The mobster was serving time for murder, racketeering and extortion.
Mafia capo Frank "Bobo" Marrapese Jr., known as one of the most vicious enforcers for New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca, died in prison in 2017.
Raymond L.S. Patriarca
He operated the Acorn Social Club in the heart of Federal Hill, where he shot mob associate Richard "Dickie" Callei to death on March 15, 1975 and had the corpse buried near a golf course.
It took nearly a decade to catch Marrapese for that murder. He continued to commit other crimes, such as a hijacking case involving La-Z-Boy recliners in the early 1980s. Marrapese was convicted of Callei's murder in 1987 and served 25 years. He was released on parole in 2008, but was among two dozen people arrested in a gambling ring in May 2011 and was sentenced in 2013 to nine years for racketeering and extortion.
While Marrapese spent most of his life in prison, not all of his many charges stuck. He was acquitted in the murder of Anthony 'The Moron' Mirabella at Fidas Restaurant in May 1982, as well as the August 1982 murder of Ronald McElroy, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Frédérick Silva left a big mess when he killed Sébastien Beauchamps at a gas station in St-Léonard in 2018.
Silva chased Beauchamp around the exterior of a gas station, before he succeeded in killing him. Giovanni Presta Jr., 39, was the getaway driver. In late 2022 at the trial of Presta, it was revealed they attached two GPS beacons under the black Jeep Cherokee rented by Beauchamp. By regularly changing SIM cards and inserting them into different GPS beacons and various cell phones, Sébastien Beauchamp's murderers tried to cover their trail.
David Lefebvre, Sébastien Beauchamps
Sébastien Beauchamps, 44, was a close associate of HA David Lefebvre, one of Montreal's most influential bikers. The Mascouche man was intimate enough to accompany him to a boxing gala in Quebec City in July 2016, and to console him after the death of HA Kenny Bédard. Lefebvre quickly rose after SharQc and is considered the godfather of the violent Minotaurs, a puppet club. This relationship with the upper echelons means that the murder of Sébastien Beauchamps was 'authorized in high places'.
Sebastien Beauchamps died after he was struck by four of the many bullets Silva fired. Silva was wanted at the time of the hit. Cops targeted four during their search for him, including Presta, Bernard Cherfan, 42, and Cherfan’s 26-year-old brother Rony.
Mexico extradited Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States on Friday. Mexican security forces captured Guzmán López, 'the Mouse,' in January in Culiacan. The resulting violence killed 30.
U.S. prosecutors unsealed sprawling indictments against Guzmán and his brothers, known collectively as the 'Chapitos.' It seems only a matter of time before Ovidio Guzmán López joins his father at Florence AdMax for life.
A federal judge in Mexico City had granted a stay halting extradition proceedings against Ovidio Guzmán. At a hearing held in Altiplano prison in México state, Guzmán was officially remanded to pretrial detention and the judge granted the U.S. 60 days to file documentation on the charges he will face if extradited. It could be a long time before Guzman touches US soil. Biden was in Mexico City and had a meeting with Mexican President López Obrador.
The federal government has advised Canadians in Mexico to limit their movements and shelter in place due to violence raging in the western part of the country. Ottawa said the violence is fierce in Culiacan, Mazatlan, Los Mochis and Guasave. Guzman was spirited away to Mexico City. Its said 19 have died thus far.
Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman grew in importance after the arrest of his father. He was arrested temporarily by Mexican cops in October 2019. Gunmen started shooting weapons in the city, and Ovidio Guzman was released.
Cars were set on fire and residents were carjacked by cartel members in the city of Culiacan in Sinaloa province.
Peel cops recovered 78 stolen vehicles after an investigation into an auto theft ring this spring. 64 returned to Canada from Malta. Stolen vehicles were recovered at various locations and ports, including Brampton, Montreal, Germany, and Spain. Many of the stolen vehicles were on their way to buyers in the United Arab Emirates. Theives were pros, with vehicles stolen from driveways and their GPS units removed in less than 10 minutes. Four perps are facing 34 charges. Stealing cars is a low risk, high reward, growth industry. In the first two months of 2023 Peel cops alone recovered over 500 stolen autos. In all of 2022, they recovered 2,400 stolen vehicles.
Imad Assi, Altayab Brafcany Re’Fat Faris Mustafa Khatabeh, Michael Zureiqat.
Cops
seized vehicles with a value of more than $4.5m and charged 18 following their two-month investigation into a vehicle theft ring operating in the GTA.
Those busted are charged with more than 170 offences combined, including conspiracy, trafficking of property obtained by crime and theft of a motor vehicle.
The ring focused on overnight thefts of Lexus, Toyota and Honda sport utility vehicles from residential driveways. Theives enter the vehicle and reprogram the ignition computer, allowing it to be driven away using a new key fob.
The vehicles were driven to the Port of Montreal or loaded into a sea container in Toronto and transported to Montreal by rail. The containers were then loaded onto ships and sent overseas, usually the UAE.
Ethan MacCullouch, 35, had a habit of recording his life inside a rooming house at 94 MacNab St. N. in Hamilton and posting videos. They documented the often violent environment he lived in. The video shows the moment Malcolm Washington forces his way in and stabs him three times.
Washington stabbed Ethan MacCullouch twice in the left chest and once in the left upper abdomen, penetrating his lung and heart. Washington quickly leaves after the attack, and Ethan swears repeatedly as he stumbles toward his computer, clutching his chest. Two days after the killing, the building landlord entered the room with a fire alarm inspector. They found his body in a pool of blood on the apartment floor in front of a desk with his laptop computer still on. All involved were hard drug users, particularly meth.
Washington, who says he blacked out, will be sentenced September 29. The Crown is seeking 10 years plus the two years and seven months he has spent in pre-sentence custody.
In the Italian south, the lives of foreign agricultural labourers are so cheap that many have described their conditions as a modern form of slavery. The produce they pick ends up on the shelves supermarkets. Its said 3 things permit modern slavery; vulnerability, discrimination and a lack of the rule of law. All are present in Italy.
Italy’s agricultural sector is booming, with food products making up 8.7% of GDP. Exploitation of immigrant workers is hugely profitable. In Italy, the slum of the San Ferdinando camp and others have sprung up near the tomato fields in the southern region of Puglia. They are lawless, grim wastelands where many migrants wind up.
The body of Ecuadorean gang boss Junior Roldán has disappeared from its resting place in a cemetery in Colombia. The number two in Los Choneros, a prison gang which has terrorized Ecuador, had been found shot dead in Colombia's Antioquia province in May. His body was placed in a wall vault in the town of Envigado after no one claimed his body. He had fled to Colombia after surviving two previous attempts on his life in his native Ecuador.
Cops suspect that he was killed by his bodyguard who wanted to steal the large sum of cash the gang leader had taken with him when he went into hiding.
Cops told local media that men had broken into the cemetery overnight and taken the body. Motive is unclear.
Roldán had many enemies and created more by forming an alliance with Mexican cartels.
Before he fled Ecuador, he had been shot and injured by members of a rival gang calling itself Los Lobos (The Wolves).
He had previously survived an attack in which drones laden with explosives were set off above the prison wing in which he was detained at the time.
The gang he belonged to, Los Choneros, mainly engages in drug trafficking and extortion.
TikTok videos celebrated the gang members’ deaths with red “X”s over photos of the dead men.
The six men shot dead in the town of Artemida (Loutsa) in Eastern Attica were members of the Dalton mafia led by Turkish criminal Baris Boyun. The story made headlines after the victims’ names became public.
Boyun is a drug dealer known for hitmen riding motorcycles based in Istanbul Turkey.
Mob boss Raynald Desjardins is out and about after doing his time for the Montagna hit, and has been for months. His name hasn't hit the news, yet. There is a great deal of bad blood associated with those who crossed the influential gangster when he was caged.
Shot 3 times, Montagna smashed through a window of the house to try to save himself.
Raynald Desjardins was nervous when detectives visited on Nov 25, 2011. It was a day after Desjardins killed Montagna. Montagna had sent a text message; "I want you to know that you are my friend." Montagna agreed that Jack Simpson, a Desjardins man, take him to the meeting.
Desjardins was not there. Five minutes later Montagna fled Simpson's house with 3 .357 gunshot wounds. Montagna was shot dead on November 24, 2011.
Footprints at the edge of the river were consistent with Jack Simpson's boots.
The day after the murder of Salvatore (Sal the Iron Worker) Montagna, Raynald Desjardins was obsessed by the fear of being killed. The boss was worried, anxious and irritable. He isn't satisfied with the armored Lexus he procured after being targeted in mid-September. He arranges to import an armoured GMC Denali SUV equipped with a bomb protection system. Desjardins was arrested the next day.
Raynald Desjardins in 2011
Desjardins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit the murder of Salvatore Montagna. Montagna was killed weeks after an attempt on Desjardins’s life in Laval.
Desjardins was the right-hand man to Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Desjardins immediately suspected Montagna. The two men had been partners for several months in an attempt to take control of the Montreal Mafia away from the Rizzuto organization, but their alliance fell apart early in 2011.
Six men pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of taking part in the conspiracy to murder Montagna. Vittorio Mirarchi (38); Jack Simpson (73); Calogero Milioto (44); Pietro Magistrale (64); Steven Fracas (31); and Steven D’Addario (38) — admitted their role in the conspiracy to kill
Jack Simpson
Calogero Milioto
Steven Fracas
Pietro Magistrale
Felice Racaniello
The morning that Salvatore Montagna was shot three times and died on a river bank outside Montreal, Raynald Desjardins was having breakfast elsewhere in town with his daughter and chatting about her wedding photo album. Shortly after the killing, Desjardins sent a Blackberry message to his associate, Vittorio Mirarchi: “Done.”
“Perfect,” came the reply. Police who were wiretapping Desjardin’s mobile phone immediately knew who was behind the 2011 murder.
Cops arrested eight customs officers in connection with 55 kg gold stolen from the departmental warehouse at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Four assistant revenue officers of customs and four constables in charge of warehouse security are busted.
While this gold heist has a happy ending, there has been not a whisper about the $20m gold heist at Pearson airport this spring.
“This is an active investigation and we are exploring all avenues,” said cops.
The air freight container stuffed with $20m in gold and banknotes was unloaded from an Air Canada jet arriving at Toronto’s Pearson airport onto a Brink’s security truck while on the airport tarmac. The loot, the size of a desk, was then driven through a tunnel underneath the runways to an Air Canada cargo holding facility on the other side of the airport called Cargo West. It then disappeared. The afternoon flight to Toronto was from Zurich. The shipment was destined for TD Bank with Brinks providing security.
David Lefebvre, Sébastien Beauchamps 
