HA Gaétan David busted

Gaétan David (left) was wearing his Hells Angels colours during the alleged assault.

Full patch Gaétan David and four of his goons were arrested. The men are suspected of being involved in the attack on a man in a bar and intimidation. Since the Hells Angels resuscitated the Sherbrooke chapter a decade after Operation SharQc, their members have been discreet. That changed following the assault at the strip club 'Le Cabaret Chez elle' in Sherbrooke.

B-17F Hells Angels

B-17F 41-24577 "Hells Angels" was assigned to Bangor on Oct 14, 1942. It completed 48 missions without an abort or a crewman injured. It returned to New Jersey on 10 February 1944 for a War Bond tour. 'Hells Angels' was the first aircraft to complete 25 missions, earlier than the Memphis Belle. The event was important because it proved to flight crews it was possible to survive. The statistics of bomber losses were grim: most crews were gone by their fifth mission. Statistically, a man flying his sixth mission was “on someone else’s time.”

B-17F Hells Angels remained in theater until 1944. Hells Angels dropped more than a quarter of a million pounds of bombs on enemy territory. It was sold for scrap in Stillwater, Oklahoma on 7 August 1945. On February 3, 1944 GI’s swarm over the Hells Angels, to put their names on the Flying Fortress before its take-off for the US and a War Bond tour.

Lewis Kasman - Gotti rat

At Mizner County Club, Lewis Kasman is known as the man who refused to wear a jacket at a Hanukkah dinner in December 2018, spawning long running litigation that upheld the right of the club to revoke his guest privileges. What residents at the high-end country club didn't know is that Kasman was once an integral part of boss John Gotti's operation. He was known as the adopted son of the mobster. He agreed to wear a wire to record conversations with top mobsters. In exchange, Kasman was spared prison time in 2010 for racketeering and fraud. Kasman is the former right-hand man to John Gotti.

Kasman brought down a host of top mobsters, including Peter Gotti and capo Vincent Artuso.

Kasman said Gotti's operation brought in between $500k and $1m per month in cash from construction and garment rackets, extortion, loans, gambling and drugs. He sought a deal to put him in witness protection but that deal fell through. He moved to Delray Beach to live with his mother at Mizner Country Club. During much of his stay there, he was involved in a long series of lawsuits alleging that lawyers failed to properly represent him and his wife in a contentious divorce. He lost them all.

See ----->John Gotti the 'Teflon Don'

Iran's car mafia

A mafia-like group is behind a ban on car imports to eliminate competition in Iran's auto industry. Policymakers are indirectly supporting Chinese auto parts manufacturers and turning the industry into "assemblers of Chinese parts". Iran's automotive industry, the largest after oil and gas, employs 700,000. Iran builds nearly 1.5m vehicles annually with the two largest automakers Iran Khodro and Saipa enjoying a monopoly. The sector is in debt for billions and is a burden for the government. Officials have repeatedly warned about inadequate safety standards of domestic cars. After massive collisions in Iran during which all the cars airbags failed to open, officials called domestically produced cars "carriages of death".

Lawmakers are responsible for rising car prices. Iran's centrally-run economy is rife with political interference and corruption. A falling Iranian currency has created 50% annual inflation rate and US sanctions contribute to economic woes.

Bail hearing for Prince Albert drug kingpin Jim Lakatos goes poorly

Jim Lakatos, 34, is charged in connection to Prince Albert’s biggest drug bust. He was sitting at a table counting $34k when cops busted down his trailer door. Cops landed 31.2 kilos of cocaine at the Whispering Pines trailer court, along with $55,000 in cash, handgun ammunition and drug trafficking paraphernalia. Bail was denied after it was found Lakatos’s release would pose a risk to the public, with the judge adding he had no confidence Lakatos would not re-offend.

Also busted is Spencer Evans, 27, Santana Foulds, 28, and Gordon Greer-Vandale, 30. A warrant has been issued for Dean Marchand, 31. The bust was 3 times larger than the previous record.

Danbrook One offense in Langford - 'tear it down' - DB Services

Residents of Ridgeview Place — formerly Danbrook One — are fleeing the structure after the building’s owner issued an emergency evacuation, deeming the 11-storey, 90-unit building unsafe due to structural issues. It’s the second time in four years the tower has been flagged as unsafe by Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. and evacuated over safety concerns. Design and structural flaws were found in 2019 months after the building was finished and occupied. The City of Langford got a stamp of approval from two engineers that it was safe, so an occupancy permit was reissued a year ago. Now those engineers are under investigation. The plans for the building were originally stolen from Leon Plett of RJC Engineers and improperly 'adapted' by builder DB Services.

28 serious structural concerns were revealed by Read Jones Christoffersen Limited Consulting Engineers.

The long term former mayor of Langford, Stew Young accepted no responsibility. “I don’t want to be like everybody else,” Young says. “At the end, the job is to understand what the public wants and get it done.” See ----->DB Services - criminal builder See ----->Langford Mayor Stew Young

Caged Martino Caputo to pay child support

Convicted underworld killer Martino Caputo, 49, who fathered a child while behind bars, has been ordered to pay $3,748 in monthly child support. He is serving out a life prison term after killing Johnny Raposo in 2017. Caputo married and artificially impregnated Robyn Amy Louise Hohmeier while serving his first-degree murder sentence in Collins Bay Institution. He gave her lavish gifts from prison, including multiple pieces of Cartier jewelry, two SUVs, a custom wedding band appraised at $88k, a Versace scarf and a Rolex watch worth $20k.

Caputo argued he is not a bookie while in prison. “There is no ‘vig’ involved in his activities,” the judge quotes his lawyer as saying, referring to the “vigorish” — the fee a bookmaker or sportsbook charges a bettor for placing a wager. “He participates in legal betting with other inmates at Collins Bay. The inmates use the odds from the TV station and have friends or family on the outside transfer money into and out of their bank accounts.” See ----->Little Italy execution in photos See ----->Guilty on all counts - Little Italy shooting killers found guilty

Italian mafioso Edgardo Greco to be sent to Italy

The Lyon appeals court agreed to Italy’s extradition request. Greco was convicted in Italy in 2006 to a life sentence for the murder in 1991 of Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, brothers who were members of a rival gang. He is also accused of the attempted murder of Emiliano Mosciaro. The mafia hitman was nabbed after 16 years on the run.

He is a member of the Perna-Pranno clan, which was the most important in the city of Cosenza, where he lived.

Edgardo Greco worked as a pizza maker in a pizzeria in Saint-Etienne under the name Paolo Dimitri - the name of a criminal from Puglia. Greco, 63, is a member of the Calabrian mafia - the 'Ndrangheta. He was sentenced to life for two murders committed in 1991 and an attempted murder. He was on the run for over 16 years.

Colombian cocaine traffickers go away for 22 years

Alvaro Castro-Gomez had a previous conviction for trafficking narcotics on the high seas.

Brothers Robin Castro-Gomez, 36, and Alvaro Castro-Gomez, 41, were sentenced to 22 years each in federal prison for conspiring to traffic more than 7,700 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the US on "low-profile" boats. The brothers moved cocaine from Tumaco in Colombia to Central America, for importation into the U.S., via three 'go fast' vessels. They pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute huge amounts of cocaine, valued at about $100m.Robin and Álvaro Castro-Gómez after their arrest in Dec 2020.

Saed Osman wanted Canada-wide = $50k

The brothers are imported shitbag Ethiopian gangsters.

Its $50k if you know where Saed Osman is at. Saed Osman is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first degree murder related to a lounge shooting that took place in Edmonton on March 12, 2022. Imbert George, 28, was killed by multiple gunshots. Brother Luqman Osman, then 25, was out on bail when he whacked Bekri Mohamed in 2014.

Brazen US cocaine smugglers get light sentences

3 smugglers who hauled cocaine into metro Chicago aboard a private jet won't be serving the mandatory minimum 10 years.

The brazen smugglers got 3 years, 3.5 years and 5 years. Rodrigo Alexis Jimenez-Perez, an illegal immigrant, said he didn't know he was driving a vehicle with 80 kilos of cocaine inside. Sebastian Vazquez-Gamez arrived on the plane at the Gary airport, and loaded suitcases of cocaine into a Lincoln Navigator. Sergio Ivan Blas of Indianapolis directed the operation.

Porchetta Pizza's thin crust of respectability - Antonio Madafferi

When the founder of the La Porchetta pizza chain in Australia, Rocco 'Rocky' Pantaleo was subjected to extortion from Melbourne mafia gangster Alphonse Gangitano, he could have paid. It was the mid 1990s and the 'Black Prince of Lygon Street' was making threats if he wasn't paid off. Pantaleo refused and turned to Francesco 'Mad Frank' Madafferi, brother of Antonio Madafferi. Gangitano was warned off as he was outranked. In 1998, he was gunned down. Rocco Pantaleo would die in a road crash in 2020. It was ruled an accident. Today, the La Porchetta brand, which operates in New Zealand and across Australia, has 38 outlets. Behind the corporate sign is La Porchetta Holdings Pty Ltd, which has been part-owned since 2010 by investment companies controlled by families of the 'Honoured Society'.

Prominent among owners of La Porchetta Holdings Pty Ltd is Antonio 'Tony' Madafferi. A Madafferi company owns 5% in La Porchetta Holdings Pty. The same-sized stake is held by the family of Madafferi's brother, Francesco, the man who warned off Gangitano. Francesco Madafferi was busted for drug trafficking. His group was responsible for what was then the world's largest ecstasy bust in 2007, more than four tonnes of pills worth A$440m that were smuggled inside cans of tomatoes. At last report, in mid 2021, he was being prepared for deportation to Italy.

Another co-owner linked to the Honoured Society is Michael Manariti, who was sentenced to 9+ years jail in 2010 for trafficking ecstasy, cocaine and meth.

Frank Madafferi initially received protection payments for turning away Gangitano. Soon after other underworld players and their relatives became La Porchetta franchisees, like Michael Manariti. They also invested in properties used by the chain. Crossing these interests would prove to have disturbing consequences. In August 2014, ASX-listed Retail Food Group, which owns franchise chains Crust, Gloria Jean's and Brumby's, announced it would buy La Porchetta's for A$16.3m. 3 months later it walked away. La Porchetta had been under pressure from a host of new competitors in the pizza business. It's franchise network contracted from more than 90 outlets at its peak. In March 2014, the link between La Porchetta and organized crime made headlines.

Madafferi, who has previously sued Fairfax Media for defamation, tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain the identity of the journalists' sources. He says he is a businessman unfairly slandered by the police and media.
See ----->Tony Madafferi anointed new Godfather of Australian mafia

Clayton Eheler - busted again - update IV

"Christmas is all about giving," said Alexandria Di Battista, 'owner' of Smoking Deals Auto in Chilliwack.

Its Dec 16, 2013 and "The folks at Smoking Deals Auto, Alexandria Di Battista, Clayton Eheler, and Tyler McInnes, hosted a Christmas dinner for the hungry on Dec. 19, 2013 at Evergreen Hall." “We did pretty good this past year, and we want to give back to the community,” she said. “Feeding people is filling a basic need.” So is getting high and cocaine kingpin Clayton Eheler was busted months later.

Clayton Archie Eheler, 40, was arrested on multiple charges March 22, 2022 in Langley. This time around it's committing an offence for a criminal organization, and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and trafficking. Eight years, four months, and 15 days after Clayton Eheler was caught with Matthew Thiessen processing a mountain of cocaine, the well-known gangster finally pleaded guilty. Co-accused Thiessen pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Sept. 6. Eheler remains out on bail pending his next court appearance. Clayton Archie Eheler puts the 'R' into recidivist. In 2019 cops seized $2m worth of drugs, including nearly 15 kg of fentanyl pills and powder, eight guns and more than $200k in cash. Eheler and co-accused Mathew Jordan Thieessen were caught with cocaine in 2014. Both were found guilty of trafficking.

Eheler, a former Bacon brothers associate, was sentenced to 8 years and a lifetime weapons prohibition. The case against the gangsters turned mainly on the admissibility of evidence from a search warrant. The men were present in the apartment when cops busted down the door. Cops landed 8kg of powder cocaine and 1kg of crack along with weapons. Eheler is well known as a Wolf Pack gangster - a coalition made up of some Hells Angels, some Red Scorpions and some Independent Soldiers.

Eheler has a long criminal history, exceeding 45 convictions. Over the years Eheler repeatedly used a high profile defence lawyer to force delay after delay in the case. There were multiple defense voir dire hearings for alleged Charter breaches and a failed application for a mistrial. Then the pair gleefully argued their Charter rights were violated because the case took more than 30 months from arraignment to conviction.

Clayton Eheler in Asia in 2014.