384kg cocaine found in loader in Oz = 11 years, 6 months

Australian border officials cracked a major drug-smuggling case involving a piece of construction equipment stuffed with 384 kilograms of cocaine. The cocaine was concealed inside the hydraulic arm of a second-hand excavator. Border officials spotted the drugs using a routine X-ray check at a port in Sydney. Adam Hunter, 33, got 12 years and Timothy Engstrom, 34, 11 years. Both men have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.

Shane 'Wheels' Maloney rolls as fugitive - parole revoked

Still rolling whilst wanted, nothing has been heard of Shane 'Wheels' Maloney since fall 2022.

Shane Kenneth Maloney, 43, told a parole board he’s sick of a life of crime. “I’m content with the little things right now,” Maloney said. “I have no interest in going back to jail … " Wheels fell off the wagon and he is going back to jail as soon as cops reel him in.

Maloney served less than three years of his sentence in Collins Bay Pen after pleading guilty in Feb 2017 to stockpiling one of the biggest arms caches in Canadian history, and drug trafficking.

Paraplegic gangster Shane Kenneth 'Wheels' Maloney, was granted limited parole after serving more than two years in prison for drug trafficking and a massive stockpile of guns and explosives. Maloney was granted six months of day parole to be served in a halfway house. He is part-way through a 10-year prison sentence that was reduced to less than six years for time served. Maloney was part of the Wolfpack. He has complained much during his prison stay including back pain, wrist pain, and psychological distress.

Maloney split his criminal career between Montreal, Vancouver and the GTA.

His weapons cache that was seized by the Sûreté du Québec in Oct 2012 raids netted 1,475 sticks of dynamite, two pounds of C-4 explosives, remote controls, detonators and hundreds of firearms and prohibited gun parts. Maloney said he wasn’t sure how many illegal guns he owned, but said the number was less than 90. He said that society has nothing to fear from him. Maloney has close ties to Montreal's West End Gang and Wolfpack associate Rabih 'Robby' Alkhalil.

Rabih 'Robby' Alkhalil

See ----->The Alkhalil Brothers

'Spring cleaning' one year on

Hugues Leblanc, 47, was found tied up in the trunk of his burnt-out vehicle in Pointe-aux-Trembles in May 2022. Stéphane Dupuis was whacked on April 12 and Sébastien Giroux on May 10. All three men had something in common, they did drug business for the Hells Angels. The three Hells Angels-related murders in Montreal were carried out on territory controlled by HAMC Jean-Richard Lariviere. Known to police as a cocaine trafficker, Leblan worked for the Montreal section of the Hells Angels. Stéphane Dupuis was a close associate of HA Mario Brouillette, a man considered a top actor in organized crime in Quebec. Sébastien Giroux had close ties to hitman turned informant Frédérick Silva. One year on and all 3 murders remain unsolved. Jean-Richard 'Race' Larivière, received his Hells jacket in March 2017.

See ----->Here.

Oz jewelry heist caught on camera

CCTV captured a brazen jewellery store heist in Queensland by two thieves armed with guns and disguised in burkas. Rhia Jewellers owner Madhuri Azam told the BBC the thieves made off with over A$200,000 in goods.

Operation Hobart

An Ontario judge allowed the state to seize about $200k found underneath Dmitri Kellesis’s bed. His 92-year-old mother, Sotira, can keep $75,000. "This location was clearly a gambling hall with obvious gambling paraphernalia and Mr. Kellesis’s claim brings to mind Captain Renault in Casablanca,” the judge wrote.

Dimitris Kellesis stands to lose the loot cops lassoed as part of Operation Hobart in 2019. The hearing was the first of what will be more as the crown tries to keep $40m in cash, silver, gold, jewelry, high-end vehicles and luxury homes seized from what cops called the biggest illegal online sports gambling ring in Canada. Operation Hobart fizzled with criminal charges tossed due to unreasonable delay.

28 were charged and a gaming house in Mississauga and five illegal gambling websites run by the Hells Angels were shuttered. The sites operated under Ultimate SB, Titan SB, PlaytoWin SB, Privada SB and Players SB. The sites brought in $13m from January to July of 2019 alone.HA Deabaitua-Schulde, murdered in March 2019, was a collector for the gambling ring.

Three Hells Angels and one prospect were charged, Robert Barletta, Craig McIlquham, Eugenio “Gino” Reda, and Raffaele Simonelli. Barletta and McIlquham ran the operation. Cops say it took in more than $160 million in revenue over a six-year period before police shut it down and seized $40 million in assets.

Oath Keepers - Stewart Rhodes = 18 years

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the US Capitol riot.

The sentence is the longest yet given to a Capitol rioter. Prosecutors had asked for 25 years.870 have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 17 have been accused of seditious conspiracy, the high crime of using force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Seditious conspiracy is a Civil War-era statute, rarely prosecuted, which carries a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison. Members of far-right militia the Oath Keepers — including founder Stewart Rhodes, have been charged with this.

Rhodes plotted an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.

Oath Keepers spent months planning their roles in the riot.

Seditious conspiracy is defined as two or more people plotting "to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States." The Oath Keepers are an anti-government, right-wing political organization committed to supporting and defending their demented interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

The five accused Oath Keepers also face charges of conspiring to obstruct and obstructing an official proceeding, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, and conspiring to prevent an officer from discharging duties. Those who physically entered the Capitol building - Watkins, Meggs and Harrelson - are charged with property destruction.

Denis Desputeaux revisited

Kenny Maheu, left, and Denis Desputeaux were sentenced in 2018 for drug trafficking.

Busted for trafficking tied to the Hells Angels in 2018, Denis Desputeaux posted a threat to cops on Facebook. That didn't go over well and he was ordered to turn over a sample of his DNA to cops. Desputeaux, then 24, received a 28-month prison term. Desputeaux was busted for drugs again with Seeyomak Salemi-Seyfeddin in 2022.

The Percuter investigation reeled in a score of HAMC and associates.

See ----->Seeyomak Salemi-Seifoddin - 'The Persian'

3 busted in Vancouver with pure fentanyl

Cops seized 1 kg of pure fentanyl, heroin, fentanyl mixed with other drugs, carfentanyl, ketamine, methamphetamine and MDMA in November 2020. $24,000 was also seized. Karina Marie Graham, 32, has been charged with three counts of trafficking a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Leo Minh Trung Thach, 27, has been charged with four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. And, Trung Thanh Nguyen, 40, has been charged with one count of trafficking a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Around 82% of the 11,171 B.C OD deaths since 2016 involved fentanyl.

Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty = 6 years

After the FBI arrested rapper Fetty Wap, he was released on $500k bail, which was revoked soon after he threatened to kill someone and held a gun during a FaceTime call. His guilty plea makes his sentence 6 years, an improvement from the decade to life if he was found guilty at trial. Prosecutors wanted 9 years.

They know the name Fetty Wap … idc if they love me or hate me .. they know my Motha Fu*kin Name https://t.co/hiua3pAwBN — Fetty Wap (@fettywap) October 26, 2021

$1.5m cash, 16kg cocaine, 2kg heroin, fentanyl, handguns and a rifle were seized. Fetty’s lawyer said at the time, "this is all a big misunderstanding. He sees the judge today. Hoping he gets released so we can clear things up."

Willie Junior Maxwell II - Fetty Wap

Liberian traffickers vanish

Most surmise the not guilty verdict was a result of jury tampering.

Four drug dealers arrested in Liberia for trafficking cocaine worth $100 million have vanished immediately after a jury found them innocent in a surprise verdict. The men – Lebanese, Liberian, Guinean and Portuguese – were arrested in a bust last year which involved US and Brazilian intelligence. They were accused of smuggling 500 kg of cocaine in a container of pig’s feet from Latin America. Liberia and West Africa form part of a key drug trafficking route.