Basketball coach dies in cartel drug rip

Teacher and coach Barney Dale Harris was killed in a drug rip shootout with a Mexican drug cartel, the Alamance County Sheriff's Office annouced. Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart, went to the stash house of a Mexican drug cartel to steal drugs and money. They shot Alonso Beltran Lara twice in the head. Harris was wearing a bulletproof vest, but the vest was no match for the high-caliber weapons used by the cartel.

Stewart survived and was arrested; he's charged with armed robbery and murder. Cops found 30 shell casings inside and outside the home and bullet holes in three nearby homes. Inside, deputies seized two pounds of cocaine and $7k in cash.

Hardliners Holland

The ban on wearing the MC Hardliners club logo in Holland is contrary to the right of association under the constitution. So says an HA lawyer.

Cops arrested 14 members of Hardliners MC on April 1 after they refused to turn over their colors. When one points out the Hardliners logo closely resembles the Hells Angels the response from the bikers is that its nonsense. “Anyone who thinks that is illiterate anyway." Hardliners now have about two hundred members with 22 chapters, including Haarlem.

Reta Mays - Serial Killer

Reta Mays

A woman who murdered seven elderly military veteran patients and tried to slay an eighth at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center faces sentencing. Reta Mays, 46, faces seven terms of life in federal prison plus 20 years. Mays admitted to the crimes but she said nothing about a motive. Her pattern was to inject patients with lethal doses of insulin.

Mays is a veteran and is taking medication for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Experts say, “serial murderers commit their crimes because they want to. The exception to this would be those few killers suffering from a severe mental illness.” Mays is not mentally ill, otherwise that could have been used as a defense. The why may never be known.

Denmark ex-HA Jørn Jønke Nielsen - Out

Jørn Jønke Nielsen, 60, has been thrown out of the Hells Angels. The biker had been a member of Hells Angels since the club started up in Denmark. For many years he was the spokesman for Hells Angels in Denmark.

"After almost 40 years with the club, it's over. I've been told I'm outcast. Of course, I do not agree with the decision, the background to it and how it was taken. However, it is not possible to change." he writes on Facebook. There are many internal rules within the Hells Angels. How to behave after leaving the club, whether it is voluntary or not is one of them. Most ex-HAMC members out would shut up, as instructed.

He denies being a criminal, but has been in jail for 18 of his 60 years. "I'm not a criminal. A criminal is someone who gets up in the morning and commits criminal acts." He founded Hells Angels in Denmark, but now he has been thrown out by those he called "brothers".

Manitoba cops land 81 kg cocaine

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.

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.

UK drug dealer/jailbird marries

Drug dealer Benjamin Connor has wed his sweetheart on the taxpayer dime, despite being 7 months into a 6 year stretch for trafficking cocaine.

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.

Somkid Phumphuang - “Kid the Ripper”

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.

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".

Liquid Meth

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.

Gangster baboon boss in South Africa whacked

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.

“The city can confirm that an independent veterinarian assisted with the procedure.”

Dorothea Helen Puente

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.

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.