 3 were arrested while three vehicles and six high value watches were seized. | Drogheda boss Owen Maguire was dealt a major blow after gardai seized €1.1m worth of drugs and €550k cash.  |  Two encrypted communications devices and two signal blocking devices were nabbed. |
 | Gardai say the drugs are linked to associates of Maguire and Cornelius Price, one side of the Drogheda feud. This is the second big hit they have taken. |  In April, over €2m was seized. |
 | A couple transporting $1m worth of methamphetamine from Arizona were likely framed. Lucas Jay Madison, 39 and his girlfriend Katherine Byrd Campbell, 32, sport looks that attest to their innocence. A detailed search of their vehicle found that they were transporting over 25 pounds of meth. Agents also seized over $17k. Madison has three prior drugs convictions. Over the past 20 years he has also been convicted on weapons possession, fleeing police, theft, counterfeiting, driving under the influence, property damage and domestic assault. He remains behind bars. |  |
 | A Texas man bought a car at an auction in the Rio Grande Valley and found he’d also won 74 pounds of cocaine that was stashed inside. The lucky bidder in Loredo alerted cops when he stumbled on the drugs inside a secret compartment in the vehicle. |  The 74.96 pounds of cocaine had an estimated street value of $850k. |
 | A judge ordered Anthony Comello, 25, transferred to a state Office of Mental Health facility for further evaluation. Comello fatally shot Gambino crime family boss Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, 53, outside Cali’s home on March 13, 2019. Comello’s former lawyer, contends the defendant was deluded by conspiracy theories and thought he was defending himself when he shot the victim. Comello says he drove to Cali’s house to affect a citizen’s arrest on the mob boss. |  Comello believed Cali “held a significant status in a worldwide criminal cabal bent on the destruction of American values and the American way of life,” |
 Ron Clause, 51, is charged with assaulting a peace officer. | A man charged with attacking an OPP officer during a traffic stop has links to an outlaw motorcycle club and a past conviction for assaulting a cop. Ron Clause was charged with assaulting a Middlesex OPP officer last week after cops pulled over a pickup truck that they say was carrying a gun, ammunition and 27 grams of meth. Clause was convicted of the same crime in 1996 and sentenced to four months in jail. A separate charge of assaulting a police officer that year was withdrawn. |  |
 Ryan Mark Daigneault | Clause’s social media connections include Outlaws. One of them is Ryan Mark Daigneault, president of the London Outlaws chapter, who was charged with organizing a hit on a Hells Angels three years ago. The Crown withdrew the charge against Daigneault in 2018, one week before he was supposed to go to trial for counselling to commit murder. The Hells Angels were said to be not pleased and would seek retribution. “The Hells Angels will lose credibility if nothing happens,” one Outlaw said. Nothing happened. London HAMC Chapter president is Rob Barletta. |  |
Nigel “Duffo” Mayers was found with an AK-47 assault rifle fitted with a sniper scope and a drum magazine. It was seized following a shoot-out between the police and a man once dubbed the country’s most wanted criminal. Mayers was freed of two murder charges from 2005 last year, and was wanted by the police. |
 | Cops were about to announce that they were police officers armed with a warrant when they were fired on. Cops said when the shooting from the house stopped and they entered, they found Mayers bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds with the assault rifle near his side. He was taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. |
 | Punjab police said Ranjeet Rana, 'Cheetah', who was wanted in the 532-kg heroin haul from Attari on the Indo-Pakistan border in June last year, has been arrested. Rana, the kingpin of the racket, and his brother Gagandeep were arrested from their hideout at Begu village in Sirsa. Rana had links with the Hizbul Mujahideen and was involved in terror funding. He is considered one of the top traffickers in India. |  Ranjeet smuggled heroin and other drugs from Pakistan. He camouflaged rock salt consignments. |
 Some cocaine was of high purity over 75%, with the rest cut to 65-70%. | Bulgarian police have seized more than 360kg of cocaine in the capital. The cocaine haul was made in the apartment of 33-year old Nikolay Petrov, after police had found 40kg during a routine traffic stop. |  |
 | Cops say the haul is worth $50m with most of the drugs meant for shipment to western Euurope. Bulgaria lies on a drug route from the Middle East to Western Europe, and Bulgarians have long been active in the cocaine trade. Bulgarian drug lord Evelin Banev 'Brendo', was sentenced to 20 years in 2012. |  |
 | York cops have arrested 20 and brought hundreds of charges, including murder, in the often violent turf war between tow-truck criminals. Dubbed 'Project Platinum,' cops say towing companies colluded with repair shops, physiotherapy clinics and car rental companies to grossly inflate bills, with each group taking a slice. |  Cops say some were involved in staged collisions to rip off insurance companies. |
 | Project Platinum began in February and has resulted in the seizure of $1.5m in cash, fentanyl, and cocaine. Cops confiscated 40 firearms, including handguns, rifles, and a machine gun. 11 tow trucks were also seized. The operation produced two first-degree murder charges in the death of tow truck driver Soheil Rafipour in 2018. |  |
 | Alexander Vinogradsky, 35, ran Paramount Towing and one of the cartels, along with Omer Zahawi, 36, and Filippo Genova, 22. They face a mountain of charges. The raid comes nearly a year after another major police operation targeting the tow truck industry, Project Kraken. More than 70 – including seven drivers were nailed in that operation. |  |
 | Hong Kong customs agents discovered 217 kg of cocaine stashed inside an aircraft engine shipped from Ecuador. The engine arrived in March in a shipping container. Customs officers were suspicious as jet engines are rarely shipped from South America, and the receiver didn't collect the presumed expensive cargo. |  An X-ray revealed the stash and the engine was disassembled. |
 | After inspection it was found the engine was old, not airworthy, and not serviceable. It was rusty, but the outer shell of the combustion chamber had been spray painted to make it look new. This is the largest seaborne cocaine trafficking bust in Hong Kong since 2012 and is among the largest cocaine seizures so far this year from a shipping container. |
