John Dillinger killed 87 years ago

John Dillinger was behind bars in the Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana in early 1934. His jailers boasted that their facility was escape-proof. Dillinger whiled away his time carving a piece of wood used as a shelf in his cell. He turned it into a replica of a small handgun, painting it with shoe polish. He bluffed his captors and managed to escape. Dillinger's gang was responsible for 10 deaths, three jail breaks and more than 20 bank robberies. At 31 he became America's Public Enemy No. 1.

Dillinger's wooden prison escape pistol sold at auction for $19,120 in 2010.

Dillinger stole Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 and used it in a crime spree across the Midwest. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and sought refuge in a brothel owned by Ana Cumpănaș. On July 22, 1934, cops closed in on the Biograph Theater. Dillinger drew a gun while attempting to flee and was shot down.

Rumors persist that the man killed that night was a double. Dillinger's descendants claim that they doubt it's really his body that's buried. There is no doubt Dillinger was killed outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. The bullet that killed him entered the back of his neck and exited under his right eye.

Colombia's Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo reeled in

Colombian cops have arrested drug cartel boss and paramilitary leader Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo. Known as “Memo Fantasma” (Will, the ghost), his career spanned more than three decades. Getting his start in Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, at the height of his power he was a leader of a paramilitary group and one of the country’s biggest cocaine smugglers.

In the late 1990s, he joined the Central Bolívar Bloque, then the world’s largest paramilitary army and cocaine trafficking group. He went on to build a life in the shadows, hiding behind legitimate businesses that laundered drug cash.

Peter R de Vries

A close ally of mob boss Daniel Kinahan is believed to be behind the hit on Dutch journalist Peter R de Vries. He was shot five times in Amsterdam and is fighting for his life in hospital. Cops beleive Ridouan Taghi – who attended Kinahan’s wedding in 2017 – is behind the attack.

Kinahan has close ties with Taghi, who is currently before the courts in Holland in the Marengo trial. The gangster was extradited from Dubai in 2019. He and his associates are on trial where they are facing charges relating to seven murders.

Jail for Syndicate MC traffickers

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 and Joel Befus, both full-patch Syndicate MC, were charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, along with other offences. Bailey Chapin was also charged.

Casey Donald Chapin, 35, was sentenced last week to 42 months after being convicted on possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a prohibited/restricted firearm. Joel Befus, 34, was sentenced in January to 52 months in jail. The men were arrested on April 30, 2019, following a two-year investigation called Project Rocker.

UK cocaine importers go away for a long time

Christopher Bullows, 50, and Mark Tucker, 53, were stopped at Dover docks in Sept 2020 and a search found 243 kg (536lbs) of cocaine hidden in a specially constructed waste water tank. Tucker was jailed for 16 years and Bullows for 14 years and four months.

Narco Planes in Honduras - Guyana

A burnt narco plane was found on a trail in the Bisaruni area, Kwakwani. It is the third narco plane in recent months found in Guyana-Suriname.

Five bales containing 130kg of cocaine were dumped by a plane of drug traffickers when they were shot at by soldiers flying in a helicopter. The plane, a King Air 360 Beechcraft from Venezuela, was brought down inside Bruce Laguna in La Mosquito with 600 kg of cocaine. The cargo was gone by the time cops arrived.

UK street crack dealer framed probably

Drug runner Kevin Allen tried to swallow his goods after being busted by cops who watched him dealing. He was peddling crack on the streets of Cumbria for a gang from Merseyside. He was the lowest rung of the network, which used the County Lines model of locals placing orders through a 'graft' mobile phone number controlled by those higher up. He pulled 2 years.

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Cartel Boss La Catrina - 'Dame of Death'

La Catrina was a local boss in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente region, of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel led by 'El Mencho.'

María Guadalupe López Esquivel, 21, 'La Catrina' was killed in Mexico in 2020 when her armed group had a firefight with police.

La Catrina was famed for her Instagram posts boasting of the cartel life. She was said to be one of El Mencho’s most important regional lieutenants. She was shot through the neck.

Her moniker 'Dame of Death' is a mythical female skeleton celebrated in Mexico during its Day of the Dead festival.

The Many Saints of Newark

The Many Saints of Newark is an upcoming American crime drama film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner as a prequel to Chase's HBO crime drama series The Sopranos.