Go fast boat blasted in Caribbean

HMS Medway, the Royal Navy's Caribbean-based patrol ship, spotted the boat near the Dominican Republic, and intercepted it alongside the US Coast Guard.

A drug smuggler's boat carrying cocaine with a street value of around £24m was blasted following a chase with a Royal Navy warship in the Caribbean. 400kg of cocaine was seized from the vessel before it was sent to the bottom.

1,432 lb meth bust = Calgary HA

Drug smuggler Ted Karl Faupel, 51, told cops a stranger hired him to pilot a drug boat for $1,000. He also said he knew nothing about a loaded gun on board. He was sentenced to a decade in prison Oct. 11, a sentence applauded by U.S. attorneys after calling the meth bust one of the largest of its kind in recent memory. “Faupel was not some low-level courier, as defense may argue. The sheer volume of drugs undermines this argument,” read a sentencing memo. Faupel had a jacket on board that showed he is a supporter of the Calgary Hells Angels.

U.S. customs seized 1,432 pounds of methamphetamine on a boat just southwest of Stuart Island, north of San Juan Island May 26, 2022. Alberta resident Ted Karl Faupel was busted.

SA cops warn public against scooping cash-in-transit loot

SA cops sent out a warning to people who contaminate crime scenes, especially at the scene of cash-in-transit heists. Use of explosives is common. The warning comes after videos posted on social media show people at cash-in-transit crime scenes taking money left behind by robbers. "Communities are requested to refrain from entering crime scenes but rather support the work of the police." See ----->'Cash in transit' heists big business for South African gangsters

Peel cops reel in $25m in drugs

Peel Regional Police seized 182 kilograms of methamphetamine, 166 kilograms of cocaine and 38 kilograms of ketamine. Street value is pegged at $25m. Cops worked with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in Detroit and Chicago, and Border Enforcement Security Task Force in Buffalo. The group used commercial trucks to import drugs across the border. Busted are Khalilullah Amin, 46, Jaspreet Singh, 28, Wray Ip, 27, Ravinder Boparai, 27, and Gurdeep Gakhal, 38.

HA prospect Steven Collard goes away for 42 months

HA prospect Steven Collard pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, drug trafficking and unlawful acts at the direction of a criminal organization. He has been detained since his arrest on May 13, 2021, so Collard has another 15 months in prison. His brother, Marc Dubois, also pleaded guilty. He will be sentenced February 23, 2023. Three others, Vincent Douillard, Patrick Ross and Pierre-Benoit Desjardins, also entered guilty pleas.

Marc Dubois

It was a 3 month community sentence for prospect Steven Collard in Jan 2021. Collard, accompanied by HA Clermont Carrier, struck the victim with a bottle in the face, inflicting injuries. Collard told a civilian undercover agent that wearing colours gave him a sense of power and respect.

Nowakowski sues the basterds

Paula Nowakowski is suing the BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch because it was denied a liquor license over her ties to organized crime. She is the wife of Mark Nowakowski, former president of the defunct Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club, which was a puppet club of the Saskatoon Hells Angels. Mark Nowakowski is on the lease for the Kelowna restaurant, but Paula Nowakowski said in the lawsuit that lease that was signed "a week or two" prior to the couple separating. The lawsuit argues Mark Nowakowski is reformed and has not been involved in criminal activity 'for the past four or five years.' The lawsuit relies on “procedural fairness” as the cornerstone of the case.

Nowakowski was busted in 2015 as part of Project Forseti. Cops nailed 14 and seized massive amounts of drugs and guns. Nowakowski bought 15 months.

See ----->Noel Harder - HA Rat dead
See ----->Fallen Saints MC Boss Mark Nowakowski pulls 15 months

Vincenzo Armeni whacked in Laval

Vincenzo Armeni, 66, had a long history of close ties to the Montreal Mafia. Cops found him lying on the pavement of a strip mall’s parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police found a burned-out SUV not far away. In 2007, Armeni received a 19-year sentence for his role in a conspiracy to traffic 760 kgs of cocaine. When Armeni was arrested in 2005 he was out on parole on a 10-year stretch received in 1998 for smuggling 160 kgs of cocaine. In 1986 it was heroin trafficking.

On Dec. 1, 2014 his brother-in-law Tonino Callocchia, a high-ranking member of the Montreal Mafia, was killed.

Armeni is described as someone who, from the age of 20, “adopted a lifestyle that centred on ease, greed, compulsive work in businesses and the inflexible code of ‘men of honour,’” While incarcerated at Archambault Institution, he wrote a letter that critized the institution's living conditions and argued for reduced life sentences and better prisoner pay. On Aug. 17, 2020, Armeni was released upon reaching his statutory release.

Record Colombian cocaine output - up 14%

Colombian cocaine output set a new record last year. Production rose 14%, to 1,400 tons. The amount of land planted with coca rose 43% to 204,000 hectares, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said.

Aqueduct racetrack heist an inside job

The robbery took place after Gotham Day stakes races at the Queens racetrack.

Two men were convicted in a brazen armed robbery at Aqueduct Racetrack that net more than $284k. A Brooklyn jury found Lafayette Morrison and Lamel Miller, both 39, guilty. They face seven years to life for the March 2020 heist.

During the theft, two men held up several employees at gunpoint. Among the staff was Morrison, who had been working as a security guard at the track.

Battle of Bakhmut - update

Russia’s prospects of even this seems remote as winter sets in.

The Bakhmut operation is a lie according to Forbes. "The overall narrative the Kremlin hopes to create is that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, its forces still can win in Ukraine. And the forces contributing to the Bakhmut attack—in particular, the separatists and Wagner—all are trying to take credit for the fictional wins." While their comrades retreated or dug in, the Russian and allied troops around Bakhmut kept trying to advance. Losses are huge. Last week, the Russians claimed they’d captured several settlements around Bakhmut. Ukraine denied it. Russians are losing strength and they are willing to spend all to achieve a symbolic victory rather than an actual military one of value.

"Ukrainians are guys with the same iron balls as we are,” Prigozhin wrote.

Reports on social media and in Russian state media say Wagner mercenaries are on the outskirts of Bakhmut, in Ivangrad. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has acknowledged that resistance from Ukraine around Bakhmut is stiff. “The situation near Bakhmut is stably difficult, the Ukrainian troops are putting up decent resistance and the legend of the fleeing Ukrainians is just a legend.

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