 | HA are gathering in the town of Šamorín, Trnava Region, about 30 km from Bratislava. The American Embassy published a security alert about the gathering. It notes that the United States government has designated the club an OMG and foreign members are barred from entering the USA. A World Run was marred by Canadian biker violence in Greece in 2015. |
| Four masked men march in a line through a Home Depot store in New York this year. Two appear menacing bodyguards, while the two others confidently push carts stacked with boxes of high-value items out the door. Home Depot executives say the New York-area crew is part of a growing threat across North America: organized retail crime. ORC is where groups of criminals steal prized items to sell online or elsewhere. ORC has reached unprecedented levels, sparking deadly violence at some stores. The risk is low and the payoff high. The Home Depot investigated 400 cases of organized retail theft in the past year and that is increasing in double digits. Retailers across the US reported a 26% jump in organized retail crime between 2000 and 2021, amounting to tens of billions. |
 Cops seized a host of guns, drugs, stolen goods, and cash. A loaded 50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun was found. About 12 kilos of drugs and weapons, including a loaded AR15-style rifle, were seized when multiple police groups carried out search warrants in Langford, Saanich, Victoria and the Malahat. |
| Also seized were six kilograms of a liquid drug suspected to be GHB. Cops arrested a 25-year-old man for possession of controlled substances for the purposes of trafficking and unauthorized possession of firearms.
He was bound by conditions at the time of his arrest for prior charges related to drugs. His bail was revoked and he remains in custody. The cannon Desert Eagle goes for $1,800 and is guaranteed to stop near anything. The Desert Eagle is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed self-loading pistol. |
 | Fayette County Georgia deputies clocked a Mercedes-Benz traveling 87 mph in a 50 mph zone on May 21. The stench of pot gave cops a reason to search. They found a large stash of drugs, including meth, cocaine, crack cocaine and pot, as well as a loaded handgun, and weigh scales. Cops say that felony drug arrests have increased 136% in the last year. "One reason is the open border. Drugs just continue to flow over the border." Prices of crack have imploded due to increased supply and that is causing a serious rise in busts. Javier Mendoza Corral remains caged in the Fayette County Jail. |
 | Italian police arrested 40 in a new crackdown targeting the 'Ndrangheta and their dealings with Chinese money launderers. Investigations have shown how drug cartels in Italy are increasingly using shadow networks of unlicensed Chinese money brokers to conceal cross-border payments. The network was able to handle drug shipments with South American cartels, including the Brazilian Primeiro Comando da Capital, and Colombian, Peruvian, Mexican and Bolivian rings. After receiving the drug cash, the Chinese money brokers forwarded it to trading companies in China and Hong Kong. The companies then delivered the money to the drug brokers and the South American cartels through agents. The investigation was helped by accessing encrypted chats on the Sky Ecc platform, dismantled in 2021 by Europol. |
 | The earliest known use of paper money is from the Tang dynasty. This dynasty lasted from the year 618 to 907 AD, with paper money appearing around 800. This money, known as 'flying cash', were certificates issued by the Tang government to pay local merchants in distant parts of the empire. | |
 Two batches of about 650 kilos and 713 kilos of cocaine were intercepted in the port of Antwerp at the end of January 2020. | Quincy Anton Promes is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow. He represented the Netherlands national team. He is facing charges of attempted murder and drug smuggling. He is being prosecuted for the importatioin of more than 1300 kg of cocaine with a value of £65 million.
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 | Marc Laflamme-Berthelot, 39, and Manuel Savoie, 47, entered guilty pleas for manslaughter on Dec. 7 for the Laval murder of Kellen Seow, 34, in 2017. Prosecutors sought and received a dangerous tag for Laflamme-Berthelot who is looking at another 16 years. Laflamme-Berthelot was arrested at the Port Cartier Institution, a maximum-security federal penitentiary. He is serving a lengthy sentence he received in 2019 after pleading guilty to charges related to a home invasion at the home of Montreal mafioso Francesco Del Balso on May 6, 2017, seven weeks after Laflamme-Berthelot killed Seow. |  Manuel Savoie, 48, organized the kidnapping. He was sentenced to 10 years. |
 |  | Kellen Seow was beaten and stabbed to death over a drug debt. See ----->Francesco Del Balso a walking target |
 | Krasimir 'Karo' Kamenov and his wife were killed in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to the couple, their two maids were also shot. Karo was known as part of the former Bulgarian criminal group VIS-2. Kamenov was wanted on a red notice by Interpol due to involvement in the murder of the Bulgarian criminal police’s former boss, Lubomir Ivanov, in early 2022. A political shakeup may be behind the killings. “We are going back to gangster times,” Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor said. Kamenov owns a fruit and vegetable market in Sofia. Large quantities of cocaine were found at the market several times in recent years. Kamenov had given evidence before a foreign jurisdiction in the last six months. |  |
 | Matthew Dupre has been extradited to Thailand to face trial for the murder of UN gangster Jimi 'Slice' Sandhu. Dupre, 38, agreed to voluntarily return to Thailand.  |  |
 | The Department of National Defence said that Matthew Leandre Ovide Dupre served in the armed forces from 2005 to 2013 and Gene Karl Lahrkamp from 2012 to 2018. Lahrkamp purchased a 14 acre property on the outskirts of Trail in October 2017 for $180k. The business of his company was guide outfitting and breeding Belgian Malinois dogs. Cops have searched the property along with another in Alberta.  |  |
The pair fled Phuket to Bangkok before leaving the country from Suvarnabhumi Airport on the evening of February 6th. Lahrkamp reportedly left for Frankfurt.  |  |
 | Thai cops found two guns at a beach in Phuket which they say were used in the murder of Jimi Sandhu. Police used metal detectors to search the seaside by the Rawai beachfront villa and found a semi-automatic Walther PPK and a CZ gun in the water.  |
 | Gangster Jimi Sandhu, 32, was shot to death at a beachside resort in Rawai, Phuket. The two gunmen are likely foreigners. Nineteen spent 9mm and .38 casings were found at the murder scene.  |
 | Sandhu was killed after he pulled into the parking lot of his rented villa at the Beachside Hotel. A maid found Sandhu lying in a pool of blood next to his vehicle some 8 hours after 2 gunmen on CCTV camera fired 20 shots at close range. A tracking device was found on the vehicle. |  |
 | Sandhu was affiliated with the UN gang. He was deported from Canada in 2016 for “serious criminality.” The dead man had 2 IDs on him. He held a valid passport for ‘Mandeep Singh’ and ‘Amarjit Singh Sindhu’. |  |
 | Guillaume Latour-Laitre, 26, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, after U.S. border cops found 142 kg of cocaine hidden in a trailer. At the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers performed an outbound inspection on the tractor-trailer and discovered the cocaine hidden in a secret compartment in the trailer. Latour-Laitre admitted that from November to December 2019, while vice-president of a Quebec trucking company, he trafficked cocaine from the U.S. to Canada via tractor-trailer. Latour-Laitre was extradited from Canada in late 2022. He faces a minimum 10 years and up to life in prison, a term of supervised release of between five years and life, and a maximum $10m fine. |  “He was offering [the trucker] $250 per kilo of cocaine. Each truck could contain 250 kg,” |
