Cartels exporting Meth expertise - d-meth

In Europe meth has traditionally been produced and consumed in eastern Europe. Up to 2016 police had busted three meth labs in Holland. In the last three years they have busted 27. Holland’s rising meth production is being supported by Mexican cartels. Most recently Dutch police raided a lab in a barn in the town of Achter-Drempt, seizing €10m ($10.8m) worth of crystal meth and precursors. Three, a Mexican, a Colombian, and an American were arrested.

The Dutch are now making an elite form of meth. In the cartel superlabs in Mexico, cooks use a precursor called BMK to make an easily made, less potent form of meth. BMK (benzyl methyl ketone, also called Phenylacetone) is the main precursor for the production of amphetamine. Mexican cooks have perfected a step that converts the waste materials from making this meth into a more potent, addictive, crystalline type of meth called “d-meth.” (dextromethamphetamine) Evidence of this technique has been found at all the busted Dutch sites.

Jamie Bezanson attacks elderly Chinese man with severe dementia - Update II

Jamie Bezanson

The Globe and Mail has picked up the story and Mr Bezanson is now receiving nation-wide attention. This observer feels no need to crucify the man. There might have have been no incident at all, save for the final push that sent the 92-year-old to the ground. Mr Bezanson likely recognizes that push was a large error. The lesson the rest of us can take away from this is to live and let live, and keep your hands to yourself. Period.

VPD say they have identified the tuff guy caught on video after voluminous input from the public after the video was released. His name will not be revealed until charges are laid. Police are searching for a man who assaulted a 92-year-old Chinese man with dementia last month in East Vancouver, in what is being called a hate crime. The elderly man wandered into the store and staff were attempting to help him when a man began yelling racist remarks that included comments about COVID-19. The attacker shoved the frail old man, which caused him to fall to the ground and hit his head on the concrete. He is recovering at home.

Anonymous tip sinks $3m cocaine shipment at border

More than 60kg of cocaine was seized.

An anonymous tip led U.S. Customs officers at the Pacific Highway Truck Crossing in Blaine to an estimated $3m in cocaine. Canadian trucker Ajitpal Singh Sanghera, 41 was busted as he approached the border. During a trailer check, Customs found five handbags containing cocaine.

Sanghera had crossed the US border more than 40 times so far this year. That, coupled with the amount of cocaine, led cops to conclude he was part of a large international drug trafficking ring.

Simon Dufresne killed, dismembered, burned

Five men were arrested for their alleged role in the death of Simon Dufresne, 31. Dufresne disapeared in March 2019 and is thought to have been dismembered and burnt. Dufresne was known in the underworld of organized crime and is said to have had a contract on his head. It is reported he did not respect territory belonging to the Hells Angels. Dufresne and his entourage were known to carry out drug rips and then sell the product in North Montreal.

Jonathan Provencher, 41, and Alfredo Rodriguez Farinas, 29, face counts of first degree murder, forcible confinement, conspiracy and complicity after the fact.

Jonathan Tshinkenke, 20, Yvon Camirand, 54, and Stéphane Larouche , 47, were also charged.

Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. - Kirsten Mide-Wilson - Update II

Ms. Kirsten Wilson has repeatedly billed herself as 'one of the few women in construction.' That is true but SHOULD it be so? She has earned nothing, built nothing, and appears to be running Cewe Construction into the ground. Repeated high risk violations of WorkSafe laws suggests she belongs in a different business, one less dangerous to her employees. In late 2018 Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. was fined $65,712 for health and safety violations. A fine of that magnitude says a great deal.

WorkSafeBC determined that the firm failed to undertake excavation work according to the requirements of the utility service owner, and failed to ensure machinery was kept the minimum approach distance from exposed electrical conductors. These were both repeated and high-risk violations. Jack Cewe has serious mismanagement issues. Perhaps Ms. Wilson figures rules are for others.

Lets put them together for Kirsten Mide-Wilson (kirsten@cewe.com), third generation owner of Jack Cewe Construction Ltd., an established road contractor in the lower mainland. What's her claim to fame?

Brilliance in business doesn't top the list. She figured she was too smart to pay an hourly fee and would instead get a lawyer to act for 20% of the winnings in her fight for a $100m inheritance from her grandfather, Jack Cewe. He left the bulk of his estate to his mistress, decidedly not his granddaughter. Mide-Wilson ended up with a bill for $17m, not the $ 2.5m the fight should have cost. She adamantly refused to pay. That bill was eventually reduced to $5m.

Take a bow Ms. Kirsten Wilson, you are a too rich, too greedy terd. It's called keeping your word, and in the world of men and construction it's likely the main reason for Jack Cewe's success. It also explains why he didn't want to give a nickle to his unethical, deadbeat granddaughter.

Cocaine trafficker sunk by selfies with large stacks of cash

Larry Dominique, 30, was sentenced to 5 years for drugs, weapons and proceeds of crime. Cellphones belonging to Dominique held text messages and photos detailing his drug transactions. They also contained images of him with large stacks of cash. He was granted 239 days credit for remand, leaving 1,951 days. The judge was impressed with the photos that acknowledged the seriousness of the matter.

Smugglers impregnated cardboard with cocaine - Edwin Congo

Spanish police have busted an international gang that smuggled cocaine into Europe from Colombia by impregnating it into cardboard boxes. The boxes were then used for legal shipments of pineapples and limes from Colombia. Among the 18 busted is former Real Madrid player Edwin Congo, 43.

Congo signed for £4.3m in 1999 and bizarrely he never played an official game for the Spanish giants.

“Small quantities of the drug – never more than 100g – were placed in each box and later extracted by chemicals in the gang’s laboratories” Spanish cops said. In January they got wind of a shipment bound for Greece: 5,016 boxes of limes and 1,660 boxes of pineapples.

Colombian kingpins sought help from Spanish cartel Los Castanitas for logistical success of their operation. Over 1 tonne of cocaine was seized along with more than 1.2 tonnes of compressed cardboard and 1,000 litres of chemicals used to extract the cocaine.

Toronto Cops nail meth lab

Cops have dismantled a methamphetamine lab in an Oshawa home and seized 43 kg of crystal meth, five kg of Ketamine and three litres of GHB (gamma-Hydroxybutyraten). Street-level value is in excess of $3.4m according to cops. A loaded .32 calibre semi-automatic pistol was also seized.

Richard Alexandre, 56, Richard Jansen, 36, Brendan Coates, 37, and Kyle Zettler, 34, face numerous charges.

Covid-19 sends Los Zetas leader Moises Escamilla May to morgue

It wasn’t a hitman’s bullet that took out a Mexican cartel chieftain. Covid-19 sent Los Zetas leader Moises Escamilla May to the morgue. He was serving a 37-year sentence for decapitating 12.

Old School Zetas was formed by Mexican army deserters who were originally in the Gulf Cartel. After Omar Trevino Morales was arrested, the gang split into two factions and fought a brutal war until 2018.

'El Yori' loses nifty gold assault rifle

'El Yori' was arrested in Tehuacán, Puebla.

Víctor “El Yori” Iván, boss of the regional gang Las Bigotonas lost his gold-encrusted assault rifle along with his freedom in a recent bust in Tehuacán. El Yori crimes include cargo robbery, drug trafficking and arms sales in the Tehuacán region. The gold and silver-encrusted AR-15 rifle features an image of La Santa Muerte, or the Holy Death, a saint used by drug traffickers for protection and the safe delivery of their cargo.

Although heavily involved in drug trafficking, Las Bigotonas still relies on highway and train robberies.

Narcos play a numbers game - numbers against them

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit cocaine traffickers according to a UN report. After lock-downs and restrictions were imposed in Latin American countries and the global maritime trade slowed, there was a substantial drop in seizures, which indicates fewer shipments. The narcos play a numbers game. They will accept a 15% to 20% loss ratio, but with fewer containers to check in ports, the odds are now stacked against them. On the demand side dealers are doing well. The wholesale price for a kilo of cocaine in Rotterdam went up from about $27k a kilo late last year to $35k a kilo now.

Mexican cartels have seen intensified competition among them as it becomes harder to get product through traditional ports of entry. They are the last step in the overland route to America however, so their power ought to swing higher compared to Colombian cartels.

Trail of hot meat sinks gang

A large group were arrested after stealing meat from a meat market in Visalia, California. Cops responded around 4:30 a.m. at the Jalisco Meat Market. They followed a trail of meat to a nearby apartment, where they found more perps. 13 were arrested.

Double murderer James Daniel Perlett busted with $2.2m in drugs

Cops in Winnipeg have seized 9 kg of meth, 4 kg of cocaine, cutting agents and cash. Charged is James Daniel Perlett, who was convicted in the execution death of his parents, who died in 1996. Perlett was convicted of shooting them in their bed in their Fort Frances Ontario home. Perlett was given a life sentence with no parole for 18 years.

Also charged is Biniam Mengistu Fitur, 40. Winnipeg cops say that while there is no shortage of supply, prices are increasing for drugs in Winnipeg as a result of Covid-19.

Gunned down Kenyan gangster saw death coming

Ahab Kariuki alias 'Bugii King Ihab' was gunned down by police on April 29, 2020, in a robbery attempt. Kariuki was tied to a long string of armed robberies across Nairobi, including scores of murders. His next to last Facebook post ... "Even though I am marked for death, I am gonna spark till I lose my breath. I no longer live in fear. My pistol close in hand, convinced this is my year."

Cops had been after the gangster since a 2015 killing.

Victoria cops seize cache of weapons, drugs

Homes in Sooke, Saanich and Langford, were raided in connection to a multi-jurisdictional drug trafficking ring. A 25-year-old woman and two men, ages 36 and 46, were arrested for drug trafficking and firearm-related offences. Among the firearms, cops found a handgun equipped with a silencer, a restricted AR-15 style rifle and a sawed-off shotgun. Two vehicles were also seized.

Kaven Langlois MIA

46-year-old biker Kaven Langlois flew the coup on the very day of Operation Urchin, an operation that arrested 32 and dismantled drug trafficking networks linked to the Hells Angels, one of which operated in New Brunswick. Langlois was a member of the Moncton Red Devils farm club at the time. His apartment was searched but he was gone, reportedly to Brazil. Some are speculating his fate. Marius Perron was a former Hells Angels from Quebec who fled to Brazil in 1993. He became a member of the Hells Angels in Brazil and lived there until his death from natural causes in 2018.

Langlois is a relative of Mario Bergeron, a Quebec Hells Angels who has been missing since 2008 and who was killed according to cops. His body was never found. Langlois was a prospect before the SharQc roundup in April 2009 but lost status with the club. It is said he was offered colors in Ontario but refused them. Langlois never obtained status with the Hells Angels again and was demoted to the Red Devils in Moncton. Cops suspect he may have met with foul play.

Any information on Langlois' disappearance can be communicated to the Sûreté du Québec Criminal Information Center at 1-800-659-4264.

Cartels scrambling for precursors

Mexican cartels are reliant on Chinese companies to get precursors. This is so because China is the cheapest source. The two most common fentanyl precursors are NPP and 4-ANPP. Huge amounts of these components were traced to a state-subsidized company in Wuhan that shut down after the outbreak.

A Yuancheng salesman in 2017. “Below 10 kilograms is express delivery, above 10 kilograms by air”

Advertised prices across China for precursors of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cutting agents have risen between 25% and 400% in months. The pandemic has led to a shortage of workers at labs in China which produces more than 80% of precursor chemicals such as benzylfentanyl, norfentanyl and 4-anilinopiperidine. The bulk of the meth and synthetic opioids clandestinely produced in Mexico is controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Fentanyl has become the most coveted cartel commodity in recent weeks.

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