It has been exactly 3 years since the murder of Gregory Slewidge — a HAMC Ottawa Nomads prospect. Michael Clairoux and Lee Marrazzo will go to trial on a joint charge of first-degree murder in connection with his death. They are charged with first-degree murder for the September 24, 2020 killing and are facing 25 years with no parole.
Evidence presented at the preliminary inquiry cannot be reported due to a publication ban. Slewidge was found dead of sustained blunt force injuries consistent with a hard object. Slewidge rented the Beckwith property where he died and had converted the former abattoir into a legal marijuana grow operation.
Both men have been caged since their arrest Jan 18, 2022. The duo were denied bail and will be caged for the duration. Their trial is scheduled for Oct. 28 to Dec. 6, 2024.
The Ottawa-based Hells Angels Nomad chapter has its clubhouse on Piperville Road in Carlsbad Springs.
Michael Clairoux in 2013.
Clairoux is a former member of the Hells Angels from Nepean. Lee Marrazzo has a history of drug convictions with the Ottawa Nomads.
A defence lawyer made arguments why Vikings MC members should be held blameless for selling cocaine. Wayne Johnson was found guilty of cocaine trafficking but is seeking a stay of charges alongside his co-accused, James Curran and Vincent Leonard, based on cop entrapment. The greyhairs been before the court for 7 years, ever since they were nailed as part of Project Bombard, a joint RNC/RCMP investigation into activities of Vikings MC.
“Not withstanding any delusions of grandeur they may have had, they were a poorly organized group. They didn’t even own the appropriate gear to become a motorcycle club. They didn’t even have bikes.”
Johnson and Leonard were also guilty of organized crime offences, the judge accepting the Vikings as a criminal organization associated with the Hells Angels.
Cartel associate Jesus Emanuel Pimentel Enriquez, 41, and Dallas resident Tomas Borjas Mendez, 38, landed prison stints for forking over $600k to illegally buy a plane meant to smuggle cocaine. Cash went to an Orlando plane broker for a Gulfstream G III, parked on a private tarmac at the Sanford Orlando International Airport. He was a federal rat.
The unspecified cartel planned to fly the plane to Mexico and then Venezuela to pick up 2,500 kilos of Colombian cocaine. Drugs were to be divided up in Mexico and sent across the border by truck to several U.S. cities. The plane was intended for a one way mission only.
Former Bonanno boss Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino, the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to turn rat, died after battling a short illness. He was 80. Massino, who ran the Bonanno family with an iron fist from 1991 to 2003, died on Sept. 14. Massino began talking with the feds after he was convicted in 2004 for ordering 25 years worth of murder, racketeering and a slew of other crimes.
He had been handed a life sentence, including for the slayings of his three mob captains. He used and later ratted out Vito Rizzuto. He was nailed for the execution of a mobster who had vouched for FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone, who used the name Donnie Brasco, in the 1980s. It became the subject of the hit 1997 film “Donnie Brasco,” starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.
A five-block triangular plot of land along the Brooklyn-Queens boundary is known as the Hole. Partially flooded streets, vacant and overgrown lots, abandoned cars with bullet holes and shattered windows, motorhomes, numerous real estate signs, bulldozers, and even chickens are found there. Venturing down the 'Jewel' streets (Emerald, Amber, Ruby, and Sapphire) leads one into a pit, one of which is 30 feet below grade. The neighborhood is neglected.
The Hole is most famous as the site of a mafia graveyard in the early 1980s. John Gotti and his crime family favoured the neighborhood to dispose of bodies. Gotti hid the remains of two high-profile murders there. John Favara was Gotti’s neighbor who accidentally struck and killed Gotti’s youngest son Frank with his car in 1980.
The second victim is Tommy DeSimone, a Lucchese family associate who was immortalized by Joe Pesci in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. In 1981, children playing on 78th Street (Ruby Street) came across the hand of Bonanno crime family capo Alphonse 'Sonny Red' Indelicato.
Gerlando Sciascia, Vito Rizzuto, Giovanni Ligamarri and Joseph Massino in 1981.
In 2004 the bodies of Philip 'Philly Lucky' Giaccone and Dominick 'Big Trin' Trinchera were dug up by the FBI. On May 5, 1981 the men were ambushed by four gunmen wearing masks. One of the gunmen was Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
The Brazilian Navy, working with cops, made the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Brazilian waters. The navy interdicted the Palmares 1, 18 nautical miles from Recife, reportedly heading to Africa. The vessel normally carries passengers and small cargo on the coast. 3.6 tons is the largest haul ever. The navy reports from 2020 to date, they have seized 17 tons of cocaine, 4.3 tons of hashish, 695 tons of cigarettes, 113.34 tons of fish, 15.7 tons of marijuana, and 3,146 cubic meters of illegal wood exports.
Sukhdool Singh Gill, 40, entered Canada on a tourist visa in 2017 sponsored by his sister. He never left. He was from a family of wealthy farmers but became a bandit and terrorist. Canadian press have finally figured out something is up and are reporting tactical cops were called to a duplex at 230 Hazelton Drive in Winnipeg. They found Sukhdool Singh Gill, dead.
Khalistani separatist Sukhdool Singh Gill alias Sukha Duneke was a wanted terrorist in India. No arrests have been made in his killing.
He hailed from Duneke Kalan village in Punjab's Moga district and was among Punjab's most wanted gangsters. He fled to Canada in December 2017. He was an associate of Lower Mainland gangster Arshdeep Dalla.
Singh was gunned down by two men late Wednesday night. It was reported on Jan 19, 2023 that Arshdeep Singh Dalla's brother, Baldeep Singh Dalla, had fled to Canada on a fake passport. Both men are considered terrorists in India.
Gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria have shared social media posts claiming responsibility for Sukhdool Singh's murder.
In July Punjabi Karanveer Singh Garcha was whacked in Coquitlam. In May it was the killing of Amarpreet (Chucky) Samra in Vancouver. Satinderjit Singh Brar, alias Goldy Brar, accused in the murder of Sidhu Moose Wala, is thought to be on the run in Canada. Lakhbir Singh Landa resides in Edmonton and should have been deported for criminality long ago.
Doug Ford, bowing to crushing pressure that threatens his political career, has announced the Greenbelt fraud was a 'mistake' and will be rolled back. For weeks this man has insulted Canadians and folks in Ontario with the lowest grade horseshit imaginable.
3 builders got 92% of the sites taken out of Ontario's Greenbelt. Silvio De Gasperis, the CEO of TACC Group of Companies, had wanted for decades to develop one of his properties, known as Cherrywood, but it was in the Greenbelt. De Gasperis owned the land in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve in Pickering prior to the creation of the Greenbelt in 2005. He felt robbed and that it had improperly been made part of the protected area. He took the province to court, but ultimately lost. When Ford won the 2022 election, Silvio De Gasperis looked to Ryan Amato, Clark’s chief of staff. His opening came on Sept. 14, 2022, at a dinner at the Building Industry and Land Development conference. De Gasperis was seated at the same table with Ryan Amato and came with a package that his daughter, director of planning for TACC, prepared.
Alana De Gasperis
“I have a package I want you to take a look at — there was an injustice done at Cherrywood and I want you to take a look,” De Gasparis said to Amato. He handed over the envelope and told Amato to reach out to his daughter. Amato said he would take a look. In early October, Amato called Alana De Gasperis seeking more information. She asked if Cherrywood would be removed from the Greenbelt.
“The government is looking at everything at this moment and have not made any decisions,” Amato told her. She took that opportunity to tell Amato about three other TACC sites: one in Richmond Hill, another in Vaughan, and one in Hamilton.
She heard from Amato on Nov. 3, 2022, when he called her to deliver very profitable news: all four parcels of land were coming out of the Greenbelt.
Peso Pluma isn't taking any chances after a threat from a Mexican cartel. Banners from the Jalisco New Generation read; "This goes to Peso Pluma, refrain from presenting yourself on October 14, because it will be your last show due to your disrespect and loose tongue."
George Clarence "Bugs" Moran was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. Moran left school at 18 and was jailed 3 times before he turned 21. Moran went to Chicago. With prohibition, Dean O'Banion and his thugs, including Moran, became known as the North Side Gang.
Al Capone was the leader of the Italian mob on the South Side. The two rivals fought violently. The bootlegging operation of Bugs Moran and his partners posed a significant challenge to Capone. Moran and Capone led a turf war with each other that cost dozens of lives.
Moran's hatred of Capone was public: he told the press that "Capone is a lowlife." Moran was also disgusted that Capone engaged in prostitution. Believing himself a better Catholic than Capone, Moran refused to run brothels. After the killing of Dean O’Banion, on September 20, 1926, Moran attempted to kill Capone in Cicero, Illinois, the base of Capone's operations. A fleet of cars, with Moran in personal command, drove by the lobby of Capone's hotel.
About 1,000 rounds are poured in the Hawthorne Hotel.
Capone and his bodyguard were drinking downstairs when the Moran gang began shooting into the lobby with their Thompson submachine guns. The attack left Capone unhurt but his restaurant was reduced to shreds. A peace conference was held and Moran appeared grudgingly, along with Capone and the rest of the gang bosses. Capone called for a truce. The truce didn't last long.
In 1929, Capone tried to strike a decisive blow against Moran with the notorious Saint Valentine's Day massacre. Two gunmen dressed as police and two others in plain clothes lined up seven of Moran’s men against the wall in the warehouse of the S.M.C. Cartage Company and gunned them down. Bugs Moran, narrowly eluded death when he arrived late, and seeing the squad car thought a cop raid was in progress.
When Moran saw the carnage, he exclaimed, "Only Capone kills like that!" The end of prohibition marked the end of Moran's influence and he reverted to his earlier life of committing common crime. By the 1940s, after being one of the richest gangsters in Chicago, Moran was virtually penniless. In July 1946, Moran was arrested in Ohio for robbing a bank messenger of $10,000, a paltry sum compared to his lifestyle during the Prohibition.
He was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the Ohio Penitentiary. Shortly after his release, Moran was again arrested for bank robbery. Moran received another ten years and was sent to Leavenworth. Days after arriving Bugs Moran died of lung cancer on February 25, 1957. He was estimated to be worth $100 at his death, and he received a pauper's burial in the prison cemetery.
Martin Madrigal Cazares, 53, a fugitive Mexican Mafia member who controlled gangs in Ventura County from a base in Mexico, was gunned down in Baja California. Raised on the east side of Oxnard, Madrigal came up in the Colonia Chiques gang before being inducted into the Mexican Mafia in the early 2000s. Madrigal was locked in a power struggle with Mexican Mafia member, Michael 'Mike Boo' Moreno, who was contesting Madrigal’s hold over Ventura and his collections rackets in prisons in California and Mississippi.
Michael 'Mike Boo' Moreno was sentenced to 11 years in prison for conspiring with the cartel La Familia Michoacán to distribute Meth.
Known as carnales, or soul-brothers, there are but a handful of eMe. Inside some federal and state prisons, they wield great influence over other gangsters. The eMe got its start in California, where, inside the state prison system, they created a confederation of Latino gangs. At least a half-dozen Mexican Mafia members from California are now operating in Baja California. Madrigal is not the first to be killed.
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