President Ivan Duque announced on Twitter that Juan Larinson Castro Estupinan, 'Matamba' had been “neutralized” and “killed in combat” in a police operation in the northern municipality of Bolivar.
Castro had been a member of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces and other paramilitary groups since he was 16 years old.
Juan Castro, number two of the Colombian cartel Gulf Clan was caught on tape exiting the La Picota prison in Bogotá. Castro, a drug lord awaiting extradition to the US, donned a prison guard's uniform and strolled out of the Colombian maximum security prison on March 18. Castro walked through seven doors, one of which was left open by National Penitentiary and Jail Institute inspector Miltón Jimenez who was taken into custody.
He was apprehended at least 12 times and twice eluded capture. Castro had become the chief of the Cordillera Sur, a cell of the Gulf Clan. His drug-trafficking gang was linked to the National Liberation Army, dissident members of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was killed about 10:30 p.m. Thursday in Jourdanton, Texas, about 35 miles (55 km) south of San Antonio. Lopez killed a Houston family of five at their cabin and stole their pickup truck. Lopez made his prison escape while on his way from Gatesville, Texas, to a medical appointment in Huntsville.
Lopez got out of his handcuffs and shackles and went for the driver’s area of the prison bus.
The driver of the bus put up a fight. After stabbing the guard, Lopez drove the bus, with 15 other inmates another mile down the road. Lopez lost control and ran into a cow pasture. He had been on the run since. Over 300 cops were hunting him down with a bounty of $50k.
In 1996 Lopez was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and sentenced to eight years in prison.
He shot a Texas sheriff's deputy in 2004.
In 2006, he was convicted of murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison. He used a pickaxe to kill a man. The following year, he received a second life sentence after being convicted of attempted capital murder.
Vancouver resident George Stubos, who has a long history of stock swindling in B.C., is now facing securities fraud charges in the US related to an illegal offshore shell company scheme.
The SEC announced civil charges against George Stubos on June 8 for engaging in a “sophisticated” and “deceptive” fraud scheme whereby offshore shell companies were utilized to fraudulently generate $11m in net profits from two U.S. companies. Stubos used nominees for offshore companies to hide his control of the stock. He broke up his shares with these nominees in less than 5% portions to avoid reporting requirements. "By day, Mr. Stubos serves as president and chief executive officer of Stubos Capital Inc in Vancouver, Canada. His private equity company’s primary goal is to help early and development stage ventures obtain critical funds to support their business models."
George Stubos
Stubos hired marketing agencies to tout the companies. Petrosonic Energy Inc. of Nevada and Ener-Core Inc. of Delaware were complete frauds.
The commission alleges “Stubos utilized the illicit services of Frederick L. Sharp and “the Sharp Group” to facilitate each step of his fraud.” Sharp has been found guilty of securities fraud by default and owes $52.9m.
Prolific B.C. drug smuggler John Philip Stirling, 68, was freed last year from the Sheridan prison near Salem, Ore., after arguing successfully for an early release for poor health. He had been sentenced to 40 months behind bars in 2020 after he was caught on a sailboat loaded with meth bound for Canada.
Stirling filed multiple lawsuits from jail. A handwritten lawsuit sought $30m from the Chinese government, who he blamed for the pandemic.
Stirling sued the United States Bureau of Prisons for allegedly not doing enough to protect him from Covid-19. He is alleging unconstitutional treatment at the hands of his jailers at the Sheridan prison, southwest of Portland. "Sheridan prison staff are endangering my life," Stirling cried in his handwritten complaint. "I am 66 years old with diabetis [sic]," Stirling wrote.
"I should be released as death, either mentally or by Corona-19, is inevitable under the present situation."
John Philip Stirling was busted again after authorities found 196 gallons of liquid meth on his boat off the coast of Oregon. He was arrested after his sailing vessel was discovered traveling north near Newport. The 65-year-old refused to cooperate after U.S. Coast Guard officials boarded his vessel. They found 28 seven-gallon jugs of liquid meth on board.
Sterling has a history of arrests stretching back more than 30 years from B.C. to the waters off South America. In 1989, he was convicted in a cocaine smuggling and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Stirling aboard the 'Western Wind'
In 2001, his boat, the Western Wind, was stopped by US authorities in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with 2.5 tonnes of cocaine on board. No charges were laid in that episode. In 2006 he was busted again, this time with bails of pot. He again escaped unscathed.
In October 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard caught Stirling captaining a boat with 400kg of cocaine on board. Charges stuck, and he was sentenced to 90 months in U.S. federal prison.
He has Hells Angels connections that date back decades.
Ali Osman Akat became a suspect in a drug trafficking network after German customs searched the contents of a Turkey-bound container. The cargo left Bogota and arrived in Istanbul after going through Customs while in transit in Panama, the US and Germany.
Inspection at Leipzig/Halle Airport on November 20, 2021 revealed 116 kg of cocaine mixed in with iron dust.
Ali Osman Akat with Erdoğan, Foreign Minister.
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu with Ali Osman Akat.
At the request of Turkey, Germany agreed to let the shipment proceed with mutual consent that the bust would be made in Turkey. The bust was kept quiet. In the arraignment on December 17, Akat was quickly released while his peons were detained. The same judge who ordered Akat’s release decided to arrest him on January 6, 2022 after a challenge was filed by the prosecutor. Akat was again released at the first hearing on May 20, 2022.
It is obvious the Turkish government is eager to derail the case against Akat.
Former U.S. marine Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. was sentenced to 195 months in prison for leading a cartel that transported ton quantities of cocaine from South America to Mexico and into the US. Ramirez joined the Los Zetas cartel after his service. Known as 'Zeta 39,' Ramirez opened his own drug trafficking organization called El Seguimiento 39. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations estimate that at its height El Seg 39 used alliances to smuggle 10 tons of cocaine into America each month and move at least $10m of drug proceeds back into Mexico monthly.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the US in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison. With his brother Miguel, they created a drug empire that at it's height controlled 70% of the cocaine that entered the United States.
Randy Vogel was "born and raised in Shaughnessy." Vogel was raised in the privileges of wealth by virtue of birth. This is the world of country clubs and yacht clubs to keep the riff raff out. This is what made the man who would angrily rip down posters of a dead woman. A moral vacancy where a soul should be.
Tim Vogel, left, Randy Vogel, right. Father Wink Vogel died March 2020. Randy Vogel attended Harvard Business School, then became a real estate agent and B&B operator.
The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club said 'Fleet Captain' Randy Vogel has been suspended from the club. Vogel has stepped down from the board of his family business Cloverdale Paint.
Here's Vancouver realtor Randy Vogel @randypamvogel hatefully taking down and destroying posters of Indigenous woman Chelsea Poorman who was murdered in Vancouver.
— Housing Crisis Watch (@HousingCrisisW) May 30, 2022
Randy Vogel was fired by Macdonald Realty after he decided to rip down posters seeking information on the death of a native woman found in the area. Randy Vogel and his wife Pam own 5050 Granville Street, near where the posters were torn down.
"Macdonald Realty is known for our long tradition of integrity and professionalism.
Unfortunately, a member of our organization didn’t live up to these values, and we therefore moved quickly to ensure that they are no longer with our company."
Former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will not be going to jail after parliament narrowly failed to approve a motion to suspend his immunity from prosecution while he is being investigated on organized crime charges. 74 MPs voted in favor of letting a court decide whether Fico should be taken into pre-trial custody, leaving the motion to suspend his immunity two votes short of passing. “Some may have [voted] out of naivete, some from idiocy, some for money, and some just wanted to buy insurance in case they ever faced justice themselves.”
Slovakia PM Robert Fico turned the country into his own personal fiefdom which he ran for ten of the 12 years from 2006-18.
Huge street protests triggered by the murder of an investigative journalist forced Fico's resignation. Last week the exclamation point: investigators in Bratislava fingered him as a mob boss who formed and ran an organized crime group during his time in office.
Fico resigned after the 2018 slayings of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova.
Kuciak had been investigating government corruption and ties to ‘Ndrangheta when he was killed.
Slovak Marian Kocner was busted for ordering the murders. He had close ties to Fico.
Enzo, a dog with Brazil's Federal Police, led agents to 805 kilos of cocaine that was being smuggled in a truck in Rio de Janeiro. The K9 was praised by President Jair Bolsonaro.
