End of the line for 'Mikey Smash' - Update III

Russell Raymond Vannoy pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter of Michael Adam Morales and was sentenced to six years in prison. Vannoy, 63, a member of the Devils Diciples MC, was arrested on murder and gang charges in the stabbing death of Hells Angels prospect Morales in downtown Bakersfield. Guthrie’s footage shows the president of the Bakersfield HAMC shake hands with Vannoy before Morales enters and starts swinging. Video evidence proved Vannoy acted in self-defense when he killed Morales. Morales swung a bar stool and had a handgun as he attacked Vannoy. Footage clearly shows the gun fall down and out of Morales’ pant leg.

Michael Adam Morales 32 was killed after being stabbed inside one of downtown Bakersfield’s most famous dive bars, Guthrie’s Alley Cat. News of Morales' death spread fast through the local biker community. Morales affiliation with the Hell's Angels MC was prominent on his Facebook page. He had 3 young children. The bar strictly enforces a 'no colors' policy, but some local bikers have begun to employ "subterfuge," the owner said, by wearing "soft colors" or covering gang colors or emblems only to reveal them later.

"No matter how nice the bikers appear to be, or how much they say they love your joint, stuff like what happened will happen," he said. "It will follow them every time. It's an iron law."

3D-printed ghost guns redux

A stunt driving 18-year-old Bolton teen is facing multiple charges after being busted with multiple 3D-printed guns. Two weeks ago in Winnipeg cops arrested 2 two for multiple ghost guns. Two others were arrested and charged with weapons trafficking offences in November. Cops raided a rural home in Manitoba in Dec 2021 and busted Ryan Buhler, 34. Its 3 years in the pen for his arsenal, the mandatory minimum. Border cops found undeclared 'firearm components,' including metal parts and inserts used to reinforce 3D-printed guns.

Making 3D-printed receiver blanks and creating 3D-printed ghost guns is illegal in Canada. Why are they multiplying? The cost to 3D print a firearm frame and then import the slide and other components from the US is a few hundred dollars. This returns a weapon worth at least $2,500 on the street, and often much more. Ghost guns cannot be traced, making them highly desirable by gangsters. In Feb 2022 William Rainville was put away for 5 years. He was busted with 249 Glock frames and parts. His is not the only ghost gun operation. See ---->Here.

UK robbers go away for long time

Brothers Benjamin Murphy, 37, and George Murphy-Bristow, 28, were locked up for a combined 31 years for impersonating two elderly men to gain entry to a jewellery store. They wore latex masks to disguise themselves before the hiest. Brandishing a knife and hatchet, they terrorized staff before fleeing.

The jury took an hour to convict on all counts.

Cops stopped George Murphy-Bristow's car and found the two masks and the same clothing worn by the suspects in the robbery. Forensics found saliva on the inside of the masks belonging to the brothers.

Zamal Hossain - “Yes, I broke the law. Anything else?”

In a rare move, Ontario’s new home construction regulator has stripped a Toronto builder of his licence to construct new homes. Albion Building Consultant Inc. has a history of noncompliance from 2016. It was convicted of 11 violations, and fined $15,000 for each plus a $3,750 victim surcharge on each. The $206,250 fine remains unpaid and Zamal Hossain defiant. His wife, Farida Haque, was also convicted of acting as a vendor of a new home without being licensed.

Hossain says he was being investigated because of his race. “I’m a brown guy. English is my second language that’s why this happened in this country,”. Hossain claimed competing builders from Italian or Portuguese backgrounds routinely break the law but face no consequences like he does.

Kristopher Teichrieb ordered to pay $6.9m - update

Kristopher Teichrieb a 'man' who savagely beat Jessie Simpson with a baseball bat in 2016 has been ordered to pay $6.9m following civil court proceedings. He brutally inflicted catastrophic, permanent injuries. The house formerly belonging to Kristopher Teichrieb will be sold, with the sale benefiting the victim’s family. A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that when Teichrieb sold his home to his parents for $1, he was trying to shield his assets from impending civil liability from his heinous, senseless crime.

Jessie Simpson

Teichrieb pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Teichrieb became eligible for statutory release in March 2021. He had been charged with attempted murder. Jessie Simpson turned 19 years old while in a comma for nine months, and will need 24-hour care for the rest of his life. Teichrieb walked into a Kamloops courtroom with a big smile on his face on Monday July 18, 2016, waving at a group of friends and family seated in the gallery. He has been in custody since he was arrested.

Kristopher Teichrieb

Jessie Simpson

19-year-old Jessie Simpson remained in a coma on Monday after being beaten with a baseball bat on Holt Street in Kamloops on June 19. Kristopher Teichrieb, 39, has been charged with attempted murder. The assault occurred around 4:50 a.m. when Teichrieb looked out his window and saw a male standing in his driveway. He went outside to confront the boy and assaulted him with a weapon. Simpson, who graduated from South Kamloops secondary, was coming home from a grad party before the incident. He is described as small, standing about 5-foot-6, with a slight build. Simpson was chased down Holt Street and suffered three open skull fractures. He cried for mercy and received none from Teichrieb.

Kristopher Teichrieb

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Quebec gangsters drive through GTA mall - update

Israel Muamba, 19, and O'Brian Grant, 18, both of Quebec, have been arrested and charged after they allegedly drove a vehicle through the glass doors at Vaughan Mills Mall, on Feb. 1. Both have been returned to York Region and are being held in custody for a bail hearing. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a third K9, Lesane Pillay.

Brazen thieves in a stolen black Audi A4 smashed their way into the Vaughan Mills Mall north of Toronto. They drove through the mall to an electronics store, stole numerous electronic devices and then fled.

Anatoly Legkodymov busted - Bitzlato

Anatoly Legkodymov

Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, was arrested in Miami and is charged with conducting an unlicensed money-transmitting business. His company processed more than $700m of illicit funds from 2018 to 2022. Bitzlato told customers and would-be customers that it had lax identification requirements. That made Bitzlato a haven for criminals world-wide. The company frequently did transactions with Hydra Market, the world’s largest dark-net marketplace. German cops shut down Hydra Market in April 2022. Prosecutors said that Bitzlato was subject to U.S. money-laundering rules even though it was based in China and run by a Russian.

Although the company claimed that it didn't allow U.S. users, prosecutors said the company did substantial business with Americans.

Bitzlato was a cryptocurrency exchange that was founded by Legkodymov in 2016. Bitzlato allowed customers to purchase cryptocurrencies with cash, exchange cryptocurrencies for other cryptocurrencies, and send cryptocurrency to other users. According to the Amended Complaint, since May of 2018, Bitzlato has processed $4.58 b worth of cryptocurrency transactions. Legkodymov is looking at 5 years.

Russian crime bosses killed in Ukraine

Three Russian crime bosses recruited by the Wagner Group were killed in the war in Ukraine. They are Sergei Maksimenko, Andrei Berezhnykh, and Igor Kusk. Maksimenko was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the Republic of Mordovia. He headed a criminal group in the city of Penza.

Berezhnykh was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and other crimes in Saratov Oblast from 1994 to 2011. Berezhnykh was killed during the fighting in Ukraine on December 8, 2022, having joined Wagner a month earlier to escape prison.

Igor Kusk had been serving a 23-year prison sentence in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic. Kusk established his criminal group, the Kuskovites, in Tatarstan in 1998. The group was active and were notable for having many veterans of the Afghan war in their ranks. Ihor Kusk was brought to the Russian city of Nizhnyokamsk by plane in a closed coffin. Sources say that he was killed by a mine. Relatives say his head was blown off by a shell fragment.

Icebox saves cocaine smuggler's lives - update

Aristides Avlontis has been arrested. 2 others are sought after cops found 365kg of cocaine off Western Australia’s coast. The men were found clinging to an icebox in the ocean off Albany Feb 1, telling cops their boat had capsized while fishing.

Mate Stipinovich

Karl Whitburn

Aristides Avlontis

Days later cocaine washed ashore and a 7-metre boat was found. The boat returned more cocaine with the final tally over 365kg. Perth men Mate Stipinovich, 49, Karl Whitburn, 45, and Aristides Avlontis, 36, are wanted.

Gambino mobster Frank Camuso busted in NYC construction kickback scheme

Gambino captain Frank Camuso, 59, was busted with ringleader Robert Baselice, who was vice president of a construction management firm that illegally steered property developers to subcontractors he was conspiring with. Baselice gave inside information about competitors’ bids to his co-conspirators and directed subcontractors to raise their offers to amounts that would allow him to pocket kickbacks. A portion of the payoff made its way to companies owned by Camuso “and his family.” Frank 'Calypso' Camuso kept a low profile for years. Camuso previously worked for Joe “Joe the Blond” Giordano, a former Gambino capo and close confidant of John Gotti. In 2019 he was fingered in an illegal dumping operation.

Robert Baselice

The multi-million kickback scheme involved several high-rise construction projects in Manhattan. “Bribery and kickbacks should not be costs of doing business in this City,” DOI Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber said in a statement. “This Indictment shows that construction firms in this City must operate with honesty and integrity or face the consequences.”

Notorious German HA Peter Grabe dead

Its 1986, and 13 Hells Angels have been on trial for 18 months in Germany. The allegations included assault, rape, pimping and extortion. It is a mammoth trial of national interest. During closing arguments, the prosecutor picked one out of the crowd of the accused. He calls the giant man a "real horror". He was known by nicknames like 'Zick Zack', 'Jesus' or 'Executor'. Peter Grabe was then vice president of the Hamburg chapter. Grabe, whose full name was Karl-Peter Alfons Wilhelm Grabe, died in hospital at the age of 72 after a lengthy illness. He received the highest sentence of those convicted in the Hamburg Hells Angels trial: seven years in prison.

Gangster Vijay Ganesh Singh loses appeal

Puneet Singh Chhina and Harjinder Singh Sandhu

Former Burnaby resident Vijay Ganesh Singh was convicted in the murder of two men whose bodies were found in the trunk of a car in Pickering, Ontario in 2009. He has lost an appeal of his murder conviction at the Ontario Court of Appeal. Vijay Ganesh Singh is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 23 years. In 2013, a jury found him and co-accused, John Le, guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of kidnapping. It related to the killings of Harjinder Singh Sandhu, 29, and Puneet Singh Chhina, 26, who were bound, shot and stuffed into the trunk of a car abandoned in Pickering on May 5, 2009.

In early 2009, Vijay Ganesh Singh arranged for a 35 kg cocaine shipment from Los Angeles to Toronto. When the shipment arrived, it was actually packages of drywall. The cocaine belonged to one “Ahmun,” who was the leader of the United Nations Gang. Singh needed to recover the cocaine shipment or at least find out who stole it. He suspected Sandhu had been the “jacker” and lured him to his death. Chhina was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The trial judge found little to mitigate sentences, saying that "‘these offences qualify for the description as among the worst group of offences and that Le and Singh are among the worst group of offenders.’” Singh was suspected in the hit on Bikramjit Dhindsa in May 2019.

See ----->Victim of Calgary homicide testified in gangster's murder trial

Jarrod Bacon out on statutory release - Revisited

It was a long road to freedom for Bacon, who had been statutorily released in 2017 on a 14 year sentence after he was convicted in 2012 of attempting to import 100 kg of cocaine. By mid-2017 he was rejailed, then again in December 2018. He failed multiple drug tests. In March 2021 he was released again. The parole board noted Bacon is still considered a significant gangster. "... your accountability and motivation levels as well as your reintegration potential are low,” The parole board had nada good to say about Bacon’s behavior in prison, including that he maintained ties with inmates known to be linked to the Hells Angels and that he had an “ongoing influence in the gang environment.”

They spanked him further for having "cognitive distortions." Jarrod Bacon has avoided new interaction with cops thus far.

New Zealand reels in 3.2 tons of cocaine

New Zealand registered one of the country’s single biggest drugs busts. 81 bales of cocaine weighing 3.2 metric tons were intercepted in the Pacific. The haul is estimated at more than half a billion New Zealand dollars ($318m).

Albainian killer Ëngjëll Brahimi lassoed in Montreal

Ëngjëll Brahimi, 60, has been living in Canada under the name Piro Kota for years. He was convicted in 2000 for murdering a cop and his son. Brahimi killed Astrit Braçe, and his 8-year-old son, Asllan, in an ambush. He was found guilty in absentia of premeditated murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Authorities believe Brahimi left Greece and entered the U.S. before crossing into Canada using a false passport. He eventually obtained citizenship under his false identity of Piro Kota. The Albanian government has requested his extradition.

HA David Lefebvre loses colors

David Lefebvre, 49, of the Montreal chapter, was facing a summary conviction charge of possession of more than 1000 Cialis tablets.

On December 7, the Court of Québec rendered a decision ordering the confiscation and destruction of the jackets of bikers who had been the subject of investigations, but not charged. The jewelry of the Hells Angels was to be returned to their owners because they are rather used as objects of "pride and belonging", and that "membership in a criminal organization is not a crime in itself".

In the end three HA jackets of the Hells Angels belonging to Lefebvre and documents of the biker group will be confiscated and destroyed, while jewelry, patches, a flag, documents, a cell phone and $4,325 will be returned.
See ----->Hells Angel David Lefebvre raided

3 Quebec men accused of trafficking cocaine in Peru

Bô Soleil Morin-Lachance, Francis Toupin-Bergevin and Frédéric Dewald have been detained in Peru after being arrested in a major anti-drug operation. Toupin-Bergevin has a criminal history in Quebec including HA ties. According to Peruvian cops, the three Quebecers have links with a local network which carried out several imports of cocaine to Canada in quantities varying between 15 and 30 kilograms. A dozen people were arrested in Peru, including the leader, Pedro Armando Oyos Campos, nicknamed La Roca, owner of a self-defense school in Lima. Between June 2022 and January 2023, Peru’s national police force and the RCMP seized a total of 165 kilograms of cocaine that the group had transported or was trying to transport. About 60 kilos of those kilos were seized in Quebec.