Andrew Pritchard the ‘fixer’ behind Britain’s largest ever drugs smuggling operation

Customs and Excise in London had labelled Andrew Pritchard the ‘fixer’ behind Britain’s largest ever drugs smuggling operation - half a ton of cocaine, “enough to keep London’s clubland snorting for months”.Held behind bars for 18 months, doing time for a crime he insisted he did not commit, Pritchard was subsequently exonerated. He was allowed to walk away from Her Majesty’s prison with all charges formally dropped against him. And that, he says,...

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Tuan Ky Quach, 38, was allegedly bound with duct tape in a Windsor motel room in February by three armed men who stole about $200,000 in marijuana.

Tuan Ky Quach, 38, was allegedly bound with duct tape in a Windsor motel room in February by three armed men who stole about $200,000 in marijuana. Another man was pistol-whipped with a 357 Magnum in a case that resulted in seven arrests after police were alerted to people in ski masks lurking outside.Quach was charged with possession of 24 kilograms of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.Details of that incident came out yesterday when Quach — a small, clean-cut man with glasses — was denied bail on charges related to a Kitchener home-grow...

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Bosses of the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate formally acknowledged their "employers' liability" for the death of one of three bystanders killed

Bosses of the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate formally acknowledged their "employers' liability" for the death of one of three bystanders killed when members of an affiliate gang shot up a bar in Maebashi in 2003. The admission was part of a settlement reached Friday in a lawsuit filed by the family of one of the victims. According to an attorney for the plaintiffs, Shigeo Nishiguchi and Hareaki Fukuda--Sumiyoshi-kai's top two leaders--agreed to pay 97.5 million yen in compensation to the plaintiffs, promised to prevent similar incidents and expressed...

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INSIDE LATIN KINGS

INSIDE LATIN KINGS• Scope: National• Criminal Activity: Narcotics, weapons, extortion, assaults, intimidation, beatings, stabbing, shootings, murder and graffiti.• Propensity for Violence: The Latin Kings’ reputation continues today as evidenced by the violence in correctional facilities in various communities. The Latin Kings are known to beat, stab or shoot members who have not conformed to the gang’s rules of obedience, resulting in serious physical injury up to and including death.Individuals and rival gangs who possess a threat to the Latin...

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Tesha Miller,Reputed leader of the Spanish Town, St Catherine-based Clansman Gang

Reputed leader of the Spanish Town, St Catherine-based Clansman Gang, Tesha Miller, was ordered to remain behind bars despite another bail application. According to Detective Sergeant Jubert Llewlyn, Miller, who is currently being confined at the Horizon Remand Centre, appeared in the Supreme Court last Thursday to answer to charges relating to a triple murder and was denied bail. Miller was remanded and is scheduled to return to court on Friday, October 3. He is alleged to be involved in the gun-slaying of three persons along Cresser Lane in Braeton,...

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Donald "Zekes" Phipps? Recall the millions in cash he had lying around when the police raided his home?

"The dons, in short, have carved out small fiefdoms for themselves where they can pretty much operate with impunity. As such, they post a more serious challenge to the sovereignty of the Jamaican state than any foreign power ever did." (Charles Price, Urban Anthropology & Studies of Cultural Systems & World Economic Development, 2003).gang or posse leader, a gun man,ca drug dealer, territorial leader, also known as chief of staff". But those are very simple terms used to describe the highly evolved, modern-day don: a politically connected...

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Stephen Flemmi was a feared gangster and former paratrooper they called ''The Rifleman''

Stephen Flemmi was a feared gangster and former paratrooper they called ''The Rifleman'' around South Boston. The same Stevie who murdered Hussey's daughter.Hussey once knew him well he spit in Flemmi's face when he found out the gangster was sleeping with his wife.Flemmi cold-cocked him but let him live. Decades later, Thomas Hussey's daughter, Deborah Hussey, met a different -- and final -- fate.On Monday, Flemmi was not on trial. His 2004 conviction for strangling Deborah is just one of 10 murder charges that put him in prison for life.Instead,...

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Gangster Killer Bloods leader Victor "Little Vic" Lopez, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the shooting death of Edwin "Dino"Andino

Gangster Killer Bloods leader Victor "Little Vic" Lopez, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the March 25, 2005, shooting death of Edwin "Dino" Andino. Andino, 19, was gunned down at Walnut and Houghton avenues in Trenton. Lopez, a captain in the Gangster Killer Bloods, said he told two co-defendants who were soldiers in the gang to open fire on the corner while he waited in a van. But Lopez, answering questions posed by his lawyer, Bruce Throckmorton, the judge and assistant prosecutor, said he had a personal dispute with people hanging...

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Rayful Edmond III is now part of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program and his place of incarceration is confidential.

Rayful Edmond III is largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C. area. Columbians was alleged to have moved In an indictment involving two of Edmond's associates, it said that they bought between 1000 and 2,000 kilos over a 1 week period at a time. In 1992 from the Trujillo-Blanco brothers, who were associated with the Medellin cartel, and sold the drugs to Washington area wholesalers. He was known to have spent some...

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Gaetano J. Milano was sentenced in 1991 for executing William "Wild Guy" Grasso

Gaetano J. Milano was sentenced in 1991 for executing William "Wild Guy" Grasso as they sped down Interstate 91 in a van two years earlier. A volatile mobster even by mob standards, Grasso was a fellow soldier in the Providence-based Patriarca crime family and Milano told the judge he believed it was Grasso or him. "It was kill or be killed," Milano said at his sentencing before U.S. District Judge Alan H. Nevas, the same jurist who will reconsider Milano's sentence next month. Fueling that argument, defense lawyers have argued, was the late Boston...

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Christopher Hudson was proud to be a Hells Angel."Don't you know who I am? I'm a Hells Angel."

Christopher Hudson was proud to be a Hells Angel. When he left for Melbourne, he made his bikie connection known at the King Street strip club Spearmint Rhino he used to frequent.They knew him as "Huddo" at the club at which he was a VIP member where a minimum spend of $250 was the deal.The night before the CBD shooting, Hudson had been drinking there before moving on to nearby club Barcode.It was there Hudson took objection to stripper Autumn-Daly...

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Casalesi clan named on-the-run mobsters Alessandro Cirillo, Giuseppe Setola and Giuseppe Letizia as likely suspects who may have ordered the killings.

slaughter happened yesterday in a busy street in the southern Italian town of Castelvolturno near Naples, home to the Camorra, or local Mafia hitmen have gunned down six rivals in what politicians have condemned as one of the bloodiest clan war massacres in recent years.More than 100 shots were fired, leaving five dead and one in a serious condition under armed guard in hospital today.Passers-by dived for cover as at least three men arrived outside a shop selling ethnic products and opened fire inside on the group of Africans, killing three. TV...

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If you get between the Montreal Mafia and its money, this is what can happen to you.

Richard Griffin was shot dead in front of his Terrebonne St. home on July 12, 2006, a not-so-subtle message was sent: If you get between the Montreal Mafia and its money, this is what can happen to youThe police knew Griffin, 41, had ties to the West End Gang, a group whose members emerged out of Montreal's west end decades ago, several of whom have been convicted of drug trafficking.Griffin was himself suspected of being involved in large-scale drug trafficking for years. Drug trafficking was initially believed to be the motive behind the still-unresolved...

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Vito Rizzuto arrest warrant

The Rizzuto organization has formed a "Sixth Family," a Mafia clan based in Montreal that has overshadowed the Mafia's notorious Five Families of New York. Recent allegations of their presence abroad place them as one of the world's most robust criminal cartels. controlling mind behind it all was Vito Rizzuto of Mont-real, Italian authorities allege.Police in Italy issued an arrest warrant for Rizzuto, who is currently in prison in the United States for three gangland slayings. Also wanted are four men in Canada -- including Rizzuto's father, Nicolo,...

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Max Mermelstein took orders directly from cartel bosses Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa.

Mermelstein did more than any other American citizen to help bring the Colombian cocaine trade into this country. Then he turned into a federal witness and did more than any other American to try to bring it down.1978 to 1985, Max Mermelstein helped move 56 tons of cocaine into Florida and sent $300 million in cash back to Medellin, Colombia. He was instrumental in creating the "Cocaine Cowboy" era of South Florida depicted in the Al Pacino film Scarface and in innumerable episodes of Miami Vice.Mermelstein died Friday at age 65 in Lexington, Ky.,...

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Paris DiMarco Moffett,San Francisco gangster and Eddy Rock member arrested in Novato last year has pleaded guilty to federal drug and weapons charges

San Francisco gangster and drug trafficker arrested in Novato last year has pleaded guilty to federal drug and weapons charges, authorities said Tuesday.Paris DiMarco Moffett, 30, admitted possessing 183 grams of crack cocaine, or about 6.5 ounces, at the Hamilton-area apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Delicia Virginia Mitchell, prosecutors said. Moffett also pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded Colt .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol used in his drug trafficking.Mitchell, 36, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy.Authorities...

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Giuseppe Baldinucci, 64, was arrested in New York City after Italian authorities informed Homeland Security that he was wanted in Italy

Citizen of Italy was returned to his homeland and turned over to Italian authorities on Wednesday by officers from the Philadelphia office of detention and removal after completing a 46-month federal prison sentence.The case developed in April of 2005 when Giuseppe Baldinucci, 64, was arrested in New York City after Italian authorities informed Homeland Security that he was wanted in Italy and may have fled to the United States. Fingerprint comparisons confirmed that Baldinucci was the person identified in the Italian warrant and also confirmed...

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Gangster Disciples making more than $100 million each year in illegal drug sales

The Gangster Disciples have a strong influence, especially in the South, on the newest, nationwide gang trend that involves hybrid gangs, which represent a mixture of various philosophies and loose allegiances, said Steve Nawoj-czyk, a gang expert from Little Rock, Ark., who formerly served on the Arkansas Attorney General’s Youth Gang Task Force.Hybrid gangs pose more danger because they lack the leadership to control younger, more volatile members,...

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Ricardo Polanco, Arthur Garcia and two other men participated in a plot to kill Frankie Buelna, 61, also a member of the Mexican Mafia

Ricardo Polanco, Arthur Garcia and two other men participated in a plot to kill Frankie Buelna, 61, also a member of the Mexican Mafia, prosecutors said. Buelna was collecting gang "taxes" in Pomona without authorization from the gang, said Deputy District Attorney Todd Hicks, who prosecuted the case. Polanco, 26, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Friday. Garcia, 37, was sentenced to 55 years to life. Both men's sentences were doubled because they had prior strike convictions, Hicks said. Buelna was shot and killed in November at Characters...

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Stephen Peters, was shot in the neck while he and wife Ann, were in Pretoria to say goodbye to her sister dying of cancer.

Stephen Peters, 52, was shot in the neck while he and wife Ann, 49, were in Pretoria to say goodbye to her sister dying of cancer.Builder Stephen and Ann were sleeping in his niece Siobhan Orman's house with her baby when the three robbers climbed in a window at 3am.Siobhan, 29, described how they were told to sit as the house was searched and how Mr Peters pleaded with the robbers to take what they wanted and leave them alone.She said: "They shot him. They kept searching the house after they killed him. They killed a man for nothing.They didn't...

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John Damon Gizzi was also described as a “bully” who assaulted homeless people and preyed on the weak and vulnerable.

Millionaire builder John Damon Gizzi, 36, from St Asaph, called a “thug” by police, is serving a five-and-a-half-year jail term for grievous bodily harm. He will have to spend more time in prison if he fails to raise a total of £2.6m to pay off money he owes from his criminal activity.A judge at Mold Crown Court yesterday appointed a receiver to sell his luxury home.At his trial in January 2006, Gizzi was also described as a “bully” who assaulted homeless people and preyed on the weak and vulnerable.He was said by police to have “ruled” Rhyl through...

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Anthony Horrocks faces at least five years in prison after he uploaded mobile phone footage of him loading the weapons with bullets

Anthony Horrocks, 20, faces at least five years in prison after he uploaded mobile phone footage of him loading the weapons with bullets before riding around on an off-road bike.Firearms officers identified Horrocks through his username - Motox - and raided his home a week later in January where they found the guns and 200 rounds of ammunition.He was later arrested and was today found guilty by a jury of possessing a prohibited firearm and three counts of possessing ammunition without the correct authority.Horrocks said he had agreed to look after...

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Ronald "Bang Boy" Kinston longtime leader of the Bounty Hunters

Parole confined Ronald "Bang Boy" Kinston was running a drug-and-guns trafficking ring.New Jersey State Police say that Kinston - described as an "Original Gangster," or longtime leader of the Bounty Hunters, a New Jersey subset of the Bloods gang - pumped heroin and guns into at least four New Jersey counties, despite his parole restrictions."He had hundreds of people under him in the state," said Maj. William Toms, commanding officer of the state...

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Omar Aikens,lured a New York man to his death in order to receive status in the gang was sentenced yesterday to 18 1/2 years in prison.

Omar Aikens, 28, of Trenton, had pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in July. Aikens, a high-ranking member of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods gang, shot Louis McFadzean, 19, of Queens, N.Y., after he was lured to the Delaware & Raritan canal path on July 27, 2005. gangster who lured a New York man to his death in order to receive status in the gang was sentenced yesterday to 18 1/2 years in prison. McFadzean had challenged Aikens' ranking within the gang, leading to the plot to kill him, Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Meidt said...

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Obviously, any witness you can eliminate is a good thing. says a veteran defense attorney who once represented mobsters

Robert Simels, 61, was arrested Tuesday on charges of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. He was released on $3.5 million bond.Robert Simels has represented the mobster immortalized in “Goodfellas,” a drug kingpin with ties to hip hop and other notorious clients in his long career.Investigators say a veteran defense attorney who once represented the mobster immortalized in "Goodfellas" has plotted to murder witnesses in another case.Now a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn puts Simels in their company: It accuses him...

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Gotti Jr. misappropriated millions of dollars of the late John Gotti’s illicit stash

Mafia boss John Gotti went to his grave hating his oldest son, Junior, a mob snitch claims in secretly recorded conversations with close confidants of the Dapper Don.Lewis Kasman- known as Gotti’s “adopted son” - trashes John A. (Junior) Gotti on the tapes and says the mob prince was despised by his infamous dad.“He died hating that kid, you know that,” Kasman told reputed Gambino consigliere Joseph (JoJo) Corozzo in an October 2005 conversation.Kasman, 51, is expected to be a key turncoat witness against Junior at his upcoming racketeering and...

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Rogue FBI agent was responsible for the 1982 slaying of a Boston businessman, the victim's wife testified at the ex-agent's trial

rogue FBI agent was responsible for the 1982 slaying of a Boston businessman, the victim's wife testified at the ex-agent's trial Monday in Miami.Former agent John Connolly, already jailed in Florida on racketeering charges, faced the first day of a murder trial in which he is accused of tipping off gangsters that businessman John Callahan was going to expose a slaying they had committed, The Boston Globe reported. Callahan's widow, Mary Callahan, called Connolly a "Judas" because he allegedly warned the mobsters Callahan was about to go to the...

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Dr Attilio Manca was found dead in his flat in the central Italian town of Viterbo, it seemed an open and shut case.

Dr Attilio Manca was found dead in his flat in the central Italian town of Viterbo, it seemed an open and shut case. He appeared to have injected himself with a lethal cocktail of heroin and tranquillisers.But some claimed he was killed to cover the tracks of the then-fugitive mafia boss, and four years on, 10 people have been officially registered as suspects in a murder inquiry, and a police scientific expert has been asked to put names to the fingerprints discovered in Manca's home. The reopening of the inquiry, reported yesterday by the newspaper...

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Massimo Pisnoli, 48, was found with a gunshot wound to his face and back last month in undergrowth near a railway station after going missing for ten

Massimo Pisnoli, 48, was found with a gunshot wound to his face and back last month in undergrowth near a railway station after going missing for ten days. The two men, aged 40 and 48, were held in dawn raids at addresses in Rome. Police also seized an arsenal of weapons as well as 230grammes of cocaine.They were held after an investigation led by anti-Mafia prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo, who had also used undercover officers at Pisnoli's funeral to obtain information.A Rome police spokesman said: "Two men aged 40 and 48 have been arrested and...

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Charlie Abutbul was badly wounded in a hail of bullets inside a Netanya eatery on Monday.

Charlie Abutbul was badly wounded in a hail of bullets inside a Netanya eatery on Monday. The slugs intended for Abutbul also struck three innocent bystanders - proving yet again that local tough guys show no compunction about harming innocent "civilians," dozens of whom have been killed or wounded. The most recent was Marguerita Lautin, shot down on the Bat Yam beach in a botched hit allegedly commissioned by crime family boss Itzik Abergil against his former soldier Rami Amira. Abergil was detained after Lautin's murder, but no firm connection...

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Domenyk Noonan,has been receiving treatment at Durham’s University Hospital for acute pancreatitis.

Domenyk Noonan, 42, is part of the notorious Manchester- based Noonan clan, who openly bragged “they had more guns than police”.The Frankland jail inmate has been receiving treatment at Durham’s University Hospital for acute pancreatitis.At least two police officers brandishing machine guns have been on guard at all times, while dog sections have patrolled the grounds.The families of patients there have been stunned to discover they have been sharing...

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Rene Enriquez,aka Boxer, killed for the gang and also ordered the deaths of men and women in prison and on the streets of Los Angeles

Rene Enriquez could order murders and conjure elaborate drug deals from an 8-by-10 cell in one of the country's highest-security prisons. He was a leader in the Mexican mafia, a violent group based in California prisons that exerts powerful influence on the streets. Then Enriquez defected. Now, he's a government witness living behind bars. Enriquez is serving two 20-to-life sentences for murder. We agreed not to reveal the location where Enriquez...

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