 | Mejid Hamzy, 44, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in south west Sydney. Mejid Hamzy is the brother of crime gang Brothers 4 Life founder and convicted killer Bassam Hamzy. Two assassins had been lying in wait to ambush the prominent gangster. There will almost certainly be retaliation for the murder from the slain gangster's associates in an already chaotic Sydney gangland. |  |
 | Men at his graveside prayed quietly for Allah to forgive Hamzy's many sins. |  |
 After a few retakes, he walked into the frame, pointed a pistol at Connery, and told him to take his hands off Turner. | The recently deceased Sean Connery took on mobster Johnny Stompanato. In 1957, the young Connery was shooting the film Another Time, Another Place in London. His co-star was Lana Turner, a Hollywood sex symbol whose boyfriend after her 5th divorce was mob enforcer Stompanato. A jealous Stompanato showed up at the studios where Turner and Connery were filming. He caught a scene where the pair were embracing on a couch. |  |
 | The future Bond grabbed the mobster's wrist and twisted it until the gun came loose, and then laid him out with one punch. Scotland Yard escorted Stompanato from the set, and he was deported for breaking England’s gun laws. Johnny Stomp was killed at Turner’s rented Beverly Hills home on April 4, 1958. Turner’s 13-year-old daughter stabbed Stompanato to death with a butcher knife after he attacked her mother. |  |
 | Salvatierra is located in the valley of Huatzindeo in Guanajuato. Tourist websites speak of beautiful locations. Salvatierra hit the news last week when Mexican authorities uncovered 59 bodies in a mass burial site. The victims are said to be teenagers. Salvatierra municipality is one of the most violent places in the world as drug cartels fight for control of trafficking routes. |  |
 | In July gunmen stormed a drug rehabilitation centre in Irapuato, Guanajuato, killing 24 people. Killers jumped out of a truck and rushed into the building, where they forced those present to drop to the floor before shooting them. |  |
 | Star wiseguy witness John Pennisi, who testified at three major mob trials last year, has launched a blog. Sitdownnews.com gives “readers education and insight into ‘the life’ from first-hand knowledge and experience.” Peter Gotti accompanied his niece, Victoria, on a trip to see her father, Gambino godfather John Gotti, in the federal pen. After the visit, Uncle Pete ordered an unlucky associate to chaperone his niece to a movie. Victoria’s Gambino capo husband, Carmine (Bull) Agnello, “got wind of the movie night.” |  Agnello summoned the chaperone to his junkyard and broke his arm with a baseball bat. |
 | A mother of four who stashed £1,600 of cocaine in her children's Kinder Eggs at her home has been spared jail. Vicki Holland, 36, was torpedoed when police raided her house in Wales and found the drugs hidden inside the chocolate treat's plastic capsules. The dope was prepared in wraps for street deals typically worth between £20 and £30. |  |
 | Luis Antonio Navia 'El Senador' spent 25 years in the criminal underworld where he served as a logistical drug trafficker for some of the world's most dangerous gangs. He helped to export more than 300 tonnes of cocaine, worth billions. Navia worked for Pablo Escobar. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and served six. |  El Senador is now an advisor to law enforcement. Navia recounted how he was picked up by a Mexican cartel and marked for execution because it thought he was treading on their turf. |
 | Navia believed 'Metro', a “psychopath”, was going to kill him in a gruesome way ... in a crocodile pit. "We were on our way to the crocodiles, I was going to get thrown in – these people are rough and don’t forgive certain things.” Navia had played pool with Metro's associate and lost $250k the previous night and tried to contact the man to back his story and save his life. Eventually he got through ... “He told him, ‘No don’t do that, he owes me $250k from a pool game’ and Metro couldn’t believe that something so off the wall was actually true.” |  Metro joked that Navia was “fucking crazier” than him and before being dropped off at the hotel, he said: “Today’s your fucking day, motherfucker!” |
 | Customs at Philadelphia International Airport confiscated more than 12 pounds of 'green cocaine.' The green powdery substance tested positive for cocaine alkaloids. |
 | Cops confiscated drugs, weapons and explosives during a raid on clubhouses in two cities in Finland. A new gang called Red Roots had been established. Red Roots was set up to replace the Lahti chapter of the United Brotherhood gang, which is banned. |  The group dissolved into the Hells Angels. |
 | Judge Davies sided with the Hells Angels over three of their clubhouses in Vancouver, Kelowna and Nanaimo. He decided they ought not be forfeited to the B.C. government as instruments of criminal activity. That decision was appealed in July. The attorney-general is appealing the finding that the forfeiture act is unconstitutional, while the director of civil forfeiture appealed the decision against forfeiting the clubhouses. Davis made the curious finding that no evidence proved the HAMC was a global operation. That contradicts a recent Netherland court that found evidence of thousands of HA linked crimes. It also proves the judge doesn't read this blog as HA gangsterism is half my material on any given day. |
 | Barry Croft is one of several men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer. The alleged scheme involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home. Croft was active on social media and coined this gem. “True colours shining through, wanna hang this mf’er too!!!%” Another post the next day read, “I say we hang everything currently governing us, they’re all guilty!!% And what a deterrent, Rope!!!%” |  |
 | Other profanity-laced posts spoke of hanging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “for war crimes against humanity.” A photograph of a noose carried a caption calling for hanging Obama, “both Clinton’s, Democrats, Liberals, Muslims” and others including “Ihan Omar” and “A.O.C.,” references to Democratic U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Eight members or associates of a paramilitary group called the Wolverine Watchmen are charged with counts including providing material support for terrorist acts. Some are accused of taking part in the scheme against Whitmer. |
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 Police found a gun similar to the one used to murder 37-year-old journalist Veronica Guerin in 1996. | Spanish police busted the 68-year-old career drug dealer in a Costa Blanca home.  |  |
 | Mexico's Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels are the top buyers and traffickers of cocaine produced in Colombia. The Sinaloa Cartel is said to be the most active. The Zetas have connections to the Los Pelusos crime gang, which controls trafficking along Colombia's border with Venezuela, while Jalisco Nueva Generacion buys from a group in Buenaventura on the Pacific. The Beltran Leyva cartel works with a gang in the southwestern province of Putumayo. Colombia had some 154,000 hectares (380,000 acres) of coca last year. |
 | The Colombian Navy recently seized 2,829 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in four operations in a single day. Operations were carried out on August 5, 2020. |
 | Notorious Mexico cartel leader ‘El Azul’ has been arrested. El Azul, 'The Blue' - is behind the vicious murder of Mayor Jesus Tinajero. Killers dumped his dismembered remains in bags along the roadside with a message which warned of further violence. Ochoa's reign over the cartel lasted just three months. It is another victory for Jalisco New Generation Cartel in it's war with Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. Guanajuato is the most dangerous state in Mexico with an an average of 14 murders every 24 hours. |
 González is brother-in-law to 'El Mencho'. | Two recent cartel videos are from an “elite group” of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Heavily-armed and masked men shouting support for CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes while standing beside a long convoy of heavily armored vehicles has gotten attention. The elite group was formed last year and is led by Juan Carlos González, 'El 03'. The leader in Jalisco is Ricardo Ruiz Velazco, 'El Doble R'. |  |
| Members of an elite force within the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) assembled a military parade. The men wear state-of-the-art body armour, sit atop a range of armoured vehicles with gun turrets and CJNG paint. Many hold .50 calibre weapons, while others hold grenade launchers and high-powered assault rifles. All shout allegiance to the boss, El Mencho. |
 She used names such as "Tuff As Nailz" and "The Black Widow Bettie". | Brenda Cavoretto, 47, was chief of police in Coulee City, Washington when she was called to a scene involving a man who had hanged himself. The heavy corpse fell on her as cops took it down, leaving her with "severe psychological trauma." Her case worker became suspicious after 4 years of payments resulted in no improvement. Cavoretto had been working since 2015 photographing pinup models. She organized fundraisers, appearing herself in dozens of publications. |  |
 | Gustavo Adolfo Pareja, 26, of Cali, Colombia, was extradited to Pensacola after a DEA investigation. Pareja is charged with two federal drug trafficking conspiracy charges involving large amounts of cocaine. Master Sergeant Daniel Gould of the United States Army 7th Special Forces Group and Henry Royer, formerly of the United States Army, conspired to distribute large amounts of cocaine. Gould and Royer tried to smuggle 40kg of cocaine hidden inside two gutted punching bags. A suspicious embassy employee had the packages x-rayed, revealing the plot. Pareja is said to be the source of supply of their cocaine. If convicted, Pareja faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years up to life in federal prison. |  |
 | U.S authorities detained the defence minister for Mexican ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto at LA airport on a DEA warrant. Defence minister General Salvador Cienfuegos was a powerful figure in Mexico’s drug war. He joins several other of Mexico’s former top-ranking ‘drug war’ officials who have been implicated in the country's drug trade. |  Former President Enrique Pena Nieto. |
 Cienfuegos – nicknamed El Padrino, or The Godfather was a powerful figure. | Cienfuegos used his office to protect a faction of the Beltran-Leyva cartel, directing operations against rival gangs and even finding maritime transport to ship drugs. He accepted bribes in return for protection that included warning cartel members about investigations. One of the Beltran-Leyva brothers was killed in 2009, another arrested in 2014. By the time of Cienfuegos’ crimes between 2015 and 2017, the gang had a new leader, Juan Francisco Patron. |  |
 | Tamil Nadu cops arrested Sri Lankan drug trafficker 'Katta Kamini' who reportedly maintained close contacts with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim from Bengaluru, Karnataka. The gang is said to have close links to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a rebel ethnic group.  |  Katta Kamini went to ground after his gang was involved in the murder of a cop in 2006. |
 Detlef Fischer with his ex-fiancée Melanie Meier in 2012. | A millionaire, a blonde, a loan shark, and a pair of HA making threats. That combination seems assured to produce SOMETHING. Two thieves got into the villa of multi-millionaire Detlef Fischer and lifted luxury items worth 700,000 euros. They got the code from HA biker Amier S. who knew his way around the villa very well. Fischer turned to old friend Jürgen Harksen, a fraudster. When Melanie stabbed a man at the Oktoberfest 2015, Harksen came to the still engaged couple's rescue with a false witness. |  Biker Amier S was screwing Fischer's ex-fiancée Melanie Meier. |
