2018-03-17T08:44:10.000Z
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<p>Three members of a London-based Albanian drug gang involved in trafficking cocaine with a combined estimated street value of £4.2 million have been sent to prison yesterday. All men had previously pleaded guilty following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP).</p>
<p>The drug crew was led by 26-year-old Mark Gurini, who was handed an 8-year prison sentence. Police arrested him at a petrol station near his home in Buckhurst Hill on 26 September 2017 and found him in possession of false Italian identification documents and discovered that he had two kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> hidden in his car.</p>
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<p>When police subsequently searched his flat on Queens Road, they found another 49 kilos of cocaine and further evidence that the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gangs" target="_blank">gang</a> had been using the property as a base for their <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug dealing</a> business. It included £100,000 in cash, scales, a heat sealing machine and multiple ledgers containing customer details their orders.</p>
<p>Earlier that month two of the gang’s runners. 25-year-old Arbian Celaj and 22-year-old Abubaker Mohamed were arrested each carrying a kilo of cocaine. Celaj was sentenced yesterday to 5 years, while Mohamed got 3 years.</p>
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British secret agents have a license to commit crime
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2018-03-03T14:56:07.000Z
2018-03-03T14:56:07.000Z
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<p>After all these decades, James Bond’s license to kill still sounds pretty cool. Though 007 is far removed from the real-life spies working at MI5, they do have a similar license that gives them a pass to commit crime in the United Kingdom, Theresa May, the country’s prime minister revealed in a text on Thursday.</p>
<p>The document was <a href="https://www.ipco.org.uk/docs/20180301%20PM%20direction%202.pdf" target="_blank">published</a> after a months-long legal battle by human rights groups Reprieve and Privacy International. It details a direction to the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office, the secret service watchdog, on governing “security service participation in criminality.”</p>
<p>As newspaper <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> observed: “It instructs the IPCO to oversee the participation of MI5 agents in criminal activity, which was previously conducted by the now-defunct office of the Intelligence Services Commissioner, under a secret order referred to as the ‘third direction’.”</p>
<p>What type of crime MI5 agents can get away with and when remains confidential and falls under the direction of the British government.</p>
<p>The world is an ever-changing place, but one thing remains the same: It revolves around money. And where there’s money, there is crime. White collar or blue collar, greed does not care. If MI5 seeks to keep the country safe its secret agents might need to win the trust of certain individuals in order to infiltrate criminal organizations and activities.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Russia" target="_blank">Russia</a>, for instance, politics and organized crime have long been intertwined. With many <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview" target="_blank">Russian oligarchs</a> operating on Britain’s soil, it makes sense to be able to get one’s hands dirty to get close enough to keep an eye on certain individuals.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorists</a> also remain a very difficult threat as they are seeking cooperation with criminal organizations in order to launder or make money and buy weapons and influence.</p>
<p>Thus, a license to commit crime can be useful to these secret agents. Of course, as always with these types of undercover operations taking place in the shadowy alley between our world and the underworld, we can only hope that the agents involved remember what side they are on.</p>
<p>Otherwise, we might be in for one hell of a mess.</p>
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Dumb gangster going by ‘CocaineKing247’ busted trying to buy hand grenades on the dark web with bitcoins
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2017-12-15T16:17:36.000Z
2017-12-15T16:17:36.000Z
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<p>Buying online is never anonymous. No matter what they say or how much you try: They can trace you and find out everything about you. Just ask ‘CocaineKing247,’ a 46-year-old man from Great Britain who used the dark web to order fragmentation grenades from a vendor and import them to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a>.</p>
<p>Paul Stellato (photo above) - who was jailed for 10 years in 1998 for arson with intent to endanger life – sent an image of an explosive to an associate, asking: “If I add shrapnel will it do a hole in a house?” Using his online profile ‘CocaineKing247,’ on November 23, 2016, he contacted a seller on the now closed-down <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=DarkWeb" target="_blank">AlphaBay market</a>, asking if the advertised <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Grenades" target="_blank">hand grenades</a> could be delivered to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>.</p>
<p>After the seller assured him that he indeed could, Stellato - who has 36 convictions for 171 offences - told him to send them to his flat in Manor Road, Brackley, Northants. Because you want to make sure that the illegal goods you bought anonymously on the dark web, arrive at your real-life place of residence. Still, safety first, so he addressed them to a fake name.</p>
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<p>With all the recent terror attacks, hand grenades could be an, pardon the pun, explosive product. So he also wrote: “No matter what, these are not for terrorism affairs, domestic protection only.”</p>
<p>Well, that’s reassuring, no?</p>
<p>Stellato then paid for the grenades using <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoins</a>. The total sum came down to $370.48.</p>
<p>It didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to catch this criminal mastermind and today he was convicted of attempting to possess ammunition with intent to endanger life. He will be sentenced on 16 February.</p>
<p>“Stellato is a career criminal with a very long record and a history of violence,” National Crime Agency branch commander David Norris said. “It is a frightening prospect to think what he could have done with three grenades. We worked tirelessly with our partners – including the FBI and Northamptonshire Police who helped us arrest Stellato – to keep these weapons away from him.”</p>
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Chinese woman laundered £1.8 million in drugs money for Albanian organized crime group in just two weeks
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2017-11-22T04:30:00.000Z
2017-11-22T04:30:00.000Z
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<p>The biggest problem with ill-gotten gains is how to turn them into squeaky clean gotten gains. Because criminal money remains vulnerable to being confiscated by authorities, whereas money laundered clean has no way whatsoever of ever being touched by law enforcement as the recent Panama Papers leak has showed.</p>
<p>Of course, getting caught in the process of laundering these monies will get you – and your money - in trouble. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=China" target="_blank">Chinese</a> money launderer Fen Chen knows this all too well. On Monday, she was sentenced to over 6 years in prison after being found guilty of laundering almost £2 million in criminal cash into <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a> high street banks in a period of just two weeks.</p>
<p>32-year-old Chen and three others took bundles of bank notes into dozens of branches between 30 July and 15 August 2016. She was arrested by National Crime Agency officers shortly after accepting a bag containing more than £300,000 from Fation Koka, a 30-year-old who is a reputed member of an <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanian organized crime group</a>.</p>
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<p>Koka previously admitted two counts of money laundering and was jailed for 21 months. He will be deported upon completion of his sentence.</p>
<p>After Fen’s arrest, another £180,000 cash was discovered in bags and hiding places at her flat, along with bank slips detailing hundreds of deposits totaling £1.8 million. A cash counting machine was found in another room.</p>
<p>NCA officers found text messages on Chen’s and Koka’s phones that showed another cash handover happened in the same car park on 31 July 2016. That time, Chen was out of the country and instead sent representatives to collect the money.</p>
<p>“Fen Chen was a prolific <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Money" target="_blank">money launderer</a>, able to process millions of pounds in cash in a very short period of time,” NCA operations manager Kevin Gee said. “[She] was caught red handed in possession of around £300,000 belonging to an Albanian <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> gang.”</p>
<p>He continued, “Organized crime groups rely on money launderers like Chen, who play an integral part in allowing them to benefit from and re-invest their criminal profits. Taking money launderers out of the chain, as we have done here, makes life far more difficult and riskier for crooks trying to clean their dirty cash.”</p>
<p>Investigators obtained CCTV bank footage showing Chen, Lin and others deposited cash in smaller amounts to avoid suspicion. You can watch the video below:</p>
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British geezer gangster gets 14 years for trafficking heroin and cocaine
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2017-10-20T20:00:19.000Z
2017-10-20T20:00:19.000Z
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<p>Guy Paget, a 69-year-old career criminal was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty this week of conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine. It was Paget’s second such conviction. He was arrested in July 2015 by Britain’s National Crime Agency’s Armed Operations Unit.</p>
<p>On the morning of 7 July 2015, Paget and another man, Gary Jones, both from Birmingham, went to the supermarket and bought a grey suitcase, five bags for life and some rubber gloves. Later that day, Jones was seen lifting a large grey suitcase into the boot of a vehicle driven by Sajaad Malik in Doncaster. NCA officers stopped and searched the vehicle and found 30 blocks of drugs in bags similar to those bought from the supermarket in Sutton Coldfield.</p>
<p>Forensic analysis of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> revealed 20 half kilo blocks of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> and 10 kilo blocks of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>, with a combined estimated street value of £2.2 million pounds sterling.</p>
<p>Both Jones and Malik were convicted in November 2015 and sentenced to nine and a half years and nine years in prison respectively. Following his arrest, Paget was released on bail under investigation. He was charged in April 2016 with conspiracy to supply drugs whilst being on license from prison and was found guilty this week at Sheffield Crown Court.</p>
<p>Paget will be subject to a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) once he is released from prison. He will only be allowed to own one mobile phone, one sim card and one computer and must provide details of the devices to the NCA. Failure to do so can result in a 5-year prison sentence.</p>
<p>“Guy Paget is a career criminal, who has previously served two prison sentences for drug trafficking offences,” Mick Maloney from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit said. “He was involved in the importation and distribution of millions of pounds worth of drugs and we are determined to do everything within our power to disrupt and dismantle organized crime groups operating in the United Kingdom.”</p>
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Gang that conspired to smuggle £10M worth’ of heroin from Pakistan to England get lengthy prison sentences
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2017-07-15T09:10:21.000Z
2017-07-15T09:10:21.000Z
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<p>Eight heroin traffickers from Birmingham in the United Kingdom were jailed for a combined 139 years yesterday following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. The group conspired to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> worth up to £10 million from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Pakistan" target="_blank">Pakistan</a> to Great Britain inside industrial equipment. </p>
<p>The crew’s ringleaders were 38-year-old Ameran Zeb Khan, 36-year-old Mohammed Ali, and 32-year-old Sajid Hussain. Each of them received a sentence of 22 years behind bars. Hussain was sentenced to another 9 months for another offence.</p>
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<p>The men organized two container shipments from Lahore, via Karachi, to the London Gateway Port in February and July 2014. The second shipment was intercepted by Border Force officers who cut open the container’s cargo of industrial lathes to find 165 kilograms of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a>.</p>
<p>Officers removed the drugs and reassembled the laths and sent them on to their delivery destination at an industrial unit in Sandwell, West Midlands, where they were met by 36-year-old Omar Isa and 35-year-old Imran Arif.</p>
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<p>The meeting costed both men as Isa was sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison, while Arif was imprisoned for 10 years.</p>
<p>49-year-old Mohammed Ashaf Khan, who handled logistics for the conspiracy, was imprisoned for 17 and a half years while 52-year-old Rajesh Patel, who used his business to provide paperwork for the shipments, was jailed for 15 and a half years.</p>
<p>38-year-old Zulfgar Munsaf, who passed on the bosses’ instructions to the ground troops and was the only one of the group to plead guilty to avoid a trial, was given 14 years.</p>
<p>The heroin seized by Border Force, which the group planned to sell on in bulk, had a purity of 58 per cent and was worth £5 million uncut. The NCA believe a similar quantity of heroin was contained in an earlier shipment for which they have found records, meaning the conspiracy could have earned the group up to £10 million.</p>
<p>After cutting the 165 kilograms of heroin to 25 percent purity, street level gangs could have made up to 2m street deals, generating revenue of up to £19,140,000. If the first shipment contained a similar quantity of heroin, the total street value would double accordingly.</p>
<p>“This was a determined and capable criminal group,” Paul Risby, branch commander at the NCA, told reporters. “They had connections to heroin suppliers and used legitimate business paperwork to provide cover for their activity.”</p>
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Profile: British drug boss Patrick “Badger” Maloney
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2017-07-15T09:09:12.000Z
2017-07-15T09:09:12.000Z
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<p>It’s always nice to see the older generation pass on its wisdom to the youngsters out there. Except when that wisdom pertains to trafficking drugs. Yet that’s exactly what 62-year-old Patrick Maloney did, running a crew of young dealers that bragged to clients they could deliver drugs anywhere “within 30 minutes of central London and within an hour anywhere else.”</p>
<p>Maloney managed a gang of younger drug dealers and directed them where to deliver the product, using modified mopeds with ‘knowledge’ boards to mimic trainee taxi drivers. He was also in charge of the weekly cash payments and paying the drug runners their wages.</p>
<p>Known by his nickname “Badger,” Maloney had quite the resume when it comes to peddling drugs. Labeled a career criminal by authorities, he served time in prison for his role in the importation of over four tons of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">cannabis</a>.</p>
<p>“The knowledge and experience he provided helped the group distribute more than 40 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated wholesale value of £1.4 million, across London over a period of three weeks in February 2016,” Spencer Barnett from the Organised Crime Partnership told media when discussing Maloney’s role.</p>
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<p>“He enforced discipline and directed members to go to elaborate lengths to stay under the radar of law enforcement, using safe houses, throw-away mobile phones and mopeds to try and avoid detection,” Barnett added.</p>
<p>Despite this, Maloney apparently failed to teach his young students the importance of keeping a low profile. To promote their narcotics home delivery business, the gang sent out a text message to over 400 potential clients – mind the word potential here – in which they claimed that they could deliver anywhere “within 30mins central <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a> and within an hour anywhere else.”</p>
<p>Operating like that the cops won’t need long to find your ass and lock you up. In March of 2016, Maloney and his 34-year-old son Joseph along with eleven others were arrested in a series of raids after police had conducted surveillance on the group.</p>
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<p>They seized over £164,600 cash, more than 10 kilos of class A drugs, 14 kilos of cutting agent, over 100 mobile phones and six mopeds during the raids. Analysis of mobile devices provided officers with information that the group was planning to import 70 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> from Ecuador to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>, for onwards distribution across the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>“Badger” Maloney’s street classes in drug trafficking had come to an early end. Not to worry though, for those interested, Maloney now dispenses his wisdom behind bars. He was sentenced on Thursday, July 13, to seven years in prison. His son Joseph received 15 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine.</p>
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Albanian organized crime gangs are taking increasing control over Europe’s profitable narcotics markets
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/albanian-organized-crime-gangs-are-taking-increasing-control-over
2017-06-29T15:28:05.000Z
2017-06-29T15:28:05.000Z
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<p>Albanian gangsters have established a high-profile influence within the underworld in Great Britain, controlling much of the country’s drug trafficking market, particularly cocaine, according to a new report by the National Crime Agency. Albanian organized crime gangs have also upped their presence in the Netherlands, Europe’s Mecca for dope and narcos.</p>
<p>The <em>National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime</em> by Britain’s National Crime Agency doesn’t beat around the bush. Looking at the past year, its investigators have made some interesting conclusions. Especially concerning the sale and abuse of narcotics that shows yet again how the war on drugs has failed miserably.</p>
<p>Demand for all common types of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> remains high in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Britain" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>, offering huge profits for those who control routes across the country’s borders and up into its northern cities.</p>
<p>Even away from the pubs and city lights the party doesn’t stop. Authorities are seeing an increasing use of synthetic cannabinoids - sometimes referred to by their trade names <em>Spice</em> and <em>Black Mamba</em> - in prisons in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a> and Wales over the last five years.</p>
<p>Spice is one variation of psychoactive substance, produced by spraying a synthetic cannabinoid solution onto inert plant materials. Though often advertised as an alternative form of natural cannabis, Spice is often significantly stronger with effects more similar to hallucinogens and sedatives than cannabis. Synthetic cannabinoids are commonly imported into the UK from China as a herbal substance but more recently are available as a liquid spray allowing the liquid to be sprayed onto paper which can then be concealed and taken into prisons in much the same way as LSD.</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>COCAINE IS A HELL OF A DRUG</strong></span></p>
<p>Still, the big money remains in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> and, especially, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>. The total volume of cocaine seized worldwide during 2016 is at an all-time high, the report notes. Between 2013 and 2015, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Colombia" target="_blank">Colombia</a> experienced the two largest single year coca cultivation increases ever recorded. These almost doubled the country’s coca cultivation to the highest levels since 2007. It is estimated that 560 metric tons of cocaine is available for international distribution. Colombia has now regained its place as the world’s largest coca producer, and produces more than second-placed <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Peru" target="_blank">Peru</a> and third-placed <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bolivia" target="_blank">Bolivia</a> combined.</p>
<p>This increase in production leads to higher volumes of cocaine being shipped to the United Kingdom, either directly or via a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">European hub</a>. The quality of the drugs is also getting better. More and more higher purity cocaine is being seen at street level, with seizures at 80-90% purity being sighted across the country. These batches are often sold at premium prices per gram.</p>
<p>Investigators note the large involvement of organized crime groups from countries along the Balkan route – <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albania</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Serbia" target="_blank">Serbia</a>, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Turkey" target="_blank">Turkey</a> – forming direct relationships with cocaine suppliers in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">Latin America</a>.</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>THE ALBANIANS HAVE ARRIVED</strong></span></p>
<p>The threat faced from Albanian crime groups is significant. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a> is their primary hub, but they are established across the United Kingdom. Crime gangs from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albania</a> have established a high-profile influence within the British underworld, the report states, and have considerable control across the country’s drug trafficking market, particularly cocaine. They are also expanding their influence upstream.</p>
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<p>Across the sea, in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>, authorities are also seeing an increasing presence of Albanian organized crime gangs. Police in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a> began investigating a bunch of Albanian drug traffickers who were living in luxury apartments throughout the city without ever showing up on any official property registration papers. With rent at these residences exceeding €2,000 euros per month, investigators were very interested how these men were able to come up with such a large sum of cash every month.</p>
<p>Several raids and busts later, they knew.</p>
<p>Police found guns, hundreds of kilograms of high purity cocaine, sometimes heroin and hashish, machines used for packaging drugs, stolen merchandise, and millions of euros in cash. These high-class apartments were used as nothing more than just another office in the lucrative world of narcotics.</p>
<p>And as always, everything is connected.</p>
<p>In May of 2016, a Dutch court sentenced 32-year-old Albanian national Aleksandr K. to one year in prison for laundering money made from selling drugs. Back in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albania</a>, he used to be a member of the Republican Garde and worked security for the nation’s parliament.</p>
<p>He was apprehended after a tip from investigators in the United Kingdom and is suspected of smuggling drugs into Britain and then laundering its proceeds in the Netherlands. In tapped phone calls, Aleksandr K. was overheard using coded language, talking about “a turkey” and “white telephones.”</p>
<p>With bases of operations in major hubs like Amsterdam and London and direct links to Latin American drug suppliers, the Albanian crime gangs have firmly entrenched themselves in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Europe" target="_blank">Europe</a>’s narcotics markets.</p>
<p>Whether they will hold on to, or even expand their business is up to authorities. Now that they have placed them in the spotlight, it’s time for the final act in the life of a successful drug baron: The Downfall.</p>
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Albanian organized crime pair jailed after they were caught with 1 kilogram brick of cocaine
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2017-06-28T13:30:00.000Z
2017-06-28T13:30:00.000Z
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<p>Albanian drug traffickers Artan Markaj (23) and Marsela Kreka (30) were sentenced to 6 years 9 months and 8 years respectively on Monday. They were jailed as the result of a National Crime Agency investigation in which 5.5 kilogram of high-purity cocaine was taken off the streets.</p>
<p>Officers caught the duo after a drugs handover in Barnet, north <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>, last June. Markaj left his home in Clarence Close, Barnet, to get into a Mini Cooper driven by Kreka. Police believed he was carrying <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> under his coat and stopped him and Kreka when he got out of the car a few streets away.</p>
<p>A 1 kilogram block of high purity <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> wrapped in a sock was hidden under the passenger seat.</p>
<p>When officers searched Markaj’s home they found a further 4.5 kilogram of high-purity cocaine, £11,700 in cash within a concealment under a bedroom window sill, and drugs supply paraphernalia. The drugs would have been worth an estimated £660,000 when cut and sold on the streets.</p>
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<p>Markaj admitted at the scene that the Greek ID in his possession was a forgery and that he was an <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanian</a> national. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to drugs trafficking, possessing a false identification document and money laundering.</p>
<p>Kreka was found in possession of a Romanian driving license in the name of Maria Danciu which she claimed was her true identity. Enquiries confirmed it was a forgery. She denied drugs trafficking and possessing a false identification document but was convicted by a jury.</p>
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Fugitive British drug boss Nicholas Strange brought back from Ibiza and sentenced to 10 years behind bars
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2017-05-29T08:09:45.000Z
2017-05-29T08:09:45.000Z
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<p>British drug boss Nicholas Strange was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs and money laundering. His group smuggled high purity cocaine and cash between Ibiza and Wales and supplied several other gangs in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>34-year-old Strange lived on <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Ibiza" target="_blank">Ibiza</a> where he enjoyed the fruits of his illicit labor. While he baked in the sun by the pool, he had his 61-year-old dad and another associate do all the hard work. Both men handled all the sales and made sure each gang and crew got its delivery of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">coke</a>.</p>
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<p>They were the first to go down when agents of the NCA busted them in Bristol in 2014. Neil Strange and 31-year-old Martyn Pagett operated on a travellers site in Nantyglo, South Wales. The travellers are notorious in Britain and frequently, both fairly and unfairly, connected to crime. They are also known by derogatory names as gypsies and pikeys - made famous by Guy Ritchie’s hit film <em>Snatch</em> in which Brad Pitt plays a pikey.</p>
<p>The investigation saw the discovery of £125,000 in cash and also 8 kilograms of high purity <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>, with a value to organized crime of up to £280,000 and a potential street value of £960,000, in Pagett’s portacabin at the Cwm Crachen travellers site where he was employed as the site warden.</p>
<p>Furthermore, upon the arrest of Neil Strange and Martyn Pagett, NCA officers realized they had missed their Mr. Big, the leader of the drug ring was still at large, far away on a Spanish island. Or, as NCA officer John Lewis put it, “[Strange] kept his hands clean while his dad did the dirty work.”</p>
<p>While his father Neil and associate Martyn were sitting in a jail cell, the first sentenced to 8-and-a-half-years for drug smuggling and money laundering and the latter to 8 years for handling cocaine sales, Nicholas Strange proved a bit more elusive. But in May of 2016, the Guardia Civil, Spain’s National Police, arrested him and extradited him to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>.</p>
<p>Strange’s group had been supplying, among others, 28-year-old Ashley Burgham, the head of a Gwent-based organized crime group. Burgham and ten of his crew were sentenced to a combined total of 54 years on 11 December 2015.</p>
<p>The group also supplied Anthony Moran, a then-33-year-old from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Glasgow" target="_blank">Glasgow</a>. Moran is serving an 8-year prison sentence after British transport police officers stopped him on a train to Scotland shortly after a meeting with Pagett. The Scot had with him 1 kilo of cocaine worth £35,000 wholesale and up to £120,000 when cut and sold. One of Nicholas Strange’s guilty pleas related to the supply of cocaine to Moran.</p>
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Profile: Liverpool drug boss Lee Jamieson
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2017-03-18T07:00:00.000Z
2017-03-18T07:00:00.000Z
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<p>Lee Jamieson’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a> organization supplied drug users in Cumbria, up in the north of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a>, with cocaine and marijuana. At age 30, he ran what authorities called “a close and disciplined group who undertook numerous steps to attempt to avoid detection and prosecution by the police.”</p>
<p>Jamieson used couriers to drive the drugs up north. They then delivered the goods to Jonathan O’Neil and Andrew Berry who headed up distribution in North Cumbria. Jamieson supplied them with high purity heroin, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and cannabis. When police pulled over one courier, they found he had £75,000 worth’ of cocaine in his vehicle.</p>
<p>Though police called Jamieson’s gang well-run, they shut it down without too much problems nonetheless. On March 17, 2017, Jamieson was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.</p>
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Profile: Albanian drug boss Besnik Sinanaj
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2017-03-13T10:55:57.000Z
2017-03-13T10:55:57.000Z
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<p>Albanian drug boss Besnik Sinanaj was on a roll. Still only in his early 30s, he ran one of the hottest phone lines in the United Kingdom. Almost 100,000 calls were made to his London call center by people who, well, they wanted to buy <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>. And Sinanaj’s organization happily obliged, offering them coke of the highest purity and making millions in the process.</p>
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<p>It was a match made in heaven – or hell. Between May 2012 and May 2013, Sinanaj received almost 100,000 calls by drug users looking to party or feed their addiction. Operating by the nickname “Mario,” Sinanaj ran a crew of nine drug runners supplying customers with coke sold between £40 and £50 a gram. Authorities say he made £4 million in that one year alone selling drugs via his hotline.</p>
<p>But as any gangster worth his salt knows: Talking on a phone will get you busted fast. Dealing <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> via phone? That gets you locked up even faster. By April 2013, police had located “Mario” at his home. A month later, at dawn, they raided the residence as well as a bunch of other locations, seizing six kilos of cocaine.</p>
<p>Confronted with the evidence against them, all ten drug dealers pleaded guilty. In February of 2014, Sinanaj received the stiffest sentence of them all, when he was handed a 10-year prison sentence.</p>
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Fugitive British cocaine smuggler gets 13 years
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2016-12-22T10:31:34.000Z
2016-12-22T10:31:34.000Z
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<p>David McDermott seemed to have it all figured out. He’d smuggle cocaine to get rich and when cops were on to him he fled to Ghana where he married the daughter of a high-ranking government official and continued living in luxury. But British law enforcement has a long reach and got the fugitive drug smuggler back to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK">United Kingdom</a> where, yesterday, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in smuggling part of 400 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine">cocaine</a>.</p>
<p>The 43-year-old drug trafficker was considered by authorities to be the “logistics man” of a violent <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Liverpool">Liverpool</a>-based organized crime group that smuggled 400 kilos of high purity cocaine hidden inside a consignment of Argentinian beef.</p>
<p>Customs discovered the coke by happenstance, as they inspected the shipping container only because of an E. coli problem at the Argentinian meat factory. Once they found the drugs – 400 packets all labeled with the logo “Burro” divided among 16 black holdalls – they replaced it with fake packages and sent the shipment on, following its progress and the people managing its movement.</p>
<p>Police knew they had hit the jackpot not just because of the size of the shipment, but also because the cocaine was 79% pure. This was high quality South American drugs destined for the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Britain">British market</a> that would generate multi-millions in illicit income.</p>
<p>By following the coke, investigators quickly were able to find the seven men behind the plot. And by mid-2013, six of them - Ian Stanton, James Mossman, Gary Keating, Francis Oakford, Anthony Short and Anthony Saunderson – were convicted and given a total prison sentence of 77 years. But one, McDermott, managed to get away and evaded his time behind bars.</p>
<p>After fleeing, McDermott was featured in the Operation Captura fugitive campaign, used to locate and capture British criminals who went on the run abroad. He was traced to Ghana in March of 2016 and arrested in a joint operation by the National Crime Agency and the Ghanaian Bureau of National Investigations before being extradited to the United Kingdom in May.</p>
<p>While in Ghana, McDermott had married Ramona Wampah, the daughter of the governor of the African nation’s Central Bank, Dr Henry Kofi Wampah. This insured McDermott would be safe from British authorities, enjoying the protection and life of riches only a high-placed government official could offer.</p>
<p>Until, of course, said government official runs into his own legal problems. Dr Henry Kofi Wampah got involved in a scandal, seriously decreasing his political clout. British authorities, meanwhile, were pressing officials in Ghana for McDermott’s extradition.</p>
<p>With previous convictions for possession of cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine, McDermott didn’t stand a chance in court. He admitted his role in the conspiracy on the basis he would receive 50 kilograms of the cocaine shipment, which was valued at £15 million but if cut and sold it would have had a potential street value of approximately £71 million.</p>
<p>“McDermott was the logistics man for a crime group whose members were willing to use extreme violence,” National Crime Agency senior investigating officer Joanne Ralfs said. “He was an integral part, looking after transportation and making sure the job went ahead. We are here to take these people out and this is a great result. This particular crime group had a significant impact across the north west and if this conspiracy came off it, the drugs had the potential to devastate communities.”</p>
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