Jaime Osuna

The torture slaying and beheading of a convicted killer at the hands of his cellmate went undetected by guards.

Jaime Osuna used a makeshift knife to decapitate and dissect Luis Romero at Corcoran State Prison in 2017. Osuna is a killer and self-styled satanist with a history of attacking his cellmates. Guards found Osuna wearing a necklace made of Romero’s body parts. A judge has ruled that Osuna is not competent to stand trial for Romero’s death. He now resides in a prison psychiatric program.

Green Beret smuggled 40kg of cocaine aboard military aircraft = 9 years

His two military-issue bags were discovered with 40 kg (90 lbs) of cocaine on a military aircraft bound for Eglin Air Force Base.

Former US Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Daniel Gould pulled 9 years for trafficking cocaine. He was busted by DEA agents.

The US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets, are a special operations force with five primary missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism.

Peter Debbins became a Green Beret and later applied to the CIA. He was a Russian mole for years. Debbins, 46, was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison after admitting he passed secrets to Moscow.

Tonne of cocaine worth £80m found on Sussex beach

Strollers on a beach near Hastings stumbled across large packages concealing a tonne of cocaine.

The packages, all in waterproof bags and attached to life jackets for floatation, had a combined weight of around 960kg. If cut and sold on the streets in the UK it would have had an estimated street value of around £80m. Two separate consignments of packages were found washed up on beaches near Hastings and Newhaven, East Sussex.

Anthony 'the Ant' Spilotro

Anthony John Spilotro, nicknamed 'The Ant', was an American mobster and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas during the 1970s and 1980s. He managed the Outfit's illegal casino profits with Frank Rosenthal. Spilotro eventually ran afoul of his organized crime bosses who disapproved of his handling of their Las Vegas affairs. They arranged his murder in 1986.

Spilotro was the leader of the "Hole in the Wall Gang", which he formed in Las Vegas.

Frank Cullotta, a former mobster turned government witness died of COVID-19 this year at 81. Cullotta arrived in Vegas in 1979 after he killed an associate. Cullotta joined the Hole in the Wall gang, which gained entry by drilling through walls and ceilings.

While in prison, Cullotta agreed to testify against Spilotro, who was indicted for conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

In 1981, Cullotta and five others were busted after a robbery and charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, attempted grand larceny and possession of burglary tools. Cullotta was given immunity, but served eight years in prison before being paroled into witness protection when Spilotro was acquitted in 1984.

Spilotro and his brother Michael disappeared June 14, 1986. On June 22, their bodies were found, one on top of the other and clad only in undershorts, buried under 5 feet of wet dirt in a muddy grave. At the time of his death the FBI suspected Spilotro was responsible for at least 22 murders.

Chicago mob capo Joey “The Clown” Lombardo died in prison at age 90 last year. He was serving a life sentence after being convicted in the Operation Family Secrets trial in 2007. Operation Family Secrets took down mob boss James Marcello and decimated The Outfit. The prosecution’s star witness was Nicholas Calabrese, a hit man who took the stand against his brother to spell out the crimes, one by one. The jury heard explicit details on 18 unsolved killings, including the beating death and burial of Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro.

Eighty-One Powerdrink

Eighty-One Powerdrink, is, according to the Eighty-One Canada Inc. website, sold in 110 stores in Quebec.

HA from the South chapter met André Badat of Eighty-One Canada inc. to impose a 4% tax on each can sold.

Peter Heeb, also known as Pit Heeb, is boss of the Hells Angels chapter in Riverside, Switzerland. Heeb identifies himself as the owner and founder of Eighty-One Powerdrink.

Notorious Indian gangster Munna sentenced to death

A court in Ongole sentenced notorious serial killer, Munna, and 11 of his gang members to death. The accused were involved in the murder of 13 over a year. Drivers of trucks plying the Vijayawada-Chennai National Highway No 16 would be stopped under the guise of police.

Abdul Sammad alias Munna.

Their modus operandi was to demand documents and then strangle the truck's ocupants. They kept the bodies in gunny bags and buried them in nearby forest areas and disposed of the loads. They then dismantled the trucks and sold the spare parts.

Gangsters dropping like chit flies

He could be seen slumped out of the door of a white Toyota SUV after being shot about 5:30 p.m.

Yasin Khan was killed in Nanaimo on May 20. He was linked to the Red Scorpion-Kang group. Gurkeert Kalkat, the brother of Jaskeert Kalkat, who was shot to death in Burnaby on May 13, was gunned down near his Calgary halfway house. Both are Brothers Keepers. The name of the latest murder victim hasn't been released.

Head of Sinaloa state police murdered

Gunmen ambushed the director of state police in Sinaloa and killed him. Joel Ernesto Soto was found dead in his bullet-riddled car on a highway near Culiacan.

Dozens of .223 (for AR-15) and 7.62 (for AK-47) shells were scattered around the site.

Vancouver fraudster Mark Chandler

The B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed Chandler’s appeal that he be extradited to the US. Chandler’s lawyers then sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The top court refused to hear the case and he was sent to face US justice. His legal troubles in California related to a fraudulent condominium project in Los Angeles. Chandler swindled 12 U.S. investors out of $1.7m.

Chandler was busted for fraud following an FBI investigation into a development project known as Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles between 2008 and 2011. He pulled 6 years in a Federal Pen. Chandler is best known in B.C. for the Murrayville House project, which dissolved into dozens of lawsuits in 2017. Some would-be buyers waited years as repeated construction delays stalled the project.

Units in the development were sold to two, three, or even four purchasers. Contracts were voided in court. The project is being investigated by the RCMP. The developer/con man has a long list of lawsuits, including from a jet leasing agency, a Vancouver yacht charter company, a Ferrari Maserati dealership, and a waterfront Hawaii getaway.

Huge SA cocaine ring busted

Three Bulgarians received lengthy terms in prison for their role in a large-scale cocaine-smuggling enterprise involving three vessels in South Africa. Mario Radoslavov Vasev, Asen Georgiev and Atanhas Mihaylov Bikov were arrested during a drug raid on the freighter Windward on March 1.

Cops seized 973 blocks of cocaine and about $1.1m in cash. The value of the haul makes it the country's second largest. The men bought 12 years, 13 years and 10 years, respectively. They also forfeit assets, including luxury cars and property purchased in South Africa.