Anonymous tip sinks $3m cocaine shipment at border

More than 60kg of cocaine was seized.

An anonymous tip led U.S. Customs officers at the Pacific Highway Truck Crossing in Blaine to an estimated $3m in cocaine. Canadian trucker Ajitpal Singh Sanghera, 41 was busted as he approached the border. During a trailer check, Customs found five handbags containing cocaine.

Sanghera had crossed the US border more than 40 times so far this year. That, coupled with the amount of cocaine, led cops to conclude he was part of a large international drug trafficking ring.

Simon Dufresne killed, dismembered, burned

Five men were arrested for their alleged role in the death of Simon Dufresne, 31. Dufresne disapeared in March 2019 and is thought to have been dismembered and burnt. Dufresne was known in the underworld of organized crime and is said to have had a contract on his head. It is reported he did not respect territory belonging to the Hells Angels. Dufresne and his entourage were known to carry out drug rips and then sell the product in North Montreal.

Jonathan Provencher, 41, and Alfredo Rodriguez Farinas, 29, face counts of first degree murder, forcible confinement, conspiracy and complicity after the fact.

Jonathan Tshinkenke, 20, Yvon Camirand, 54, and Stéphane Larouche , 47, were also charged.

Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. - Kirsten Mide-Wilson - Update II

Ms. Kirsten Wilson has repeatedly billed herself as 'one of the few women in construction.' That is true but SHOULD it be so? She has earned nothing, built nothing, and appears to be running Cewe Construction into the ground. Repeated high risk violations of WorkSafe laws suggests she belongs in a different business, one less dangerous to her employees. In late 2018 Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. was fined $65,712 for health and safety violations. A fine of that magnitude says a great deal.

WorkSafeBC determined that the firm failed to undertake excavation work according to the requirements of the utility service owner, and failed to ensure machinery was kept the minimum approach distance from exposed electrical conductors. These were both repeated and high-risk violations. Jack Cewe has serious mismanagement issues. Perhaps Ms. Wilson figures rules are for others.

Lets put them together for Kirsten Mide-Wilson (kirsten@cewe.com), third generation owner of Jack Cewe Construction Ltd., an established road contractor in the lower mainland. What's her claim to fame?

Brilliance in business doesn't top the list. She figured she was too smart to pay an hourly fee and would instead get a lawyer to act for 20% of the winnings in her fight for a $100m inheritance from her grandfather, Jack Cewe. He left the bulk of his estate to his mistress, decidedly not his granddaughter. Mide-Wilson ended up with a bill for $17m, not the $ 2.5m the fight should have cost. She adamantly refused to pay. That bill was eventually reduced to $5m.

Take a bow Ms. Kirsten Wilson, you are a too rich, too greedy terd. It's called keeping your word, and in the world of men and construction it's likely the main reason for Jack Cewe's success. It also explains why he didn't want to give a nickle to his unethical, deadbeat granddaughter.

Cocaine trafficker sunk by selfies with large stacks of cash

Larry Dominique, 30, was sentenced to 5 years for drugs, weapons and proceeds of crime. Cellphones belonging to Dominique held text messages and photos detailing his drug transactions. They also contained images of him with large stacks of cash. He was granted 239 days credit for remand, leaving 1,951 days. The judge was impressed with the photos that acknowledged the seriousness of the matter.

Smugglers impregnated cardboard with cocaine - Edwin Congo

Spanish police have busted an international gang that smuggled cocaine into Europe from Colombia by impregnating it into cardboard boxes. The boxes were then used for legal shipments of pineapples and limes from Colombia. Among the 18 busted is former Real Madrid player Edwin Congo, 43.

Congo signed for £4.3m in 1999 and bizarrely he never played an official game for the Spanish giants.

“Small quantities of the drug – never more than 100g – were placed in each box and later extracted by chemicals in the gang’s laboratories” Spanish cops said. In January they got wind of a shipment bound for Greece: 5,016 boxes of limes and 1,660 boxes of pineapples.

Colombian kingpins sought help from Spanish cartel Los Castanitas for logistical success of their operation. Over 1 tonne of cocaine was seized along with more than 1.2 tonnes of compressed cardboard and 1,000 litres of chemicals used to extract the cocaine.

Toronto Cops nail meth lab

Cops have dismantled a methamphetamine lab in an Oshawa home and seized 43 kg of crystal meth, five kg of Ketamine and three litres of GHB (gamma-Hydroxybutyraten). Street-level value is in excess of $3.4m according to cops. A loaded .32 calibre semi-automatic pistol was also seized.

Richard Alexandre, 56, Richard Jansen, 36, Brendan Coates, 37, and Kyle Zettler, 34, face numerous charges.

Covid-19 sends Los Zetas leader Moises Escamilla May to morgue

It wasn’t a hitman’s bullet that took out a Mexican cartel chieftain. Covid-19 sent Los Zetas leader Moises Escamilla May to the morgue. He was serving a 37-year sentence for decapitating 12.

Old School Zetas was formed by Mexican army deserters who were originally in the Gulf Cartel. After Omar Trevino Morales was arrested, the gang split into two factions and fought a brutal war until 2018.

'El Yori' loses nifty gold assault rifle

'El Yori' was arrested in Tehuacán, Puebla.

Víctor “El Yori” Iván, boss of the regional gang Las Bigotonas lost his gold-encrusted assault rifle along with his freedom in a recent bust in Tehuacán. El Yori crimes include cargo robbery, drug trafficking and arms sales in the Tehuacán region. The gold and silver-encrusted AR-15 rifle features an image of La Santa Muerte, or the Holy Death, a saint used by drug traffickers for protection and the safe delivery of their cargo.

Although heavily involved in drug trafficking, Las Bigotonas still relies on highway and train robberies.

Narcos play a numbers game - numbers against them

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit cocaine traffickers according to a UN report. After lock-downs and restrictions were imposed in Latin American countries and the global maritime trade slowed, there was a substantial drop in seizures, which indicates fewer shipments. The narcos play a numbers game. They will accept a 15% to 20% loss ratio, but with fewer containers to check in ports, the odds are now stacked against them. On the demand side dealers are doing well. The wholesale price for a kilo of cocaine in Rotterdam went up from about $27k a kilo late last year to $35k a kilo now.

Mexican cartels have seen intensified competition among them as it becomes harder to get product through traditional ports of entry. They are the last step in the overland route to America however, so their power ought to swing higher compared to Colombian cartels.

Trail of hot meat sinks gang

A large group were arrested after stealing meat from a meat market in Visalia, California. Cops responded around 4:30 a.m. at the Jalisco Meat Market. They followed a trail of meat to a nearby apartment, where they found more perps. 13 were arrested.