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Profile: Canadian drug boss Kevin Donald Kerfoot
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2017-07-29T10:30:00.000Z
2017-07-29T10:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-canadian-drug-boss-kevin-donald-kerfoot" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237099479,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237099479?profile=original" width="600" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Smugglers have always found the border between Canada and the United States to be a lucrative one. It’s long and accessible by various routes on water and land. Back during Prohibition, traffickers would do rum runs, but nowadays it’s all about narcotics. 53-year-old Kevin Kerfoot knows this all too well.</p>
<p>Kevin Donald Kerfoot (photos above) was raised in Surrey, British Colombia, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Canada" target="_blank">Canada</a>, in a close-knit and, as he called it himself, ideal family. His older brother is a wildly successful businessperson who gave Kerfoot various opportunities to be successful outside of a life of crime, but for some reason the dangers and riches of the fast life of the underworld was too alluring.</p>
<p>In 2005, Kerfoot had assembled a nice crew of naïve individuals and sent them down to the United States with over seven kilos of MDMA, also known as <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Ecstasy" target="_blank">ecstasy</a>, into the country for distribution via his network there. The same group would then make a return trip carrying 41 kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> up I-5 and onto a boat for transit to Canada.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately for the smugglers, American agents received information that a large load of cocaine was traveling towards the border in October 2005. Acting on the information, a Washington State Trooper identified a suspicious vehicle driving erratically. After stopping the vehicle, a narcotics K-9 alerted to the presence of cocaine in the vehicle and officers discovered the 41 kilos of cocaine.</p>
<p>During police interrogation, the driver, Randall Canupp, cracked and spilled the beans. He told police about the other members and the route he was supposed to take. He also identified Kerfoot as the man in charge of the operation.</p>
<p>Canupp and Kerfoot had been arrested together for smuggling marijuana into the United States from Canada in the late 1990s. During the police interview, Canupp received several calls from Kerfoot on his cell phone. Some of these calls with Kerfoot were recorded, although the audio quality was quite poor, court documents reveal.</p>
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<p>With help of Canupp, undercover agents worked to arrest other members of the smuggling ring, including the captain of a boat waiting at the Bellingham marina, and two other men who were waiting to pick up and distribute the ecstasy the boat had brought down from Canada. Nine months after authorities busted his drug transport, in July of 2006, prosecutors indicted Kerfoot on drug trafficking charges.</p>
<p>But he refused to go down without a fight, much like infamous <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/montreal-mafia-boss-vito-rizzuto-1946-2013" target="_blank">Canadian Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto</a> did when U.S. authorities sought his extradition on murder charges. Kerfoot vigorously fought extradition from Canada and convinced at least one member of the crime ring to change his statement to law enforcement.</p>
<p>His fight continued for years and as it celebrated its ten-year anniversary it turned violent. Last August, just as his appeals were running out, one of the former members of the drug ring was attacked in a brazen daylight shooting and suffered seven to eight gunshot wounds as he sat in his car. He managed to put his vehicle in gear and run down the shooter before he could reload and was able to survive. The former crew member-turned-snitch then reported to Canadian law enforcement that Kerfoot was behind the targeted attack. The shooter is currently awaiting trial in Canada as he was apprehended after he had been wounded by his intended victim’s car.</p>
<p>After exhausting the extradition process in the Canadian court system, Kerfoot was transferred to the Western District of Washington and pleaded guilty in April 2017. On July 27, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Seattle. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly said Kerfoot, “was involved with a tremendous amount of drugs.”</p>
<p>The other members of the smuggling ring were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six-and-a-half years to just over three years. All have since been released after serving their sentences.</p>
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Russian mob boss released on bail in Austria
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2016-02-24T13:37:27.000Z
2016-02-24T13:37:27.000Z
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<p>Russian mob boss Aslan Gagiev was released on bail by an Austrian court yesterday. A surprising move considering he is wanted in Moscow for his involvement in at least six murders, including the killings of some very high-placed figures.</p>
<p>Gagiev was arrested by police in January 2015 at a Vienna train station. Upon his arrest, Russia requested his extradition. Prosecutors in Russia have accused Gagiev and his gang of murdering the deputy vice-president of the Russian republic of North Ossetia, the deputy public prosecutor, a mayor, and the chief of police.</p>
<p>Heavy accusations, but Austria’s highest court delayed the extradition for fears over Gagiev’s treatment by Russian authorities. Worse, their most wanted crime boss is now out on bail, bond was set at €100,000 euros. Though Gagiev was ordered to remain in the country, Russian prosecutors will not rest easy knowing their target has the possibility to move around freely.</p>
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Russian mob boss arrested in Thailand
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2014-06-26T10:30:00.000Z
2014-06-26T10:30:00.000Z
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<p>Russian mob boss Alexander Matusov (52) was arrested in Thailand this week on charges that he led a violent gang that committed over 60 murders in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He had been a fugitive since 2009. His arrest is another sign that life as a fugitive in Thailand isn’t what it used to be.</p>
<p>Matusov was caught in front of a supermarket in Chon Buri province’s seaside town of Sattahip (below) where he was just another foreign face enjoying the warm climate and laid back atmosphere Thailand offers its visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/gangstersinc-20" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237030680,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237030680?profile=original" width="585" /></a>If you are a criminal on the run from the law Thailand is the place to be. It’s where people come to get lost. Forgotten. But Thai authorities have had enough of its shady tourists and a number of high profile arrests underscore their intent to clean up the streets. Notorious arms smuggler <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/viktor-bout-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison">Viktor Bout</a> knows this all too well.</p>
<p>At a press conference Pol General Wuthi Liptapallop, the chief adviser to the Royal Thai Police, said that Matusov was the leader of the Chelkovo gang, also known as the Shchyolkovo organized crime group. It’s name reportedly means Desert Bandit gang. They allegedly “[have] more than 100 members” and committed crimes ranging from extortion and contract killings to torture and kidnappings.</p>
<p>Matusov and his gang were active from 1995 to 2009 in Moscow, Tula, St. Petersburg, and Leningrad. In 1996, Chelkovo members killed four rival gangsters. In 2009, police found the bodies of 15 of the gang’s victims in forests near Moscow. Matusov was put on the wanted list that same year, when police brought three murder charges against members of his crime group.</p>
<p>He will be extradited to Russia to face these charges. If convicted, Matusov will face up to 15 years in prison.</p>
<p>Thai police acted on request by and in cooperation with the Russian embassy in Thailand. Alexey Falunin, the embassy’s vice-consult, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28019509" target="_blank">said</a> the Chelkovo gang was “one of the most dangerous criminal gangs” <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview">operating in Russia</a> at the time. “The gang was responsible for about 60 murders” Falunin told reporters.</p>
<p>Matusov had first arrived in Thailand on September 5, 2009, and later left for Cambodia. Using false passports he was able to move around the area largely unnoticed. He had been living in Thailand on a retirement visa, which, according to Wuthi Liptapallop, had cast light on other foreigners living in Thailand on retirement visas.</p>
<p>The days of being forgotten in Thailand seem to have come to an end.</p>
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