'War Machine' = 36 to life

In 2017 Former Bellator and UFC veteran War Machine (Jonathan Koppenhaver) was found guilty on 29 of the 34 charges he faced – most notably of sexual assault, battery and kidnapping.

He received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 36 years. Koppenhaver's 2014 attack on porn star Christy Mack (Christine Mackinday) and Corey Thomas left Mack with a broken nose, a fractured orbital, a broken rib, a lacerated liver and extensive bruising. Mackinday suffered 18 broken bones and lost many of her teeth

Koppenhaver will be 71 before he can have his first parole hearing.

Koppenhaver assaulted Thomas with such severity that Mack believed the former fighter was going to kill him. Mack also claimed that the ex-fighter threatened to send his Hells Angels friends after her if he ended up in jail.

Cocaine in chili peppers buys 13 years

Humberto Baez, 52, was sentenced for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine. Baez's smuggling took place from August 2016 to March 2018 with drugs hidden inside shipping containers bound for the U.S. from the Dominican Republic.

6.5kg cocaine found on board Caribbean Airlines jet

Cocaine was found on board a Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 that landed in Miami after flying from Piarco International Airport in Trinidad. The load nearly made it through. The flight was earlý arriving and delayed leaving, giving time for discovery by cops.

Drug cartels in Trinidad and Tobago are highly active. No arrests were made.

10 year anniversary of Jon Bacon hit

Ten years ago, two men dressed in black jumped from an SUV outside Kelowna's Delta Grand Hotel and fired into a white Porsche SUV with automatic weapons. Jonathan Bacon, the eldest of the Bacon brothers, was killed while three others in the vehicle were injured. 18 months later Jason McBride, Michael Jones and Jujhar Khun-Khun were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. Manjinder (Manny) Hairan was also involved in the killing but died in a shooting in Surrey. Jason McBride pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted murder and was given a life sentence with no parole for 18 years. Khun-Khun and Jones pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and were sentenced to 18 years.

The police investigation was described as “one of the largest and most complex in B.C.'s history,” and cost $9m.
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Kyle Gianis dead - case closed

Kyle Gianis died from “self-inflicted injuries” shortly after being found in medical distress near an Enderby campground. Cops responded when two women were stabbed and a man was acting erratically due to drugs. Gianis was found two hours later seriously injured at the bottom of an embankment near a river. He died at the scene. IIROC, the cop watchdog, has determined that cops had no role in the death.

__________ Kyle Gianis has been shot again, his fourth if anybody keeps count. He and another man were gunned down in Kelowna. The cat-like Gianis has been released from hospital. Cops are warning the public that associating with Gianis is extremely dangerous and that he is a public threat.

Kyle Gianis was the victim of a targeted shooting in a Kelowna parking lot March 29. Its the third attempt on the career gangster's life. It comes days after his drug operation was busted by the cops.

Gianis says he grew up in Surrey and became a criminal at 15.

He was arrested in 2007 in Cancun for drug smuggling and was sent to the U.S. where he was sentenced to 13 years. Gianis was later transferred to a Canadian prison, where he was paroled in 2015. Gianis was shot in 2017 outside of a Langley restaurant. His friend Tyler Pastuck was killed. In 2018, a Surrey nurse was killed in a case of mistaken identity. The intended target was Gianis.

Tyler Pastuck

Nobody has been charged in the June 23, 2018 murder of Paul Bennett, who was gunned down in his driveway.

Trafficker David Tull was sentenced to almost 12 years in jail for his role in the 2017 conspiracy to murder Gianis. His former associate in the drug world was marked for death after double-crossing Tull.

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch lassoed in Spain

Irish gangster Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been arrested in his Spanish bolthole by undercover cops on the Costa del Sol. Hutch is wanted by gardai as part of an investigation into the Regency Hotel murder of Kinahan gangster David Byrne. Police, working with gardai from Dublin, jumped the 58-year-old gang boss in the Fuengirola area. Hutch will be sent to Madrid to be extradited. The process could take six months, with Hutch on remand in jail. The man known as 'The Monk' says that he went straight after leaving prison over 30 years ago, and that his fortune is all from his wise business ventures and investments, not drug dealing.

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Gangster coyotes in Vancouver's Stanley Park to get whacked

There have been dozens of attacks in Vancouver's Stanley Park since December. The latest incident involved a two-year-old boy. The estimated population of a dozen coyotes likely won't survive the next cull.

Gangster who busted out of Rikers barge sentenced

Mordukhaev, 30, was sentenced to 21 months on a federal charge related to the escape.

Brooklyn gangster David Mordukhaev busted out of the city’s floating jail with the help of an Eastern European crime syndicate.

The feds caught Mordukhaev on wiretaps discussing the escape with Nikoghosyan.

Mordukhaev sparked a five-borough manhunt after he climbed through a window in his fifth-floor cell at the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Facility and shimmied down a rope on July 10. The brazen escapee taunted guards, leaving a note on the wall that read, “special search just searched my cell and they didn’t check the window” Mordukhaev began communicating with cohort Roman “Roma” Nikoghosyan, a leader in the “KavKaz Nation” gang.

Famous Mob Crime scene photos II

Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel was killed June 20, 1947 aged 41. Nine bullets were fired through a window with a .30-caliber. The first shot hit Siegel in the eye, the second one in his right cheek. Two others struck him in the chest. Walter Sage was a hitman for Murder Inc. His bound body was pulled from Swan Lake in the Catskills. He was killed for skimming mob cash from slot machine profits.

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Capone’s last competition in 1929 was George “Bugs” Moran, and on Valentine’s Day two of Capone's men dressed as cops to stage the cold blooded execution of 7 men.

The Kansas City massacre was the shootout and murder of four cops and a criminal at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of June 17, 1933.

Lulu Lakatos - Diamond Thief

Lulu Lakatos posed as gemmologist 'Anna' when she swiped a whooping £4.2m in jewels. While Lakatos was jailed for five-and-a-half years for the heist, her two female associates, as well as the diamonds, remain missing. CCTV footage shows the moment Lakatos swiped the gems under the noses of staff at jeweller Boodles. At the crucial moment, the Romanian pulled off an astonishing sleight of hand, swapping the jewel-laden purse with a precise replica weighed down with pebbles. She and her international gang fled the UK for France less than three hours later.