Panama and Colombia seize 6.1 tons of Cocaine

The Panamanian National Air and Naval Service (SENAN) and the Colombian Navy seized 6.1 tons of cocaine hydrochloride in the Caribbean Sea during two operations. The first operation resulted in four Colombian crew members throwing their cargo into the sea. Panamanian authorities recovered 3,152 packages totaling 3.5 tons of cocaine. In the second seizure cops intercepted a boat carrying 2,593 kilos of cocaine and 77.9 kg of cocaine base paste.

Playboy cover girl Tyana Hansen - revisited

A cocaine-fueled evening out landed an InstaFamous model and her Gold Coast ex-cop boyfriend in chit in 2021. Playboy cover girl Tyana Hansen and former oinker Zachary Maidment were celebrating their casino party, but it was bugged by cops. They listened in as he snorted coke off his girlfriend's tits. The couple have since become porn stars. Maidment pleaded guilty, paid a fine and avoided jail.

Jean-Pierre Huot revisited

In 2018 Jean-Pierre Huot, then 62, was convicted on six charges that his company, Perfection Métal, sold semi-automatic machine guns. He claimed he was making paintball guns — even though they were equipped with silencers. The underground gun factory operated in Montreal and produced high quality copies of the TEC-9 / DC-10 submachine gun.

One of Huot's guns was used in the 2015 attempted hit on Bernard Cherfan.

The crown presented 11 events where the guns were either used in Mob hits, seized during drug investigations or found abandoned in Quebec and Ontario.

Huot's submachine gun was used to execute gang leader Ducarme Joseph in 2014. Huot was convicted on six charges and sentenced to seven years in prison.

In March, cops in Montreal busted drug dealer Ian Smith, 50. Cops seized three 9-mm pistols, ammunition clips, a machine gun, and drugs. Smith was busted for guns made by Huot in 2016 and sentenced to 41 months.

Juan Castro 'Matamba' - shot dead

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 Artemio Lopez - Mexican Mafia gangster shot dead

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.

See ----->The Mexican Mafia

George Stubos busted by SEC

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.

Sharpe was last known to be in West Vancouver.

See ----->SEC wants $52.8m from fraudster Sharp

John Philip Stirling - He's back

John Philip Stirling returned to Victoria.

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.

Cocaine trafficking case of Erdoğan associate on the shoals

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.

195 months for ex-marine cocaine kingpin Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.

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 dies in US jail

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. Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez-Orejuela