A so di badness go - Andre 'Blackman' Bryan - Clansman gang

When a police detective cautioned one of the members of the One Don faction of the Clansman gang, he uttered the words, "A so di badness go." Rivaldo Hilton is one of 33 on trial for gang-related charges in Kingston.

Andre "Blackman" Bryan pleaded not guilty to leading the Spanish Town-based Clansman gang in Jamaica. Bryan's 32 accomplices also pleaded not guilty in one of the largest gangster trials ever seen in the country. The trial is being heard in two courtrooms and involves 40 attorneys and 43 prosecution witnesses. The gangsters are accused of scores of murders, conspiracy, and arsons from 2015 to 2019.

$53m of drugs in cauliflower

412 packages contained 2,611 pounds of meth and 50 packages contained 113 pounds of cocaine.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized drugs worth over $53m. Cops at the World Trade Bridge encountered a 2013 Kenworth tractor with a shipment of fresh cauliflower arriving from Mexico. The tractor and the trailer were referred for a closer inspection.

German cops bust cocaine smuggling ring

The gang brought nearly five metric tons of cocaine to Germany in nine shipments from Brazil, Colombia, and several other countries. Those suspected of involvement include a former officer with East Germany’s Stasi secret police.

German cops have busted a cocaine smuggling ring transporting tons of drugs to Europe from South America. Investigators said they had arrested 14 suspects as part of the international operation. The drugs were often hidden in steel girders in ship deliveries and encased in lead to pass through X-ray security.

The investigation was triggered in Nov 2018 after cops seized a shipping container in Santos, Brazil, containing 690 kg of cocaine worth an estimated €140m. The shipment was addressed to a company in Berlin.

Domenico Paolo Violi wins day parole

Violi’s death cleared the path for Rizzuto control of the Montreal Mafia.

Domenico Paolo Violi, 55, was granted day parole for a six-month test period. Violi is serving a sentence of six years, four months and 21 days for trafficking. Father Paolo Violi was the powerful Calabrian boss of Montreal’s Mafia until he was murdered in 1978 by members of the Rizzuto crime family.

Domenico 'Dom' Violi and Giuseppe 'Joe' Violi

Younger brother Giuseppe (Joe) Violi, 50, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for fentanyl and cocaine trafficking in June 2018. He was involved in a scheme to import 200 to 300 kg of cocaine into Canada. He remains in custody. Project O'Tremens resulted in 9 arrests and 75 charges among "the highest levels of traditional organized crime". The operation was conducted with a parallel investigation by the FBI in New York to infiltrate the Bonanno and Gambino crime families. A highlight was the undercover agent being inducted into the Mafia in a ceremony captured on video by cops.

Terry Magee - mamouth sore anus

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Lets put them together for career con man Terry William Magee, formerly of Australia, now putting pee pee in his bum in Indonesia whilst looking for real dumb live ones.

Massive illegal pot bust - Project Gainsborough

OPP and the London Police Service busted a criminal organization selling illegal cannabis around the world. Crooks operated an illegal cannabis website with delivery to London, Kitchener, Hamilton and Toronto, and was involved in exporting across Canada and to Europe and South America. Among many other things, cops seized 495 kg of cannabis resin/oil, 7,166 kg of illegal pot, weapons and $53k in cash. Two cannabis extraction labs, one in Brampton and the other near London were dismantled. Project Gainsborough began in June 2020 and resulted in 118 charges against 21.

Among those busted was Ryan Kyle, 44. He bills himself as CEO & Co-Founder at Medical Cannabis Resource Group "a vertically integrated cultivation and research company operating a diverse group of business units." HEREJorge Godoy-Velasquez, 40, faces 20 charges.

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.

See ----->Rat hit man reveals Scoppa brothers hit list

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.