Benjamin 'The Claw' Castellazzo caged 15 months - flashback

A year ago aging mob boss Benjamin 'The Claw' Castellazzo drew a paultry 15 months after the feds indicted him and 13 other Colombo mobsters in a scheme to take over a labor union. The underboss's lawyer claimed a new conviction would see him lose his subsidized apartment and leave him homeless. Castellazzo, is known as 'the Claw' because he gets his hands on everything.

The Claw's career in organized crime started in the 1950s when he was convicted for hijacking a carpeting truck. When he appeared before a federal judge in 2013 to be sentenced for racketeering he was a changed man. “I have reflected on my life during the last two years I have been in jail since my arrest. I can tell your honor without hesitation, I am not proud of the life I have led,” Castellazzo wrote “ ... I can tell your honor in all sincerity that you will never see me before this or any court of law again.”

He was released from federal prison in 2015, but the feds came calling for the Claw again. Castellazzo was the man in charge of the union racket.

He had been denied bail and housed at the unfriendly Metropolitan Detention Center.

Matthew Joseph Medlin mugshot series - revisited again

Matthew Medlin remains enigmatic after more than 4 years, which suggests he is not still among the living. There doesn't seem to be any new and improved Matthew Medlin mugshots since May 2020. That downward spiral of his doesn't have an off switch. Medlin was made uber famous by the New York Times in 2017. Here.

Meth head Matthew Joseph Medlin, 37, was arrested for the 16th time in 2019 for licking another man's face, damaging cars and trying to bite a cop. The Portland native has a series of mugshots dating to when he was 18.

Matthew Joseph Medlin in 2002.

Its over 22 convictions now in case anybody is keeping count. On May 12, 2020 cops charged the registered sex offender for second-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, menacing, second-degree disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Medlin shot up meth while throwing rocks and metal objects at cops. He had to be forcibly sedated, twice. He was eventually transported to Oregon State Hospital, and that is the last anyone has heard of Matthew Medlin.

Oct. 18, 2006.

Dec. 12, 2006.

Feb. 28, 2007.

Jan. 7, 2013.

Feb. 16, 2013.

March 30, 2013.

Dec. 8, 2015.

Jan. 30, 2016.

Aug. 31, 2016

Hells Angel Justino 'Nino' Pace agrees to forfeit drug lab - flashback

Justino Pace - “It’s just so ugly"

Its 2016 and Sergeant at arms for the Haney Hells Angels Justino Pace told the press he was 'annoyed' that the government was suing him over a rented property where cops busted a drug lab. RCMP dismantled the lab in 2014, recovering MDMA, ecstasy and meth. “I was so shocked by things that came out of that place,” Pace said. “I didn’t even think they could put so much stuff in there.” The property was used a drug lab between January 15, 2008 and September 16, 2014.

“I’m so annoyed. I’m annoyed right now just thinking about it, that they could even do this.”

He doesn’t recall who rented the property. Pace subsequently agreed to forfeit his share of the Mission drug lab. The government said that under a consent order filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the Civil Forfeiture Office received $23k in net proceeds from the sale of the building. The single-level, 3,150-square-foot industrial unit at 7191 Horne St. was sold for $229k. Most of the cash went to pay off a mortgage.

Pace’s troubles began in Sept 2014, when a fire broke out on the property and the fire department responded. Firefighters saw white smoke pouring from the building and chemicals consistent with a drug lab and called the cops. Police said at the time that it was one of the largest illegal drug labs in B.C. history. The suit said that Pace’s company financed the purchase of the property in 2008 in part with a mortgage. The City of Mission spent hundreds of thousands of dollars cleaning up the Horne Street property.

No mention made of a drug lab on the premises. An industrial ventilation system is half torn down. Expensive lab type renovations/additions were made at some point. And the landlord knows NADA, not even the name of the dopes he 'rented' to? Riiiiiight

Murder of Sumeet Singh Randhawa

Sumeet Singh Randhawa's killer waited in a black SUV for 20 minutes before stepping outside and opening fire. A resident heard five or six gunshots. The killer fled the scene in the SUV, only to return minutes later "to make sure he got him." It takes some manner of Punjabi retard to return to the scene of a hit.

Sumeet Singh Randhawa was murdered Oct 11, 2018. At 2 p.m., Surrey RCMP were called to the 6700-block of 130th Street for a shooting. Randhawa, 30, died at the scene. The gangster's death was part of a Kang/Brothers Keepers/Red Scorpions war. The shooter was Gurtaj Singh Sandher making his bones with the Sinaloa Cartel.

Video shows Gurtaj Singh Sandher changing vehicles after the hit. The blue Ford Focus was never found.

Pablo Escobar's hippos

Things are back to grim for Pablo Escobar's hippos. The Administrative Court of Cundinamarca set a 3 month deadline for the Ministry of Environment to issue "a regulation that contemplates measures for the eradication of the species." The judge spelled it out. "Controlled hunting" means the hippos will be shot to end their problematic presence in Colombia.

Colombia said there were 169 hippos in the country, especially in the Magdalena River basin, and that if nothing is done there could be 1,000 by 2035. The plan's first phase was to be sterilization of 40 hippos per year. Each sterilization costs about $10k USD and entails risks for all involved. The plan was a failure.

Colombian officials contacted authorities in Mexico, India and the Philippines to deport 60 hippos. That deal was to cost $3.5 million but fell through. The final solution involves creating a protocol for euthanasia. "Sacrifice (culling) remains on the table," said David Echeverri, head of the Cornare state environmental agency. There is no political will for a cull of the beloved tourist attractions.

After Colombia added Escobar's cocaine hippos to a list of 'introduced, invasive species,' experts say killing them may be the only viable option. Attempts to sterilize the animals is going poorly, is expensive, and is extremely difficult with something which can weigh as much as 1.8 tons.  Studies suggest they could quadruple their population every 10 years if left unchecked.

At his apex in the 90s Pablo Escobar was one of the richest men in the world. With income peaking at more than $30b, the kingpin spent lavishly on his estates. The excesses of Hacienda Nápoles included a zoo stocked with exotic animals from around the world.

24 of the hippos were given a chemical that makes them infertile in 2022. The 'cocaine hippos' were sterilized after worries grew over their environmental impact.

Hippos have a lifespan of 50 years and spend most of their day under water in groups. They are notorious for being territorial and are extremely dangerous.

Escobar brought four hippos to his estate before he was shot dead in 1993. They multiplied. Relocation is not simple. Hippos are up to 3,000 pounds, and are one of the most aggressive animals on the planet.

Amandeep Singh Kang - Pig Puncher

There is trouble in paradise with the unfrettered flow of percursors through DeltaPort. The KTF/Sinaloa decision to whack Donnie Lyons is not sitting well with the HAMC and the Pig Puncher.

To burn the HAMC with cop heat with its initial business means further cooperation at DeltaPort will be problematic. Had Donnie Lyons not been executed, a very profitable business would have continued to fly under cop radar. The unlimited greed of the KTF/Sinaloa is bad for HAMC business.

With Amandeep Singh Kang locked up for 11 years, the KTF (Khalistan Tiger Force) found itself having to deal directly with the HAMC at the Delta Port. The club has control through members from the White Rock, Haney, Nomads, and East End chapters. Previously, the KTF didn't deal directly with the Hell's Angels, the Brother's Keepers were the intermediary.

The KTF deal with Ricco the pig puncher now, and that is a real HAMC thing. Ricco's wife is conected to the Sandhers. Nothing gets through DeltaPort without the pig puncher knowing about it. ALL the precursors landed by cops recently have come through the HAMC and DeltaPort. The Roberts Bank Terminal is the country's largest container terminal and moves 3 million containers annually. Expansion plans will see that number increase to more than 5 million. It all belongs to the HAMC.

It was an annoyed pig puncher that tuned up Gurtaj Singh Sandher in September, causing the purchase of Sandher 'executive protection' in October.

In March 2024 career Punjabi gangster Amandeep Singh Kang was wounded in a shooting in Cloverdale. Weeks later he was sentenced to 11 years in jail for drug trafficking. Charges were laid in 2021 and stemmed from a 3 year probe by gang cops into the Brothers Keepers. Kang admitted that in 2019 and 2020 he peddled wholesale quantities of fentanyl, heroin, meth and cocaine. Cops seized more than 11 kg of drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine and meth. Amandeep Singh Kang is an original, founding Brothers Keeper.

The Delta Port is a major source of fentanyl and drug precursors from China. Nothing gets through Delta Port without the Hells Angels blessing. Guns find their way through Delta Port - often fully automatics. The slow death of the Brother's Keepers through attrition has allowed the KTF to consolidate control, and Arsh Dalla is very aggressive. Older KTF want him replaced because the street gangster is bringing cop heat.

KTF gangster ranks swelled through immigration fraud aka study permits.

The goal of the KTF under Arsh Dalla is to bring all Indo gangsters under the KTF as puppet gangs. He plots to exterminate rivals who don't fall into communion with the KTF.

Daniel Grewal, Gavinder Grewal (deceased), Harpreet Majhu (deceased), Amandeep Kang, Jagraj Atwal, Jujhar Atwal, (unsure), Gurp Dhaliwal, (unsure), Sam Kang (jailed), Gary Kang (deceased), Sam Gill.

Sam Kang, Amandeep Kang, Daniel Grewal – The tattoo in Punjabi on their stomachs refers to Nir Bhau (Without Fear)

The Brothers Keepers have been deeply involved in the B.C. gang conflict, with their biggest rivals being the United Nations gang, and some in the BIBO/Kang and Latimer group, which has realigned itself with the Wolfpack. Gangster Jaskeert Kalkat, who was shot to death in Burnaby in May 2021, was caught on tape with Kang. Kang and Kalkat were observed together frequently.

The Brothers Keepers remain players in the wholesale drug trade in B.C. solely because of the HAMC. Brothers Keeper gangster Jagraj Atwal avoided the afterlife after 2 gunmen ran up and opened fire at his SUV in a lane near a busy Robson and Richards streets at 5:45pm on March 30th.