André Oliveira Macedo given wings to fly - still MIA

Police in Sao Paulo have been hunting for André Oliveira Macedo, 45, leader of one of Brazil's biggest criminal organizations since 2020. He went on the run after being freed from prison the previous day on a judge's order that was revoked a few hours later. Macedo is a boss of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) gang, and was being held following his arrest in September 2019 on charges of organizing huge shipments of cocaine to Europe.

The PCC is one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Brazil.

Marco Aurélio Mello granted a habeas corpus request that allowed Macedo to leave a Sao Paulo prison. Macedo drove to the town of Maringá and boarded a plane that left for Paraguay.

During his arrest at a mansion in Angra dos Reis, cops seized two speedboats and a helicopter. Oliveira is said to own a fleet of boats.

Mexican Mafia operate with contraband phones

One of the men said he’d told an underling “everything, contingencies — I told him, look, this is the way you do it. You do this, you block this, you hit this, you go this way.” “Saturday, they, they – that’s when they were supposed to go to the car show, right?” he continued. “To the car show. That’s when they were going to go. Now if they don’t make it to the car show this Saturday, homeboy from [inaudible] takes the driver’s seat.” “I understand,” said another. “He’s going to, going to end up driving the car. He’s going to end up driving him to the car show.” The four men were members of the Mexican Mafia, held in prisons throughout California. They had dialed in using contraband cellphones, one of which had been secretly tapped. They spoke in a code they thought only they understood. The “car show,” was code for a killing. The person “driving him to the car show” was the killer.

Emiliano 'Tonito' Lopez, a member of the Mexican Mafia who had fallen out of favour, was stabbed to death at Calipatria state prison. About two-thirds of the Mexican Mafia’s 140 members are held in California prisons, which are rife with cellphones. Mexican Mafia members aren't shy about discussing their business ... "Jerry said a pound of methamphetamine could be bought in Tijuana for $1,100, plus “about $800 to cross it,” and sold in California for $2,100. A kilo of black tar heroin, valued at $26,000 in California, cost half of that in Mexico, he added."

Robert Hinojos was convicted of murder in 2016.

Raynald Desjardins fails to have condition lifted as sentence nears end

Raynald Desjardins lasted a little over a month before being returned to jail for breach of conditions. Desjardin's release was suspended because he associated with Jean-Charles Denommé, a drug dealer who was out on the same type of release. Denommé, alias "The Tooth Fairy", is the right hand of infamous Hells Angels sympathizer Marc-André Lachance. Desjardins’s sentence will expire in June. Desjardins appealed the condition that requires that he provide financial disclosures. That was shot down by the Parole Board.

Salvatore Montagna shortly before his murder

Jean-Charles Denommé

"The information on file indicates that for the majority of your adult life you were very well situated in the world of organized crime and that you are still considered an active associate of organized crime,” the board wrote. Desjardin was released from Cowansville penitentiary on April 19, 2022 after serving two thirds of his sentence. Desjardins was sentenced to 14 years for the murder of Salvatore Montagna in 2011. With time served that is 78 months. Desjardins is at loggerheads with the leadership of the Rizzuto clan, led by Leonardo Rizzuto, and Stefano Sollecito.

Since his incarceration in late 2011, at least a dozen people associated with Desjardin have been murdered, including his brother-in-law Joe Di Maulo in 2012, Gaétan Gosselin in 2013, and his older brother, Jacques Desjardins in 2017. Desjardins was the target of a murder plot in 2015. Maurice "Mom" Boucher and gang leader Gregory Woolley were implicated.

Stefano Sollecito and Vito Rizzuto in 2013.

Brian James Marriott, Head of Spryfield MOB

Desjardins recruited new henchmen from a penitentiary in the Maritimes. Spryfield MOB is a street gang that has been active for 2 decades. When boss James Marriott left prison, he moved to Montreal. Other gangsters followed him. Virtually everyone believes Desjardin will be seeking his revenge. See ----->Raynald Desjardins and the Salvatore Montagna hit

Toronto cops seize 364 kilos of drugs = $32m

Project Cerro resulted in the seizure of 364kg of drugs - 340 kilos of crystal methamphetamine, 20 kilos of cocaine, and 3.8 kilos of fentanyl - with a total street value of $32m. Four loaded Glocks were also seized in the investigation, along with seven cars, and over $500k in cash.

Busted are 'cartel connected' Paul Lelutiu, 35, Troy Anthony Robinson, 40, Manasinh Jittavong, 39, and Soheil Baharloo, 34

India's mining mafia - revisited

Mining is completely banned in the Neugal riverbed, but it goes on a large scale daily.

A month after locals, cops and the Mining Department dismantled a road leading to an illegal mining site on the Neugal riverbed, the mafia reconstructed it. The illegal road was constructed to allow heavy machinery to reach the riverbed. When villagers learned the road had been reconstructed by filling in the deep trenches, they reported the matter.

They said the mining mafia constructed many roads on forest and government lands, but the Mining Department failed to check activity in the Neugal.

2 officals escaped unhurt when goons of the mining mafia attacked them near the Neugal river where they had gone to check illegal mining after complaints of villagers. They said the illegal mining was continuous and widespread. A JCB and two haul trucks were engaged in the illegal cutting of gravel banks.

A lathi is a heavy stick often of bamboo bound with iron used in India as a weapon.

The wealth of the country is looted openly with regulation virtually non-existent.

As they reached the mining site the men were attacked with lathis. Rivers and hills in the country are dug illegally every day.

See ----->India’s sand mafia

'Filthy Fuhrer' and others off to jail for life

Five members of a white supremacist gang were sentenced in Alaska to life in prison without parole for racketeering, including murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping, and other offenses. Timothy Lobdell, 46, who changed his name to “Filthy Fuhrer”; Roy Naughton, aka Thumper, 46; Glen Baldwin, aka Glen Dog, 41; Colter O’Dell, 30; and Craig King, aka Oakie, 57, were convicted at trial. They were memebers of 1488s, a violent, prison-based Neo-Nazi gang that operated inside and outside of state prisons throughout Alaska. The 1488s use Nazi-derived symbols to identify themselves and their affiliation with the gang.

The 1488 patch which depicts an Iron Cross superimposed over a swastika is awarded to members who gained full membership by committing acts of violence on behalf of the gang. The gang enforced discipline through written rules and a code of conduct, including “the only currency we recognize is violence and unquestionable loyalty.”

Edmonton cops seize 700 catalytic converters

Cops looked at A1 Scrap Metal Recycling as part of a drug trafficking investigation in mid 2022. They noted “drug transactions conducted directly from the business,” located at 88 Street and 61 Ave. It was 'one stop' for thieves to convert stolen goods into drugs. 1.4kg of fentanyl, 2kg of cocaine, a loaded 9mm Glock handgun, 700 catalytic converters, and cash was seized.

Tekie Awte, 27, is charged with 8 drug and gun charges, as well as breaches. He was busted for the same in 2020. It was 462 stolen catalytic converters last time out for Awte.

Meron Semere Okbamichael, 28, and Simon Semere Okbamichael, 26, were also nailed.

Jefferson Randolph Smith - Soapy Smith

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith was an American con artist and gangster. Smith gained notoriety through his "prize soap racket" in which he would sell bars of soap with prize money hidden in some of the bars. Through sleight-of-hand he would ensure that only gang members won a prize. Soapy Smith built three successive criminal empires in Denver and Creede, and in Skagway, Alaska. When the Klondike Gold Rush began in 1897, Smith moved his operations. His three-card monte and pea-and-shell games on the White Pass Trail weren't appreciated by the Miner's Committee. Smith left and didn't return to Skagway until late January 1898. On July 4, 1898, Smith rode as marshal of the Fourth Division of the parade leading his thugs on his gray horse. On the grandstand, he sat beside the territorial governor.

'Soapy' Smith in morgue, Skagway, July 8, 1898.

Smith had problems in Skagway soon after. “Soapy got drunk and went out to fight them all. Arriving at the place where an indignation meeting was being held, Soapy found five men guarding the entrance. He rapped Frank Reid, the city engineer, over the head with a rifle. Reid snapped his pistol at Soapy and Soapy shot him in the groin. Standing on one foot Reid put three bullets into Soapy, killing him instantly.”

At 38 years old, Soapy was shot dead with a bullet through the heart.

Montreal HA Daniel André Giroux tells parole board what's up

Daniel André Giroux, 52, was sentenced to seven years in prison in July 2021 after pleading guilty to gangsterism and drug trafficking. After pre-trial custody, he had 30 months left, and he was released at two-thirds of his sentence. Because the biker represents a risk to society, the parole board imposed conditions. Giroux must stay in a halfway house, disclose his financial transactions, not communicate with any individual involved in a criminal organization or having a criminal history, and he will not be able to go to bars or consume drugs and alcohol. Giroux argued this was illegal and violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that there is no applicable law that allows for the imposition of special conditions, and that he "does not and will not consent" to them.

The PCB was unimpressed and had other ideas. Daniel André Giroux can either abide by his conditions or return to prison.

Westridge HA William McCabe busted for cocaine - revisited

William McCabe, then 47, was busted along with 7 others in 2018. They faced numerous charges after being arrested for their roles in a cocaine distribution network across northern Alberta. Five kg of cocaine, a half-kilogram of the buffing agent phenacetin, cannabis resin, and a handgun were seized along with vehicles, motorcycles and $13k.

McCabe died May 14, 2020 before facing justice. He was listed as owner of Three Monkeys Tattoo where disgraced Dustin Swanson landed after killing an innocent man in Greece on an HA world run in 2015.

It was the first time ever for Alberta cops to lay an instructing a criminal organization charge against a current member of the Hells Angels. Police say McCabe was the “primary facilitator” of the drug network.

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Three Monkeys Tattoo 2:08 PM (5 minutes ago) to me " You are a troll. Lol. Keep fantasizing thinking you are something. haha" See ----->3 Alberta Hells Angels charged with murder in Greece

Timothy Craig Durkin - real estate scammer deported

A deportation order against Timothy Craig Durkin was issued Jan. 18. The BCSC ruled that he defrauded an investor of $1m. In 2013, a grand jury in Alabama indicted him and three others for a Ponzi scheme. Durkin moved to Canada a few months before the indictment. His associates were convicted and sentenced to 5 years. US prosecutors dropped the charges against Durkin last year because of issues with jurisdiction and witness availability.

Durkin thought that would work to his advantage. He was wrong.

Timothy Craig Durkin is best known for his fraudulent, six-year legal battle over ownership of the Sooke Harbour House hotel. On April 22, 2021. Durkin filed a lawsuit for defamation and privacy tort against a journalist who busted him. He sued others with no role in the story. The case was eventually dismissed but costs are uncollectible. Durkin sued Facebook in the summer of 2020 for $50m after a profile featuring his criminal mug appeared on the platform.

In a scathing decision, the judge described Durkin as a "garden-variety bully" who is "entirely unencumbered by ordinary norms of morality, integrity and decency." The judge noted that Durkin swore false affidavits.

See ----->https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man-who-stole-a-hotel