Former police chief turned pin-up model busted for workers' comp fraud

She used names such as "Tuff As Nailz" and "The Black Widow Bettie".

Brenda Cavoretto, 47, was chief of police in Coulee City, Washington when she was called to a scene involving a man who had hanged himself. The heavy corpse fell on her as cops took it down, leaving her with "severe psychological trauma." Her case worker became suspicious after 4 years of payments resulted in no improvement. Cavoretto had been working since 2015 photographing pinup models. She organized fundraisers, appearing herself in dozens of publications.

Cocaine supplier to Green Berets extradited

Gustavo Adolfo Pareja, 26, of Cali, Colombia, was extradited to Pensacola after a DEA investigation. Pareja is charged with two federal drug trafficking conspiracy charges involving large amounts of cocaine. Master Sergeant Daniel Gould of the United States Army 7th Special Forces Group and Henry Royer, formerly of the United States Army, conspired to distribute large amounts of cocaine. Gould and Royer tried to smuggle 40kg of cocaine hidden inside two gutted punching bags. A suspicious embassy employee had the packages x-rayed, revealing the plot. Pareja is said to be the source of supply of their cocaine. If convicted, Pareja faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years up to life in federal prison.

The 2 former Special Forces soldiers pleaded guilty to drug trafficking late last year and will spend nine years each in federal prison.

See ----->Green Beret Pleads Guilty

DEA lands Mexican General Salvador Cienfuegos - El Padrino

U.S authorities detained the defence minister for Mexican ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto at LA airport on a DEA warrant. Defence minister General Salvador Cienfuegos was a powerful figure in Mexico’s drug war. He joins several other of Mexico’s former top-ranking ‘drug war’ officials who have been implicated in the country's drug trade.

Former President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Cienfuegos – nicknamed El Padrino, or The Godfather was a powerful figure.

Cienfuegos used his office to protect a faction of the Beltran-Leyva cartel, directing operations against rival gangs and even finding maritime transport to ship drugs. He accepted bribes in return for protection that included warning cartel members about investigations. One of the Beltran-Leyva brothers was killed in 2009, another arrested in 2014. By the time of Cienfuegos’ crimes between 2015 and 2017, the gang had a new leader, Juan Francisco Patron.

'Katta Kamini' busted

Tamil Nadu cops arrested Sri Lankan drug trafficker 'Katta Kamini' who reportedly maintained close contacts with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim from Bengaluru, Karnataka. The gang is said to have close links to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a rebel ethnic group.

Katta Kamini went to ground after his gang was involved in the murder of a cop in 2006.

German tale is pure Hollywood

Detlef Fischer with his ex-fiancée Melanie Meier in 2012.

A millionaire, a blonde, a loan shark, and a pair of HA making threats. That combination seems assured to produce SOMETHING. Two thieves got into the villa of multi-millionaire Detlef Fischer and lifted luxury items worth 700,000 euros. They got the code from HA biker Amier S. who knew his way around the villa very well. Fischer turned to old friend Jürgen Harksen, a fraudster. When Melanie stabbed a man at the Oktoberfest 2015, Harksen came to the still engaged couple's rescue with a false witness.

Biker Amier S was screwing Fischer's ex-fiancée Melanie Meier.

2 more Hells Angels deported from Oz

Two HA arrested in Melbourne will be deported to New Zealand. The pair were among 24 people charged following 28 raids across Australia. The searches found firearms, ammunition, cash and drugs, including meth, cocaine, GHB and steroids.

One HA was frogmarched off to jail whilst in his underwear. The NZ native is going home on 'character grounds' after his visa was cancelled.

Sweden - ‘gangster’s paradise’

Operation Hoarfrost was to tackle the rise in gang crime in Sweden. A year later and the situation is out of control.

Swedish cops are pleading for resources as migrant gangs terrorize the country. Last year Sweden's bomb squad was called out more than 250 times, a level unseen anywhere in Europe. The situation escalated last November when a 15-year-old was killed in a blast.

"These criminal clans have a different culture that makes them difficult to tackle with normal police methods." In Aug, 20 gangsters were busted when cops responded to an incident in Gothenburg that saw a group close roads as they looked for rivals. "Two years ago, if people linked immigration to crime, they would be accused of being racist. But the paradigm is shifting."

At least 40 migrant gangs had been identified and are operating in Sweden.

The Ali Khan group has literally hundreds of complaints. The Ali Khan group originated from Palestine and Turkey, but spread to northern Europe. Cops say the latest wave is Syrian gangsters who take advantage of the country's generous welfare system.

See ----->Mob Boss Bernard Khouri

HA François Vachon faces music for last call assault

49-year-old Vachon and high profile HA Jean Richard Larivière were arrested on July 6, after beating a restaurant owner when he tried to stop selling the pair booze. Sylvain Vachon is François's older brother. Sylvain Vachon is believed to be one of the most influential members of the club in Quebec. The two drunk bikers reportedly weren't taking any fluff from the cops when they showed up to deal with them. That earned Larivière ANOTHER night in the drunk tank. Larivière has developed a long history of being unable to control his boorish behaviour when drunk in public.

More mystery with world's largest art heist

Martin “the Viper” Foley said the paintings are in Ireland.

Some of the most precious paintings in the world were stolen from a gallery in Boston 30 years ago. A detective believes the best clues to the lost masterpieces lie with his contact, a famous Irish gangster who has disappeared. Martin “the Viper” Foley has dropped out of sight after suggesting that a deal could be reached.

Govaert Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk (1638).

'The Concert' by Vermeer is the most valuable painting at over $200m.

$500m of art, including Rembrandt’s 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee' was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in March 1990. The Gardner heist was carried out by two men dressed in police uniforms who overpowered a security guard who had buzzed them in. The museum initially offered a reward of $5m. In 2017 this was doubled to $10m with an expiration date set to the end of the year.

'A Lady and Gentleman in Black' by Rembrandt, painted in 1633.

30 years after the heist, the empty frames still hang in the Gardner Museum. 'Chez Tortoni' by Manet.

Notorious bikie Shane Bowden whacked

Shane Bowden, 48, was shot dead in the front seat of his BMW in an assassination outside his Gold Coast home. The notorious bikie had spent the past 25 years with the Finks and then Mongols. Cops believe the Mongols, whom he departed from in July, are likely responsible for his exit from this world. Just a few months before his murder Bowden was signing off his jalhouse letters: 'Mongols forever, forever Mongols'. He decided to rejoin the Finks, and that likely sealed his fate. "You live by the sword, you die by the sword," said cops.

In 2006 Bowden was a key figure in the 'Ballroom Blitz', a wild brawl at a kickboxing event on the Gold Coast that saw HA bikie Christopher Wayne Hudson shot twice.

See ----->Ballroom Blitz