Friday, March 5, 2021

Pompano Beach restaurant served up the fixings

Louis Younglove Sr. not only served up hot dogs with fixings, he was also helping people get their fix. Younglove was arrested on more than a dozen drug charges following a months-long investigation. He was arrested in the parking lot of his restaurant, Chi-Town Chicago Italian Beef & Hot Dogs. Cops found a “smorgasbord of illegal drugs” including cocaine, fentanyl, ecstasy, pot and various prescription drugs. Over $500k in cash was seized.

Syndicate mc members walk

Kevin Michael Fix, 37, and Joshua Bradley Noordhoff, 38, both entered guilty pleas for a home invasion and kidnapping. They both walked with conditional sentences.
Rachel Lynn Baskier, 22, Kevin Michael Fix, 35, Jessie Doreen Waugh, 32, and Joshua Bradley Noordhoff, 36, were arrested and faced a mountain of charges related to kidnapping, forcible confinement, assault and drug charges. In the end Kevin Michael Fix faced 11 charges and Joshua Bradley Noordhoff nine.
The Syndicate is a puppet club under the Alberta nomads. They are tasked with trafficking in Red Deer and Fort McMurray.

In 2019, weapons, 350k in drugs and $78k cash were seized. It was found cocaine was being cut to less than 30% purity. Casey Chapin, 33, and Joel Befus, 32, both full-patch Syndicate MC, were charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, along with a range of other offences. Bailey Chapin, 29, was also charged.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Fentanyl lab nailed in St. Catharines

Peter Caponcini, 56, and Francis Anthony Prantera, 55 were charged in connection with $3.6m worth of fentanyl found at a residence. Cops found 400lbs of an unknown powder, 100kgs of cutting agents, 20,000 fentanyl pills, 160 grams of cocaine and $150k in equipment.
The double garage area of the residence had been extensively modified to accommodate an industrial size pill press.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Gus Kouboules whacked

Gus Kouboules, 57, was found shot to death on Feb. 25 around 8 a.m. when York cops got a call for a body located at the end of a dead-end street. Kouboules was a member of The Loners MC. He had previously been a member of The Outlaws. From early 2018 until 2020, the Loners MC had been operating an unmarked clubhouse in Cornwall. Its drug trafficking operation collapsed following a bust.

Nephew of Buffalo mob boss arrested

Peter Gerace Jr., 53, of Buffalo was indicted on charges of bribing a DEA agent, drug dealing, and human trafficking. Anthony Gerace, Peter’s brother, is awaiting sentencing on drugs and weapons charges. The two Geraces are the nephews of Joseph Todaro Jr, capo of the Buffalo mob. Peter Gerace owns a strip club near Buffalo called Pharaohs, was at the center of a drug and human trafficking operation that lasted at least a decade.
Gerace bribed a DEA agent to protect the strip club. Former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni, accepted $250k in bribes as part of the scheme. His lawyer claims a 'racial animus' toward Italian Americans.

Monday, March 1, 2021

Huge Bay Area bust of Sinaloa Cartel

Cops in Northern California confiscated more than 1,000 pounds of meth, 500 grams of fentanyl, 20 pounds of cocaine, 20 pounds of heroin, dozens of firearms and more than $200k in cash.
“We have successfully put a hurting to the Sinaloa drug cartel,” said the DEA. Agents tracked the transportation of drugs from Mexico across the border up to the Bay Area. They also followed the flow of firearms, including grenade launchers and sniper rifles, procured in the U.S. across the border into Mexico.

Of the 44 busted, 19 are in custody, 13 were detained and released, and 12 are at large. One of the largest meth seizures in Northern California, the investigation was dubbed Operation Burnt Orange.

Instafamous model Mikayla Noakes to live with granny after drug bust

Surfer and drug dealer Tate Robinson, 21, appealed to be allowed to see Noakes due to the 'mental toll' on him. The judge wasn't moved.

Instagram model Mikayla Noakes, 20, had been sent to live with her grandmother as part of bail conditions. She was nailed along with six others after an MDMA and cocaine syndicate operating in New South Wales and Queensland was busted.

Granny has a strict 7am to 7pm curfew.
Cops found cocaine, MDMA, steroids, $60k in cash, mobile phones and drug paraphernalia. The model earlier pleaded not guilty. Noakes' boyfriend was charged with 20 offences including supplying a prohibited drug and participating in a criminal group.
The surfer was remanded in custody.

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Phoenix family finds 5,000 fentanyl pills inside daughter's thrift store toy

Parents purchased a glow worm at a thrift store in El Mirage for their daughter and found a sandwich bag with over 5,000 pills of fentanyl inside.

Mobster Peter 'the dumb don' Gotti dead

Mobster Peter Gotti was sentenced to 25 years in prison after his 2003 conviction on racketeering and other charges. He took control of the Gambino crime organization after his mob boss brother, John Gotti, was locked up. Peter Gotti was 81 years old when he died at a Federal Medical Center prison. He was twice denied compassionate release.
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The 'Teflon Don' John Gotti was caged in 1993, and his son John Gotti Jr. took over the reins of the crime family until 1999 when he too was jailed. The mantle then fell to Peter Gotti whose own brothers were reluctant to have him become a made man because of his lack of intelligence. Even as a child Peter Gotti was considered stupid, and that reputation grew as the years passed.

He served 17 years of his 25-year racketeering sentence. His lawyer says he's dying. Gotti reportedly suffers from an enlarged prostate, gastric reflux and early onset dementia.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Europe’s largest cocaine bust - 23 tonnes

More than 50,700 pounds of cocaine has been seized by German and Belgian authorities. The bust is being hailed as one of the largest single seizures in the world.
Germany, after receiving a tip from their Dutch colleagues, found 35,658 pounds of the drug hidden in 1,700 cans of construction putty.
On Saturday, Belgian cops discovered another 15,873 pounds of cocaine.