Justice STUPID slow for Halifax cop Jacob Farr

Halifax pig Const. Jacob Farr, 31, will go to trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in April 2023 on four charges.

A Halifax cop facing four criminal charges was not ready to make an election or enter pleas when he appeared in court by phone. It was the fifth time the allegations against Const. Jacob Farr have been in Halifax provincial court since he was charged by the Serious Incident Response Team in July 2020. Farr faces two counts of assault in relation to an arrest. He’s also charged with obstructing police and breach of trust for failing to report his actions in police reports. Farr remains suspended with pay, and for years. He has been an oiker since December 2017.

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Peter Ferrari dies of Covid

Pedro David Perez Miranda, 'Peter Ferrari' died Sept 28, 2020 in a Lima hospital of Covid.

NTR Metals was the largest money-laundering prosecution involving precious metals in U.S. history. “The scope of the conspiracy is enormous,” a federal prosecutor said. Federal prosecutors in Miami charged 3 NTR traders with money laundering, saying the three men bought $3.6 billion of illegal gold from criminal groups in Latin America. The scandal shut down NTR and cost its Dallas-based parent company, Elemetal, the ability to trade gold on bullion and commodity exchanges.

Prosecutors claimed the gold traders, who eventually pleaded guilty, fueled “illegal gold mining, foreign bribery and narcotics trafficking.”

Pedro Pérez Miranda - Peter Ferrari

In 2012, NTR did little business in Latin America. The next year, it struck a rich vein, becoming the largest U.S. importer of Peruvian gold with $980m worth. They did it with help from Peruvian Pedro Pérez Miranda, who laundered drug money through the gold trade. As the U.S. war on drugs undercut cash flow of narcos, dealers diversified into Latin America’s gold industry. By using drug profits to mine and sell gold, criminals can launder staggering amounts of money.

NTR’s Peruvian operations collapsed at the end of 2013 when police raided a storage facility outside Lima holding gold that belonged to Ferrari and others.

Agents seized $18.8m worth of gold. But the party wasn’t over — it moved to neighboring countries. In 2014, NTR began smuggling gold across the border to Ecuador and Bolivia.

Illegal mining has devastated rainforests.

When local governments in those countries also began cracking down the party moved again, this time to Colombia. In 2015, NTR’s imports from Colombia soared to $722m. That accounted for more than half of the country’s gold exports to the US. Colombia exported 64 tons of gold in 2016, much of it to the United States. That same year, Colombia’s legal mining operations produced only eight tons. A large part of the gap between what Colombia’s big mines produce and what the country exports is unlicensed and untaxed gold — often unearthed at any cost by operations controlled by narco-traffickers and other criminals.

Cartel associates pose as precious-metals traders to buy and mine gold. Cocaine profits are their seed money. They sell the metal through front companies to refineries. Once complete, cocaine kingpins have turned their dirty gold into clean cash. To the outside world, they’re not drug dealers; they’re gold traders.

$2m in cocaine in Texas = 10 years in federal pen

Reynaldo Perez Jr., 29, was sentenced to a decade in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute drugs. Perez was a passenger on a Tornado Bus at the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint. A K-9 alerted at his luggage at the cargo area of the bus. A search led to the discovery of 21 kg of cocaine. Evidence was shown of Perez executing two successful drug runs prior to being busted.

50ft yacht busted with £60m of cocaine up for grabs

A 50ft yacht seized by the UK government will be put up for auction with no reserve price.

Gary Swift and Scott Kilgour began their journey from Suriname, a small country in South America. They were caught by customs officers, just off the Pembrokeshire coast with 751kg of high-purity cocaine stored throughout the vessel in 2019. It was one of the UK’s largest seizures.

Swift was jailed for 19 years for drug smuggling, while Kilgour pulled 13 years.

4 UK men busted for 300kg of cocaine in Greece

Containers of bananas had arrived from Colombia. The suspects were arrested at a house near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

The operation is part of an investigation that found 3.7 tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride in a container of 20 pallets of bananas last month. The seized Class A drugs were intended for other European countries and Australia. Guns and a large amount of cash was also seized. The seizure had an estimated street value of at least 50 million euros.

Victoria Baker-Harber's lover in £68m art swindle

For almost a decade Victoria Baker-Harber has been one of the stars of Britain’s poshest reality show, 'Made In Chelsea'. The show took a twist when her fiancé was jailed for 7 years for masterminding a £68m art swindle.

Inigo Philbrick, 34, was busted for selling the same valuable masterpieces several times over. He travelled the world on private jets, spending his summers in Ibiza. Inigo wore £5,000 suits, hand-made shoes, a belt with diamonds and £48k watches. Philbrick was on the run for 6 months before the FBI tracked him down on the remote Pacific Island of Vanuatu.

Rapper Pooh Shiesty in deep pooh = 63 months

Pooh was cooked.

Shiesty and Bobby Brown, the other man charged, shot and injured two other men in a parking lot in a shoe rip. Shiesty arrived in a McLaren he rented from one of the victims and wanted to negotiate the car's rental as well, but during the transaction, he and Brown shot the men — one in the hip and the other in the ass. Surveillance footage captured the shooting. While leaving, a Louis Vuitton bag — which had $40,912 in cash — fell out of the McLaren. Shiesty had posted guns and $100 bills on Instagram days before the robbery. Cops tapped the rapper's instagram and found the same bills in the Louis Vuitton bag were also in his posts. Its 63 months in jail, three years of supervised release and additional restrictions such as no contact with his co-defendants.

Rapper Pooh Shiesty (Lontrell Williams) agreed to plead guilty in connection with a Florida armed robbery. He faced a maximum sentence of life in prison if he had been convicted at trial of using a firearm "in furtherance of another federal crime of violence." He and another man shot two others in a "high end athletic sneaker" deal gone bad.

Cocaine cut with fentanyl in Nashville

Khalil D. Smith, 26; Nesean Thompson, 22; and Michael Terry, 26 were busted on felony drug charges after selling three grams of a white powder to an undercover cop for $200. It tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine. The dealers sold adulterated cocaine every day in downtown Nashville. Fentanyl is believed responsible for about 80% of drug overdose deaths in Nashville and Davidson County. A health warning was issued to the public about the spike in drug overdoses in the downtown Nashville area.

InstaFamous model Emmy Russ - revisited

Germany's Emmy Russ's quest to get the perfect Instagram shot in 2020 left her with more than she bargained for after she posed on a cop car. She faced a bill after cops claimed her photo shoot dented their car. The 23-year-old has 160k followers on Instagram.

Hamburg cops posted on their official Instagram account that they had caught a woman posing for photos on the hood of their car. The post said police had been “amazed” after a resident tipped them off that “a woman in front of the police station” was “lolling on the hood of a patrol car”. Hamburg cops said it was apparently to take ‘nice photos’ but cops later said the hood was pushed in after her posing on their car.

Nigerian busted for cocaine again

Okechukwu Francis Amaechi, 45, finished a jail term for drug trafficking in Brazil in March 2022. He was arrested at the Port Harcourt Airport on arrival from Brazil via Doha. Okechukwu was busted for 4.56kg of cocaine hidden in lawnmower tires. One package bears the inscription “IN GOD” and “WE TRUST”.   Amaechi claimed church members gave him the lawn mowers to deliver to his brother in Port Harcourt.

Gang warfare in Western Sydney

An angry imam berated mourners at the funeral of Rami Iskander. He was laid to rest in the grave next to his kingpin uncle Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, 17 days after his murder. The 23-year-old was gunned down outside his home in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child. Gangland violence is running rampant in Western Sydney.

Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad

13 people have been killed in gang violence in Sydney's west and southwest over the past 18 months. Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed, 41, is in critical condition and his brother Omar dead after they were sprayed with bullets two weeks ago. Tarek survived despite 10 gunshot wounds to his body and head.

He is said to be blind.

Dominic Taddeo escapes, lassoed, pleads guilty

Infamous mob assassin Dominic Taddeo, 64, who murdered three gangland rivals in the ’80s Rochester Mafia War, was arrested 4 days after he escaped from federal custody in Florida. Taddeo pleaded guilty and is looking at an additional 5 years in the big house.

About to be released to a halfway house, the killer went for a medical appointment on March 28 and never returned.

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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6 charged after sophisticated tunnel found

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.

Narco Queen of Honduras: Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda'

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

Record 1,494 kg cocaine shipment intercepted in Malta

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.