Two gangland figures are sitting in a Lexus car in a suburban street on a summer evening. Their automobile is rammed from behind by a stolen Audi 6. Two masked men jump out and open fire on the Lexus with semi-automatic handguns, killing the men instantly.The assassins drive to a deserted street a mile away, douse the car with gas, set it alight and escape. This professional hit — the killers are said to have received 40,000 euros ($50,000) each...
The Royal Gazette: "30-year-old Paget man was shot in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon on Sound View Road in Sandys. The incident, which happened only yards from where neighbourhood children play, left many area residents shaken up. The shooting victim, who has not been named, was shot in the leg. He was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and released later that day. Neighbours say they were going about their normal routines when three...
Fear of reprisals grow after Finglas gangland shooting | IOL: "Fears were mounting tonight of an escalation in a bloody gangland feud after a known criminal associate was gunned down at his workplace in daylight hours.The latest victim of a suspected row between warring underworld factions was named locally as Colm Owens, 34, from Finglas in north Dublin.A masked man is thought to have fired several shots into his torso and head at the Corn Store...
Stephen "Madser" Byrne, 32, is thought to have been related to two other men who have been murdered as part of the vicious feud. Gardaí suspect Stephen Byrne was killed in a revenge attack for another murder.It’s not the first tragedy to hit Stephen Byrne’s family. His brother, David Byrne, 26, was fatally assaulted in Mountjoy Prison in June 2009 in a non-feud related attack. It brings to 18 the number of fatal shootings this year, up to 14 of which...
Finks bikie has been arrested in Adelaide and charged with drug offences.Police said on Thursday the 31-year-old man from suburban Glengowrie was arrested by Crime Gangs Task Force officers after being stopped while driving.Patrols found about 20g of methamphetamine and an ice pipe in the car.A subsequent search of his home revealed three more ice pipes and small plastic containers of unknown liquids and powders, a police spokesman said.The man was...
Painters and Dockers's brutal history is laid bare in a new book co-authored by journalist Russell Robinson.What was the impetus for writing a book about criminal history of the Painters and Dockers?The motivation for writing Shotgun and Standover was that, previously, only parts...
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the shooting dead of Dublin criminal Stephen Byrne have arrested a boy aged 16. His arrest follows the questioning of two other people, one of whom is a 15-year-old boy.The 16-year-old was arrested at 2pm yesterday in Dublin’s north inner-city. He was detained under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and is being questioned at Store Street Garda station. He can be held for 72 hours without charge.Gardaí believe...
Former Gang Member Among Six Shot in Yonkers - WSJ.com: "disabled self-professed former gang member who once made a videotaped stop-the-violence plea was killed along with another man when gunmen opened fire inside a Yonkers apartment Tuesday morning. Four others were wounded in the attack, including a 5-year-old boy.Kasheem Little, 21 years old, and Carlton McLeod, 23, were killed just before 1 a.m. inside a ninth-floor apartment on Locust Hills...
Mafia wars heat up in Netanya: "stun grenade was thrown at the Bat Haikar restaurant, owned by the Abutbul crime family, in Netanya Saturday night, lightly shocking a woman in the area. The attack came a day after arsonists burned down three separate locations of the restaurant chain.Three separate locations of the Bat Haikar chain, all owned by prominent underworld figure Francois Abutbul, were burned Friday night. The Sha'ar Hagai location was...
US consular worker's death a drug hit, says gang leader: "murder of a US consulate worker in March was ordered by a drug cartel enforcer who believed the woman was dealing visas to a rival gang, say Mexican police, who have arrested a suspect for the killing.Jesus Ernesto Chavez, a leader of a gang that supplies contract killers to the Juarez drug cartel, was arrested on charges that he masterminded the daylight ambush and murder of Lesley Ann Enriquez...
Mexico arrests gang figure in slaying of U.S. worker: "Jesús Ernesto Chávez, said to be a leader of a binational gang that supplies contract killers to the Juarez drug cartel, was arrested on charges that he masterminded the March 13 daylight ambush and murder of U.S. Consulate staffer Lesley Ann Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso sheriff's deputy. Enriquez, who was four months pregnant, and Redelfs were killed by a squad of commandos...
21 reported dead in cartel shootout in north Sonora: "massive gunbattle between rival drug- and migrant-trafficking gangs southwest of Nogales, Sonora, on Thursday afternoon left at least 21 people dead and six others wounded, prosecutors said.The firefight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border, which is considered a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.The Sonora state Attorney General's Office said...
Carteret man charged in double shooting that left 19-year-old dead | NJ.com: "Edward Burton opened fire outside a Lowell Street home in Carteret just before midnight on June 22, killing 19-year-old Devon Mbachu and injuring another teenager, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said.Mbachu was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway, where he died less than an hour after the shooting, Kaplan said. The second victim, identified...
The Associated Press: 21 dead in Mexican gang gun battle near US border: "massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border left 21 people dead on Thursday, prosecutors said.The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border — a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured...
CTV Montreal - Shooting linked to rising mafia turf war: police - CTV News: "Montreal police say Tuesday's double shooting, which killed Agostino Cuntrera, 66, a reputed member of the Rizzuto clan, is linked to a turf war between two mafia families. Cuntrera was gunned down yesterday around 4 p.m. outside his business in St. Leonard. He died at the scene. His bodyguard, who was with Cuntrera, was also shot and died later in hospital. People working...
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