Punjab cop operation ‘Cage the Queen Bee’ - sunk by Frooti

Daaku Haseena whose real name is Mandeep Kaur, and her husband Jaswinder Singh were arrested at Hemkund Sahib in Uttarakhand's Chamoli. When cops learned of their travel plans to Hemkunt Sahib, they laid a trap for them and started distributing Frooti to the pilgrims. When Kaur and her husband were offered the drink, they uncovered their faces, leading to their identification and arrest. Cops recovered Rs 21 lakh of the couple's loot. The 10 Rupee Frooti ($0.20) is a mango flavoured drink popular in India. It is made with natural flavours and mango concentrate.

Among the busted is Manjinder Singh Mani, an employee of CMS Info Systems Ltd for four years. The arrest took place in Uttarakhand, where the couple had been hiding.

Punjab cops lassoed Mandeep Kaur, 'Mona', and her husband Jaswinder Singh. Punjab’s biggest heist, their daring robbery occurred in the office of CMS Info Systems Ltd, a cash management firm based in Ludhiana. It was led by Queen Bee Mandeep Kaur. Thieves landed $1m.

Mohammad 'Little Crazy' Hamzy back on Sydney streets

Mohammad 'Little Crazy' Hamzy, 37, was released from Macquarie Correctional Centre in Wellington. Hamzy, who has been caged since 2015 over the death of another gangster, is emerging into a different world. Five of his close relatives have been gunned down. The slayings overturned the Hamzy clan's dominance on the streets, leaving the Alameddine crime clan and Comanchero bikies holding power in the city's underworld. Its thought 'Little Crazy' could be honour bound to exact revenge over the murders of his cousins Bilal Hamze, Mejid Hamze, Ghassan Amoun and relatives Toufik Hamze and his 18-year-old son, Salim. He was originally sentenced for shooting two men in 2012.

Hamzy was stabbed in 2020. Its said the gangster has many enemies and there is a bounty on his head. His cousin Bassam Hamzy founded the 'Brothers 4 Life' gang in prison after he converted to radical Islam.

Patrice Runner nailed in $175m mail fraud

Patrice Runner, 57, directed a ruthless psychic mail scheme for over two decades. It was one of the largest -- if not the largest -- scam of its kind ever, the DoJ said. Runner ran a direct mail operation based in Montreal using the business name 9097-9394 Quebec Inc. He sent mailings to millions of Americans that claimed to be personal letters from popular psychics. In the letters, the purported psychics claimed to have seen a "personalized vision" of the elderly or ailing target. They promised to help that person achieve vast wealth and happiness or overcome illness, all for a fee, of course. Once an initial payment was made, the victims were "bombarded with dozens of additional letters". Some victims were directed to send anywhere from $5 to $50 for "unique and supernatural objects" that were actually cheap Chinese trinkets. Spanish cops arrested Runner in his Ibiza villa in April 2019. He was extradited to the U.S. in December 2020.

He remains caged with his sentencing date yet to be determined. Maria Thanos, 59, and Philip Lett, 52, from Montreal, Sherry Gore, 72, of Indiana; and Daniel Arnold, 61, of Connecticut were also busted and face long jail terms.

Montenegrins busted importing cocaine to Oz

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) charged two senior crew members from a bulk cargo carrier for their roles in the importation of 850kg of cocaine into Australia. The men – the vessel’s master and chief engineer, both from Montenegro – faced the Perth Magistrates Court. The master was Milan Begović and the chief engineer as Radovan Vujičić. They were posted on the bulk cargo carrier ST Pinot. The pair planned to drop the load overboard off the Fremantle coast to be collected by another group. The master instructed crew members to alter the vessel’s course as it neared Fremantle Port to rendezvous with the vessel.

Milan Begović, Radovan Vujičić.

The planned exchange failed. The men tried to conceal the drugs by filling the ballast tank that the drugs were hidden in with water and instructed the crew to backdate logs and provide false information to authorities. The cocaine was found on the 58,000-dwt supramax St Pinot at Kwinana Bulk Terminal in Western Australia. The haul, with a street value of at least $375m, is among the country’s largest.

This is far from the first time Montenegrin nationals have been busted for importing cocaine. In Australia, a master was charged for his role in a plot to import 320kg of cocaine in May 2022.

G&R Recyclage - Robert and Gary Gabriel revisited

The process for remediation of the fouled land has stalled and could remain that way for years given lack of governance.

Dysfunctional indian leadership is delaying the clean-up of Robert and Gary Gabriel's toxic dump at Kanesatake. A dispute between Council Grand Chief Victor Bonpsille and his sister Chief Valerie Bonspille, and four other chiefs in the Kanien'kehá:ka has delayed the transfer of the privately owned land back to the community so the cleanup can continue. Four chiefs: John Canatonquin, Brant Etienne, Amy Beauvais, and former grand chief Serge Otsi Simon banded together to support the Gabriels.

Former grand chief Serge Otsi Simon. Chief Denise David did not sign the dissident resolution.

By creating the toxic dump, and then being incapable of dealing with it, the Mohawk at Kanesatake are proving they are people who cannot govern themselves.

Contaminants were found in the water near a dump in Kanesatake 5 years ago. Opened in 2015 as a recycling center for industrial garbage, it has accumulated mountains of waste on a strip of Mohawk land. The Ministry of the Environment doesn't set foot there at the demand of Robert Gabriel. Firefighters were denied access to fight flameless fires that release smoke and foul odours. The water from the site is black. The wasteland is packed with 17 times the amount of waste it's permitted for. Reports confirm the presence of PCBs, E. coli and hydrogen sulfide.

Leaders of Kanesatake are demanding help in decontaminating the site. They detailed Kanesatake's failed attempts to get the federal or provincial governments to put a stop to illegal dumping on its land. Robert and Gary Gabriel are feared but not respected in their community.

Gary Gabriel

In 2020, the Ministry revoked the company's license and cracked down on truckers dumping loads. The traffic stopped, but the waste remains. The issue has been known for years but Quebec and Ottawa fear to tred on indigenous territories. Its thought it would cost $100m to clean up the site. Brothers Robert and Gary Gabriel were members of the Warriors during the 1990 Oka crisis. In 2005, they were convicted of forcible confinement and participation in a riot, after the house of Grand Chief James Gabriel and the local police station burned down. Robert Gabriel was the head of the 'very violent' organization.

See -----> Arsène Mompoint whacked

Richie 'The Boot' Boiardo home for sale

For about $2 million you can own a former home of Ruggiero “Richie The Boot” Boiardo at 4 Twilight Court in Livingston. He was the head of the New Jersey faction of the Genovese crime family. He was also an inspiration for David Chase's "The Sopranos." The home was his daughter's and sits back from the road at the end of a long, winding driveway. Richie the Boot bought the property in 1939. He lived there until his death in 1984 at age 93.

Sopranos creator David Chase said when he was a child, his family visited relatives in Newark "with connections to a prominent mob family in Livingston."

Ruggiero Boiardo was boss until he died.

Years later, Chase admitted that the Tony Soprano character in 'The Sopranos' was modeled after the Boiardos.

Things weren’t going well for the Boiardos in the late ’60s. IRS agents were investigating The Boot, and Life magazine ran an exposé on his “brazen empire of organized crime” and 30-acre estate in Livingston, NJ. The Boiardos ran Newark with an iron hand. For decades, they controlled the city’s underworld and benefited from racketeering, loan-sharking, theft, gambling and no-show jobs at the Port of Newark. In 1969 Richie the Boot was convicted of conspiracy to violate gambling laws.

Richie The Boot became increasingly detached and paranoid when he stepped aside. His son, Tony Boy, rose quickly in the mob but lacked The Boot’s sharp cunning and many thugs disliked him. Tony Boy died of a heart attack in 1978, at 64. The Boot died six years later due to heart failure. By then the Boiardo crime family was finished in Newark.

Water crisis in Gurugram, ‘mafia’ making a killing

Gurugram is a city of 1.1m southwest of New Delhi in India. With temperatures soaring, a water crisis has gripped Gurugram again. Battling low pressure, ancient infrastructure and decreased supply, much of the city is now dependent on mafia water tankers, which are costing a fortune. Water costs between Rs 1,500 and Rs 5,000 per tanker in some areas. ($20 to $65) The water mafia has graduated from illegal borewells to breaching water supply lines. 20 sites at 39 locations have damaged pipelines, leading to water shortages. "The water mafia is having its own way and are overcharging us and refusing to supply till we pay. How will we pay?"

Private tanker operators run their business from farmlands, where illegal borewells suck groundwater dry. Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) said there is a supply shortage of about 70 million litres per day.

See ----->Delhi - the water mafia
See ----->Karachi’s water mafia

90% dip in Afghan opium production

Afghanistan produces more than 80% of the world’s opium and heroin. Most finds a way into western markets via Iran and Turkey, or through the porous border with Pakistan. Satelite data shows a 90% dip in opium cultivation in Helmand after a Taliban imposed ban last year. All is not what it appears. Opium is a sturdy crop that can be stockpiled without risk.

In the impoverished hinterlands of Afghanistan, opium was, until recently, a currency that could fetch anything. Prices have crashed due to overproduction. During the Taliban's 2000 ban, demand rose and so did prices. Just like any other market manipulator, the Taliban dipped into its stockpiles to meet demand.
See ----->Heroin production up in Helmand province

Cocaine in Johnnie Walker Black Label

A 25-year-old Kenyan woman was taken into custody at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi for trying to enter the nation with cocaine dissolved in two whisky bottles. Dissolved powder cocaine is an easily smuggled drug since it can be easily disguised in many items. In this case Johnnie Walker Black Label. Suspicious officials X-rayed the bottles and found that the liquid carried an “unusually greenish” tint. On testing, it was revealed that the liquid had 22 to 28 per cent cocaine dissolved in it. On further testing, it was estimated that the bottles contained 850 to 900 grams of cocaine

OPP Constable Jason Redmond sentenced = 6 years

One hopes the ex-pig is put in general population.

Redmond, 43, has a total of 12 criminal convictions, all of which he committed while an OPP cop. Since 2018, his crimes have ranged from selling pot to multiple counts of assault, and sexual assault for raping an unconscious woman and recording it on his phone. Redmond has remained free and on the OPP’s payroll for years, suspended with pay. He made $121k last year. Among his charges were six counts of assault, three counts of assault causing bodily harm, one count of assault with a weapon, and one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life. Redmond was originally charged with 17 violent offenses when the investigation began in 2021.

The joke Ontario Police Services Act currently says a pig charged with a criminal offence can only be suspended with pay.