Intrepid RCMP trace hot lumber to beaver dam

Taxpayers got their money worth in Porcupine Plain, Sask, when RCMP traced stolen fence posts to a beaver dam. Mounties used their skills to locate a pile of missing fence posts. The suspect, or gang, got away. They are described as furry and busy.

Héctor Luis Palma Salazar to be released

Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, also known as El Güero Palma, may soon be free after an unexpected court decision acquitted him of organized crime charges. Jailed since 1995, El Güero worked by El Chapo’s side in the 90s. Palma has some deeply personal unfinished business. At 80, El Güero is past his prime but still has the capacity to shock.

Héctor Luis Palma Salazar in 2016.

The Arellano-Felix brothers planted a hitman who gained the trust of Palma's wife. Eventually, he murdered her and sent her head to her husband in a refrigerated box. A week later, El Güero received a videotape of his two children, Nataly, 4, and Hector, 5, being thrown off a 150-meter bridge in Venezuela. The resulting vendetta lasted at least five years leaving an unknown number of deaths. It is still unclear if the score was ever settled.

3 Quebec HA busted in Dominican Republic - update

The three HA arrested are part of a drug investigation by the DEA with the Dominican Republic's immigration police. There's a problem with the Dominican dual citizenship of Aurèle Brouillette. Alexandre Landry has been in the Dominican Republic for about a year, on a visa. Stéphane Richard is on the run from an extortion trial in Quebec.

ALL 3 bikers remain caged.

3 Quebec Hells Angels have been arrested in the Dominican Republic. Aurèle Brouillette joins fellow HA Alexandre Landry and Stéphane Richard in handcuffs. Its said they had forged papers and were armed. This marks the first time the Dominican Republic has spanked the bikers. At one point more than half of Quebec's most wanted were hiding out in the Dominican Republic. Hells Angels who fled the province during the anti-biker operation in 2009 went to the island. Six of them were accused of a combined 22 murders. There's even a club chapter there. Los Barracos MC in the city of Cabarete became an official HA chapter in 2009.

David "Wolf" Carroll illustrates the difficulty bringing fugitives to justice. In 2004 Carroll was living in Puerto Plata. When Dominican cops arrived at the house he was renting, he had already fled. HA seek out the Dominican Republic for simple reasons. Its a transhipping point for cocaine and meth. The cost of living is low, there is ample corruption and no bilateral extradition treaty.

Aurèle Brouillette, 68.

Dave Brown whacked in Colombia

David Wayne Brown, 43, died in hospital Friday after he was shot in Sabaneta, near Medellin. Brown was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle when two people on a motorcycle approached and shot him at least five times. Brown's home was struck by gunfire during a turf battle between the Hells Angels and a local street gang in London, Ont in 1992. A turf war between the Hells Angels and the FU Crew saw multiple biker-linked businesses set ablaze and two people shot. Brown had links to the FU Crew and the Outlaws MC.

Brown’s father, David Brown Sr., was a longtime member of the Outlaws. Father and son were charged with more than 30 offences after London police seized four guns in 2008. The younger Brown was sentenced to 42 months in prison and given a lifetime weapons ban.

Karman Singh Grewal whacked

UN Gangster Karman Grewal was executed in a brazen public manner at Vancouver International Airport on Mothers Day. The career gangster was very well known to cops.

George Jung, cocaine smuggler, dead at 78

George Jung was a cocaine smuggler who, at the height of his criminal career in the 1970s and ’80s, made millions running drugs for the Medellín cartel. He was later played by Johnny Depp in the 2001 movie “Blow.” “I don’t call myself a gangster,” he said. “I’m an outlaw.”

A model girlfriend and a Rolls Royce: Memories for Darren Mohr

The party was over for Darren Mohr in 2020. The Oz 'businessman' involved in a drug syndicate that tried to import more than a tonne of cocaine into Australia was sentenced to 18 years in jail. Mohr flaunted his wealth and extravagant lifestyle on social media extensively before his arrest. His Sydney-based drug ring was dismantled by police following raids on Christmas Day 2016 at the Sydney Fish Markets.

Mohr was refused bail and has spent all his time in custody. Mohr's group tried to import five shipments of cocaine and heroin from South America, including 600 kg of cocaine worth $197m that was intercepted by the French Navy in Tahiti in March, 2016. The 1.1 tonne seizure is the largest in Australian history. A 32 kg haul of heroin was also seized in Fiji.

“DWI Dude,” James Balagia off to jail

For years Texans charged with DUI and drug possession turned to the attorney known as the “DWI Dude.” James Morris Balagia touted his skills in getting people accused of serious crimes off or their charges lowered. His motto; “Busted? Call the dude!”

Balagia was sentenced to 188 months.

Balagia, 65, was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for pocketing money from drug traffickers. He claimed he could bribe officials for favorable treatment in their cases.

Balagia was ratted out by the drug dealers he tried to rip off.

Harry 'Pittsburgh Phil' Strauss

Harry 'Pittsburgh Phil' Strauss

Harry 'Pittsburgh Phil' Strauss was a prolific contract killer for Murder, Inc. in the 1930s. He purportedly killed over one hundred men including: shooting, ice picks, drowning, live burial, and strangulation. Killers were paid a regular salary as retainer as well as an average fee of $1,000 to $5,000 per hit. Strauss was arrested 18 times but wasn't convicted until he was found guilty of the homicide that sent him and fellow Murder, Inc. hitman Martin 'Bugsy' Goldstein to the electric chair.

After hitman Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles turned informant, Strauss was arrested for the murder of Irving 'Puggy' Feinstein. Strauss tried to avoid conviction by feigning insanity in the courtroom and on death row. Strauss and Goldstein were convicted September 19, 1940, and executed by electrocution using Sing Sing's Old Sparky on June 12, 1941.

Harry Strauss and Martin 'Bugsy' Goldstein.

Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles

Island raids net drugs, cash, HA gear

Hells Angels marked their 35th anniversary in B.C. in 2018 with a party in Nanaimo.

RCMP seized drugs, guns and $42k in a pair of raids in Saanich and Sooke. Two pickup trucks, a car, a Harley-Davidson, eight long guns and Hells Angels gear also goes to the state.