Italian cop raid nets dormice—mafia delicacy

Italian cops found a cache of 235 frozen dormice, which are a protected species in Italy. They also found more in cages being fattened up for slaughter. The creatures are a favorite of the ’Ndrangheta, whose members believe eating them during important meetings brings wisdom. They are also on the menu when warring clans make peace. Dormice were widely consumed in ancient Rome, often stuffed with ground pork and pine nuts.

The dormouse population is in rapid decline both in number and range. Many species are extinct. Their habitat tends to be old woodland, which is also in decline.

Cocaine and illegal timber in Brazil's Amazon

Over 70% of logging in the northern state of Pará between August 2017 and July 2018 was illegal according to a study. Environmental crime is a low risk means of income for drug traffickers, with timber shipments being used to conceal drugs destined for foreign markets.

In total, the seizures amounted to nearly nine tons.

At least 16 major seizures of cocaine between 2017 and 2021 came when cocaine was concealed within shipments of timber for export.

Pagans Boss Richter pleads guilty = 33 months

Richter agreed to a plea deal.

Pagans MC national president Keith “Conan” Richter, 62, pleaded guilty to a gun charge.

See ---->‘Hellboy’ earns 4 years

The charge against Richter came after cops were tipped off by a rat that Richter had a loaded Ruger P345 during a party for the club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Convicted felons cannot carry a gun.

HA Gregory Slewidge murdered - Update VI

OPP have released information on the murder of HA Greg Slewidge and are offering a $50k reward for information leading to an arrest. Shortly before he was brutally beaten to death, a dark-coloured sedan was seen entering the facility at 1864 Scotch Corners Rd. Slewidge had turned the building into a licensed grow op. There have been no arrests in the murder of full patch Gregory Slewidge.

The OPP are investigating the murder of Gregory Slewidge, 39, a member of the Hells Angels in Beckwith Township, Ottawa. Slewidge was found beaten to death in a home at 1864 Scotch Corners Rd. around 10:30 a.m.

#OPP is offering $50,000 to anyone with info leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for Greg Slewidge’s murder. If you have any info, please call the dedicated tipline 1 844 478-5656 or call Crime Stoppers 1 800 222-8477 if you wish to remain anonymous. pic.twitter.com/nl4Mfur857 — OPP East Region (@OPP_ER) October 14, 2021

The Hells Angels Nomads in Ottawa made their comeback in 2018 after violent in-fighting in the summer of 2016. For 20 years the Sherbrooke Hells Angels enjoyed huge profits from drug sales in Ottawa and Sudbury. The Nomads expanded there after arrests in 2009 decimated the Quebec HA. Drug revenue dwindled as the Nomads paid no tax. There would be consequences. On April 16, 2016 Ontario Nomads vice-president Phil Boudreault was shot off his bike in Lachute. He is said to be in a wheelchair. In August Martin Bernatchez, president, was shot three times in Sherbrooke. According to cops it was Ontario Nomads who broke club rules. When this happens the club doesn't hestitate in eliminating the problem. Boudreault and Bernatchez in better days.

See ----->HST = 'Hells Sales Tax'
See ----->Martin Bernatchez shot at campground/trailer park in Granby
See ----->Hells Angels Nomads make return to Ottawa

Surrey police chief Norm Lipinski = $21,943 in overtime, so far

Oinker Norm Lipinski has hit the jackpot.

Surrey’s incoming swine chief Norm Lipinski is drawing fire for the $21,943 in overtime he's booked in less than 8 months. The new piggy boss has a base salary of $285k. Lipinski has billed taxpayers for about 160 extra hours, or close to five hours per week for his valuable services. The overtime revelation came from a freedom of information request. Had that not happened taxpayers would still be ignorant. Surrey Coun. Brenda Locke called the overtime payments to Lipinski “shameful” and “ridiculous.” Former West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed expressed his own shock at the overtime bill. “It is unheard of in the police community that a chief or any executive officer gets paid overtime. The practice is they keep a book and use that as time off.”

Surrey estimated the new piggy force would cost $45m but that figure rose to $63.7m. The final bill will be far higher and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that larceny is the problem. Opponents of Norm Lipinski (2 elderly ladies from "Keep the RCMP in Surrey") learned he uses a private email while doing public business.

They were threatened with a lawsuit on Aug 18, 2021. The cease and desist letter from Keri Bennett at Roper Greyell accused them of “unlawfully use and distribute [Lipinski’s] personal email address.”

Lipinski, while Deputy Chief on the Delta Police, hired a public relations firm for $43,666.88 of public money to “defend” the actions of Chief Neil Dubord’s wife on Centennial Beach on June 6, 2020. Lorraine Dubord was investigated for possible assault and threats after the incident, when she sprayed Kiran Sidhu with a hose.

Last mobster tied to Boston art heist dies

Robert Gentile, a mobster who cops suspected in a 1990 museum heist has died of a stroke at age 85. Its thought he once had possession of some of the artwork taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 13 pieces from the collection, including works from Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas were lifted. The art has never been found. Among the stolen works was 'The Concert', one of 34 known works by Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable stolen painting at over $200 million. Some $500 million worth of art, including Rembrandt’s 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee' was stolen.

'The Concert' by Vermeer

The Gardner heist was carried out by two men dressed like cops who overpowered a night security guard who had buzzed them in. During a polygraph test, Gentile had an intense reaction when shown images of the missing paintings, while he remained calm when shown unrelated artwork. The museum offered a reward of $5m. In 2017 this was doubled to $10m with an expiration date set to the end of that year.

'A Lady and Gentleman in Black' by Rembrandt, painted in 1633.

31 years after the heist, the empty frames still hang in the Gardner Museum. 'Chez Tortoni' by Manet.

Shahin Behroyan - Stinking Cabbage

Realtor Shahin Behroyan has lost his appeal of a five year licence suspension for stealing $75k from a client.

Behroyan was described as crooked, corrupt, greedy, and using dirty money.

Shahin Behroyan had his bumhole in a twist when he sued fellow realtor Reza Mousavy in 2017. Mousavy outted the Teresa Decotiis/Behroyan $75k fraud, and among other things termed Behroyan a 'stinking cabbage', which seems pretty ironic as a few years later he was involved in the Haddad's celery root scam MEAT.c

In another ironic bum twister, the realtor association spanked Mousavy for outing the fukkin fraud of Behroyan.

Suicidal man can't do anything right

Authorities estimated the fall was at least 100 feet.

A man in New Jersey plunged nine storeys from a highrise, crash landed on a BMW and walked away with a broken arm. The man stood up and noticed one of his arms dangling unnaturally at his side. Video shows strewn glass and the caved roof of the 330i beside where the man lays.

Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes

In June the Canadian government was implored to respect its obligation to prosecute crimes against humanity. Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes has been living in Canada since his release from a US prison this spring.

Orantes in 2011

40 years ago the special unit he commanded tortured and murdered more than 200 people, including children, wiping out the Guatemalan village of Las Dos Erres. Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, 63, is accused of slaughtering villagers using a grenade, gun and sledgehammer. He paints himself as an instructor at a military training school, working with local communities. He actually was an officer of an elite military death squad known as the Kaibiles. Sosa Orantes served 10 years for immigration fraud in the US, where he also held citizenship until it was revoked in 2014.

In the early 80s, the Guatemalan military junta began a ruthless campaign against guerrilla groups that wiped out 440 villages, killing over 75,000. Sosa Orantes was a leader of a special forces group that led a mission to Las Dos Erres in December 1982. The military killed at least 162 civilians, including 67 children. Women were raped and children were thrown into an 18-metre dry well. "The members of the special forces group killed their victims by hitting them on the head with a sledgehammer, by hitting their heads on a tree, shooting them, or by slitting their throats."

"I was not in Las Dos Erres," he wrote. Sosa Orantes says that in late 1982 and early 1983 he was travelling to towns as part of a goodwill effort, handing out notebooks, pens, chalk, educational games and sports equipment for children. Sosa Orantes married an American woman and attained U.S. citizenship in Sept 2008. In 2010, the U.S. discovered he had committed immigration fraud by concealing his past and he was arrested the following year in Lethbridge.

In ordering his extradition, the Alberta Court said Sosa Orantes was one of the commanding officers who decided to murder the villagers.

Dying of Covid-19

Covid-19 attacks the lungs impeding intake of oxygen. People with worsening Covid-19 usually show up in the emergency ward because they are having difficulty breathing. As their lungs deteriorate, they have a harder and harder time getting enough oxygen with each breath. They need to breath faster, from an average 14 times a minute to 30 or 40. Gasping brings with it a very real sense of panic.

Doctors say many patients are certain they are dying. The struggle for missing oxygen is that overwhelming. An example is taking as deep a breath as you can. Hold and that is your starting point for the next breath. Now imagine doing that for weeks on end. As breathing becomes more and more difficult patients are heavily sedated and attached to a ventilator. By this time COVID-19 has run its course, it is the immune response and damaged lungs that will not heal. Lungs become 'hard' and the heart is overloaded trying to force blood into them. As the heart fails, kidneys are the first to go. At this point most will die in days to weeks of organ failure.