 | Mounties are crowing that Newfoundland and Labrador are likely the only province in Canada without an active Hells Angels presence. This comes after the latest Vikings MC drug convictions, which saw Vincent Leonard, Wayne Johnson and James Curran get put away for 60 months, 66 months and 42 months, respectively. |
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 | Alberta cops announced today that Jessica Kane, 31, has been charged with robbery, overcoming resistance by administering a drug and 4 counts of breaching of a release order after a year-long investigation. Kane had some charges dropped by the crown in Vancouver. The mother of Dustin Lefebvre, who died in his home after an encounter with Kane, is speaking out. She wants to know why Kane still enjoys her freedom after new charges of drugging and robbing a man while out on bail. Lefebvre, a father of two, died in February 2021. A noxious substance caused his heart to fail. In addition to the 24 odd charges she currently faces, Kane is also being investigated in Calgary. |
Jessica Nicole Renee Kane, was released again, this time on house arrest with a $20k cash deposit. During her bail, Kane must stay inside her home 24/7/365 except on Fridays between noon and 2 p.m. for groceries. Kane is banned from sex work, possessing drugs or drug paraphernalia, and other conditions.  |
 | Kane is set for another appearance March 9 in Surrey. She was charged in another drugging while she was out on bail. She also faces new charges of obstruction and breaching a release order. She was busted again Jan. 9 for another count of administering a drug to commit an indictable offence and one count of robbery. Kane initially faced 21 charges of drugging and robbing Johns across the Lower Mainland over 18 months. One said there are similar teams of women posing as escorts on Leolist, drugging and robbing clients. |  |
| Kane was charged in multiple incidents of Lower Mainland men being drugged and robbed during escort-service encounters. She was released on $50k bail with no deposit or sureties. Jessica Kane was charged with manslaughter in a man’s death in Feb 2021. He had ingested a substance during an encounter with her. |
 | Former Melbourne HA bikie boss Andrew Lamositele-Brown, 40, has been found guilty of murder of Auckland prospect Petau Petau. He was expelled from Australia as a 501 deportee months before. Lamositele-Brown blamed a mystery man (who he refused to identify) who had given him a gun that was loaded.
 |  It took jurors in the High Court at Auckland less than an hour to reject the biker's tale. |
 | Lamositele-Brown, otherwise known as Andrew Tovia Fepuleai, began his jury trial in the High Court at Auckland 2 weeks ago. He claimed that he unintentionally triggered a handgun while showing it off to his good friend Petau Petau, freezing in shock as he collapsed in the following mayhem. The cop standoff lasted 7 hours. |  Prosecutors told a starkly different scenario of a mad killer out of control. |
Dave Courtney, 64, recorded a video explaining that he was planning to take his own life, and why - three months before the reformed London gangster was found dead in his home on Sunday morning. He apologizes for taking what he called 'the cowards' way out' - but celebrated "the wicked life I have had". Courtney's goodbye message was filmed on July 5 but was only discovered on his mobile phone later.
He explains his decision, saying his arthritis is 'crippling me up' and that he is having to hide a lot of pain. |
 | Burnaby's gangster owl has crossed the Rubicon with an attack on a toddler. "The owl scratched my son's face and scalp, missing his eye by mere millimetres, It could have taken out his eye." The City of Burnaby has closed the trail at Squint Lake Park and contacted conservation. The owl's behaviour has no explanation as nesting season is over. It may need to be destroyed for public safety. |
 | Locals in Burnaby are arming themselves with helmets and umbrellas against a silent menace terrorizing a Burnaby park. Users of Squint Lake Park at the foot of Burnaby Mountain have been targeted for silent airborne attacks by a mother owl. The fowl has staked out a corner of the park and to venture through it is to incur her significant wrath. Citizens complaining about the abuse cried to the province’s conservation officers. They focus on animals that are deadly. “They do not attend owl interactions” Experts say the bird is a barred owl and its aggressive behaviour will taper off. “They have young right now; they have owlets, so they’re being defensive,” The owlets are probably learning to fly nearby. Crossing a grouchy mother is never a good idea. |
 | Cops are on the hunt for the crooks behind a “dime and dash” in northeast Philadelphia. Thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot and made off with about 2 million dimes.
The trailer was carrying an estimated $750k in dimes, and the thieves managed to haul away $200k worth.  |
 | Its 2017, and wise guy Vincent Asaro has been found guilty. For nearly 50 years mobster Vincent Asaro has escaped conviction on a huge array of criminal charges, having been accused — and then acquitted — of, among other things, strangling a man with a dog chain and taking part in the infamous Lufthansa heist in 1978. Now age 87, Asaro was sentenced to eight years in prison for what may be the pettiest allegation he ever faced: ordering his underlings to set fire to the car of a motorist who cut him off in traffic in Queens. |  |
 Vincent Asaro, center, with John Gotti. | Asaro held various positions in the Bonanno crime family, and he was a killer, but also involved in bookmaking, loan-sharking, extortion and robbing delivery trucks. He largely managed to avoid ever being punished. Asaro was acquitted at the Lufthansa trial. Judge Ross noted that, despite the jury’s verdict, she was “firmly convinced” that the feds had proved its case. |  |
 | Gene Borrello was lauded by prosecutors for being a rat. John J. Gotti, the grandson of the late Gambino boss, pleaded guilty to being the getaway driver.  |  |
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A federal judge granted Vincent Asaro's release in April 2020. His was a compassionate release from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Asaro’s age and his deteriorating health were “extraordinary and compelling” reasons for his release. |  John J. Gotti robbed a bank weeks later and pulled 5 years. |
 | Bonanno capo Vincent Asaro, 83, says eight years in prison is over the top for a conviction on ordering the 2012 torching of a car that cut him off. The aging gangster says he’s getting shafted. Asaro said the reason the prison term is so out of whack is that the judge wrongly weighed his 2015 acquittal in a trial where the feds tried linking him to a 1969 murder and the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist. Asaro is pressing for the appeals court to make another judge available to re-sentence him. The prison term is about three times the length of federal guideline recommendations. Federal prosecutors asked for 15 years. |  |
 | Unlike popular culture, shoplifting is often about organized crime, which steal and fence goods from retailers on huge scales. Home Depot busted one such ring with the help of cops. At the core was a man named Robert Dell, who operated a drug recovery program out of a church in St. Petersburg, Fla. He stole $1.4m of goods. Dell used his position as a pastor to coerce people into stealing, often hitting stores five times a day. Dell fenced goods on eBay under the "anointedliquidator" where he had 100% positive feedback and a 35,000 item history. |
 | Dell and his crew were finally busted in August. Shrink, including shoplifting and retail crime, cost US retailers $94.5b in 2021, up from $90.8b in 2020. The number is expected to pass $110b for 2023. Target is closing nine stores across four states citing concerns about safety as retail crime increases. |  Toronto cops say they have seen a rise in crimes targeting retail and some of it appears to be organized. |
 | Wayne Kendall Jr. of Trois-Rivières, was sentenced to 18 months. From 2015 to 2018, Kendall Jr. stole more than $377k by submitting false claims for tax credits and benefits. He impersonated 18 people in order to claim cash for 61 fictitious children. He deposited cash in bank accounts he opened using fake ID. Kendall Jr. was employed by the CRA when he obtained identities, but he didn't work there when he carried out his fraud. |
 Taccetta wants a new trial. | Martin Taccetta, 72, former boss in the Lucchese family, says he was framed by prosecutors for evil deeds related to the rub-out of auto dealer Vincent “Jimmy Sinatra” Craparotta in 1984. Craparotta, 56, was beaten to death by men with golf clubs at his car lot on June 12, 1984, to scare his nephews into paying tribute to the Luccheses from earnings on their video poker machines. Taccetta beat the murder rap, but he was found guilty of racketeering, conspiracy, and extortion. He received life plus 10 years. Taccetta claims his dental records, which he says proved he was at his dentist’s office when Craparotta was killed, were secretly altered. |  |
 Thomas Ricciardi was convicted in the 1984 golf club death of Vincent Craparotta Sr. | The government presented testimony from turncoat Mafia underbosses that Taccetta told them he and an associate “whacked” the victim “over some Joker Pokers” and used golf clubs rather than baseball bats to do the job because “bats break.” |  Taccetta was a top capo. |
