Glasgow drugs kingpin ‘Big Poppa’ nailed through EncroChat

Darren Collin, 29, ‘Big Poppa’ is feeling the pain after a £1.3m cocaine and heroin bust that flattened his organization. Collin is connected to the notorious Lyons gang and Dublin’s Kinahan cartel. Big Poppa was one of the first criminals convicted after the encrypted network EncroChat was hacked by authorities. His role in the huge drug supply operation was blown apart by experts who decoded his texts to gang members. EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider. Police infiltrated the network between March and June 2020. The service had around 60,000 subscribers at the time of its closure.

At least 800 arrests have been made across Europe as of mid July 2020.

Latin Kings gangster 'King Humble' looking at 20 years

Alvin Mojica, 32, 'King Humble' was one of 62 people arrested Dec. 5 when federal and local police executed 31 search warrants, the culmination of a five-year RICO investigation into the gang. Mojica sold about 14 grams of cocaine to a police cooperator. The highest ranking member arrested was Michael Cecchetelli, 'King Merlin.' During the 4 year investigation, cops developed evidence that the Latin Kings trafficked drugs, conspired to murder more than 10 victims, and committed a huge number of violent crimes including robbery, shootings, stabbings and witness intimidation.

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'right-hand man' Brown pulls 44 months in cocaine bust

Thomas Brown, 32, was the "right-hand man" in a large ring peddling cocaine.  Brown was charged after cops seized guns, cocaine, and more than $840k.

He was sent to deal with drug debts. He also had a key to the stash house. His sentence is 44 months in prison. Police called it one of the biggest seizures of money in Newfoundland and Labrador's history.

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UK's Morton “I'm a gangster, I am stealing his taxi”

UK 'gangster' Gary Morton, 45, called a taxi to take him to a McDonald’s. When they arrived the plot thickened, with Morton shouting at the taxi driver. “I am a gangster, I am stealing his taxi” before getting into the driver’s seat and driving off. Police spotted Morton driving the taxi nearby. When officers went to stop him he drove off. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison and banned from driving for 30 months.

GTA tow truck turf under microscope

Insiders say the GTA towing industry has attracted hard-core groups, including bikers with Hells Angels ties in the east end and immigrant groups in the west. The amount of money to be made is huge — and only a small portion of it comes from towing. Illegal referral fees are part of a greater and more lucrative effort to defraud insurance companies. A task force in 2012 suggested some lawyers and paralegals were involved in the fraud. Along with the white-collar criminals, the industry is orbited by crooked cops and hard-core gangsters.

Three Ottawa cops were charged with taking kickbacks relating to towing. Project Platinum investigators hit four organized crime groups as they seized a machine-gun, 16 handguns, 13 shotguns, nine rifles, a sawed-off shotgun, thousands of rounds of ammunition, brass knuckles, stun guns and a silencer. Drug trafficking in the towing industry is common. Investigators seized five kg of fentanyl, 1.5 kg of cocaine, 1.25 kg of crystal meth and more than $500k cash.

Industry groups say one way to cut the violence and fraud would be to stop rewarding all the spoils from an accident to the first tow truck on the scene. The 'first come first served' approach rewards a criminal.

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Saad al Jabri wanted - billions missing

Fugitive Saad Al Jabri, a former top Saudi official, and his group at Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry misspent $11 billion in government funds, according to the Wall Street Journal. Al Jabri, on the run in Canada, ran a special Interior Ministry fund that was focused on high level counter-terrorism. Funds from the unit were funneled through a company called Technology Control Co, which was funded by the ministry but also owned at times by Al Jabri’s brother, his nephew and two close associates.

Al Jabri is considered a high-level national security asset by British and U.S. intelligence.

Saad al Jabri has been living in Toronto after a 2017 palace coup in Riyadh that left Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia. He is officially next in line to succeed his 84-year-old father, King Salman. The Saudis attempted to have al Jabri arrested through an Interpol “red notice” in late 2017. Riyadh asked Canada to extradite him in the fall of 2019 even though there is no extradition treaty with the kingdom.

Comancheros bikie boss Pitasoni Ulavalu killed in bar fight

Feared bikie boss Pitasoni Ulavalu has been stabbed to death in a violent street fight just days after a court appearance over a pub brawl with the Nomads. Ulavalu, president of the Comancheros' Canberra chapter, died from knife wounds to his neck at a Canberra bar about midnight on Sunday. The 48-year-old was at Kokomo's nightclub when he was stabbed in the melee before staggering outside and collapsing on the pavement.

Ulavalu faced charges of affray and assault over a brawl with the rival Nomads in January last year.

Video of Vikas Dubey goes viral

An old video of slain gangster #VikasDubey has gone viral in which he is seen throwing a wrestling challenge. “Batao hai koi ladne wala pehalwan...(Tell me if a wrestler is ready to fight …),” he says in the video. pic.twitter.com/jibmO5oHUC — TOI Kanpur (@TOIKanpur) July 19, 2020

The video was captured a few days before Vikas Dubey's death. Vikas Dubey surrendered at the Mahakal temple in Ujjai. He was being taken to Kanpur when, en route, he was shot dead by police. Vikas equipped his henchmen with sophisticated Bihar 7.65 pistols made in Munger. They are always in demand among the country's gangsters and contract killers.

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B.C. fentanyl overdoses setting records, again

B.C. recorded its deadliest month ever for drug overdoses. 175 people died in June, up from the record of 171 deaths set in May. Experts suggest that making dicetylmorphine (prescription heroin) more readily available would be one option to address the problem. “It's simple. If you just give those to people … all these massive costs to society would just go away.” A total of 189 people have died of COVID-19 in B.C.

Genaro Garcia Luna a wicked cartel gangster - US

From 2001 to 2005, Garcia Luna led Mexico's federal investigation agency, and from 2006 to 2012, he served as Mexico's Secretary of Public Security.

Mexico's former top security official trafficked cocaine and took millions in bribes to protect drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, prosecutors claim. Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, is said to have been involved with the Sinaloa Cartel. A superseding indictment issued a new charge of 'engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.' He faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Garcia Luna is currently awaiting trial in New York after pleading not guilty on charges he conspired to traffic cocaine and made false statements.

Two other high-ranking Mexican law enforcement officials, Luis Cardenas Palomino, 51, and Ramon Pequeno Garcia, 53, were also charged with cocaine trafficking. Garcia Luna had been the subject of testimony of former cartel member Jesus Zambada during kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's trial last year.  He testified that he personally made at least $6m in hidden payments to Garcia Luna between 2005 and 2007.