Carmine Alfonso Maiorano lassoed in Argentina

Carmine Alfonso Maiorano

Carmine Alfonso Maiorano, 68, is a leader of the Italian 'Ndrangheta. He was captured last week in the town of Guernica in the province of Buenos Aires. An international arrest warrant was issued for Maiorano in 2015, and Interpol launched an effort in 2020 to coordinate international efforts to take him down. The 'Ndrangheta established itself in Argentina several years ago, according to cops. They operate in tandem with Albanian counterparts in Europe. Interpol considers 'Ndrangheta "one of the most extensive and powerful criminal organizations in the world."

DNA nails Paul Nuttall after 42 years

DNA under the fingernails of his victim lead to an arrest in a savage murder in Las Vegas 42 years later. Paul Nuttall, 64, is charged for the brutal rape and murder of waitress Sandra DiFelice, 25, in 1980. In December 2021 cops obtained Nuttall's DNA sample.

On Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, cops said Nuttall’s DNA sample matched the DNA from underneath the victim’s fingernails and he was busted.

Tyson Fury, brother, banned from US

Tyson Fury was stopped from boarding a flight to the US in June. Tyson was halted by US immigration officials in the UK because of the sanctions laid down against mob boss Daniel Kinahan. The two-time world heavyweight champion, 33, who was photographed in Dubai in February 2022 with Kinahan, said: "Because I had my picture taken with a man it doesn’t make me a criminal." His brother Tommy Fury is also banned.

Some 600 individuals have been banned from the US over their ties to Daniel Kinahan.
See ----->US sanctions Kinahan Cartel

Francesco Del Balso a walking target - update

It is being reported that mafioso Francesco Del Balso was targeted in a drive-by shooting in Laval. Half a dozen shots were fired. None found their mark and Del Balso was not injured. Associated with the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia, Del Balso was sentenced to 15 years in prison for gangsterism and trafficking cocaine in 2008. He picked up where he left off and made headlines in September for extorting a church. Before that it was extortion of a pizzaria in Quebec City. See ----->Mafioso Del Balso busted trying to extort Laval church

Gangster Del Balso issued a death threat to reporter Felix Séguin. That earned another 30 days in jail.

Francesco 'Chit' Del Balso

Francesco Del Balso believes the armed men who stormed into his home and terrorized his children intended to kill him. Although he and his family were the victims of the home invasion, it set off a chain of events that saw Del Balso returned to the relative safety of a federal penitentiary to continue serving the overall 15-year sentence he received in 2008. Del Balso spoke at length about the home invasion during a hearing and said it left him in shock for weeks because his family was at risk. Del Balso was away from home when he received a text message from his 12-year son. "Daddy. Daddy. Help help help. There’s a man with a gun”.

The 12-year-old boy was upstairs at the time while one of the armed men was on the main floor pointing a gun at his brother, demanding to know where Del Balso was. Del Balso called 911 and headed for his home, and he arrived at the same time as police. By then, the two armed men had fled. Marc Berthelot and David Cormier were in a car that was pulled over by Laval police minutes later. The Parole Board of Canada found a photo of a firearm and other photos “linked to the Hells Angels” on Berthelot's phone. “I know someone wants to kill me. I have to watch myself,” Del Balso said.

Marc Laflamme Berthelot

“I felt like a sitting duck,” Del Balso said explaining why he “ripped off” an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracking device that he agreed to wear. He said he left the bracelet on the lawn of his home in the hopes it would draw more police officers to his home and protect his family. He disappeared for more than two hours before turning himself in to the Laval police.

See ----->http://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2017/05/marc-berthelot-charged-with-breaking.html
See ----->http://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2017/03/francesco-chit-del-balso-out-and-about.html
See ----->http://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2016/06/girolamo-del-balso-busted-by-amigo.html

Marco Willians Herbas Camacho - Marcola

The most dangerous prisoner in Brazil, Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, aka Marcola, leader of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), declared his support for presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (Brazil's Trump) Lula won with 50.9% of the vote.

Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, 'Marcola', is a Brazilian drug lord and leader of the PCC. It is Brazil's largest criminal organization. Under the leadership of Marcola, gangsters are forced to pay a monthly tax and even have a code of discipline known as the 'Devil's Code'. The Port of Santos is located in the state where the PCC originated and has its largest numbers. The PCC, led by Marcola, are a transnational player in the cocaine trade with strong links to the ‘Ndrangheta and Balkan gangsters.

3 shipments of cocaine were caught on the same day as they were about to go to France, Spain and Ghana. All originated from the Brazilian port of Santos. In the morning, 562 kg of cocaine was discovered in a cargo of coffee heading to Le Havre, France. Hours later, a shipment of sugar heading to Ghana was seized with half a ton of cocaine. A container carrying orange juice and bound for Valencia, Spain, was found to contain 730 kg of cocaine. The week before cocaine was found in a shipment of plaster bound for Australia and in sugar packets heading to South Africa. So much cocaine goes out of the port that some even finds its way back. 459 kg was found inside an empty container returning from Philadelphia.

In 2022 Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest container line, suspended intermodal operations in Brazil. Geneva-based MSC said that criminals were intercepting containers in an attempt to ship drugs overseas. As a result, MSC has decided to indefinitely suspend the packing and pre-stacking operations of road, rail and barge boxes exported across Brazil. The company learned it's lesson after the record breaking 2019 drug bust aboard its ship, the MSC Gayane. MSC detailed the extent of the consequences in a court document, they included over $100m in additional security costs.

The ship was seized by US customs in June 2019 after authorities found nearly 18 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1.3b on the vessel. The 39,500 pounds, or 17.9 metric tons of cocaine is about the same weight as three African bull elephants.
See ----->Hundreds busted in Brazil as gang boss 'Marcola' transferred
See ----->$1b worth of cocaine found on a ship owned by JPMorgan

Krisandra Jacobs steals $855k from own people = 4 years in jail

The judge rejected Krisandra Jacobs's claim that a gambling addiction as the primary reason for her crimes.

Former councillor of the Squamish Nation, Krisandra Jacobs, 57, has been found guilty of defrauding the nation out of $1m and using it for her own purposes. She was found guilty of fraud and theft. Between April 2011 and May 2014, Jacobs and elected band manager Glen Newman were in charge of an emergency fund meant as a last resort for Nation members in need.

Jacobs requested and received 422 cheques during the time of her scheme. Jacobs regularly attended casinos shortly after cheques were deposited.

Vincent Yen Tek Chiu goes away for 14½ years

Vincent Yen Tek Chiu of Vancouver was sentenced to 14½ years after a federal jury found him guilty on drug charges involving the distribution of cocaine, heroin, and MDMA. (ecstasy) By July, 2019, cops knew Chiu was the leader of a sophisticated transnational organized crime network involved in the bulk purchase of cocaine and heroin. Chiu has been in custody since he was arrested three years ago. Cops seized $800k.

Umair Karim whacked

Umair Kasim, 30, and Kiesha Garie, 31, were found dead Oct 19. Kasim was involved in civil forfeiture actions related to Delta cop operations “Rolling Thunder” and “Big Smoke.” In Nov 2020, cops busted a grow capable of producing $18m of pot annually.

Cops said the operation had links to the Hells Angels and United Nations gang.

Erik Flores Elortegui tied to downing of Mexican helicopter

The downing of the helicopter and ensuing violence is a key reason why El Mencho remains free. No further attempts to arrest him have occured since.

The weapon used to blast a Mexican military helicopter out of the sky in 2015 came from a supplier in Oregon. Erik Flores Elortegui, a Mexican and U.S. citizen who lived in Portland, tops the Most Wanted list of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He supplied the Jalisco cartel with a belt-fed .50-caliber semi-automatic rifle. Eight Mexican soldiers and a cop died in the crash on a mission to arrest drug lord El Mencho. A round tore through the rotor of the aircraft, causing it to catch fire and crash.

Elortegui purchased the $15,350 weapon at a gun shop in Rainier, Washington state.

Ivan Morales, the other cop on board, had to crawl through the fiery wreckage and suffered severe burns.

Erik Flores Elortegui

Hells Angel René Charlebois - revisited

A video of René Charlebois has surfaced. Sitting on an old wooden rocking chair, René 'Balloune' Charlebois, one of Maurice Boucher's top henchmen, delivers his will. Charlebois was found dead after escaping from prison on Sept. 14, 2013. He left behind tapes that rocked organized crime in Quebec.

René Charlebois rose quickly through the ranks of the Hells Angels in the midst of the biker war in Quebec. He became a member of the elite Nomads chapter, and was a trusted confidant of Maurice 'Mom' Boucher. In 2003 he was convicted for the murder of a police informant. He was jailed but escaped from Montée Saint-François prison in Laval. 12 days later he was cornered by police and rather than return to prison he shot himself in the head with a Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum revolver. Shortly after his death, tape recordings involving then police star biker investigator Benoît Roberge were forwarded to police. Roberge had been working for the Hells Angels as a spy for years.

Benoît Roberge, 53 pleaded guilty on March 13, 2014, to participating in or contributing to the activities of a criminal organization and to committing a breach of trust as a police officer. Roberge was granted his release following a hearing before the Parole Board of Canada. Benoît Roberge spent a total of 29 months in custody of his 8 year sentence. See --->Hells Angels cop informant Benoît Roberge gets day parole