Kinahan lieutenant joins gangster moll behind bars

Kinahan lieutenant Barry Fowler will join his gangster moll behind bars after they were both convicted of a series of drug offences. Fowler was sentenced to six years in prison for supplying drugs shortly after being released from prison. He pleaded guilty to possession of €134k of pot on 24th May 2021. Fowler was previously convicted of drugs and possessing a submachine gun and sentenced to 8 years. His conviction comes weeks after his partner, Lorna Palmer, 35, was jailed for 18 months after she was busted with €100k proceeds of crime.

Benjamin Arellano Felix seeks early release

Benjamín Arellano Félix wants out of prison early. 11 years into a 25 stretch, Arellano petitioned a San Diego federal judge for compassionate release. Arellano was arrested in Mexico in 2002 and extradited to San Diego in 2011. He pleaded guilty to racketeering and money laundering and agreed to forfeit $100m as part of the deal. Prosecutors argue the only issue with the notorious drug kingpin is hypertension. Arellano’s chance of early release seems remote. When the same judge sentenced Arellano in 2012, he denied a request to receive a five-year credit for time already served in Mexico.

His plea deal set 25 years as the maximum.

Benjamín Arellano Félix, who worked with his 6 brothers, was one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords and the supplier of 30% of the U.S.'s cocaine. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012. The gang was known for dissolving bodies in drums of acid or burning them in the desert.

Arellano Felix and his late brother, Ramon, the cartel's top enforcer, ruled the cartel from 1986 to 2002.

Ramon Arellano Felix wearing shorts.

Aided by corrupt Mexican officials, the Arellanos killed anyone who stepped on their California-Mexico border turf. The cartel was fictionally portrayed in the Hollywood film 'Traffic'. Arellano Felix will not be released until he is almost 80. He will be sent to Mexico to serve 22 more years. Ramon Arellano Felix was killed in 2002. El Chapo was reputed to have said ... "If anything had ever really given me pleasure, it was to have killed Ramon Arellano Felix." They arranged for police to pull him over in the city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa. Younger brother Francisco Javier Arellano Felix, who took over in 2002, was sentenced in San Diego to life in prison in 2007.

Rocco Morabito arrives in Rome

Rocco Morabito, the "cocaine king of Milan" has arrived in Italy. Brazil’s Supreme Court approved Morabito's extradition March 9. It comes after his arrest in northern Brazil in May 2021, following a manhunt by Brazilian, Uruguayan and Italian cops. Born in the Calabrian town of Africo with family ties to boss Giuseppe Morabito, Morabito was a key figure in 'Ndrangheta. Giuseppe Morabito

Morabito lived in Uruguay for over a decade. He begins his 30 year sentence today.

Rocco Morabito was arrested almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay. He was awaiting extradition to Italy where he is a most wanted man. He had been sentenced in his absence to 28 years by an Italian court in 2015, a penalty later increased to 30 years. Morabito was behind the smuggling of tons cocaine from Brazil to Europe.

The ‘Cocaine king of Milan’ was one of Italy’s most wanted mob bosses.

Morabito established a partnership between the ‘Ndrangheta and Brazilian gang First Capital Command.

He was arrested while staying in a hotel in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, where he had gone after having a fight with his wife. A search of his villa in Punta del Este uncovered a gun, 13 mobile phones, and 150 passport-sized photos of Morabito in different guises.

Villa where Italian mafia fugitive Rocco Morabito lived near the resort town of Punta del Este

Arrested in Uruguay after 23 years on the run, Rocco Morabito is a top leader of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s powerful organized crime group and one of Europe’s biggest importers of cocaine. Morabito has often rubbed shoulders with Sicilian boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

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Jorge Enrique Bazán Aguilar - Gordo Tobi

1,881 kg of cocaine was seized in the northwestern Peru coastal city of Máncora. The drugs were to be moved by a speedboat to another vessel on the high seas. The cocaine was destined for Rotterdam. The seizure was part of a larger operation in which cops busted gang leader Jorge Enrique Bazán Aguilar, 'Gordo Tobi'. A property on Máncora’s Las Pocitas beach used to store and package cocaine was raided. Cops detained four members of Gordo Tobi’s gang and seized a car and four jet skis.

For cocaine to be sourced from both regions, which are 1,350 km apart, is unusual. Peruvian family clans have been expanding and bypassing foreign middlemen. Gordo Tobi’s gang may have been doing exactly that.

Cocaine was sourced in Huallaga, in northern Peru, while some came from the Valley of the Apurímac, Ene, Mantaro and Urubamba Rivers, where most of the country’s cocaine is produced.

Vincent 'Fatz' Caruso busted, along with mom

Caruso’s operation had links to the Lil Crip and Tiny Rascal street gangs.

Boston fentanyl dealer Vincent 'Fatz' Caruso, 29, was sentenced to 20 years. On social media, he bragged about owning six pill presses, which he used to make fentanyl disguised as Percocet. He also admitted to firearms, robbery, and money laundering offences. He washed proceeds at the Brook Casino in Seabrook, NH, where his mother assisted. She was handed nine years.

Caruso made frequent trips to the Brook Casino with his mother, Laurie Caruso, 52. The duo was careful to bet amounts below $10,000, the threshold at which a casino must report cash transactions. Prosectors said it was “even more appalling” that some of Caruso’s Instagram boasts were posted while he was on pretrial release.

Caruso has prior arrests for firearms, home invasion, robbery, assault, and drug offenses. Its 250 months for FATZ, he is a 'Menace II Society' no longer.

Mongrel Mobster Fairlane Wiringi

He was on parole from an earlier prison sentence at the time of the violent robbery.

Tears ran down Mongrel Mobster Fairlane Wiringi's cheeks as he briefly held his baby boy. He then began a 5 year sentence for aggravated robbery. The judge noted "You were born into the gang. Your dad is the president of the local chapter of the Mongrel Mob. You were surrounded by violence, drugs, and alcohol. Both parents spent long lags in prison and you spent long periods in care.

Christchurch Mob boss Junior Wiringi.

"You have got something to live for on the outside. Make sure you don't go back." Father Junior Wiringi offered other advice. "No more crack, son. No more crack," It seems hopeless. Fairlane Wiringi flashed gang signs before entering and leaving court.

Fairlane Wiringi was shot twice in 2021 in a failed hit.

Tracking Britney Lewis associates

Britney Lewis is the sole person busted, so far, in the hit on Bernard Cherfan.

Jay Alexander 'NHS Jay Jay'

In 2020, Brittney Lewis, 23, Devante Long, 25, Nikeita Forbes, 28, and Jay Alexander, 19, faced 42 gun and drug charges. Jay Alexander 'NHS Jay Jay' was killed in 2021 in a drug related hit. In 2017 Nikeita Forbes faced attempted murder and robbery with a firearm charges after trying and failing to rob a jewelry store in 2014 with Katrina Vanderwyk.

Devante Long, 28, is wanted by Toronto police for assault and theft. A man assaulted a woman and stole her car. Long is wanted for assault, failing to comply with a release order and theft of a motor vehicle. He has a history of drug arrests.

Drug kingpin Chung Chak Lee

Chung Chak Lee, 66, faced a short hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in June after being extradited from Thailand. The British-Chinese national has been accused of being a key player in the 'The Company' or 'Sam Gor' cartel. Up to 70% of drugs in Australia are linked to the cartel. Lee is second only to Chinese-born Canadian national Tse Chi Lop, known as Asia's El Chapo. Lee was arrested in Bangkok in Oct 2020 and spent 18 months in a Thai prison before he was extradited. Australian cops spent a decade hunting for Lee - working with authorities from up to 20 nations to eventually capture him. He was sixth on Australia's most wanted list. Cops say Lee worked under the direction Tse Chi Lop.

On June 7 the Dutch Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Tse Chi Lop against his extradition to Australia.
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Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie - Bank robbers shot dead

The men had no criminal records.

22-year old twins from Duncan, Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie are the bank robbers shot dead in a Saanich BMO attempted robbery. Six cops were taken to hospital after the shootout. Three were released.

'Ndrangheta boss Vittorio Raso busted in Spanish traffic stop

Vittorio Raso was released from custody by mistake two years ago after being arrested in Spain on a warrant from Italian cops, who wanted him for organized crime, extortion and drug trafficking. The National Court of Spain released him over a warrant mix-up. 43-year-old Raso's freedom lasted until June 21 when his car was stopped in Castelldefels during a routine check by Spanish police. Raso's forged papers were revealed as fakes and he was busted.