Mostafa Baluch was arrested by cops in a sting on the NSW/Queensland border after his underworld colleagues turned. The fugitive spent 16 days on the run.
Former fugitive drug lord Mostafa Baluch was caught trying to flee Oz cops in a Mercedes parked inside a shipping container last year. He has begun discussing a plea deal. Baluch remains remanded in custody.
Cops had stopped the truck as it crossed the border and searched the container on the back of the vehicle, where they located the 'shocked and surprised' drug dealer.
Oz cops have more than 1,000 pages of messages that were sent by Mostafa Baluch. The self-declared gangster bragged extensively about moving hundreds of kilograms of drugs and building a property empire while using encrypted messaging app ANOM. Cops say they are closing in on Baluch.
Mostafa Baluch cut off his tracking device and fled from his $4m home in Sydney days after he got bail on a 900kg cocaine bust. Baluch was swept up in June as part of the AN0M raids. His home is now being seized by authorities. The fugitive faces life in an Australian jail.
Mikael Bibeau, 26, has been released after he thought he would enforce some street justice on an elderly scooter driver who had the gall to wear a black online gambling leather jacket that resembled the HA puppet club's colours. Cops busted the tuffy, who was driving an Audi A4 when he cut off the scooter driver on the sidewalk. Brass knuckles and HA gang gear was seized at his home. The goof has been charged with robbery, assault with a weapon and hit and run. According to cops, the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal organization.
The Sherbrooke HA chapter was founded from a group called the Gitans (Gypsys) in 1984.
Brothers Sylvain and François Vachon have long been associated with upper management of the Sherbrooke HA.
The Spanish Civil Guard and National Police have dismantled a drug trafficking network which relied on corrupt cops and customs officers to ship hundreds of millions of euros worth of cocaine and hashish into Western Europe. 61 were arrested, including five officers from the Civil Guard, one from the National Police and one from customs. ‘Clan de Tanger’ and ‘Clan del Sur’ are believed to have smuggled over 16 tonnes of cocaine and 150 tonnes of hashish via the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain for distribution across Europe. The drugs were hidden among shipments of tomatoes, watermelons and melons. The groups were operating around the Port of Algeciras.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will not release Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Sirhan Sirhan, 77, told the California Parole Board at this 16th bid for freedom that he wanted to live in peace. Sirhan has served 53 years.
Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968. He died the next day at age 42.
Sirhan’s shifting narrative about his assassination of Kennedy is seen as refusal to accept responsibility. RFK was a Democratic presidential candidate when he was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after delivering a victory speech in a California primary. Sirhan, a Palestinian from Jordan, was angry at Kennedy for his support of Israel.
Juan Romero was a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and went to Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s aid.
In 2020 Lotto-Quebec announced an investigation into money laundering and proceeds of crime in the Province's casinos. High roller degenerate gambler Stefano Sollecito was busted. In the end Lotto-Quebec spent $260k in legal fees to dispute a $147k fine imposed by FINTRAC for improper money laundering by the mafia boss.
Sollecito received VIP comps at the province-owned Casino de Montreal. These included tickets to shows, meals, and free hotel rooms. Boss Stefano Sollecito was listed among the top ten punters at Casino de Montreal. Sollecito is believed to have gambled $2.5m at the casino in 2014 and 2015. At the time, he had been released from prison on racketeering and cocaine trafficking charges. He declared $50k in income.
Quebec media recently reported ... "Stefano Sollecito, considered until recently the leader of the Sicilian mafia clan in Montreal." Sollecito was closely connected to the recently departed Bernard Cherfan.
The Panamanian National Air and Naval Service (SENAN) and the Colombian Navy seized 6.1 tons of cocaine hydrochloride in the Caribbean Sea during two operations.
The first operation resulted in four Colombian crew members throwing their cargo into the sea. Panamanian authorities recovered 3,152 packages totaling 3.5 tons of cocaine.
In the second seizure cops intercepted a boat carrying 2,593 kilos of cocaine and 77.9 kg of cocaine base paste.
A cocaine-fueled evening out landed an InstaFamous model and her Gold Coast ex-cop boyfriend in chit in 2021. Playboy cover girl Tyana Hansen and former oinker Zachary Maidment were celebrating their casino party, but it was bugged by cops. They listened in as he snorted coke off his girlfriend's tits. The couple have since become porn stars. Maidment pleaded guilty, paid a fine and avoided jail.
In 2018 Jean-Pierre Huot, then 62, was convicted on six charges that his company, Perfection Métal, sold semi-automatic machine guns. He claimed he was making paintball guns — even though they were equipped with silencers. The underground gun factory operated in Montreal and produced high quality copies of the TEC-9 / DC-10 submachine gun.
One of Huot's guns was used in the 2015 attempted hit on Bernard Cherfan.
The crown presented 11 events where the guns were either used in Mob hits, seized during drug investigations or found abandoned in Quebec and Ontario.
Huot's submachine gun was used to execute gang leader Ducarme Joseph in 2014. Huot was convicted on six charges and sentenced to seven years in prison.
In March, cops in Montreal busted drug dealer Ian Smith, 50. Cops seized three 9-mm pistols, ammunition clips, a machine gun, and drugs. Smith was busted for guns made by Huot in 2016 and sentenced to 41 months.
President Ivan Duque announced on Twitter that Juan Larinson Castro Estupinan, 'Matamba' had been “neutralized” and “killed in combat” in a police operation in the northern municipality of Bolivar.
Castro had been a member of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces and other paramilitary groups since he was 16 years old.
Juan Castro, number two of the Colombian cartel Gulf Clan was caught on tape exiting the La Picota prison in Bogotá. Castro, a drug lord awaiting extradition to the US, donned a prison guard's uniform and strolled out of the Colombian maximum security prison on March 18. Castro walked through seven doors, one of which was left open by National Penitentiary and Jail Institute inspector Miltón Jimenez who was taken into custody.
He was apprehended at least 12 times and twice eluded capture. Castro had become the chief of the Cordillera Sur, a cell of the Gulf Clan. His drug-trafficking gang was linked to the National Liberation Army, dissident members of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was killed about 10:30 p.m. Thursday in Jourdanton, Texas, about 35 miles (55 km) south of San Antonio. Lopez killed a Houston family of five at their cabin and stole their pickup truck. Lopez made his prison escape while on his way from Gatesville, Texas, to a medical appointment in Huntsville.
Lopez got out of his handcuffs and shackles and went for the driver’s area of the prison bus.
The driver of the bus put up a fight. After stabbing the guard, Lopez drove the bus, with 15 other inmates another mile down the road. Lopez lost control and ran into a cow pasture. He had been on the run since. Over 300 cops were hunting him down with a bounty of $50k.
In 1996 Lopez was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and sentenced to eight years in prison.
He shot a Texas sheriff's deputy in 2004.
In 2006, he was convicted of murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison. He used a pickaxe to kill a man. The following year, he received a second life sentence after being convicted of attempted capital murder.
Vancouver resident George Stubos, who has a long history of stock swindling in B.C., is now facing securities fraud charges in the US related to an illegal offshore shell company scheme.
The SEC announced civil charges against George Stubos on June 8 for engaging in a “sophisticated” and “deceptive” fraud scheme whereby offshore shell companies were utilized to fraudulently generate $11m in net profits from two U.S. companies. Stubos used nominees for offshore companies to hide his control of the stock. He broke up his shares with these nominees in less than 5% portions to avoid reporting requirements. "By day, Mr. Stubos serves as president and chief executive officer of Stubos Capital Inc in Vancouver, Canada. His private equity company’s primary goal is to help early and development stage ventures obtain critical funds to support their business models."
George Stubos
Stubos hired marketing agencies to tout the companies. Petrosonic Energy Inc. of Nevada and Ener-Core Inc. of Delaware were complete frauds.
The commission alleges “Stubos utilized the illicit services of Frederick L. Sharp and “the Sharp Group” to facilitate each step of his fraud.” Sharp has been found guilty of securities fraud by default and owes $52.9m.
Prolific B.C. drug smuggler John Philip Stirling, 68, was freed last year from the Sheridan prison near Salem, Ore., after arguing successfully for an early release for poor health. He had been sentenced to 40 months behind bars in 2020 after he was caught on a sailboat loaded with meth bound for Canada.
Stirling filed multiple lawsuits from jail. A handwritten lawsuit sought $30m from the Chinese government, who he blamed for the pandemic.
Stirling sued the United States Bureau of Prisons for allegedly not doing enough to protect him from Covid-19. He is alleging unconstitutional treatment at the hands of his jailers at the Sheridan prison, southwest of Portland. "Sheridan prison staff are endangering my life," Stirling cried in his handwritten complaint. "I am 66 years old with diabetis [sic]," Stirling wrote.
"I should be released as death, either mentally or by Corona-19, is inevitable under the present situation."
John Philip Stirling was busted again after authorities found 196 gallons of liquid meth on his boat off the coast of Oregon. He was arrested after his sailing vessel was discovered traveling north near Newport. The 65-year-old refused to cooperate after U.S. Coast Guard officials boarded his vessel. They found 28 seven-gallon jugs of liquid meth on board.
Sterling has a history of arrests stretching back more than 30 years from B.C. to the waters off South America. In 1989, he was convicted in a cocaine smuggling and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Stirling aboard the 'Western Wind'
In 2001, his boat, the Western Wind, was stopped by US authorities in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with 2.5 tonnes of cocaine on board. No charges were laid in that episode. In 2006 he was busted again, this time with bails of pot. He again escaped unscathed.
In October 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard caught Stirling captaining a boat with 400kg of cocaine on board. Charges stuck, and he was sentenced to 90 months in U.S. federal prison.
He has Hells Angels connections that date back decades.
