Federal Police carried out during the day Wednesday, the capture of the leader of the Zetas in Cancun, Quintana Roo . The detainee was identified as Rodolfo Bautista, aka The Pumpkin. Along with the pumpkin, were captured more than four members of the criminal group known as Los...
State Preventive Police received an anonymous call warning of a safe house located in Colonia San Marcos , that the city of Mexicali, Baja California. The authorities heeded the call and found the house, inside it was only personal items, mattresses and pillows, as well as the windows...
Shots fired into a Winnipeg home - the second straight day a southeast Winnipeg home was shot up - are the result of an "active war" between rival gangs, sources say, and it's feared the violence will escalate.Neighbours noticed smoke pouring out of a St. Vital house around the time gunshots rang out about 4 a.m. Wednesday. Winnipeg police would not confirm the home was firebombed.A man and a woman, reportedly the parents of a high-ranking member...
Springfield Police Sergeant John Delaney says the three victims, Justin Garafa, 21, Alberto Nieves, 20, and Geovanni Saldana, 18, all have ties to various North End gangs.Nieves was shot in the abdomen and Saladana was shot in the chest. Both are listed in stable condition and are expected to recover, as is Garafa, who was shot in the ankle.Police were called to Baystate Medical Center’s emergency room around 10:45 Monday night, after the victims...
The ruthless Boston crime boss who spent 16 years on the lam is said to have boasted that he corrupted six FBI agents and more than 20 police officers. If he decides to talk, some of them could rue the day he was caught."They are holding their breath, wondering what he could say," said Robert Fitzpatrick, the former second-in-command of the Boston FBI office.The 81-year-old gangster was captured Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., where he apparently...
The five men showed signs of extreme torture, were bound, and all had impacts firearm in different parts of the body besides narcomensaje left them, but the authorities have withheld that information. The first finding was recorded minutes before 01:00, where a man was left...
who arrived at police facilities. The unknown persons entered the office of the police command and shot him several times, being dead inside the building. Also reports indicate that the gunmen stood at least five elements of the Municipal Police. Witnesses said the gunmen were masked,...
, the Sendero Avenue North, in the municipality of Escobedo, Nuevo Leon. It all started when five unidentified men arrived at the parking place and a car fell Platina in white, then three of them entered the pizzeria and is seated at a table , sat for several minutes, the other two...
Several narcobanners signed by La Familia Michoacana appeared during the day yesterday in several municipalities in Guerrero, among which are Teloloapan Tlapehuala and Arcelia. The narcomensaje were addressed to Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, also pointed to Alejandro Poire, naming FURTHER Knights Templar . The Attorney General of the State of Guerrero, confirmed that the narcobanners were seen at different points, which were removed by members of federal...
The drug gangs post videos on the internet that show beheadings and torture, so as to to intimidate viewers. Some of them even end up on YouTube, although they are usually immediately removed from the popular video website.Mexico's Federal Police, in turn, broadcast their interrogations of drug bosses before handing them over to justice officials.The country's criminal underworld leaves little to the realm of imagination. Crude images, sarcastic...
The fourth and final suspect in a 2000 gang murder in San Bernardino was arrested across the border in his native Mexico, the FBI announced on Friday night.In a release, the FBI reported that Froylan Chiprez, 36, of Mexico was taken into custody in Tijuana by Mexican police. The Mexican government issued a provisional arrest warrant for Chiprez, who was wanted in a gang-related shooting.Termed the Dead Presidents slayings, three other...
The house was firebombed last Tuesday and sprayed with gunfire the next morning, hours after another shooting at a house in nearby Jacana.No one was injured in the attacks.Broadmeadows Detective Superintendent Kevin Sheridan told the Weekly police were investigating if the incidents were linked.The Santiago Taskforce, which has investigated the fatal shooting wars between drug families in Melbourne's north and west, has taken over the investigation.Superintendent...
The beautiful beach town of Santa Monica, California was the site of a major arrest today of a man on the FBI's most wanted list. The elderly alleged murderer had long evading arrest. He was wanted for 21 alleged murders in Boston and then his whereabouts where unknown for over a...
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy declared war on the Maniac Latin Disciples after two young girls were shot in a Northwest Side park earlier this month.The shooter was a member of the gang and was gunning for rival Latin Kings when the girls, ages 2 and 7, were wounded on June 8, prosecutors said. The younger girl was grazed in the head and the 7-year-old was seriously wounded in the back.“We’re going to obliterate that gang,” McCarthy told a roomful...
The Knights Templar are conducting actions against the members of La Familia Michoacana, during the morning five men appeared in different fucking performed in Michoacan. The first discovery was reported around 04:00 hours in the Tres Esquinas, in that place remained two executed men, who were handcuffed and blindfolded. Failed to identify the victims. I left a card with a narcomensaje. Later, elements of the state police came a few kilometers away...
Mexico's drug war is becoming increasingly dangerous, as police engage in more and more violent clashes with heavily armed drug-runners. But that isn't the only sign that Mexico is losing the war. Here, four chilling new revelations: 1. The cartels have 12-year-old hitmenOne of the more disturbing trends, says Carlton Purvis at Security Management, is the Mexican drug cartels' use of younger and younger foot soldiers. Police arrested 10 gang...
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, or PGR, said Monday that two suspects will continue held for the probable commission of organized criminal activity. The statement noted that a judge ordered that José María Leal Pantoja, alias "Chema" or "El Comandante Chema," and Rogelio Galván Rodríguez or Rogelio Valdez Rodríguez, alias "San Anto," be held. The two suspects were detained by the military in the state of San Luis Potosi in March and...
Some law enforcement sources are confirming that Heriberto "El Lazca" Lazcano Lazcano, the reputed head of Los Zetas, was killed during a fierce shootout with the Gulf cartel in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas near Los Tomates International Bridge which connects the cities of Matamoros and Brownsville, TX as reported by The Monitor; however, "Mexico's defense secretariat issued a statement late Friday night disputing reports that Lazcano...
East Palo Alto police Chief Ron Davis put the Norteno and Sureno street gangs on notice Friday: he's holding both of them responsible for the slaying of 3-month-old Izack Jesus Jimenez Garcia and making it his top priority to shut them down."If we are to protect our children and community from this type of violence and achieve true justice for the Garcia family, the accountability for the murder of baby Izack Garcia must extend beyond the two killers,"...
Mexican Army were at a checkpoint located on Highway Xalapa-Veracruz, was well aware that men are suspects to stop, but did not respond favorably.The suspects attacked the military was so intense persecution began.Military and elements of the Ministry of Security State Public Veracruz, staged an intense battle, which ended at the same height of the Lencero this in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata .Authorities decided to close the circulation of...
U.S. officials have said that notorious Mexican criminal Joaquin Guzman, alias 'El Chapo,' is the most powerful drug dealer of all time. But does the Sinaloan outlaw’s criminal empire really exceed that of the infamous Pablo Escobar?Joaquin Guzman is currently one of the most wanted criminals in the world. In fact, Guzman’s power has become so great that a senior U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official recently told Forbes magazine that the kingpin...
Antrone Waites used to talk to his mother on the phone every Saturday.Usually, she’d ask about his children and whether he planned to take his family to church the next morning. Her faith was important to her, Waites recalled, a point the single mother impressed upon her two children.“There were a lot of gangs around,” the 34-year-old said. “She kept us in church a lot. School or church.”Carol Waites and a friend had just left a midnight service...
There are an estimated 28,100 gangs in the United States with 731,000 gang members in 3,500 jurisdictions, Justice Department officials say.The department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention released the 2009 National Youth Gang Survey that identified three trends in the prevalence rate of gang activity: a sharp decline throughout the late 1990s, a sudden upturn beginning in 2001 and continuing until 2005, and a relative leveling...
Police arrested Eddie Ballard and Pedro Garcia Ruelas in an undercover operation last week. A raid that police have been efforting for six months. Their arrests took more than a million dollars worth of cocaine off the streets, but investigators say there are more members of the gang here and ready to go."La Familia is a violent drug trafficking cartel. We still think they are very active in our area," said Greenville Police Chief...
First 18-year-old Juan Rosario was shot dead in a driveway about a mile from home April 22. Twenty days later, Pablo Raphael Vasquez-Rosalas, 34, was found dead of head trauma less than a block from home. Twelve days after that, Andrew Jones, also 18, was fatally shot in the head in his backyard. Last Sunday, 29-year-old Rumaldo Bethancourt-Lopez, was beaten to death three blocks from home.All four and the suspect charged with killing the last victim...
Security experts say that these gang-related murders typically regard territorial disputes, retaliations and the settling of scores, as well as fighting over micro-trafficking and finance.Olga Lucia Velasquez, the secretary of government, cited the fact that around 32% of the victims this year were former convicts, which she said exemplified "the lack of more effective rehabilitation programmes inside the prisons."Bogota Metropolitan Police have...
Over the weekend, Mexican authorities found two more of these makeshift road warriors in Tamaulipas, the same northern border state where the first armored vehicle appeared in April after a battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas gang. In the latest case, the Mexican Defense Department said, the armored trucks were found in a metalworking shop in Camargo, which also held at least two other partly modified monsters and 23 additional trucks.The...
trial of an alleged MS-13 gang member accused in the 2008 fatal shootings of a father and his two sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District could be delayed or even moved out of the city if motions discussed by the prosecution and defense in court today are granted by a judge.Edwin Ramos, 24, was arrested three days after the killings of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, near the intersection of Maynard and Congdon streets...
One of the men was was missing a foot and had been stripped down to just his underwear while the other's clothes were splattered with blood.Their bodies were discovered early yesterday morning and both had placards that said: 'This happened to them for supporting the CDG [Gulf cartel].'The manufacturing city where they were found has changed dramatically over the last four years. With a population of 4million people, it has gone from being a model...
Mexican soldiers in a northern border state seized two more of the armored cargo trucks that drug cartels have been using for street battles with rivals, authorities said Monday.The Defense Department said the trucks were found during a weekend search of a metalworking shop that had been used by a drug gang in the town of Camargo in Tamaulipas state. It said the trucks had inch-thick sheet steel welded over the cabin, doors and cargo container, complete...
Drug killings have spread to Mexico's second city Guadalajara and while Mexico City has so far escaped serious drug violence, the capital does have a large illegal narcotics market. If the cartels were to declare war on its streets, Monterrey's experience shows that Mexico's long-neglected police and judiciary are not equipped to handle it."If we can't deal with the problem in Monterrey, with all the resources and the people we have here, then that...
Firefighters were called to the parlour in Mullaloo about 1am (WST) on Sunday.Police say the front window of the shop was smashed in and accelerant was thrown inside and set alight.The shop is believed to be owned by a member of the Rebels bikie gang and police say they have not ruled out the possibility of outlaw motorcycle gangs being involved in the incident.Neighbouring businesses were also damaged by the blaze, police said.The arson squad were...
an official statement issued by the Ministry of Public Security, announced that elements of the Federal Police on Thursday captured Victor Manuel Perez Izquierdo, aka The Seven cans, who before his arrest was dedicated to bringing the leader of Los Zetas the state of Quintana Roo.The captured 30 years old, went through a checkpoint of the Federal Police, officers were able to see that he was armed, and the Zeta tried to flee, but was unsuccessful....
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