Outfit enforcer cries Covid-19 to secure release

Outfit enforcer Mario Rainone has spent nearly half his life behind bars for a wide range of offenses, from extorting deadbeat borrowers to throwing a grenade onto the roof of a theater in a ploy to take over the business. Now Rainone says he is the one who is living in fear: COVID-19. A previous judge had labeled Rainone an “urban terrorist” who had no respect for the law. “If you give him the opportunity, he will go out and commit crime. He will hurt people. He will take their property.” Rainone’s mob history dates to the 1980s, when he was an associate of mob bosses Lenny Patrick and Gus Alex.

Nashville 'Cocaine Felon' back behind bars

Darryl Alderson

Convicted felon Darryl Alderson was previously charged with throwing a half-pound brick of cocaine from his car. He was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison but paroled in 2015. He is back behind bars after a search warrant yielded 3.5 pounds of cocaine in his apartment. A window tint violation led to a search of Alderson's 2017 Porsche in which cops found 12 grams of cocaine and a .40 caliber semi-auto pistol. Cops also found $55k in cash, cutting agents, pills, and a drug press. The 29-year-old is now behind bars without bond.

Toronto Mafia boss Jimmy DeMaria out and about

Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeMaria has won his freedom but with conditions. Among them he is banned from communicating with two brothers: Angelo Figliomeni and Cosimo Figliomeni. Authorities in Italy deem them all Mafia fugitives. Angelo Figliomeni was arrested last year in Project Sindacato, a large anti-Mafia probe. Two men from Italy who are his cousins are also verbotten: Vincenzo Muià and Giuseppe Gregaraci. The two visited Canada last year to discuss mob business and met with several men who then visited DeMaria while he was in prison.

Angelo Figliomeni

Vincenzo Muià

DeMaria was arrested before he took a step out of prison. After winning parole due to Covid-19 and before he could leave Collins Bay prison, he was re-arrested by CBSA officers. They intend to deport him back to Italy, which he left as a child. With money no object, DeMaria has waged a 35-year war of fighting authorities in courts and tribunals, often winning. DeMaria is now in a 14-day quarantine, as is the pandemic protocol for prisoner transfers.

“You remain a high interest to policing authorities,” the parole board stated with no small measure of accuracy.

When one speaks of the ’Ndrangheta in Canada, DeMaria's name invariably appears.
See ----->Toronto Mafia boss wins new parole hearing in latest appeal
See ----->Dirty money leads police to Toronto Mafia clan - Project Sindacato

Cop arrested in California drug bust

Corporal Will Williams, 53, with the Redding Police Department has been charged after a raid landed 138 pounds of pot, 30 grams of cocaine, $59,000 and 2 firearms. Williams has been employed by the department since November 2002. Williams, Heather Michelle Legault, 40, and Michael Bradley Gray, 39, were arrested and booked into the Shasta County Jail.

Cartels exporting Meth expertise - d-meth

In Europe meth has traditionally been produced and consumed in eastern Europe. Up to 2016 police had busted three meth labs in Holland. In the last three years they have busted 27. Holland’s rising meth production is being supported by Mexican cartels. Most recently Dutch police raided a lab in a barn in the town of Achter-Drempt, seizing €10m ($10.8m) worth of crystal meth and precursors. Three, a Mexican, a Colombian, and an American were arrested.

The Dutch are now making an elite form of meth. In the cartel superlabs in Mexico, cooks use a precursor called BMK to make an easily made, less potent form of meth. BMK (benzyl methyl ketone, also called Phenylacetone) is the main precursor for the production of amphetamine. Mexican cooks have perfected a step that converts the waste materials from making this meth into a more potent, addictive, crystalline type of meth called “d-meth.” (dextromethamphetamine) Evidence of this technique has been found at all the busted Dutch sites.

Jamie Bezanson attacks elderly Chinese man with severe dementia - Update II

Jamie Bezanson

The Globe and Mail has picked up the story and Mr Bezanson is now receiving nation-wide attention. This observer feels no need to crucify the man. There might have have been no incident at all, save for the final push that sent the 92-year-old to the ground. Mr Bezanson likely recognizes that push was a large error. The lesson the rest of us can take away from this is to live and let live, and keep your hands to yourself. Period.

VPD say they have identified the tuff guy caught on video after voluminous input from the public after the video was released. His name will not be revealed until charges are laid. Police are searching for a man who assaulted a 92-year-old Chinese man with dementia last month in East Vancouver, in what is being called a hate crime. The elderly man wandered into the store and staff were attempting to help him when a man began yelling racist remarks that included comments about COVID-19. The attacker shoved the frail old man, which caused him to fall to the ground and hit his head on the concrete. He is recovering at home.

Anonymous tip sinks $3m cocaine shipment at border

More than 60kg of cocaine was seized.

An anonymous tip led U.S. Customs officers at the Pacific Highway Truck Crossing in Blaine to an estimated $3m in cocaine. Canadian trucker Ajitpal Singh Sanghera, 41 was busted as he approached the border. During a trailer check, Customs found five handbags containing cocaine.

Sanghera had crossed the US border more than 40 times so far this year. That, coupled with the amount of cocaine, led cops to conclude he was part of a large international drug trafficking ring.

Simon Dufresne killed, dismembered, burned

Five men were arrested for their alleged role in the death of Simon Dufresne, 31. Dufresne disapeared in March 2019 and is thought to have been dismembered and burnt. Dufresne was known in the underworld of organized crime and is said to have had a contract on his head. It is reported he did not respect territory belonging to the Hells Angels. Dufresne and his entourage were known to carry out drug rips and then sell the product in North Montreal.

Jonathan Provencher, 41, and Alfredo Rodriguez Farinas, 29, face counts of first degree murder, forcible confinement, conspiracy and complicity after the fact.

Jonathan Tshinkenke, 20, Yvon Camirand, 54, and Stéphane Larouche , 47, were also charged.

Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. - Kirsten Mide-Wilson - Update II

Ms. Kirsten Wilson has repeatedly billed herself as 'one of the few women in construction.' That is true but SHOULD it be so? She has earned nothing, built nothing, and appears to be running Cewe Construction into the ground. Repeated high risk violations of WorkSafe laws suggests she belongs in a different business, one less dangerous to her employees. In late 2018 Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. was fined $65,712 for health and safety violations. A fine of that magnitude says a great deal.

WorkSafeBC determined that the firm failed to undertake excavation work according to the requirements of the utility service owner, and failed to ensure machinery was kept the minimum approach distance from exposed electrical conductors. These were both repeated and high-risk violations. Jack Cewe has serious mismanagement issues. Perhaps Ms. Wilson figures rules are for others.

Lets put them together for Kirsten Mide-Wilson (kirsten@cewe.com), third generation owner of Jack Cewe Construction Ltd., an established road contractor in the lower mainland. What's her claim to fame?

Brilliance in business doesn't top the list. She figured she was too smart to pay an hourly fee and would instead get a lawyer to act for 20% of the winnings in her fight for a $100m inheritance from her grandfather, Jack Cewe. He left the bulk of his estate to his mistress, decidedly not his granddaughter. Mide-Wilson ended up with a bill for $17m, not the $ 2.5m the fight should have cost. She adamantly refused to pay. That bill was eventually reduced to $5m.

Take a bow Ms. Kirsten Wilson, you are a too rich, too greedy terd. It's called keeping your word, and in the world of men and construction it's likely the main reason for Jack Cewe's success. It also explains why he didn't want to give a nickle to his unethical, deadbeat granddaughter.

Cocaine trafficker sunk by selfies with large stacks of cash

Larry Dominique, 30, was sentenced to 5 years for drugs, weapons and proceeds of crime. Cellphones belonging to Dominique held text messages and photos detailing his drug transactions. They also contained images of him with large stacks of cash. He was granted 239 days credit for remand, leaving 1,951 days. The judge was impressed with the photos that acknowledged the seriousness of the matter.