 | Cops seized 81 kg of cocaine, which they say is the largest coke bust in Manitoba history. “Project Drone" also returned $1.5m in cash. |
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 | Stephen Ferenc Stumpf, 41, from Peterborough, Ont has been arrested. He has been charged with possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possessing proceeds of crime. The cocaine is valued at $7.6m. |
 | Drug dealer Benjamin Connor has wed his sweetheart on the taxpayer dime, despite being 7 months into a 6 year stretch for trafficking cocaine. |
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 | He was escorted from HMP Humber, East Yorks, to Goole Register Office — the two-hour trip all paid for by the prison. “This rule is in place to visit dying relatives, not to go on a jolly. What next? Lags out for a round of golf? It is not government policy to let drug traffickers out for weddings!” Pandemic restrictions mean there are an estimated 824,000 weddings on hold in the UK. |
 | The Khon Kaen Provincial Court has passed the death sentence on paroled serial killer Somkid Phumphuang, 55, for the murder of a woman in 2019. The premediated murder of the woman included torturing her, theft and concealment of her body. Phumphuang, dubbed “Kid the Ripper” was sentenced to death in 2005 for killing five women in a six-month period. |
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The sentence was reduced to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty. He was paroled and let free on May 17, 2019. The Corrections Department said he was a "model prisoner".
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 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Ysleta port of entry in El Paso, Texas, seized 1,543 pounds of liquid meth last year. The shipment was hidden as cleaning supplies. South Fulton, Ga. cops recently lassoed 77 pounds of the drug and discovered equipment used to dry and produce it. The bust comes days after another, even larger, drug bust involving liquid meth in Henry County. There 450 pounds of the drug was found. |
 | Meth can be mixed with water for smuggling and then dried. |
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 | An alpha-male monkey found himself high on the unwanted list after he moved into the scenic Cape Town suburb of Smitswinkel Bay. He terrorized residents with more than 40 raids for food. The last straw came when a splinter gang of females and juveniles started following the boss. He was “humanely” euthanized. |
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 | Dorothea Helen Puente was an American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento and murdered elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. Her toll reached nine confirmed murders, with six unconfirmed. |
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| The serial killer, dubbed the "Death House Landlady," was charged with the murders of nine people but she was convicted of only three of them in 1993: A jury could not decide on the other six deaths. she died in prison in 2011 at the age of 82. She maintained that all the boarders died of natural causes. The remains of seven tenants were eventually found in her backyard. |
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 Jason Budrow | First-degree murder charges have been filed against Jason Budrow, 40. Budrow strangled Roger Reece Kibbe, whose body was discovered on Feb. 28 in their shared cell at Mule Creek State Prison southeast of Sacramento. Kibbe, dubbed the "I-5 strangler" pleaded quilty to 7 murders. Budrow is already serving life without parole for strangling his girlfriend in 2011. Budrow said he killed Kibbe on the same day they became cellmates, initially so he would have a cell to himself. |
 Roger Reece Kibbe, "I-5 strangler" |
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Hells Angels bikie Andre Martin Diesing, 53, dug up a duffle bag in bushland in Perth's northern suburbs containing 10 kg of methamphetamine. Cops were watching. A drug courier is also accused of hiding $15m worth of meth for Hells Angels bikies to dig up later. The man was nabbed by the Australian Federal Police after leaving a bush hiding spot in Winthrop in Perth's south. |
| Bikie boss Diesing took a month to find someone to post his bail on fraud charges in 2011, then was charged with extortion offences hours before his release. |
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 | LAPD Chief Michel Moore said more than 700 ghost guns seized in Los Angeles last year were made from parts bought from Polymer80. More than 300 were seized in South Los Angeles, where homicides soared to levels not seen in a decade. In Los Angeles about 40% of seized weapons are ghost guns. The city is suing Nevada based Polymer80. "Polymer80 has made it easy for anyone, including felons, to buy and build weapons that pose a major public safety threat.” |
 After selling thousands of kits, the company said they have stopped.
| Focus was on the company’s “Buy Build Shoot” kits, which anyone could purchase online, then assemble at home into a fully functioning weapon. Siezures of ghost guns have increased 50% in a year. The ATF determined this year that Polymer80’s kits meets the definition of a firearm under the law. They raided Polymer80’s headquarters in December. 86% of the ghost guns seized and entered into the ATF database — 1,278 firearms — were derived from Polymer80 parts. California, Connecticut, Washington, Washington, D.C., New Jersey and Rhode Island have enacted laws to regulate ghost guns. |
 | Todd Bissett, 55, was the head of a drug trafficking network that operated in the Iberville area of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, south of Montreal. He was the right hand of the jailed Pascal Facchino. Facchino reported to HA Claude Gauthier, who is awaiting sentencing. Bissett pleaded guilty to gangsterism, conspiracy and drug trafficking. He was sentenced to 28 months. 15 days later he was sent home to serve his sentence, under order number 2020-033 of the Ministry of Health and Social Services. |
 Pascal Facchino
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 | Bissett is said to have multiple health issues, and as such is apparently immune from answering for his admitted crimes as a top level HA associate. "Awareness and accountability are deficient, not to mention remorse and regret which are non-existent." said one document. "The fact that you commit crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization is, in the opinion of the courts, a scourge on society." said another.
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