Nigerian busted for cocaine again

Okechukwu Francis Amaechi, 45, finished a jail term for drug trafficking in Brazil in March 2022. He was arrested at the Port Harcourt Airport on arrival from Brazil via Doha. Okechukwu was busted for 4.56kg of cocaine hidden in lawnmower tires. One package bears the inscription “IN GOD” and “WE TRUST”.   Amaechi claimed church members gave him the lawn mowers to deliver to his brother in Port Harcourt.

Gang warfare in Western Sydney

An angry imam berated mourners at the funeral of Rami Iskander. He was laid to rest in the grave next to his kingpin uncle Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, 17 days after his murder. The 23-year-old was gunned down outside his home in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child. Gangland violence is running rampant in Western Sydney.

Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad

13 people have been killed in gang violence in Sydney's west and southwest over the past 18 months. Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed, 41, is in critical condition and his brother Omar dead after they were sprayed with bullets two weeks ago. Tarek survived despite 10 gunshot wounds to his body and head.

He is said to be blind.

Dominic Taddeo escapes, lassoed, pleads guilty

Infamous mob assassin Dominic Taddeo, 64, who murdered three gangland rivals in the ’80s Rochester Mafia War, was arrested 4 days after he escaped from federal custody in Florida. Taddeo pleaded guilty and is looking at an additional 5 years in the big house.

About to be released to a halfway house, the killer went for a medical appointment on March 28 and never returned.

A judge denied Dominic Taddeo's bid for compassionate release in 2021. Taddeo has been imprisoned the past three decades for murder and other crimes. He’s scheduled to be released in two years. In 1982 and 1983 contract killer Taddeo fatally shot three men — Nicholas Mastrodonato, Gerald Pelusio, and Dino Tortatice. Taddeo also attempted to whack former Rochester Mafia captain Thomas Marotta, twice. Joseph Sullivan was responsible for about 20 of the murders in the Rochester Mafia War.

See ----->Joseph 'Mad Dog' Sullivan

6 charged after sophisticated tunnel found

A federal drug investigation resulted in the discovery of a sophisticated cross-border tunnel and charges against six people for conspiring to distribute 1,762 pounds of cocaine. The tunnel stretched from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in Otay Mesa just east of the Port of Entry. It is about 1,744 feet long, 61 feet deep and 4 feet in diameter, with reinforced walls, a rail system, electricity and a ventilation system. In addition to 1,762 pounds of cocaine, cops seized 164 pounds of meth and 3.5 pounds of heroin.

90 tunnels have been discovered in the Southern District of California since 1993. Of those, 27 were considered sophisticated. The last tunnel discovered in the Southern District of California was in March 2020.

Narco Queen of Honduras: Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda'

Herlinda Bobadilla, 'La Chinda,' along with her two sons ran one of Honduras' most powerful crime families. Along with Tito and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla, she controled the Montes drug cartel. Honduran police announced her capture Sunday. Tito was killed and three others captured.

Bobadilla and her sons were based in Colón, on the northeastern coast of Honduras. Her power grew with the conviction of Noe, her third son, who was extradited in 2019 and is now serving 37 years in a U.S. prison for drug-trafficking. The clan worked with the Valle cartel, and is said to have strong links to the recently caged former President Hernández. Hernandez was extradited on April 21, accused of conspiring to transport some 500 tons of cocaine from South America to the United States. See --->Juan Orlando Hernández: Honduran ex-leader extradited to US

Record 1,494 kg cocaine shipment intercepted in Malta

Malta customs has intercepted a record 1,494 kilograms of cocaine at the Freeport. Officials stationed at the Freeport scanning facility seized 50 bags containing 1,494 blocks of cocaine, each weighing one kilogram. The container, which was transporting bananas, was en-route from Colombia to Koper in Slovenia. The haul is estimated to have a street value of at least €300m. Malta seized 612 kg in 2020, 740 kg in 2021, and 2,294 kg so far this year.

Cocaine on the rise in Morocco

Moroccan cops seized more than 1.4 tons of cocaine in 2021. In October, cops intercepted a shipment of 1.3 tons of cocaine in the port of Tangiers, coming from Brazil and bound for Antwerp. The smuggling of cocaine surged as cartels tested the country as a route into Europe.

Smuggling of cocaine was carried out using the “rip-on / rip-off" method. Smugglers break the customs seals on a container, load the container with cocaine, and then attach counterfeit and illegal seals.

Mileta Miljanić - Busted

Mileta Miljanić is the Bosnian head of a cocaine trafficking network with links to the Gambino crime family. He was busted for defrauding the Small Business Administration of more than $150k in COVID relief funds. A US citizen, he served 3 years in federal prison for wire fraud in the 1980s, and in 2012 he was convicted of cocaine trafficking by Italian cops. Two years into a six year sentence, Miljanić was granted work release and fled to the U.S., where he has been ever since. Miljanić claimed to run a company called MDP Rebar Solutions LLC.

Zoran Jaksic and Mileta Miljanic. 'Group of America' is a criminal clan from the Balkans, whose members are Serbs.

Feds had Miljanić’s phones tapped, and subpoenaed his bank records, and say it was all a front for mob money. Funds were disbursed to Miljanić and his wife, daughter, and two sons, $1.5m went to a Gambino capo with convictions for racketeering and extortion, $925k to a Gambino associate with past wire fraud convictions, $484k to a Gambino soldier with racketeering and murder convictions, and the remainder to a raft of other shady characters, including $10k to the Gambino capo’s girlfriend. Miljanić and his wife paid off $85k in American Express bills with the loot.

Drug dealer a walking pharmacy - 7 drugs

A litany of drugs was found by deputies in Hoke County after they searched Michael Anthony Porter, 30, and his vehicle. They found seven types of drugs. Cops found 81 doses of Adderall, 14 grams of fentanyl, 16 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of methamphetamine, 414 Xanax pills 11 doses of MDMA, and pot. Charges are equally numerous. He is being held on a $500k secured bond.

Picture of drug dealer Leon Atkinson sinks him

He was described as a regional cocaine supplier. He foolishly trusted Encrochat completely.

A photo of drug dealer Leon Atkinson posing in the sunshine proved to be key evidence in helping cops put him away. It was sent to a man named Jason Cox and discovered after cops cracked the encrypted Encrochat network. Atkinson messaged the Cox clan to negotiate buying from them half of £1m worth of cocaine they had stolen from an infamous Liverpool crime mob. A brutal burglary at a Liverpool gang's stash house returned 30kg of cocaine. Atherton was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Atkinson was a target for Manchester cops and a close friend of cop killer Dale Cregan, who is serving life for four murders, including the killings of two police. The 43-year-old was tried alongside Cregan in 2013 accused of killing Mark Short. He dodged conviction. See ----->UK cop killer Dale Cregan

UK HA jailed for riot against peaceful Black Lives Matter protest

Christopher Butters bought 31 months for violent disorder, Colin Green was caged for 29 months.

President of the Tyne and Wear chapter Colin Green, and HA Christopher Butters were among a mob that gathered to oppose Black Lives Matter. Counter-protesters attacked cops and the other group by throwing cans, bottles and smoke grenades. Cops, horses, dogs and the public were injured in the June 2020 riot. Butters obstructed cops and threw missiles during the disturbance. He was with other Hells Angels at the front of the group and refused to move back when told to by cops.

Gene Karl Lahrkamp dead - update

Cops said that Lahrkamp has been confirmed as one of four people who died when a small plane crashed April 30th near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Lahrkamp, 36, had been on the run since February when Thai cops accused him and Matthew Dupre, 36, of whacking former Abbotsford gangster Jimi Sandhu.

See ----->Jimi Sandhu whacked in Phuket

Killed along with Lahrkamp was Independent Soldier Duncan Bailey. Bailey fled after being released on bail on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He had a long history of drug trafficking and organized crime. Months before pilot Abhinav Handa, his friend and the two fugitives died he had been reported for operating an unlicensed air taxi service.

Canadian gangsters whacked in Mexico - update

A third man has been arrested in the hit on Robert (Cong) Dinh and Thomas Cherukara on Jan 11, 2021. Mexican cops now say the men were killed due to multi-million dollar debt tied to guns and cocaine trafficking. Cong Dinh was a top level member of a Vietnamese organized crime group that operates in Canada and the United States. Mexican cops had characterized the murders as a dispute between hotel guests.

Canadian gangsters Cong Dinh and Thomas Cherukara were in Playa del Carmen at the Hotel Xcaret when they were whacked. A gunman dressed in a tracksuit shot and killed the two men. A woman was also shot but recovered. Cops said the killer had been walking with the two men minutes earlier before firing at least five times. Dinh was wanted for money laundering by the RCMP. Cherukara had drug busts, robberies, weapons and property crime offenses.

Estonian hitman Imre Arakas - I am not a criminal

Estonian hitman Imre Arakas gave evidence via video link from prison to a murder trial in Lithuanian last year. He is charged with killing a drug dealer. The 63 year old is serving a 6.5 year sentence over a plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately, part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud. Gately was a prime target for the Kinahan faction with a €500k bounty on his head. Gately was believed to be involved in the Regency Hotel attack. Arakas flew into Dublin from Spain in April, 2017 to kill Gately but was busted by gardai before he got his chance. When the Arakas plot was foiled, the cartel wasted no time in arranging another. 'Mr Flashy' assassin Caolan Smyth was caged for 20 years for his attempted hit of Gately.

Caolan Smyth was arrested after the attack on James 'Mago' Gately who was shot five times in 2017 but survived. 4 of the 5 shots hit a bulletproof vest he was wearing. Seven men with links to the Kinahan cartel are now behind bars for plots to kill Gately.

British Virgin Islands premier busted for cocaine in US sting - update III

Legislators voted to remove disgraced premier Andrew Fahie and install his former deputy, Natalio Wheatley. This came as Fahie was granted $500k bail in Miami, a decision that was immediately appealed. Andrew Fahie had demanded his immediate release from US custody, claiming he is immune from prosecution on drug trafficking charges because he is an elected, constitutional head of government.

Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, was busted in a sting in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine and money laundering.

Britain is poised to impose a form of direct rule over the British Virgin Islands after the territory’s premier was arrested. Hours before his court appearance in Miami, a commission of inquiry – launched in 2021 – reported on widespread abuses, including millions disappearing. The commission recommended that the territory have its constitution suspended, its elected government dissolved and be ruled from London.

Oleanvine Maynard

Oleanvine Maynard, the manager director of the port authority, and her son Kadeem were also detained.

DEA agents posed as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. In exchange for bribes and 10% ($7.8m) — for each 3,000-kilogram load of cocaine sold in Miami, Fahie and his co-defendants allegedly agreed to provide safe passage for the drugs and a network of shell companies to launder proceeds.

“Oh, no no no, not my first rodeo at all, NOT, MY FIRST RODEO, AT ALL,” Fahie can be heard laughing in a recording.