Man wounded in shooting at downtown bar - Monday, Sep. 27, 2010: "man was shot four or five times in an argument late last night outside TJs Sports Bar, 21 Central St., police said.Capt. Gerald Lessard identified the injured man only as a 30-year-old white male saying he was withholding his identification pending notification of his family. The man was shot in the thigh, arm and shoulder but the wounds are not considered life-threatening, Lessard...
CIRA brothers behind brutal gang murders - City News, National News - Herald.ie: "TWO brothers murdered drug dealer Sean Winters after demanding – pay us €50,000 cash or be killed.The IRA pair, in their late 20s and early 30s, who also targeted convicted drug dealer Eamonn Kelly, are described as the most ruthless to appear in Dublin. They have demanded money from dealers all over the city. One brother was still in custody today over Winters’ murder....
Police trying to stop new gangland war | Herald Sun: "VICTORIA Police are desperately trying to avert a revenge attack in the new gangland war between two western suburbs families. Detectives are understood to be investigating a payback hit being planned to avenge the death of Chaouk family patriarch Macchour.Sources claim the attack could be as soon as Grand Final day.The Santiago taskforce has learned the target of the planned execution is Chaouk...
Cops and rivals hunt gangland boss behind chisel attack as he goes on the run - The Daily Record: "dealer boss of the brutal mob who led the gangland attacks on the Hanlon twins is on the run, we can reveal.The 28-year-old fronts the gang who drilled James Hanlon's head two weeks ago.Seven days later he led the same cocaine-fuelled mob as they mutilated James' brother Bryan's groin with a chisel, leaving him fighting for life.During the second attack...
Two top suspects held in gangland murder inquiry | Irish Examiner: "One of the men was arrested along with his girlfriend at their flat in Dublin’s north inner city, while the second man was picked up in Blanchardstown, west Dublin. They bring to six the number of arrests linked to the investigation. All six suspects are aged in their 20s and all are from the north inner-city. Gardaí recovered two handguns in yesterday’s operation along with 1kg...
Police vow to track down thugs who attacked twin brothers in gangland hit - The Daily Record: "no hiding place for gangsters who carried out horrific attacks on the Hanlon twins, police vowed last night.Detectives have declared war on underworld hoods who drilled a hole in James Hanlon's head and chopped off his brother Bryan's penis in a double gangland hit on busy Glasgow streets.Police have already arrested one man, who is expected to appear in...
Gangster's arms stash seized - TV3: "seizure of four loaded machine guns is being described by gardai today as a significant blow to the activities of a criminal gang in Dublin. The firearms along with silencers and a quantity of ammunition were found in a raid on an industrial unit in the Mulhuddart area of north west Dublin yesterday evening.A man in his mid 30's was arrested and is being detained at Kevin Street garda station - the search was...
Metro Vancouver gangsters export drug war to Prince George: "Metro Vancouver gangsters moved north to cash in on a growing market for illegal drugs in Prince George, and triggered a bloody gang war.There have been a several drug-related shootings, murders and mutilations this year in the northern hub.All this mayhem attracted the attention of the Metro Vancouver-based Gang Task Force, which has visited the city twice in the last two mont...
Violent Prince George Gangs Have Their Origins in Vancouver - The Real Scoop: "The Game Tight Soldiers and the Independent Soldiers, were both started in Vancouver.Both are now fighting over the crack shacks of the Prince George neighbhourhood known as the Hood. There have been shootings, murders and mutiliations.It was interesting riding along with the task force for two nights of their trip - Sept. 17 and Sept. 18 - to see how the Prince George...
18-year-old man shot and killed outside his home over the weekend was likely the victim of a gang-related ambush, police said today.Adrian Gonzales was one of three men shot about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Santa Susana Way. Gonzales died at the scene. Two other men, including a housemate, were treated for injuries and released from the hospital early Sunday morning.A group of men with whom Gonzales had a mutual friend showed up at a...
Arrested. Lew Erskine, 47, an Iron Horsemen from Bethel, had two pistols on him as he sat at the bar with his friends. He has a concealed-carry permit, though firearms are not permitted in bars. He has no local record. He was released from jail over the weekend without having to post bond.In court Monday, he declined comment after the judge allowed him to continue to remain free without bond. After walking out of the Hamilton County Justice Center,...
BBC News - Police drop Network Private Hire objections: "Strathclyde Police has confirmed that it is dropping its licensing objections against a taxi firm it had previously claimed was linked to gangland crime.Network Private Hire is now almost certain to be granted its operators licence by Glasgow City Council.It was rejected in April on the grounds that a convicted criminal was benefitting from the firm.Network, which has won several high-profile...
Man wanted in shootout arrested | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment: "Montre Desean Brown, 19, of Alabama Drive, is charged with attempted murder, Dorchester County sheriff's Capt. James Nettles said. Brown was being held in the Dorchester County Detention Center pending a bond hearing. Brown was arrested Tuesday night by North Charleston police, who found him at an apartment complex off Rivers Avenue, Nettles said....
El Blog del Narco: "A gunman identified by the Department of the Treasury of the United States as a key element of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas infiltrated the escort of the Governor of Tamaulipas , Eugenio Hernández, confirmed to U.S. and Mexican officials .The character , named...
El Blog del Narco: "Edgar Valdez Villarreal, 'La Barbie ', who was the operator of Arturo Beltran Leyva 'El Barbas ' , was arrested Monday in the limits of the State of Mexico and Morelos.The Public Security Secretariat (SSP ) officially confirmed the capture of drug trafficker Edgar...
Calgary gangster to finish sentence behind bars for daylight shootout: "FOB member Truong Minh Nguyen will remain behind bars until January 2011 for shooting at rival gangsters outside Calgary's Pacific Place mall in July 2006.Nguyen, 27, has consistently denied belonging to the FOB gang, but the parole board said he remains a threat to the public if released.'Your case management team reported that there is no information you have severed your ties...
Mexico's war compared to insurgency: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles that of war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like 'insurgencies' battling for control of territory. 'It's looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, where the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country,' Clinton said at the Council on Foreign...
New armed drug-trafficking groups menace Colombia - Democratic Underground: "New armed drug-trafficking groups menace ColombiaArmed groups of drug-traffickers have overtaken left-wing rebels as Colombia's main source of violence, local think tank Indepaz says. The groups have emerged since the demobilisation of the illegal United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitaries.The think tank says they are present in 29 of Colombia's 32 provinces.It...
KTAR.com - AZ indicts 16 alleged members of Mexican drug cartel: "Sixteen people believed to be members of a Mexican drug cartel have been indicted on charges of smuggling drugs through Arizona to Illinois, North Carolina and other states. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard announced the state grand jury indictment Monday. Goddard said the defendants were responsible for smuggling significant amounts of cocaine, marijuana and heroin across the...
Colombia’s Facebook Hit List: Drug Gangs 2.0 | The New World Human Security Observatory: "The messages, spread via e-mail and Facebook, warned dozens of youths in the southern Colombian town of Puerto Asis to clear out within three days — or die. At first, residents thought it was a joke. But on Aug. 15, two of the blacklisted teenagers were gunned down while riding a motorcycle; a third was shot dead on Friday. Meanwhile, the number of...
New Police Commissioner in Gangster’s Paradise | The Budapest Report: "corrupt police service of South Africa’s most crime infested Gauteng Province (also dubbed Gangster’s Paradise) has received a new police commissioner, who vows to be more stringent with even the smallest crimes. Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros said at an anti-crime summit (packed with delegates from community policing forums, NGOs and members of public) that under his command...
Spain - The Policía Nacional arrest two hitmen wanted for more than 200 contract killings, kidnappings and crimes of torture in Colombia: "Information was received in June through the Colombian Police Liaison Officer in Spain, alerting of the possible presence in Spain of two Colombian criminals (also known as 'Ronco' and 'Pollo', respectively) related to the cartels of Norte del Valle and Envigado.The first of the two men, Mauricio Alberto González...
Veteran gangster survives botched assassination bid outside his home - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "gangster denies he was targeted by a gunman who tried to shoot him in the head. The attempted murder failed when the would-be assassin's gun jammed and he fled the scene on foot. The lone gunman was subsequently chased by his intended target but he managed to flee the scene. Gardai are now investigating the incident, which occurred on...
arrest of drug lord Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal in Mexico last week illustrates the good, the bad and the conundrum of President Felipe Calderon's war on cartels. Valdez was the third kingpin taken out of commission in less than a year and the first to be captured alive, offering an opportunity for intelligence-gathering on the multibillion-dollar drug smuggling business. Generally speaking, getting rid of crime bosses is good. It wreaks...
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