The Stewmaker - El Pozolero

Santiago Meza López, 'El Pozolero', will remain in prison. Meza was told he was being denied freedom because he has yet to be sentenced for more crimes. Pozole is a Mexican stew made with hominy, chicken, pork and vegetables.

El Pozolero confessed to earning $600 per week to submerge cadavers in a tub filled with acid and sodium hydroxide while 'stirring' the bodies for 8 hours until everything but the teeth, nails and some bone fragments dissolved. Meza said whatever remained would be burned before being buried in an empty lot on his property.

Santiago Meza Lopez, aka El Pozolero or The Stewmaker, confessed to helping the Sinaloa Cartel dissolve countless bodies in acid in order to make them disappear. The Stewmaker was first captured in 2009, and was sentenced to a decade in prison in 2012. He is set to be released. He was known to work across 10 locations in Tijuana. He spent years dissolving bodies, and at some point even constructed a drainage system to dispose of the waste.

Tens of thousands of bone fragments — the Stewmaker's leftovers — were uncovered by cops.

The Chicken Coop farm near the US border in Tijuana contained the remains of at least 240 people. The actual number is much higher ... 'Of the 16,500 litres of organic material, the Federal Attorney General's Office said that there could be up to 650 bodies.'

After his arrest Meza Lopez told how he disposed of the bodies and that he was paid $2400 per month for his work.

Sergio Piccirilli has balls - out and about

The Parole Board of Canada granted release to Sergio Piccirilli, 62, but decided he is not ready for full parole. Piccirilli has close ties to the Hells Angels — including childhood friend Salvatore Cazzetta. He is serving a sentence of nine years and nine months that he received in May 2016 after his conviction on charges including gangsterism; conspiracy to possess drugs with the intent to traffic; instructing a criminal offence for an organized crime group; conspiring to import and export controlled substances; and offences related to firearms. Piccirilli will reach his statutory release date in November. On October 4, 2019, Piccirilli was the target of an attempted murder by poisoning at the Drummondville penitentiary. As with other things Piccirilli takes it in stride.

"This guy has balls," said mobster Francesco Arcadi, with cops listening, after Piccirilli entered the Sicilian headquarters, the bar Consenza and drew a gun. Later, RCMP visited Piccirilli to warn him that a contract had been put on his head. "What can I do to help you? the cop asked. “Send me flowers,” Piccirilli replied. Piccirilli then called his ex, Sharon Simon, the Queen of Kanesatake, and asked her to bring him a machine gun.

See ----->Sergio Piccirilli pulls 15 years
See ----->Queen of Kanesatake home up in smoke

UK gangster Moll lived the high life - fearless spending money

Jodie Bowie, 32, met Jonathan Walsh on Facebook while he was serving 14 years for armed robbery. Following his arrest, Bowie tasked her parents and brother to ferry dirty cash. The cash came from their meth and pot trafficking operation. The line ran drugs through the northwest England and Nottinghamshire from Oct 2018 to Oct 2019. During a raid on her home, cops found designer clothes worth more than £100k and £10k in cash. That bust didn't slow her down. Designer clothing valued at £27k and £5,500 in cash was discovered during another cop visit.

Phone messages showed her booking cosmetic surgery. "When it came to spending money, she was fearless." The gang landed 50 years behind bars. Her parents were handed a combined 22 months, suspended for 18 months. Jodie Bowie escaped jail and was handed 21 months jail suspended for two years.

Jonathan Walsh was sentenced to 15 years in jail.

The first narco sub in Europe

Agustín Álvarez, 31, was jailed for 11 years for piloting a narco sub with 3,068kg of cocaine worth an estimated €123m across the Atlantic. The 27 day, 3,500-mile journey from Brazil to Spain made headlines around the world when the vessel was scuttled in a Galician cove on 24 Nov 2019. The vessel’s arrival in Galicia was necessary as fuel ran out and two attempts to rendezvous with cartel boats off the coast failed. Álvarez and two Ecuadorians spent almost a month squeezed into a dank can behind three tonnes of cocaine and 20,000 litres of fuel. Food was energy bars, rice, biscuits and sardines; the toilet a plastic bag.

Cops found 152 bales of cocaine aboard the 20-metre submarine. Seven men went to trial in Spain accused of playing a role in the sailing. The cocaine was destined for the U.K. Its thought the narco sub cost well over $1m to build. Galicia’s inlets have long been a smuggler’s paradise but in recent years drug gangs have turned them into one of the main entry points for Colombian cocaine.

See ----->Colombia's 'narco subs'

USCG unloads $1b in drugs

The haul is a new record for a 90 day patrol.

U.S. Coast Guard crews from nine ships seized 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of pot, worth about $1.06 billion, in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. The Cutter James set a record for the largest single cocaine interdiction at 10,915 pounds, worth $206m.

Neco Arabaci with ex-Hells Angel Saman B.

A recent summit meeting in a hookah bar in Izmir, Turkey. Neco Arabaci, 50 and ex-Hells Angel Saman B. Saman B. has been in a life and death struggle in Cologne with his former boss Fatih K. The feud recently entered the next round with a near shootout in a shisha bar on Rudolfplatz.

Saman B. (31) is a former Hells Angel from Cologne out in bad standing. The rocker was a professional martial arts fighter. He was feared, but now has become the hunted. He recently narrowly escaped death in an ambush. Angry Hells Angel boss Fatih K. wants Saman B. dead. On Sept 30 the German state of Hesse banned two Frankfurt-based chapters of the Hells Angels and confiscated their assets. The Westend and Frankfurt chapters were seized under the ban. Each chapter is thought to have around 90 members. Two other Hells Angels chapters were banned in other parts of Germany. Gangs in the rest of Germany remain legal.

See ----->Turkey targets Necati 'Neco' Arabaci

Fate of Hells Angel Sherbrooke bunker sealed

The land on which the Hells Angels bunker stood, demolished in June 2021, has been put up for sale. The owner, the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions, is asking $775k for the 29.54 acre lot located at 1575 rue Wellington Sud. The land is described as a guaranteed future investment, with "Magnificent forest, ideal for nature project."

After a decade of legal wrangling, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled against the HA and for the confiscation of the building at 1575 Wellington St. South.

There is no further appeal.

The last bunker of the Hells Angels still standing in Quebec was confiscated in Sept 2017. The notorious clubhouse has been vacant since the 2009 SharQc Operation. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was made in Sept 2019 by Richard Rousseau, Guy Auclair, and Georges Beaulieu, members in good standing of the HA.

On March 24, 1985 the property saw the cold blooded execution of 5 members of the Hells Angels by their brothers. It became infamous as the Lennoxville massacre. At least two other members of the Laval chapter were supposed to be killed that day as well, but they failed to show up for the meeting.

See ----->The Lennoxville massacre

Instafamous Oz Catwoman busted

An Australian Instagram model with sticky fingers and habit of posing as Catwoman was jailed in 2020 for a series of masked crimes. Monique Agostino, 25, was warned by a judge that her life was “going down the toilet.” The former modeling entrepreneur and social media maven became a cat burglar and drug dealer.

She began by driving teenagers to commit burglaries in Sydney. Agostino was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for a series of heists and drug dealing.

3D printed ghost gun bust in NL

140 charges were laid after a huge weapon seizure that included 3D printed ghost guns. Printing certain gun components is a criminal offence in Canada. Cops seized a range of partially manufactured 3D printed guns, 3D printed silencers, barrels, slides, frames and other parts; nine prohibited firearms, two restricted and four non-restricted firearms; assorted magazines and ammunition; a bullet-proof vest; and 3D printed knuckles. Police also seized drugs. Scott Waterman, 40, of Torbay, was charged with more than 140 offences related to the possession, manufacturing and trafficking of weapons. He was denied bail.

Rafael Banuelos Ortega 'El Fantasma' - busted, released

El Fantasma was captured in Chihuahua and transferred to Zacatecas in an army plane.

Rafael Banuelos Ortega 'El Fantasma', leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) in Zacatecas, was released despite being arrested for a string of violent offences included murders, kidnappings, extortion, sale and distribution of drugs. El Fantasma has been singled out for being the generator of violence in recent months in the southern region of Zacatecs. El Fantasma was released and it was the president of Mexico himself, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who announced the news. He has often lamented the actions of judicial authorities of various states.

Kinahan gangster Naoufal Fassih - 'Mr Couscous'

Naoufal Fassih has been jailed in Holland for conspiracy to murder and money laundering, after being arrested in April 2016 in Ireland and extradited to Amsterdam. Fassih, ‘Mr Couscous’ is seen as a major figure in the global drugs trade. He has sinister connections in the US, South America and Africa. Mr Couscous has had a legal case sent to the EU’s Court of Justice from the Irish Supreme Court over his extradition from Ireland. A five-judge Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the case raised questions that should be determined by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The thug, who’s also wanted in Spain for conspiracy to whack a Kinahan cartel rival, spearheaded a number of attacks on the Hutch gang while hiding out in Ireland.

Mobster Daniel Kinahan

Due to the efforts of gardai, he was put on a porridge diet for his role in masterminding a failed gangland assassination. The target, Peter ‘Pjotr’ Raap, miraculously survived despite being hit six times when assassins pumped 36 bullets into his car near Amsterdam in November 2015. Five men convicted of the attempted hit were sentenced to between 17 and 20 years. Fassih was the man responsible.

See ----->Drug ring linked to Kinahan cartel uncovered in Australia

Modesto HA VP Shafer pulls 5 years for drugs

Modesto HA Michael Shafer, 34, has been sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking including intent to distribute heroin. Shafer was the vice president of the HAMC in Modesto in 2019. As part of a long investigation into the Hells Angels, cops obtained a wiretap for Shafer’s phone. Calls and messages showed that Shafer was conspiring in drug trafficking. Shafer faced up to 40 years in prison and a $5m fine.

See ----->Modesto HA president, 3 others charged in Meth ring

NY Gangster scammers undone by social media photos

New York detectives noticed that members of Brooklyn’s Woo street gang were posting photos of themselves on social media from luxurious locations that weren't Brooklyn. Detectives were able to match the background of at least one of the homes with an Airbnb listing in California. Cops and federal agents combed through bank records, tracing various withdrawals that were financing the gangster's new lifestyles. They soon discovered that the gang used false names to file for benefits through a federal COVID relief program. 800 false identities filed nearly 1,000 unemployment claims, stealing at least $4.3 million.

Romean Brown, Tyrek Clarke, Kennith Desir, Stephan Dorminvil, Kai Heyward, Keith James, Oneal Marks, Jahriah Olivierre, Christopher Jean Pierre, Roleeke Smith, and Christopher Topey carried out the scheme between March 2020 and October 2021. Arrests occured hours before the body of Woo gangster and rapper TDott Woo, 22, was borne past his Brooklyn home. He was shot dead on Feb. 1, the day he signed a recording contract with Million Dollar Music.