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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. |
 | A litany of drugs was found by deputies in Hoke County after they searched Michael Anthony Porter, 30, and his vehicle. They found seven types of drugs. Cops found 81 doses of Adderall, 14 grams of fentanyl, 16 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of methamphetamine, 414 Xanax pills 11 doses of MDMA, and pot. Charges are equally numerous. He is being held on a $500k secured bond. |  |
 He was described as a regional cocaine supplier. He foolishly trusted Encrochat completely. | A photo of drug dealer Leon Atkinson posing in the sunshine proved to be key evidence in helping cops put him away. It was sent to a man named Jason Cox and discovered after cops cracked the encrypted Encrochat network. Atkinson messaged the Cox clan to negotiate buying from them half of £1m worth of cocaine they had stolen from an infamous Liverpool crime mob. A brutal burglary at a Liverpool gang's stash house returned 30kg of cocaine. Atherton was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. |  |
 | Atkinson was a target for Manchester cops and a close friend of cop killer Dale Cregan, who is serving life for four murders, including the killings of two police. The 43-year-old was tried alongside Cregan in 2013 accused of killing Mark Short. He dodged conviction. See ----->UK cop killer Dale Cregan |  |
 Christopher Butters bought 31 months for violent disorder, Colin Green was caged for 29 months. | President of the Tyne and Wear chapter Colin Green, and HA Christopher Butters were among a mob that gathered to oppose Black Lives Matter. Counter-protesters attacked cops and the other group by throwing cans, bottles and smoke grenades. Cops, horses, dogs and the public were injured in the June 2020 riot. Butters obstructed cops and threw missiles during the disturbance. He was with other Hells Angels at the front of the group and refused to move back when told to by cops.  |
 | Cops said that Lahrkamp has been confirmed as one of four people who died when a small plane crashed April 30th near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Lahrkamp, 36, had been on the run since February when Thai cops accused him and Matthew Dupre, 36, of whacking former Abbotsford gangster Jimi Sandhu. |  See ----->Jimi Sandhu whacked in Phuket |
 | Killed along with Lahrkamp was Independent Soldier Duncan Bailey. Bailey fled after being released on bail on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He had a long history of drug trafficking and organized crime. Months before pilot Abhinav Handa, his friend and the two fugitives died he had been reported for operating an unlicensed air taxi service. |  |
 | A third man has been arrested in the hit on Robert (Cong) Dinh and Thomas Cherukara on Jan 11, 2021. Mexican cops now say the men were killed due to multi-million dollar debt tied to guns and cocaine trafficking. Cong Dinh was a top level member of a Vietnamese organized crime group that operates in Canada and the United States. Mexican cops had characterized the murders as a dispute between hotel guests. |  |
 | Canadian gangsters Cong Dinh and Thomas Cherukara were in Playa del Carmen at the Hotel Xcaret when they were whacked. A gunman dressed in a tracksuit shot and killed the two men. A woman was also shot but recovered. Cops said the killer had been walking with the two men minutes earlier before firing at least five times. Dinh was wanted for money laundering by the RCMP. Cherukara had drug busts, robberies, weapons and property crime offenses. |  |
 | Estonian hitman Imre Arakas gave evidence via video link from prison to a murder trial in Lithuanian last year. He is charged with killing a drug dealer. The 63 year old is serving a 6.5 year sentence over a plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately, part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud. Gately was a prime target for the Kinahan faction with a €500k bounty on his head. Gately was believed to be involved in the Regency Hotel attack. Arakas flew into Dublin from Spain in April, 2017 to kill Gately but was busted by gardai before he got his chance. When the Arakas plot was foiled, the cartel wasted no time in arranging another. 'Mr Flashy' assassin Caolan Smyth was caged for 20 years for his attempted hit of Gately. |  |
 | Caolan Smyth was arrested after the attack on James 'Mago' Gately who was shot five times in 2017 but survived. 4 of the 5 shots hit a bulletproof vest he was wearing. Seven men with links to the Kinahan cartel are now behind bars for plots to kill Gately. |
 | Legislators voted to remove disgraced premier Andrew Fahie and install his former deputy, Natalio Wheatley. This came as Fahie was granted $500k bail in Miami, a decision that was immediately appealed.
Andrew Fahie had demanded his immediate release from US custody, claiming he is immune from prosecution on drug trafficking charges because he is an elected, constitutional head of government.  |
 Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, was busted in a sting in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine and money laundering. | Britain is poised to impose a form of direct rule over the British Virgin Islands after the territory’s premier was arrested. Hours before his court appearance in Miami, a commission of inquiry – launched in 2021 – reported on widespread abuses, including millions disappearing. The commission recommended that the territory have its constitution suspended, its elected government dissolved and be ruled from London. |  Oleanvine Maynard |
 | DEA agents posed as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. In exchange for bribes and 10% ($7.8m) — for each 3,000-kilogram load of cocaine sold in Miami, Fahie and his co-defendants allegedly agreed to provide safe passage for the drugs and a network of shell companies to launder proceeds. |
 | Convicted Springfield mob loan shark Rex Cunningham, 71, is a long time associate of the Genovese crime family. He pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill a man over a $600 debt to Cunningham’s girlfriend. Cunningham is also charged with extortion and witness intimidation. His lawyer describes the charges as a 'misunderstanding'. Cunningham was sunk when the victim recorded the exchange on his cell phone: “I’m Tammy’s husband. Good to meet you, now let’s get a few things straight here. You stop being a fucking wise guy. You be disrespectful to these girls again I’ll break every bone in your fucking body. You call the cops, you call whoever the fuck you want and that’s what’s going to happen to you. Don’t say a word. I’ll take your fucking head off right here.” |  |
 | Five years after he was exposed as a major Canadian player in the "Panama Papers" offshore finance scandal, Fred Sharp is now facing prosecution in the US. He had his assets frozen by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has an arrest warrant outstanding. The offshore shell facilitator was handed a US$52.9m judgment for fraud. Sharp nicknamed himself "Bond". He is one of six BC residents charged with violating anti-fraud provisions of the U.S. Securities Act. Zhiying Gasarch, Courtney Kelln, Mike Veldhuis, Jackson Friesen, Paul Sexton and Avtar Singh Dhillon are the others. |  |
 | In 2011, Dhillon founded pharmaceutical company Vitality Biopharma Inc. Trading in Vitality was halted in November 2018. He stepped down as the chairman, but not before the "Sharp Group" booked $16.6m in ill gained profits ... including $2.6m to Dhillon. Dhillon concealed ownership of Arch Therapeutics and OncoSec Medical Inc. Both were microcap biotechnology companies he chaired between March 2011 and April 2020. |  Dhillon made false representations for millions of beneficially owned shares by putting them in two shell companies. They then reportedly had another law firm provide a legal opinion to a broker that the shares could be deposited into a brokerage account without trading restrictions. |
 | Sharp's company, Corporate House, created more than 1,200 corporate entities, making him the most significant Canadian player in the Panama Papers leak. Sharp and his cohorts could face up to 20 years in prison, plus five years for the conspiracy charges. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2021/comp-pr2021-148.pdf |  Avtar Dhillon |
