Jalisco Cartel unmasked

Recent photos show men of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación - CJNG), carrying high-caliber weapons and standing in front of their armor on a highway in Aguililla, a town in Michoacán.

Shows of strength by the group are common, but this is the first time that CJNG members have appeared with their faces plainly visible in high-quality images.

King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch

A clampdown by security forces against pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini has left scores dead. The violence is in Africa's last absolute monarchy.

King Mswati II is best known for his 15 wives and hugely lavish lifestyle. He has ruled the country formerly known as Swaziland since 1986.

Two charged in cocaine seized at Port of Montreal - Flashback

With a wholesale price of about $40k per kilo, the value of the spring 2019 cocaine seizure was at least $3.64m.

The newspaper reported HA Mario Brouillette financed the shipment.

The Montreal Journal said cops used subterfuge to catch the crooks. After the container was intercepted by the CBSA, the cocaine was replaced with fake drugs. They then waited for it to be picked up.

Mario Brouillette in 2011

Tudor Donciu, 32, and Patrick Simionescu, 26 were busted.

Both men were born in Romania.

They were arrested at a warehouse on St-Urbain St. after CBSA inspectors discovered more than 81kg of cocaine in a shipping container at the port.

Both are charged with importing cocaine and trafficking.

Bitcoin ponzi scammer Karlsson pulls 15 years in pen

Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, 47, convinced at least 3,575 people to invest over $16m in a fraud called "Eastern Metals Securities". He had marks send him funds in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that he stole. Karlsson was arrested in Thailand and extradited to the U.S. in 2019. He pleaded guilty to money laundering, securities fraud and wire fraud.

Karlsson was convicted of crimes using the websites www.easternmetalsecurities.com and www.hci25.com, where online investors bought into a "Pre Funded Reversed Pension Plan." Karlsson used their money to buy luxury homes, racehorses and a resort in Thailand.

John Dillinger killed 87 years ago

John Dillinger was behind bars in the Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana in early 1934. His jailers boasted that their facility was escape-proof. Dillinger whiled away his time carving a piece of wood used as a shelf in his cell. He turned it into a replica of a small handgun, painting it with shoe polish. He bluffed his captors and managed to escape. Dillinger's gang was responsible for 10 deaths, three jail breaks and more than 20 bank robberies. At 31 he became America's Public Enemy No. 1.

Dillinger's wooden prison escape pistol sold at auction for $19,120 in 2010.

Dillinger stole Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 and used it in a crime spree across the Midwest. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and sought refuge in a brothel owned by Ana Cumpănaș. On July 22, 1934, cops closed in on the Biograph Theater. Dillinger drew a gun while attempting to flee and was shot down.

Rumors persist that the man killed that night was a double. Dillinger's descendants claim that they doubt it's really his body that's buried. There is no doubt Dillinger was killed outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. The bullet that killed him entered the back of his neck and exited under his right eye.

Colombia's Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo reeled in

Colombian cops have arrested drug cartel boss and paramilitary leader Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo. Known as “Memo Fantasma” (Will, the ghost), his career spanned more than three decades. Getting his start in Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, at the height of his power he was a leader of a paramilitary group and one of the country’s biggest cocaine smugglers.

In the late 1990s, he joined the Central Bolívar Bloque, then the world’s largest paramilitary army and cocaine trafficking group. He went on to build a life in the shadows, hiding behind legitimate businesses that laundered drug cash.

Peter R de Vries

A close ally of mob boss Daniel Kinahan is believed to be behind the hit on Dutch journalist Peter R de Vries. He was shot five times in Amsterdam and is fighting for his life in hospital. Cops beleive Ridouan Taghi – who attended Kinahan’s wedding in 2017 – is behind the attack.

Kinahan has close ties with Taghi, who is currently before the courts in Holland in the Marengo trial. The gangster was extradited from Dubai in 2019. He and his associates are on trial where they are facing charges relating to seven murders.

Jail for Syndicate MC traffickers

The Syndicate is a puppet club under the Alberta nomads. They are tasked with trafficking in Red Deer and Fort McMurray. In 2019, weapons, 350k in drugs and $78k cash were seized. It was found cocaine was being cut to less than 30% purity. Casey Chapin and Joel Befus, both full-patch Syndicate MC, were charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, along with other offences. Bailey Chapin was also charged.

Casey Donald Chapin, 35, was sentenced last week to 42 months after being convicted on possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a prohibited/restricted firearm. Joel Befus, 34, was sentenced in January to 52 months in jail. The men were arrested on April 30, 2019, following a two-year investigation called Project Rocker.

UK cocaine importers go away for a long time

Christopher Bullows, 50, and Mark Tucker, 53, were stopped at Dover docks in Sept 2020 and a search found 243 kg (536lbs) of cocaine hidden in a specially constructed waste water tank. Tucker was jailed for 16 years and Bullows for 14 years and four months.

Narco Planes in Honduras - Guyana

A burnt narco plane was found on a trail in the Bisaruni area, Kwakwani. It is the third narco plane in recent months found in Guyana-Suriname.

Five bales containing 130kg of cocaine were dumped by a plane of drug traffickers when they were shot at by soldiers flying in a helicopter. The plane, a King Air 360 Beechcraft from Venezuela, was brought down inside Bruce Laguna in La Mosquito with 600 kg of cocaine. The cargo was gone by the time cops arrived.

UK street crack dealer framed probably

Drug runner Kevin Allen tried to swallow his goods after being busted by cops who watched him dealing. He was peddling crack on the streets of Cumbria for a gang from Merseyside. He was the lowest rung of the network, which used the County Lines model of locals placing orders through a 'graft' mobile phone number controlled by those higher up. He pulled 2 years.

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Cartel Boss La Catrina - 'Dame of Death'

La Catrina was a local boss in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente region, of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel led by 'El Mencho.'

María Guadalupe López Esquivel, 21, 'La Catrina' was killed in Mexico in 2020 when her armed group had a firefight with police.

La Catrina was famed for her Instagram posts boasting of the cartel life. She was said to be one of El Mencho’s most important regional lieutenants. She was shot through the neck.

Her moniker 'Dame of Death' is a mythical female skeleton celebrated in Mexico during its Day of the Dead festival.

The Many Saints of Newark

The Many Saints of Newark is an upcoming American crime drama film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner as a prequel to Chase's HBO crime drama series The Sopranos.

David Allen Geoghegan misunderstood - update

Prolific offender David Geoghegan has been charged along with Darius Commodore with first-degree murder in the killing of Jordan Christopher Smyth, 26, on Halloween 2019 in the Chilliwack area.

David Allen Geoghegan, 30, was arrested at the scene of a major cop kurfufle. Police are not disclosing what prompted his lastest bust. Geoghegan is known to police and is described as a "prolific offender". In 2019 it was another major police drama reeling the frequent flyer Geoghegan in. It was a half-hour standoff with heavily armed Mounties that time.