 | Gary Swift and Scott Kilgour began their journey from Suriname, a small country in South America. They were caught by customs officers, just off the Pembrokeshire coast with 751kg of high-purity cocaine stored throughout the vessel in 2019. It was one of the UK’s largest seizures. |  |
 | Swift was jailed for 19 years for drug smuggling, while Kilgour pulled 13 years. |  |
Containers of bananas had arrived from Colombia. The suspects were arrested at a house near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.  |
 | The operation is part of an investigation that found 3.7 tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride in a container of 20 pallets of bananas last month. The seized Class A drugs were intended for other European countries and Australia. Guns and a large amount of cash was also seized. The seizure had an estimated street value of at least 50 million euros. |
 | Inigo Philbrick, 34, was busted for selling the same valuable masterpieces several times over. He travelled the world on private jets, spending his summers in Ibiza. Inigo wore £5,000 suits, hand-made shoes, a belt with diamonds and £48k watches. Philbrick was on the run for 6 months before the FBI tracked him down on the remote Pacific Island of Vanuatu. |  |
 Pooh was cooked. | Shiesty and Bobby Brown, the other man charged, shot and injured two other men in a parking lot in a shoe rip. Shiesty arrived in a McLaren he rented from one of the victims and wanted to negotiate the car's rental as well, but during the transaction, he and Brown shot the men — one in the hip and the other in the ass. Surveillance footage captured the shooting. While leaving, a Louis Vuitton bag — which had $40,912 in cash — fell out of the McLaren. Shiesty had posted guns and $100 bills on Instagram days before the robbery.
Cops tapped the rapper's instagram and found the same bills in the Louis Vuitton bag were also in his posts. Its 63 months in jail, three years of supervised release and additional restrictions such as no contact with his co-defendants.  |
Rapper Pooh Shiesty (Lontrell Williams) agreed to plead guilty in connection with a Florida armed robbery. He faced a maximum sentence of life in prison if he had been convicted at trial of using a firearm "in furtherance of another federal crime of violence." He and another man shot two others in a "high end athletic sneaker" deal gone bad. |
 | Khalil D. Smith, 26; Nesean Thompson, 22; and Michael Terry, 26 were busted on felony drug charges after selling three grams of a white powder to an undercover cop for $200. It tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine. The dealers sold adulterated cocaine every day in downtown Nashville. Fentanyl is believed responsible for about 80% of drug overdose deaths in Nashville and Davidson County. A health warning was issued to the public about the spike in drug overdoses in the downtown Nashville area. |
 | Germany's Emmy Russ's quest to get the perfect Instagram shot in 2020 left her with more than she bargained for after she posed on a cop car. She faced a bill after cops claimed her photo shoot dented their car. The 23-year-old has 160k followers on Instagram. |
 | Hamburg cops posted on their official Instagram account that they had caught a woman posing for photos on the hood of their car. The post said police had been “amazed” after a resident tipped them off that “a woman in front of the police station” was “lolling on the hood of a patrol car”. Hamburg cops said it was apparently to take ‘nice photos’ but cops later said the hood was pushed in after her posing on their car. |  |
 | Okechukwu Francis Amaechi, 45, finished a jail term for drug trafficking in Brazil in March 2022. He was arrested at the Port Harcourt Airport on arrival from Brazil via Doha. Okechukwu was busted for 4.56kg of cocaine hidden in lawnmower tires. One package bears the inscription “IN GOD” and “WE TRUST”. Amaechi claimed church members gave him the lawn mowers to deliver to his brother in Port Harcourt. |   |
 | An angry imam berated mourners at the funeral of Rami Iskander. He was laid to rest in the grave next to his kingpin uncle Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, 17 days after his murder. The 23-year-old was gunned down outside his home in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child. Gangland violence is running rampant in Western Sydney. |  Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad |
 | 13 people have been killed in gang violence in Sydney's west and southwest over the past 18 months. Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed, 41, is in critical condition and his brother Omar dead after they were sprayed with bullets two weeks ago. Tarek survived despite 10 gunshot wounds to his body and head. |  He is said to be blind. |
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 | A judge denied Dominic Taddeo's bid for compassionate release in 2021. Taddeo has been imprisoned the past three decades for murder and other crimes. He’s scheduled to be released in two years. In 1982 and 1983 contract killer Taddeo fatally shot three men — Nicholas Mastrodonato, Gerald Pelusio, and Dino Tortatice. Taddeo also attempted to whack former Rochester Mafia captain Thomas Marotta, twice. Joseph Sullivan was responsible for about 20 of the murders in the Rochester Mafia War. |
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 | A federal drug investigation resulted in the discovery of a sophisticated cross-border tunnel and charges against six people for conspiring to distribute 1,762 pounds of cocaine. The tunnel stretched from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in Otay Mesa just east of the Port of Entry. It is about 1,744 feet long, 61 feet deep and 4 feet in diameter, with reinforced walls, a rail system, electricity and a ventilation system. In addition to 1,762 pounds of cocaine, cops seized 164 pounds of meth and 3.5 pounds of heroin. |
 | 90 tunnels have been discovered in the Southern District of California since 1993. Of those, 27 were considered sophisticated. The last tunnel discovered in the Southern District of California was in March 2020. |  |
 | Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda,' along with her two sons ran one of Honduras' most powerful crime families. Along with Tito and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla, she controled the Montes drug cartel. Honduran police announced her capture Sunday. Tito was killed and three others captured. |  |
 | Bobadilla and her sons were based in Colón, on the northeastern coast of Honduras. Her power grew with the conviction of Noe, her third son, who was extradited in 2019 and is now serving 37 years in a U.S. prison for drug-trafficking. The clan worked with the Valle cartel, and is said to have strong links to the recently caged former President Hernández. Hernandez was extradited on April 21, accused of conspiring to transport some 500 tons of cocaine from South America to the United States. See --->Juan Orlando Hernández: Honduran ex-leader extradited to US |
| Malta customs has intercepted a record 1,494 kilograms of cocaine at the Freeport. Officials stationed at the Freeport scanning facility seized 50 bags containing 1,494 blocks of cocaine, each weighing one kilogram. The container, which was transporting bananas, was en-route from Colombia to Koper in Slovenia. The haul is estimated to have a street value of at least €300m. Malta seized 612 kg in 2020, 740 kg in 2021, and 2,294 kg so far this year. |
 | Moroccan cops seized more than 1.4 tons of cocaine in 2021. In October, cops intercepted a shipment of 1.3 tons of cocaine in the port of Tangiers, coming from Brazil and bound for Antwerp. The smuggling of cocaine surged as cartels tested the country as a route into Europe. |  |
 | Smuggling of cocaine was carried out using the “rip-on / rip-off" method. Smugglers break the customs seals on a container, load the container with cocaine, and then attach counterfeit and illegal seals. |  |
 | Mileta Miljanić is the Bosnian head of a cocaine trafficking network with links to the Gambino crime family. He was busted for defrauding the Small Business Administration of more than $150k in COVID relief funds. A US citizen, he served 3 years in federal prison for wire fraud in the 1980s, and in 2012 he was convicted of cocaine trafficking by Italian cops. Two years into a six year sentence, Miljanić was granted work release and fled to the U.S., where he has been ever since. Miljanić claimed to run a company called MDP Rebar Solutions LLC. |  Zoran Jaksic and Mileta Miljanic. 'Group of America' is a criminal clan from the Balkans, whose members are Serbs. |
 | Feds had Miljanić’s phones tapped, and subpoenaed his bank records, and say it was all a front for mob money. Funds were disbursed to Miljanić and his wife, daughter, and two sons, $1.5m went to a Gambino capo with convictions for racketeering and extortion, $925k to a Gambino associate with past wire fraud convictions, $484k to a Gambino soldier with racketeering and murder convictions, and the remainder to a raft of other shady characters, including $10k to the Gambino capo’s girlfriend. Miljanić and his wife paid off $85k in American Express bills with the loot. |