Major HA bust in Quebec - update

Martin "Gros Gam" Gamache.

Cops have broken into a dozen homes, including those of some high profile members of the Hells Angels of the Quebec chapter. The cops notably went to visit Marc "Marco" Roberge and Martin "Gros Gam" Gamache. Gamache's colours are gonzo. Some 30 HA and associates have been charged so far.

Cops are making a series of raids in connection with the drug underworld in Quebec City, Beauce, Portneuf, Gatineau and Montreal. Drug networks in various regions are controlled by the Hells Angels. Quebec’s organized crime suppression squad (ENRCO) said that about 20 arrests are planned for today. Four kg of cocaine, 130k meth tablets, $400k in cash, eight firearms - including five handguns - and an electric pulse pistol, silencers and ammunition has been seized.

The investigation is dubbed Operation Palefroi (walking or parade horse).

Belgium HA and Vakeso Drom not friends

Cops in Belgium simultaneously carried out five searches. It relates to an attempted shooting of an HA in June by a member of Vakeso Drom MC. The shooter was settling a score in the context of a territorial war. Vakeso Drom are closely associated to the Bandidos.

Phoebe Greenberg $15m civil lawsuit exposes HA connections

Phoebe Greenberg

A $15m lawsuit filed by Phoebe Greenberg against her former assistant Sandra Testa is more than it appears. Phoebe Greenberg is heiress and shareholder of the Minto Empire, a real estate company listed on the TSE with a portfolio of over $ 2.5b. Testa defends herself by swearing her boss authorized all expenses. She describes Greenberg as unaware of the cost of her luxurious lifestyle, who relied on 'servants' to pay her extravagant expenses. Greenberg is said to spend a fortune for continuous plastic surgery.

Cops recently discovered two stolen paintings of Riopelle in his residence.

One of the beneficiaries of Greenberg cash was Carlo Farruggia, known for his ties to the Italian Mafia and HA. Farruggia is linked to mafioso Antonio Pietrantonio. In 1994, Farruggia was intercepted on his way to HA Richard Vallee with $122k in cash. Farruggia avoided charges, but when Vallée was tried for murder, the prosecution linked the money to cocaine trafficking. Cops took Farruggia’s fingerprints from a bag containing explosives. Farruggia also had the key to a car in which a handgun and a detonator identical to the one used to kill a witness was found. Vallee was extradited to the US in 2006. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Richard Vallee

Farruggia wasn't the only hand. Vanessa Purdy, a former employee, is the daughter of the late Jerry Purdy, one of the strong men of the Irish underworld in Montreal. She is the sister of Sean Purdy, a man with high level connections to organized crime.

A similar $5m lawsuit against former employee Giuseppina “Penny” Mancuso was settled. Mancuso was paid $400k per year, plus $200k for beauty care and an allowance of $100k for her children’s schooling. Apparently this was cause to steal more.Penny Mancuso, Phoebe Greenberg

Phoebe Greenberg on a trip to Europe with Nabil Salaheddine and Carlo Farruggia.

Mitchell Wesley Carlson fingered as HA - 'Boogaloo Bois'

The FBI has pieced together the involvement of members of a far right-wing sect calling themselves the 'Boogaloo Bois' in street violence in Minneapolis. 'Boogaloo' refers to the group’s belief in an impending civil war in the U.S., which its members hope to forment. The attack on the police precinct office with Molotov cocktails is their work. Two have been charged with that arson. Texas man Ivan Hunter, a 'Boogaloo Bois' fired 13 rounds from an AK-47-style rifle through the glass doors and windows of the precinct office while people were inside.

Ivan Harrison Hunter, Benjamin Ryan Teeter.

'Umbrella Man' is Mitchell Wesley Carlson. He is a full patch member of the Hell's Angels and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys. See ----->White Power HA bikers make waves in Stillwater

32-year-old Carlson has not been charged, yet. He took part in a June incident in Stillwater and was in his colours when he and others verbally harassed a Muslim woman. This PR is all bad for the club. This meatbag will be out in bad standing if he's lucky.

Chinese money brokers laundering cartel cash

Chinese “money brokers” have emerged as partners for Latin American drug cartels. The recent trial of a Chinese businessman convicted of laundering cartel drug money shows how it's done. A cartel wants it's drug cash. It contacts a local Chinese money broker. Terms and an amount are agreed upon. The broker then sends, 1) a code word, 2) the number of a U.S. burner phone, and 3) the unique serial number of an authentic $1 bill. The crime group shares those details with a drug dealer in the US, who calls the burner phone and identifies himself with the code word. He arranges to meet a U.S.-based money courier working for the Chinese broker. The courier hands over the $1 bill with the unique serial number. When it's verified, the dealer hands over the cash, keeping the bill as a receipt.

The courier takes the cash to a U.S. based Chinese merchant who has a bank account in China. The merchant performs a currency swap known as a “mirror transaction.” Chinese yuan flows from his Chinese bank account to the money broker’s Chinese account. The drug cash is now sitting in a Chinese bank, outside the view of the US.

The broker has two options to send it on. Option 1 is to do another “mirror transaction.” The yuan is transferred from the money broker’s Chinese account to the Chinese bank account of a cartel business. Pesos go to the money broker and that cash goes to the cartel. The second option is to buy consumer goods in China and export them. The goods are sold, and the proceeds flow to the cartel.

Mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr given compassionate release

Brooklyn mafia figure Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, was serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s. He became a jailhouse informant and has been granted a compassionate release by a federal judge. Once a top-ranked member of the Colombo family, he is said to be seriously ill. During his incarceration, he has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Doctors removed a tumor that left a hole in his throat. Scarpa also had his salivary glands removed, which left him in a state where he ‘regularly chokes’ on his food. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV.

‘Hot tub’ meth dealer Jared Irving on the lam no more

Winnipeg's biker enforcement unit has been looking for Jared Irving, 35, since he failed to appear for sentencing in August 2019. Irving was arrested in January 2018 after Winnipeg police raided his home seizing 1.4 kg of meth. At the time, Irving was dumping his stash into a hot tub. Also seized was a .38 calibre handgun and ammunition. Irving was convicted of possession of meth for the purpose of trafficking and two counts of possession of a prohibited firearm and ammunition.

Irving fled to Kelowna where he was busted Oct 27.

Gangster Jason Pikula-Carroll cheers fatal shot - cries at sentencing

Jason Pikula-Carroll, 25, cheered after his associate shot and killed Canberra artist Eden Waugh during a 2016 home invasion. He has been sentenced to 30 years in jail. Eden Waugh was killed because his attackers feared he had spoken to police about an earlier home invasion. As the pair tried to beat down the front door, Peter Forster-Jones fired a shotgun slug through it, hitting Waugh in the chest and killing him. Pikula-Carroll pleaded guilty to the killing and cried like a biatch while reading an apology to Waugh's parents. Waugh's father David said the murder robbed him of a kind and loving son.

"Eden was not without some faults but his underlying characteristics were his kindness and gentleness."

The two gangsters stepped over a dying Waugh to strip his apartment. In a triple-0 call from the attack, Pikula-Carroll could be heard cheering "gangster" after the fatal shot was fired. Jason Pikula-Carroll was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a non-parole period of 18 years for murder, aggravated robbery and assault. He will be eligible for parole in 2037.

Hitman Joubens Jeff Theus pulls a year for Rizzuto arson

Joubens Jeff Theus is serving a life sentence for a botched hit of an innocent man. Theus was supposed to kill Antonio 'Tony' Vanelli, a man with ties to the Montreal Mafia. Instead of being at the Hillside Café, Vanelli was attending the funeral of Rocco Sollecito.

Theus gunned down Angelo D'Onofrio in a case of mistaken identity.

Ebamba Ndutu Lufiau, 42, was Theus’s accomplice in both the homicide and the arson fire at the Rizzuto funeral home. He is serving a five-year prison term for acting as a getaway driver after D’Onofrio was killed and for his role in the arson. Three other men convicted in the case involving the arson were previously sentenced to prison terms that ranged between 18 and 23 months.

High surveillance release for gang leader Gregory Woolley

Before his arrest after the Magot-Mastiff investigation in November 2015, Gregory Woolley was considered one of the leaders of a mafia-biker gang alliance that led organized crime in Montreal. A trusted man of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, his was the glue that held the alliance together. He took advantage of the SharQc decimation of the HA in 2009 to get closer to Stefano Sollecito, whom cops considered the head of the Montreal mafia. "He's watching my back, I'm watching his" Sollecito said of Woolley on tapes. Five years later, sources are wondering if Sollecito's influence as the leader of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia has wained, along with Woolley's. The HA are now the strongest in Quebec, by far. Woolley had a direct hand with Maurice Boucher in the plot to kill Raynald Desjardins. This was not unanimous among the bikers. Woolley may no longer have the same importance as before. Woolley has strict conditions. He will not be able to associate with anyone with a criminal background or linked to a criminal organization. A relative of Woolley's, Dany Sprinces-Cadet, was also released on parole three weeks ago, and Jean Winsing Barthelus, in early 2019. None may have contact with each other.

Feds seize $3.5m in Mexican cartel cash, drugs, ammo in San Diego bust

Three Mexican nationals tied to the Sinaloa cartel were charged after U.S. agents discovered a massive stockpile of cash, drugs and ammunition at a San Diego truck yard just north of the Mexico border in Otay Mesa.

The haul included $3.5m in cash, 685 kg of cocaine, 24 kg of fentanyl, around 20,000 rounds of .50-caliber ammunition and hundreds of body armor vests.

Amad 'Jay' Malkoun

Malkoun purchased the farm from a relative in 2009 for $950k.

Repatriated bikie boss Amad 'Jay' Malkoun is set to reap millions from a proposed housing estate on his farm in Donnybrook, 35 km north of Melbourne. The value of the land has increased exponentially and is now worth about $20m, 3 times that when residential development is complete. Malkoun supplied drug making chemicals to Tony Mokbel at the height of his criminal empire. Police documents released by the Lawyer X Royal Commission have linked the pair for the first time.

Tony Mokbel

Bikie boss and convicted heroin trafficker Amad "Jay" Malkoun returned to Melbourne in June after seven years in Dubai and barely surviving a car bomb in Greece. He is said to need crutches to walk. Malkoun is reported to be negotiating with a senior Mongols figure about defecting. The return of the former boss of the Comancheros was expected to inflame tensions and it has.

Sydney's south-west is at the center of over a dozen drive-by shootings in recent weeks.

Sentenced to a decade in prison in 1988 for $5.5m of heroin, Malkoun has a criminal network spanning Asia and Europe, including Russia, where he started a Comancheros chapter.

Comancheros boss Mick Murray

Fares Abounader, a former ally of slain Comanchero boss Mick Hawi, was killed in a targeted drive-by shooting at his home. His execution marks the 30th shooting in 5 weeks in Sydney and NSW. Cops believe Abounader was a victim of a targeted hit amid rising tensions between the Comancheros and Bandidos. See ----->Comanchero Boss Amad 'Jay' Malkoun's car blown up in Athens

DEA busts $1.5m electric narcosub - update

The high-capacity narco submarine was found on the Cucurrupí River in the Chocó area of Colombia. It would have carried some six metric tons of cocaine, valued at around $120m. Most narco submarines carry around 1.6 metric tons of cocaine, worth $30m to 35m. Virtually all narco submarines interdicted at sea have been more correctly termed low-profile vessels (LPVs). They are semi-submersibles, designed to run low in the water to avoid detection. They cannot fully submerge. With an estimated endurance of 12 hours, this narcosub could remain submerged for 32 nautical miles

The Colombian military, working with the DEA, discovered a new type of narcosub that runs on battery power and is designed to completely submerge for short periods. The vessel can carry 6 metric tons of cocaine. The boat carries 10 tons of batteries, giving it enough power to remain submerged for up to 12 hours while running at three knots. Analysts believe the boat was designed to be towed by another boat. Once near its destination, the narcosub would be cut loose and proceed under its own power. After the $1.5m sub unloaded it's cargo, it would be sent to the bottom. Features include a fully enclosed, cylindrical hull, a hex-shaped viewing port with windows for navigating, and four dive planes designed to allow it to submerge underwater.

South American drug cartels invented narcosubs. The boats first appeared as an alternative to go-fast boats, which are more likely to be intercepted. The cartels continuously up their game.

See ----->Narco submarines

SA prison gang leader Ernest Solomon whacked

Ernest “Ernie Lastig” Solomon

The prison Number gangs are so cruel that sometimes a father kills his own son or the son kills his father because of “this Number we believe in”, said former leader of the 28s gang Ernest “Ernie Lastig” Solomon in a video clip that was recorded before his murder. Solomon was gunned down in Boksburg, Gauteng. His car was forced off the road by a Ford Ranger and then gunmen in that vehicle fired an avalanch of shots into Solomon’s BMW, killing him. The hit on Solomon was similar to the one carried out on 9 April 2019 in Gauteng on Serbian national Ivan Djordjevic, when gunmen fired shots through the roof of Djordjevic’s bulletproof Mercedes-Benz. "Be careful, you are going to kill your family and your own community and after that your own brothers are going to kill you,” Solomon warned.