Scottish gangster Andrew ‘Dumbo’ Gallacher dies in jail

Andrew ‘Dumbo’ Gallacher was found dead in his cell at Addiewell prison. The convicted heroin dealer was serving 20 years after being convicted for murder plots on Steven ‘Bonzo’ Daniel, 41, and others. ‘Bonzo’, nephew of late crime kingpin Jamie Daniel, was tailed in a 100mph car chase and carved up by machetes in May 2019. Gallacher and five Lyons gang cronies were caged for a total of 104 years. They turned Glasgow into a war zone as they plotted to kill their rivals. Gallacher had been a main player in the war between the Lyons and Daniel families. In August Gallacher was slashed in the head by another prisoner in an ambush.

Guy Dion acquitted, Marie-Josée Viau convicted

A jury convicted Marie-Josée Viau, 46, of second-degree murder, but acquitted her husband Guy Dion. The jury relied heavily on recordings that were made in 2019. It was Viau who made the most incriminating statements while she was being recorded. Dion was guarded while he was recorded without his knowledge, and there was evidence the volunteer firefighter was called to put out a fire in a neighbouring town while the bodies were burned on the couple’s farm. Its said a confession was taped. The couple complained, among other things, of not being paid.

Guns included two automatic 9mm Cobrays.

Marie-Josee Viau, Guy Dion.

Guy Dion and Marie-Josee Viau are from Saint-Jude, in Montérégie. It was at their home where brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Falduto were executed on June 30, 2016. They were accused of murder and conspiracy. For three years the investigation was at a dead-end, until the assassin surrendered to the cops to become an informer. Police then introduced an undercover agent.

Jonathan Massari

The gang was led by the murdered Salvatore Scoppa and his right-hand man, Jonathan Massari. Lorenzo Giordano was shot in broad daylight on March 1, 2016, allegedly by Dominico Scarfo. The gang also killed former acting mafia chief Rocco Sollecito.

Dominico Scarfo

Guy Dion and Marie-Josée Viau.

Two gangsters from Montreal were killed by a hitman hired by the Mafia and their bodies incinerated before their ashes scattered in a river, a jury was told. The key witness in the trial is the man who carried out the slayings in 2016 and became an informant. He says the murders were carried out inside the couple’s garage.

Vincenzo Falduto and Giuseppe Falduto.

Three men and a woman were charged in the 2016 slayings of brothers Vincenzo Falduto and Giuseppe Falduto, as well as the deaths of Rocco Sollecito and Lorenzo Giordano. The four are Jonathan Massari, Dominico Scarfo, Guy Dion and Marie-Josee Viau. The investigation into those deaths, dubbed “Premediter” (premeditated), culminated with the arrests. Cops seized 19 long guns, six handguns and three automatic weapons, as well as silencers and ammunition. They also seized a motorcycle used in the killing of Sollecito.

The boss was Salvatore Scoppa. He was killed in a brazen shooting at the Sheraton Laval in 2019. His brother Andrew was executed 5 months later.

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Gangster James Riach loses appeal of life sentence in Philippines

They were busted with more than $2.5m worth of ecstasy and shabu. (meth and caffeine)

The Philippines Court of Appeal rejected an appeal of the sentence by former Independent Soldier James Clayton Riach and accomplice Ali Memar Mortazavi Shirazi. The Canadians were also ordered to pay a $12,000 fine.

James Clayton Riach, right, and Ali Shirazi

Gangster Barry Espadilla and Tara Hadden-Watts

Philippines National Bureau of Investigation arrested Riach and Shirazi at their Manila condo in January 2014. Also arrested and charged that day was Riach’s long-time associate Barry Espadilla. Espadilla was released 18 months later after an appeals court judge accepted his lawyer’s argument that police lied to get search warrants in the case. He returned to Canada. Riach was in a vehicle with Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon and Hells Angel Larry Amero when it was sprayed by gunfire in Kelowna in August 2011.

$44m of cocaine in onion rings lassoed in UK inbound zone

A shipment of $44m (£33m) of cocaine was found in an onion ring cargo in Coquelles, France. The 418kg haul at the Channel Tunnel's UK inbound zone resulted in Polish truck driver Piotr Perzenowski, 30, being charged with smuggling Class A drugs. Cops spotted the 922 pound shipment after halting a lorry headed to the UK.

Italian journalist Mauro de Mauro found?

De Mauro disappeared in Sept 1970, a victim of a 'lupara bianca', a term used to describe a mafia slaying.

Cops in Sicily are investigating whether human remains found in a secluded cave on Mount Etna are those of an Italian investigative journalist who disappeared more than 50 years ago. Mauro De Mauro was a reporter in Palermo. A sniffer dog being trained located human remains in the cave.

A DNA test on the remains will determine if it is De Mauro, who was investigating the death of businessman Enrico Mattei, who died in a 1962 plane crash likely caused by a mafia bomb.

Bank robber caught - in grave

Theodore Conrad left the Cleveland bank where he worked in July 1969 with a paper bag containing $215k in cash. He was never seen again. 50 years later cops found him. He was Thomas Randele and buried in a MA cemetery, 6 months after he died of lung cancer.

Theodore J. Conrad settled in MA, where he worked at a luxury-car dealership for 40 years. He raised a daughter and enjoyed watching crime shows on TV. He died at age 71 a respected and law abiding member of his community. On his deathbed, Conrad told his family the truth.

Meth smuggling model Simone Starr

Simone Starr was a bikini model and Penthouse Pet before she became a figure in Sydney's underworld in the late '90s and early 2000s. After fleeing to the US after a parcel bomb blew up in the face of her boyfriend, Starr was arrested for smuggling meth in 2009 and sentenced to 6.5 years in jail.

Vicky Pehalwan chocks up another murder charge

Vicky Pehalwan, 29, is a notorious Indian gangster. One of western Uttar Pradesh’s most wanted gangsters until his arrest in March 2020, he gained notoriety as a man with the most number of murder cases against him. That total is now 8 as a 39-year-old prisoner was stabbed in the head by two prisoners, including Vicky Pehalwan. Jailers say Pehalwan and his accomplice used a knife made from a tin sheet. Vicky Pehalwan is a resident of Ghaziabad and a member of the Rohit Chaudhary gang of South Delhi.

Operation 'Tiny Toons' nails Gangster Disciples

Operation Tiny Toons led to the prosecution and conviction of 18 gangsters from Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, NC, for heroin and fentanyl trafficking. Gang leader Darion “Pluck” Graham received the largest sentence and is going away for 30 years.

Louis “Bobby” Manna denied release

A federal judge has once again denied the release of Louis “Bobby” Manna, 91. The former consigliere of the Genovese crime family will almost certainly die in prison.

Known as “The Thin Guy,” Manna was once one of the most powerful mob leaders in the U.S.

Mobster Louis Manna has spent 33 years in jail. The elderly wiseguy who planned a hit on John Gotti should be freed his lawyer says. Manna is serving an 80-year sentence after being convicted in 1989 for his role as the consigliere of the Genovese crime family, as well as ordering a hit on mob boss John Gotti and his brother Gene. Prosecutors have acknowledged that Manna is no longer a threat to society.