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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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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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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><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Crew leader</strong></span></p>
<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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One of “Europe’s most wanted” crime bosses faces justice in Romania
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2020-02-16T09:31:25.000Z
2020-02-16T09:31:25.000Z
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<p>A fugitive <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Romania" target="_blank">Romanian</a> crime boss was extradited Wednesday from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=UK" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a> back to his home country to face trial. 45-year-old Florin Ghinea was detained by officers from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NCA" target="_blank">National Crime Agency</a>’s Armed Operations Unit as he left a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gym" target="_blank">gym</a> in Watford on August 14, 2018.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237149300,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237149300?profile=original" /></a>Ghinea, who goes by the nickname “Ghenosu”, allegedly runs a major organized crime group and had been wanted by the Romanian authorities for human trafficking, conspiracy to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>, blackmail and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Money" target="_blank">money laundering</a>. He was listed as one of Europol’s most wanted men.</p>
<p>He stands accused of orchestrating a trafficking ring which saw Romanian women sent to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Ireland" target="_blank">Ireland</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Finland" target="_blank">Finland</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Dubai" target="_blank">Dubai</a>, where they were put to work as <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Prostitution" target="_blank">prostitutes</a>. Ghinea murder charge stems from him conspiring to kill a gangland rival.</p>
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A most wanted man: Moroccan-Belgian drug boss Rachid Bouazza
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2019-10-13T09:27:54.000Z
2019-10-13T09:27:54.000Z
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<p>An international drug boss from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Belgium" target="_blank">Belgian</a> city of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Antwerp" target="_blank">Antwerp</a> was placed on the country’s most wanted list, this week. 55-year-old Rachid Bouazza is a Moroccan national and was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in March for his leading role in a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a> conspiracy.</p>
<p>Bouazza led an organization that smuggled large shipments of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> from the Dominican Republic into the port of Antwerp. According to Belgium media, he has been a leading figure in the city’s underworld for the better part of two decades.</p>
<p>In May of 2013 he was sentenced to 4 years behind bars for drug trafficking. Rather than serve his sentence, he vanished and remained a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Fugitive" target="_blank">fugitive</a> ever since. Now, he finds himself standing in the spotlight.</p>
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Learning from mistakes, murdering one’s rival and retiring to Thailand - Profile of Yakuza boss Shigeharu Shirai
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2018-01-12T13:55:28.000Z
2018-01-12T13:55:28.000Z
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<p>Sure. Shigeharu Shirai has made mistakes. Who hasn’t? But he’s learned from them. He’s paid for them. In his line of business mistakes cost. Sometimes even a life. To keep that in mind, he’s had to cut off his little finger. Just so he remembers that mistakes cost dearly and have no place among the powerful members of the Yakuza.</p>
<p>His deformed hand branded him as a mobster for the rest of his life. In Japan, people immediately know what caused the loss of that finger. The mistake set his criminal career in stone. No turning back.</p>
<p>As he moved up in the world of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Yakuza" target="_blank">Yakuza</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Japan’s Mafia</a>, he showed he had matured, that he was missing a finger but had gained knowledge. He also gained elaborate tattoos all over his body – another staple of the Yakuza. The <em>irezumi</em> tats were a sign of his important status. By the 2000s, Shirai had become a leader of the Kodo-kai, an affiliate gang of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-boss-yoshinori-watanabe" target="_blank">Yamaguchi-gumi</a>, Japan’s largest Yakuza clan.</p>
<p>Leading the Kodo-kai proved troubling. There were some squabbles that resulted in a split within the group and subsequent deadly violence. The boss of the rival faction was shot to death in the village of Takasucho in Tsu City in July of 2003. Police quickly found that Shirai had taken out the rival leader within his own clan and began arresting several of the group’s members – seven of them were convicted and sentenced to between 12 and 17 years in prison.</p>
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<p>The increased attention from authorities caused Shirai to break a sweat. In 2005, he decided it best to pack up his things and sneak to a foreign country. Japanese investigators were confronted with a Yakuza boss who vanished into thin air to evade facing punishment for murdering his gangland rival.</p>
<p>When the clock struck 12 and people wished their loved ones a happy 2018, Shirai celebrated his thirteenth year as a fugitive. He had settled in the Lopburi Province, smackdown in the middle of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a>, where he married a Thai woman. Now in his early 70s,, he was simply living out the rest of his life.</p>
<p>By all accounts, he kept a low profile. He didn’t have much money to spent and is alleged to have slept in parks after he no longer had funds to stay in hotels. A couple of times a year, a Japanese man came and gave him some cash. How much is unknown. As is the reason.</p>
<p>Though the easy guess is the man did so because of Shirai’s position as a Yakuza boss. He might be a fugitive. He might be retired. But he still has the tattoos. He still misses that finger. He still devoted his life to the clan. He still is a boss.</p>
<p>In Thailand, Shirai had begun to draw some attention to himself. His tattoos amazed one man who decided to take a photo and share it on his Facebook account. At 74 years of age, Shirai probably didn’t realize the mistake he had just made. Within days the image was shared thousands of times and Japanese police contacted their Thai colleagues.</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, January 10, Shirai was doing some shopping in Lopburi when he was swarmed by a Thai SWAT team and placed under arrest. The jig was up.</p>
<p>Shirai admitted that he was the leader of the Kodo-kai, a Thai police spokesman stated after the arrest. Of course, being a member - or even a boss - of the Yakuza is not a crime. Murder, however, is. On that note, “The suspect has not confessed to murder but has admitted that the victim used to bully him,” the spokesman added.</p>
<p>His retirement in Thailand may have come to an abrupt end, but men in Shirai’s world know that there is no such thing as retirement. All it takes is one mistake. And then they pull you back in.</p>
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Profile: Genovese family mobster Salvatore DeMeo
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2017-10-14T10:09:23.000Z
2017-10-14T10:09:23.000Z
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<p>Brooklyn mobster Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo (above, aging through his mugshots) is another great example that when it comes to the Mafia: You don’t retire. In his late seventies, he is still scheming and making millions in the process. But these riches come at a price, one that the government insists he pay.</p>
<p>You could call him a blue-collar kind of mobster. As a former sanitation worker, DeMeo isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and get the job done. In the 1980s and 1990s, he ran a robbery crew in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">New York’s Genovese crime family</a> of which he is a longtime member.</p>
<p>His thieving antics caught up to him in 1996, when he was charged with stealing $400,000 from a New Jersey bank. Trying his best to stay out of prison, he went <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangsters-inc-s-mafia-speak" target="_blank">on the lam</a>, and as a result he was featured on America’s Most Wanted. Running from the law will only get you so far and it was no different for DeMeo who was eventually convicted and sentenced to 57 months in federal prison.</p>
<p>But he wasn’t done with ‘the life.’ In 2002, he pleaded guilty to a bank stick-up and an armored car heist. And on December 15, 2016, he was busted again, as he was caught up in what authorities have named “<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/genovese-family-mobsters-charged-with-running-off-shore-gambling" target="_blank">Operation Shark Bait</a>,” a long-term investigation into DeMeo’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">Genovese family mob</a> crew that ran lucrative illegal gambling and loansharking operations throughout New York.</p>
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<p>According to the indictment, the illegal off-shore <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gambling" target="_blank">gambling</a> operation was based in Costa Rica and was available online via <a href="http://www.4Spades.org">www.4Spades.org</a>. The website delivered the mob crew millions of dollars’ worth of wagers.</p>
<p>DeMeo pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 5 years of probation in September of this year. A pretty sweet deal for such a longtime gangster. But authorities, apparently, weren’t quite done with the aging goodfella.</p>
<p>On October 12, DeMeo was charged with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Tax" target="_blank">tax evasion</a>. Prosecutors claim he failed to report $2 million in capital gains and stiffed the government out of $367,000 in taxes. He inherited two pieces property in Brooklyn from his father and sold off all his shares.</p>
<p>Hoping to hold on to as much cash as possible, he tried to hide it from the IRS by cutting up his proceeds into smaller portions and stuffing the money into other people’s accounts. He put $1 million into the account of a plumbing business that was run by another Genovese family mobster. Much of the money is untraceable, prosecutors say.</p>
<p>DeMeo was released on $2 million bond and faces 41 months behind bars if convicted.</p>
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Relatives of deceased Liverpool crime boss lose £2m hidden nest egg
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2016-12-09T17:00:00.000Z
2016-12-09T17:00:00.000Z
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<p>The wife and fugitive son of deceased Liverpool crime boss Leslie McGuffie, were forced to give up £1,887,000 from two Luxembourg bank accounts, £94,831.20 from the sale of an apartment in Malaga, Spain and £9,563.49 in cash found in an apartment in Liverpool, a total of £1,991,394.69, the National Crime Agency reported Wednesday.</p>
<p>The assets, which contained money amassed over ten years while Leslie McGuffie was on the run, were discovered after his death in 2012. They were recovered using civil recovery powers, under which a judge can order the seizure of property where there is no legitimate explanation for its ownership.</p>
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<p>Leslie McGuffie served prison sentences for robbery and drug trafficking. In 1993, he fled the United Kingdom, using fraudulently obtained passports in six aliases. He was later imprisoned twice in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands">the Netherlands</a> for drug trafficking under two of the stolen aliases.</p>
<p>Upon his release, he moved to the Costa del Sol, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain">Spain</a> – a favorite among <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview">European gangsters</a> - and in 2007 became subject to a European arrest warrant. In 2010 he was arrested in the United Kingdom by officers from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the NCA’s predecessor agency, and stood trial for absconding and fraud offences relating to the passports.</p>
<p>He pleaded guilty to the offences in December of that year and was sent back to prison, but was released on compassionate grounds the following year and died in 2012. His 44-year-old son <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/most-wanted-fugitive-liverpool-drug-boss-simon-mcguffie-faces-jus" target="_blank">Simon</a> followed in his father's footsteps and is one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives and has several <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs">drug trafficking</a> convictions.</p>
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FBI arrests Jamaican gangster sought for 4 murders day after it placed him on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
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2016-12-03T09:27:50.000Z
2016-12-03T09:27:50.000Z
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<p>Just one day after the FBI placed Jamaican gangster Marlon Jones on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, he is in custody. He is charged with involvement in the shooting murder of four individuals in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Jones has a violent criminal history in the United States, where the FBI believes he is residing illegally. Authorities allege he is a member of an East Coast <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Jamaica">Jamaican organized crime</a> group involved in the illegal distribution of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana">marijuana</a>.</p>
<p>While attending a birthday party on October 15, 2016, Jones allegedly shot and killed a rival Jamaican gang member. The party was being held at a crowded home in the West Adams District of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LA">Los Angeles</a> that had been temporarily converted into a restaurant.</p>
<p>According to detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Criminal Gangs Homicide Division, an exchange of gunfire took place between rival gang members, leaving four dead and ten others wounded. They believe Jones was deliberately sent to the party to settle a disagreement with the rival gang.</p>
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<p>On October 21, 2016, a local arrest warrant was obtained by the Los Angeles Police Department for Jones after he was charged with four counts of murder by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.</p>
<p>“The crimes allegedly committed by Marlon Jones are extremely violent, earning him a place on the FBI’s Top Ten list,” said Deirdre L. Fike, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “The publicity the Top Ten list affords investigators cannot be overstated, as its continued success has shown. Our Fugitive Task Force is highly capable at finding dangerous fugitives and will use their expertise, coupled with the public’s assistance and a large reward offer, to locate and capture Marlon Jones.”</p>
<p>Indeed, they did. A $100,000 reward was enough incentive. Acting on a tip from the public, the FBI’s fugitive task force arrested Jones yesterday after a freeway pursuit.</p>
<p>His arrest brings to end a difficult search by <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LAPD">LAPD</a> detectives investigating the case. They received information that Jones had been visiting from New York and staying with associates in Los Angeles, but were unable to locate him.</p>
<p>As an internationally operating gangster with ties to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Tennessee, the Virgin Islands, and Jamaica, Jones had plenty of options for escape. Furthermore, he was very savvy by using multiple identities, all with different dates of birth between 1970 and 1981.</p>
<p>In the end, though, the heat that comes with being one of America’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives proved too much.</p>
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Fugitive Liverpool drug boss Robert Gerrard turns himself in
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2016-10-27T14:38:34.000Z
2016-10-27T14:38:34.000Z
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<p>Alleged Liverpool drug boss Robert Gerrard (photo above) turned himself in to authorities yesterday after spending three years on the run. The 53-year-old gangster said the pressure of being a wanted man had become too much.</p>
<p>Gerrard had made arrangements via his lawyer to meet with officers of the National Crime Agency at Central Park Police Station in Manchester. There, he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine">cocaine</a>. Authorities believe he is the leader of a £60 million-pound drug ring.</p>
<p>As the second cousin of England’s star footballer Steven Gerrard, “Uncle” Robert had a lot more difficulty staying out of the limelight than your average gangster. The British tabloids love to shed some light on the black sheep who hovers around a famous football player, especially when that black sheep is a drug boss on the run from authorities.</p>
<p>Having had enough with its criminals fleeing from justice by seeking refuge in other parts of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview">Europe</a>, British authorities kicked off several international Most Wanted campaigns to turn up the heat.</p>
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<p>As part of one such campaign, Operation Return in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands">the Netherlands</a>, Gerrard’s mugshot appeared in the news both in Great Britain and overseas. The National Crime Agency (NCA) appealed for help to find him following a raid in October 2013 on a café in the city of Rotterdam used as a front for a global operations center for international drug traffickers.</p>
<p>Café de Ketel, which could only be entered via a buzzer system and was strictly for known faces, provided a meeting place where gangsters negotiated with cartel members and arranged the financing and transportation of drugs. Authorities believe Gerrard, who could not be located at the time of the raid, used the café as part of a plot to import large quantities of cocaine into the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>“Robert Gerrard handing himself in shows the impact we are having with our Most Wanted campaigns,” Greg McKenna, Regional Head of Investigations for the NCA said. “We don’t know at this stage how long Gerrard has been back in the United Kingdom for, but he told our officers that the pressure of being on the run had got too much for him. The fugitives on our most wanted list really do have nowhere to hide. I would urge any of the remaining ones to take note – save yourself the trouble and hand yourself in because we will never stop hunting you and you will face justice.”</p>
<p>Gerrard appeared at Manchester Magistrates Court yesterday afternoon and was remanded in custody until his next hearing at Manchester Crown Court on November 23.</p>
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Sicilian Mafia boss Messina Denaro’s sister sentenced to over 14 years in prison – Found guilty of being “made”
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2016-10-11T17:00:00.000Z
2016-10-11T17:00:00.000Z
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<p>Anna Patrizia Messina Denaro, the 46-year-old sister of the Sicilian Mafia’s boss of bosses <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-matteo">Matteo Messina Denaro</a> was sentenced to 14 and a half years in prison in Palermo appeals court yesterday. She had already been found guilty of being an official “made” member of Cosa Nostra, a rare occurrence in the male-dominated <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sicilian-cosa-nostra-overview">Sicilian Mafia</a>.</p>
<p>She had initially been sentenced to 13 years in prison, but after appeal her sentence was raised. She had been arrested in a roundup of thirty members and associates linked to Matteo Messina Denaro, an elusive boss who has been a fugitive since the 1990s. Authorities believe he uses his sister to communicate with his underlings.</p>
<p>Law enforcement hopes these type of arrests further isolate Messina Denaro, forcing him to come out into the open to run his criminal empire and making him easier to locate as his army of trusted associates is seriously thinned. The same thing happened to his colleague <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-of-bosses-bernardo-provenzano-dead-at-83">Bernardo Provenzano</a>.</p>
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Fugitive Gangster Disciples leader arrested in New Orleans
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2016-09-20T13:37:50.000Z
2016-09-20T13:37:50.000Z
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<p>The FBI arrested Shauntay Lamarr Craig, an alleged leader of the violent Gangster Disciples gang, in New Orleans on Sunday. The 38-year-old crime boss was hit with federal racketeering charges along with 49 other gang members on April 28, 2016, but managed to evade arrest.</p>
<p>Craig was wanted for his alleged involvement in criminal activities related to his alleged role as a “board member,” a position of national leadership, within the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Disciples">Gangster Disciples</a>. Since 2009, Craig is reported to have held a high rank in the organization controlling gang activity nationwide. He also allegedly acted as a supply source for many members of the gang dealing in heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and oxycodone. Craig was also allegedly responsible for ordering members of the organization to carry out violent retaliatory acts.</p>
<p>The Gangster Disciples, as a whole, are believed to be responsible for numerous murders and robberies and are alleged to have engaged in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Extortion">extortion</a> plots and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs">narcotics trafficking</a> throughout the United States.</p>
<p>“The FBI and its many law enforcement partners have undertaken the arduous task of dismantling this dangerous and violent national <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gangs">street gang</a> known as the Gangster Disciples,” said George Couch, acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta Division. “With an extensive series of federal indictments and ensuing arrests, we feel that we have made significant progress toward this goal. Taking down the leadership of such an organization is, however, imperative and the arrest of Shauntay Craig brings us even closer to our objectives.”</p>
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Fugitive Russian mobster caught in Pattaya, Thailand
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2016-03-26T12:05:12.000Z
2016-03-26T12:05:12.000Z
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<p>Vladislav Yudichev (photo above) thought he was safe from the long reach of law enforcement when he settled in the coastal city of Pattaya in Thailand, but he underestimated Interpol, the organization that was looking for the gangster for his alleged acts of fraud and corruption.</p>
<p>Last week, the Chonburi Immigration Office deported 44-year-old Yudichev after the Russian embassy in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mob-boss-arrested-in-thailand">Bangkok</a> informed the Jomtien Beach immigration office that it had revoked the passport of the wanted fugitive and asked for their help in locating and repatriating him.</p>
<p>Immigration police contacted Yudichev and lured him to their office by telling the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview">mobster</a> that his visa had changed and that he needed to sign some documents. Upon arrival he was placed in handcuffs and arrested.</p>
<p>He now faces fraud and corruption charges back in his home country of Russia. Yudichev denies having committed any crimes, but did say he was in debt about a million baht and recently sold property in Russia for sixty times that amount. Flush with cash, he doesn’t understand what the charges are related to.</p>
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