Cocaine cut with fentanyl in Nashville

Khalil D. Smith, 26; Nesean Thompson, 22; and Michael Terry, 26 were busted on felony drug charges after selling three grams of a white powder to an undercover cop for $200. It tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine. The dealers sold adulterated cocaine every day in downtown Nashville. Fentanyl is believed responsible for about 80% of drug overdose deaths in Nashville and Davidson County. A health warning was issued to the public about the spike in drug overdoses in the downtown Nashville area.

InstaFamous model Emmy Russ - revisited

Germany's Emmy Russ's quest to get the perfect Instagram shot in 2020 left her with more than she bargained for after she posed on a cop car. She faced a bill after cops claimed her photo shoot dented their car. The 23-year-old has 160k followers on Instagram.

Hamburg cops posted on their official Instagram account that they had caught a woman posing for photos on the hood of their car. The post said police had been “amazed” after a resident tipped them off that “a woman in front of the police station” was “lolling on the hood of a patrol car”. Hamburg cops said it was apparently to take ‘nice photos’ but cops later said the hood was pushed in after her posing on their car.

Nigerian busted for cocaine again

Okechukwu Francis Amaechi, 45, finished a jail term for drug trafficking in Brazil in March 2022. He was arrested at the Port Harcourt Airport on arrival from Brazil via Doha. Okechukwu was busted for 4.56kg of cocaine hidden in lawnmower tires. One package bears the inscription “IN GOD” and “WE TRUST”.   Amaechi claimed church members gave him the lawn mowers to deliver to his brother in Port Harcourt.

Gang warfare in Western Sydney

An angry imam berated mourners at the funeral of Rami Iskander. He was laid to rest in the grave next to his kingpin uncle Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, 17 days after his murder. The 23-year-old was gunned down outside his home in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child. Gangland violence is running rampant in Western Sydney.

Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad

13 people have been killed in gang violence in Sydney's west and southwest over the past 18 months. Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed, 41, is in critical condition and his brother Omar dead after they were sprayed with bullets two weeks ago. Tarek survived despite 10 gunshot wounds to his body and head.

He is said to be blind.

Dominic Taddeo escapes, lassoed, pleads guilty

Infamous mob assassin Dominic Taddeo, 64, who murdered three gangland rivals in the ’80s Rochester Mafia War, was arrested 4 days after he escaped from federal custody in Florida. Taddeo pleaded guilty and is looking at an additional 5 years in the big house.

About to be released to a halfway house, the killer went for a medical appointment on March 28 and never returned.

A judge denied Dominic Taddeo's bid for compassionate release in 2021. Taddeo has been imprisoned the past three decades for murder and other crimes. He’s scheduled to be released in two years. In 1982 and 1983 contract killer Taddeo fatally shot three men — Nicholas Mastrodonato, Gerald Pelusio, and Dino Tortatice. Taddeo also attempted to whack former Rochester Mafia captain Thomas Marotta, twice. Joseph Sullivan was responsible for about 20 of the murders in the Rochester Mafia War.

See ----->Joseph 'Mad Dog' Sullivan

6 charged after sophisticated tunnel found

A federal drug investigation resulted in the discovery of a sophisticated cross-border tunnel and charges against six people for conspiring to distribute 1,762 pounds of cocaine. The tunnel stretched from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in Otay Mesa just east of the Port of Entry. It is about 1,744 feet long, 61 feet deep and 4 feet in diameter, with reinforced walls, a rail system, electricity and a ventilation system. In addition to 1,762 pounds of cocaine, cops seized 164 pounds of meth and 3.5 pounds of heroin.

90 tunnels have been discovered in the Southern District of California since 1993. Of those, 27 were considered sophisticated. The last tunnel discovered in the Southern District of California was in March 2020.

Narco Queen of Honduras: Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda'

Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda,' along with her two sons ran one of Honduras' most powerful crime families. Along with Tito and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla, she controled the Montes drug cartel. Honduran police announced her capture Sunday. Tito was killed and three others captured.

Bobadilla and her sons were based in Colón, on the northeastern coast of Honduras. Her power grew with the conviction of Noe, her third son, who was extradited in 2019 and is now serving 37 years in a U.S. prison for drug-trafficking. The clan worked with the Valle cartel, and is said to have strong links to the recently caged former President Hernández. Hernandez was extradited on April 21, accused of conspiring to transport some 500 tons of cocaine from South America to the United States. See --->Juan Orlando Hernández: Honduran ex-leader extradited to US

Record 1,494 kg cocaine shipment intercepted in Malta

Malta customs has intercepted a record 1,494 kilograms of cocaine at the Freeport. Officials stationed at the Freeport scanning facility seized 50 bags containing 1,494 blocks of cocaine, each weighing one kilogram. The container, which was transporting bananas, was en-route from Colombia to Koper in Slovenia. The haul is estimated to have a street value of at least €300m. Malta seized 612 kg in 2020, 740 kg in 2021, and 2,294 kg so far this year.

Cocaine on the rise in Morocco

Moroccan cops seized more than 1.4 tons of cocaine in 2021. In October, cops intercepted a shipment of 1.3 tons of cocaine in the port of Tangiers, coming from Brazil and bound for Antwerp. The smuggling of cocaine surged as cartels tested the country as a route into Europe.

Smuggling of cocaine was carried out using the “rip-on / rip-off" method. Smugglers break the customs seals on a container, load the container with cocaine, and then attach counterfeit and illegal seals.

Mileta Miljanić - Busted

Mileta Miljanić is the Bosnian head of a cocaine trafficking network with links to the Gambino crime family. He was busted for defrauding the Small Business Administration of more than $150k in COVID relief funds. A US citizen, he served 3 years in federal prison for wire fraud in the 1980s, and in 2012 he was convicted of cocaine trafficking by Italian cops. Two years into a six year sentence, Miljanić was granted work release and fled to the U.S., where he has been ever since. Miljanić claimed to run a company called MDP Rebar Solutions LLC.

Zoran Jaksic and Mileta Miljanic. 'Group of America' is a criminal clan from the Balkans, whose members are Serbs.

Feds had Miljanić’s phones tapped, and subpoenaed his bank records, and say it was all a front for mob money. Funds were disbursed to Miljanić and his wife, daughter, and two sons, $1.5m went to a Gambino capo with convictions for racketeering and extortion, $925k to a Gambino associate with past wire fraud convictions, $484k to a Gambino soldier with racketeering and murder convictions, and the remainder to a raft of other shady characters, including $10k to the Gambino capo’s girlfriend. Miljanić and his wife paid off $85k in American Express bills with the loot.