'Operation Rattle' nets cocaine, pesos in NL

@RNC_PoliceNL says it has dismantled a significant organized crime operation with a year-long investigation and resulting seizure last week. Here’s the story and a video of some items seized, including 10.75kg of uncut cocaine and $450k. https://t.co/tn8z5PyDng pic.twitter.com/4hrtbFsfdY September 14, 2021

$450k, a shotgun, two handguns, money counters and almost 11kg of cocaine were seized.

Colombo crime family busted for union racketeering

The boss of the Colombo crime family Andrew 'Mush' Russo, 86, and his top two aides were busted on racketeering and extortion charges over their move to seize control of a local labor union. Russo is the family’s longtime boss. He took over the family from his imprisoned cousin Carmine Persico. Underboss Benjamin 'The Claw' Castellazzo and consigliere Ralph DiMatteo were among those arrested as the Colombos took a major hit. The 13 suspects also included four captains, including the nephew of boss Carmine (Junior) Persico, Richard Ferrara and Vincent Ricciardo.

Benjamin 'The Claw' Castellazzo

Capo Theodore "Teddy Boy" Persico

Colombo captain Theodore Persico Jr., one of the late mob boss’s nephews, was also arrested. Documents detail his plans to rise to head of the family once Russo stepped down. The Colombos first started the shakedown in 2001 of a construction union in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The family’s bosses became involved two years ago, with a view on turning the union into a mob-run operation. Family captain Vincent Ricciardo, 75, threatened to murder a construction union boss. Caught on tape, 'Vinny Unions' explained the mob’s plans for the union. “I’m gonna put an assistant administrator in there with youse, a legitimate guy,” he said.

Vincent 'Vinny Unions' Ricciardo.

“Youse are gonna have a trustee meeting, youse are gonna hire him as an assistant administrator, whatever the fuck you do, and he’s gonna call all the shots.”

HA Suminder 'Allie' Grewal killers = 20 years no parole

Nathan De Jong, 22, and Calvin Powery-Hooker, 23, pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder in the shooting death of Suminder 'Allie' Grewal in 2019. They have been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years. The hitmen came from Alberta. It is being reported Grewal had financial troubles. He was a regular at the Starbucks where he was shot to death.

The murdered Chad Wilson with Suminder Grewal.

The man shot dead in a South Surrey drive-thru has been identified as Suminder 'Allie' Grewal. The shooting happened at the drive-thru in the 3000-block of 152 Street around 9:20 a.m. Two men who fled from the scene have been arrested. They reportedly blew a tire in their attempt to flee.

Calvin Powery-Hooker and Nathan De Jong have been charged with first degree murder connected to the killing of Suminder Grewal. IHIT says the two are known to police.

Drug dealer filmed four people in throes of overdose, one fatal

	Drug dealer Jackson Freeman Suter, 24, is accused of filming four people in the throes of an overdose — one woman died — while mimicking the voice of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. Michelle Maleski, 23, died from an overdose and the three others suffered injuries. Hours elapsed from the first indication that the people were in danger until Suter called 911.

Cocaine, rubber land on Florida beaches

A beachgoer in Boca Raton last month discovered a 70-pound package of cocaine that washed ashore. Wayward bales of drugs show up with regularity on Florida’s Atlantic coast. 24 wrapped bricks of cocaine washed up on a beach at Cape Canaveral in June. In the Florida Keys, 23 bricks of cocaine washed ashore in May, and more cocaine washed up last month in Key West. Beachgoers have been spotting blocks of rubber that have washed ashore. They each weigh hundreds of pounds and are composed of sheets of rubber that have been folded on themselves. Three of the mysterious bales materialized on Palm Beach last summer.

A study linked the rubber bales to the cargo of the SS Rio Grande, a German blockade-running ship that was sunk by the U.S. Navy in January of 1944 in the waters off the coast of Brazil. The World War II-vintage rubber cargo remained submerged for more than 70 years, but now may be breaking free due to corrosion of the shipwreck or unauthorized salvaging of the ship’s cargo, which also included tin, copper and cobalt. The bales began washing up on Brazil’s shores a few years ago.

VPD Brandon Blue, 2 other VPD charged with assault after 2017 arrest

VPD Brandon Blue is charged with assault causing bodily harm. Cops Beau Spencer and Gregory Jackson have been charged with assault. Oinkers decided it would be fun to stop a man for riding a bike with no helmet, lights, or reflectors. The man suffered serious injuries during his arrest. The incident happened in May 2017.

Mexican Navy special forces UNOPES free cartel boss

Gunmen in Mexican special forces uniforms freed the cartel boss just miles from the U.S. border. At least four gunmen wearing bulletproof vests with the logo of the Mexican Navy special forces were filmed. (UNOPES for its Spanish acronym)

José Alfredo Hernández Campos, alias El Calamardo or Metro 27, was busted out of the Attorney General's Office in Reynosa, Tamaulipas on July 13. He is a high-ranking member of the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel.

Members of the Gulf Cartel set up blockades throughout the city to stop police from recapturing Hernández Campos, leading to clashes with gunmen throughout Reynosa. One gunman was arrested wearing camouflage, along with Defense Department identification. There have been conflicting reports on whether he is an active member of the Mexican armed forces. U.S. cops working in Mexico claim that the raid was conducted by a mixture of current and former members of the Mexican armed forces. They say Hernández Campos claimed during his initial arrest the day prior that he was paying protection fees to Mexican armed forces.

New York gangster executed on video

Jermaine Dixon, a former member of the “Patio Crew” in Brooklyn, had been out of federal prison for less than a year when the gunman struck. Dixon had rolled with the “Patio Crew,” a name referring to a Flatbush restaurant where the gang hung out. Dixon served 19 years for drug charges and the 1992 murder of Alphonso Gooden.

Planeadora fantasma (Ghost Glider)

Planeadora fantasma (Ghost Glider) is a term used for high speed narco boats in Spain. Planeadora can mean speedboat. The 'Ghost Glider' found on 27 August 2020 was the 3rd found in Spain and unique.

The craft sits between the go-fast vessel (GFV) category and low profile vessel (LPVs). It takes a power boat hull, adds a hard RIB collar and then a built-up covered superstructure. It is about 39 ft (12 meters) long and could possibly carry a few tons of cocaine.

All three craft have been discovered in Galicia in the North of Spain.

Piero Arena whacked

Piero Arena, 63, was found lifeless, lying among cars in the basement of the building where he lived. He had been shot twice in the head. Arena was linked to the cocaine trade and was close to the Cotroni clan, the Calabrian family who reigned supreme until the end of the 1980s when they were dethroned by Rizutto. Arena was busted in 2013 for a plot to smuggle 275kg of cocaine into the country. Just before that Arena was out on statutory release for the same crime. Its said Arena was the person targeted on July 22 during a shooting that took place at Café Sorrento in Saint-Léonard in Montreal, not far from his residence.