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Venezuelan security forces hunting a mob boss who controls an impoverished neighbourhood in Caracas say they have busted one of his cohorts - “The Hair”.
Carla Díaz Torrealba 22, was captured following days of gun battles in a community known as Cota 905.
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 | Its said she was involved in a gang "honeypot" scheme where johns were kidnapped. |  |
 A kilo of cocaine was found by Maine cops disguised as cake. They arrested John Cedeno and Chelsy Cochran. Both are charged with trafficking. Bail for Cedeno was set at $750k. |
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 | After exhausting all appeals, Mykhaylo Koretskyy was extradited to the U.S. from Curacao. “Russian Mike,” had been held in the Dutch Caribbean territory since Jan. 3, 2018, after Interpol issued a red notice. Koretskyy moved huge quantities of drugs from Mexico for El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel and its partner group, Colombia’s Cifuentes-Villa gang. |  Koretskyy's co-indicted included El Chapo himself. Also listed is Canadian Stephen Tello. |
| The Chinese government was the mastermind behind a series of malicious ransomware, data theft and cyber-espionage attacks. The sprawling Microsoft Exchange hack earlier this year was the work of Chinese state sponsored hackers. Their activities were linked to the hacker groups Advanced Persistent Threat 40 and Advanced Persistent Threat 31. The group of nations attributing the attack to China includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and NATO. |
 | The U.S. charged four Chinese with the Ministry of State Security with a campaign to hack into computer systems of dozens of companies, universities and government entities in the U.S. and abroad between 2011 and 2018. The indictment alleges the hackers targeted, among other things, Ebola vaccine research. |
 | Its a quick $100k if you know where cops can find accused killer Kier Bryan Granado. He might have fled to B.C.'s Lower Mainland because he has gang affiliations in the region. For damn sure this K9 won't last long. |
 The startled owners heard a loud bang and called the police, who found a suitcase on the roof with 8.5kg of cocaine. | A suitcase with cocaine was intended to fall from a Cessna into the hands of traffickers on the ground in Baratili San Pietro, a town of 1,200 in Sardinia. Instead it landed on the roof of a home, smashing a solar panel.  “It’s raining cocaine in Sardinia,” the Italian press crowed. |
| William Cutolo was murdered in a mob hit ordered by Colombo boss Thomas Gioeli on May 26, 1999. Cutolo was an underboss. Alphonse Persico and John DeRoss were both convicted in the killing prior to the prosecution of Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli. They ordered the hit because they believed Cutolo was threatening Persico’s leadership. Hitman Dino Calabro testified Gioeli made a wordless gesture to confirm the hit by placing his hand over his heart and holding up four fingers. |
| The body of Cutolo was found in 2008, aiding in the prosecution. Cutolo’s loafers were left on the body. Old school mafia believed it was a sign of respect to remove the dead man's shoes so that when their bodies were found, and there were no shoes. It was a sign of respect. In this case it helped nail Cutolo's killers. |
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They brutally killed Dain Phillips in Kelowna in June 2011. The unarmed father was beaten to death on a roadside. His sons had made online comments to other children. Norman Cocks, Robert Cocks. |
 Robert Leonard Thomas |
| Battles between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Cárteles Unidos in Aguililla, Michoacán, has spilled into other Tierra Caliente municipalities. The Tierra Caliente region is coveted by criminal groups due to its proximity to Pacific coast ports. CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes hails from a small town in Aguililla. |
 | The latest violence was related to the kidnaping of a self-defense group founder by CJNG members. Ángel Gutiérrez Aguilar, known as “El Kiro,” was rescued by supporters. Armed vehicle believed to belong to the CJNG. |
 | KTS Dre (Londre Sylvester) was a member of Chicago's Lakeside Gangster Disciples. He was blasted 64 times as he walked free from Cook County Jail on Saturday night. |  The Chicago drill rapper was 31. |
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 | Gardaí have seized up to half a tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal. The drugs are worth over €34m, about four times the value of all the cocaine seized in Ireland for the last year. |
 | After playing a role in the opioid overdose deaths of more than 400,000 Americans, Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family is about to cut a big cheque and walk away. To settle about 3,000 lawsuits involving more than 600,000 claimants, the Sacklers will pay $4.5b over a decade. |
| The Sacklers won't hold an interest in the 'new' Purdue Pharma but will walk away without jail time, despite being one of the largest and most profitable illicit drug dealers in history. The Sackler family members are collectively worth some $11b. |  |
 | The Sacklers flooded North America with prescription painkillers. Authorities claim more than $4b was drained from the company over the past dozen years. The family used a complex chain of companies and trusts to control their holdings, some located in offshore tax havens. The Sacklers had an estimated net worth of $13 billion in 2016, making them America's 19th-richest family. |
 Documents reveal a shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses in March 2019 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology from the National Microbiology Lab. | Feds are asking the Federal Court to prohibit disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's level 4 lab. The documents may reveal why the couple were booted from Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory in July 2019 and fired. Four months previous Qiu played a key role in shipping Ebola and Henipah to China. |
 Chinese officials revealed COVID on Jan. 7, 2020. | Conspiracy theories link COVID, Canada's lab, and the lab in Wuhan. Qiu had dealings with Chinese scientists, including repeated trips to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. |  National Microbiology Lab |
  Wuhan Institute of Virology | Qiu worked with Chinese government scientists on inventions registered in Beijing and is listed on two patents filed in China. The federal Public Servants Inventions Act says the federal government owns all inventions. |  Xiangguo Qiu was born in Tianjin. Qiu received her MD degree from Hebei Medical University in 1985 and came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996. |
| The list includes two vials each of 15 strains of virus: Ebola Makona (3 varieties) Mayinga. Kikwit. Ivory Coast. Bundibugyo. Sudan Boniface. Sudan Gulu. MA-Ebov. GP-Ebov. GP-Sudan. Hendra. Nipah Malaysia. Nipah Bangladesh. |
Gain of function experiments are when a natural pathogen is taken into the lab, made to mutate, and then assessed to see if it has become more deadly or infectious. These types of experiments are not done in Canada. Gain of function experiments are done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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 The assets of the club have been confiscated. | Germany has banned and dissolved the Bandidos, the country's largest motorcycle club. German cops raided more than 100 premises of the Bandidos in July and seized weapons, ammunition and large amounts of cash. |  |
 | John Joseph Papalia "The Enforcer" was boss of the Papalia crime family, one of three major crime families in Hamilton, the others being the Musitano and Luppino crime family. On May 31, 1997, Papalia was shot to death by Kenneth Murdock, a hit man hired by Angelo and Pat Musitano. Murdock also killed Papalia's right-hand man Carmen Barillaro two months later. Papalia was a made man in the Buffalo family, and boss of the Papalia's hugely profitable Ontario gambling operations. |  Experts say the mob can wait decades for revenge, and the seeds of the demise of the Musitanos was laid 23 years ago with the murder of a boss. |
| Mobster Pasquale (Pat) Musitano was shot to death at a plaza in Burlington, Ont. He was targeted for death multiple times. He was shot on April 25, 2019 in a Mississauga, Ont. parking lot while leaving his lawyer’s office. On May 2, 2017, his brother Angelo was fatally gunned down. See ----->Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano shot in Mississauga |
 |  Hands of Pat Musitano stick from under a tarp on Friday July 10, 2020. |
 | Florida resident Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, has been arrested. He was in contact with a firm that provides security for politicians and recruited the killers. Sanon flew into Haiti on a private jet accompanied by several of the gunmen before the hit. |  Sanon planned to assume the presidency. |
 | Well-armed mercenaries broke into Haiti President Jovenel Moïse's residence in Port-au-Prince early July 7 and shot him 12 times, killing him. Cops have identified 28 suspects in the attack: 26 Colombians and two Haitian-Americans. One of the Haitian-Americans is James Solages, who formerly worked as the "chief commander of bodyguards" at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. |
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