Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch lassoed in Spain

Irish gangster Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been arrested in his Spanish bolthole by undercover cops on the Costa del Sol. Hutch is wanted by gardai as part of an investigation into the Regency Hotel murder of Kinahan gangster David Byrne. Police, working with gardai from Dublin, jumped the 58-year-old gang boss in the Fuengirola area. Hutch will be sent to Madrid to be extradited. The process could take six months, with Hutch on remand in jail. The man known as 'The Monk' says that he went straight after leaving prison over 30 years ago, and that his fortune is all from his wise business ventures and investments, not drug dealing.

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Gangster coyotes in Vancouver's Stanley Park to get whacked

There have been dozens of attacks in Vancouver's Stanley Park since December. The latest incident involved a two-year-old boy. The estimated population of a dozen coyotes likely won't survive the next cull.

Gangster who busted out of Rikers barge sentenced

Mordukhaev, 30, was sentenced to 21 months on a federal charge related to the escape.

Brooklyn gangster David Mordukhaev busted out of the city’s floating jail with the help of an Eastern European crime syndicate.

The feds caught Mordukhaev on wiretaps discussing the escape with Nikoghosyan.

Mordukhaev sparked a five-borough manhunt after he climbed through a window in his fifth-floor cell at the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Facility and shimmied down a rope on July 10. The brazen escapee taunted guards, leaving a note on the wall that read, “special search just searched my cell and they didn’t check the window” Mordukhaev began communicating with cohort Roman “Roma” Nikoghosyan, a leader in the “KavKaz Nation” gang.

Famous Mob Crime scene photos II

Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel was killed June 20, 1947 aged 41. Nine bullets were fired through a window with a .30-caliber. The first shot hit Siegel in the eye, the second one in his right cheek. Two others struck him in the chest. Walter Sage was a hitman for Murder Inc. His bound body was pulled from Swan Lake in the Catskills. He was killed for skimming mob cash from slot machine profits.

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Capone’s last competition in 1929 was George “Bugs” Moran, and on Valentine’s Day two of Capone's men dressed as cops to stage the cold blooded execution of 7 men.

The Kansas City massacre was the shootout and murder of four cops and a criminal at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of June 17, 1933.

Lulu Lakatos - Diamond Thief

Lulu Lakatos posed as gemmologist 'Anna' when she swiped a whooping £4.2m in jewels. While Lakatos was jailed for five-and-a-half years for the heist, her two female associates, as well as the diamonds, remain missing. CCTV footage shows the moment Lakatos swiped the gems under the noses of staff at jeweller Boodles. At the crucial moment, the Romanian pulled off an astonishing sleight of hand, swapping the jewel-laden purse with a precise replica weighed down with pebbles. She and her international gang fled the UK for France less than three hours later.

Extreme gun violence in Montreal

It's been a bloody summer in the Montreal area. Five people have been shot and killed since the beginning of August. Experts say an ongoing war between rival gangs, the Profit Boys in Rivière-des-Prairies and Zone 43 from Montréal-Nord, is causing much of the bloodshed.

There is conflict within the Bloods but also shootings related to the Crips. Open violence upsets the people at the top of the food chain and that is the Hells Angels. Its bad for business.

El Paso cop busted for cocaine trafficking

Monica Garcia, 24, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise.

She was fired last year after a federal indictment. Garcia used her position as an El Paso cop to conduct countersurveillance and run license plates to identify undercover police vehicles near her stepfather’s residence and stash house.

Charges against Garcia came after DEA agents seized over $14k and 1.2 kg of cocaine in raids. She faces up to 20 years in prison.

Carlos Luis Revete - El Koki

Carlos Luis Revete

For the 300,000 residents of Cota 905, a collection of houses by a freeway in the centre of Caracas, the most powerful man in Venezuela is not President Maduro. It is “El Koki”, 43, a gang leader. Since 2015 he has turned the slum into his private fiefdom, complete with a 200 man army.

El Koki gunmen had been battling Venezuelan security forces since his takeover of the neighboring La Vega district in late 2020. Most recently cops have invaded Cota 905, putting El Koki on the run while pitched gun battles rage between police and a collection of gangs. Warfare on the streets is a sure sign President Nicolas Maduro is losing control of the country.

Operations of Colombian narcotrafficking groups in Venezuelan territory is well known. The Clan del Golfo, Los Pelusos, Meta Block, and Libertadores del Vichada Block control large swaths of Venezuelan territory, not the dictatorship.

Venezuela says it will make a million-to-1 change in its currency, eliminating six zeros from prices in the local currency as hyperinflation plagues the country. The new 100 bolivar bill will be the highest denomination. It is equivalent to 100,000,000 of the current bolivar. This is the third adjustment since socialist leaders began governing Venezuela. Venezuela is in its sixth year of recession.

Idiot Coin

The most prominent meme currency is dogecoin which was started in 2013 by two programmers spoofing the cryptocurrency craze. The price so far this year is up 4,300%, trading around $0.21 bringing its market capitalization to about $27 billion.

The top token in July was Axie Infinity (AXS), a token connected to the blockchain-based game of the same name. AXS rose 651%. https://coinmarketcap.com

Cocaine floods Europe

Since cocaine production began climbing in 2013, it has more than doubled.

Europe is awash with cocaine and faces a surge of abuse as Colombia produces record amounts with increasing purity. Experts say importers are stockpiling huge quantities, alarmed by threats to supply lines due to Covid lockdowns. Supply is up, but so is demand, leaving prices stable.

Europe is a far more attractive prospect than the US. Prices are significantly higher, and the risks are much lower. A kilo of cocaine in the US is worth up to $28k wholesale. That same kilo is worth around $40k and might be as much as nearly $80k in different parts of Europe.