Detectives believe the 15 suspected con artists were cold-calling thousands of UK residents and pressurising them into parting with their savings for non-existent shares.The men - aged between 22 and 41 - were arrested earlier this week in an armed raid by Spanish and British authorities on their suspected headquarters in Palma, Mallorca.Detectives leading the investigation said they were living "lives of luxury in the sun" from the scheme.Officers...
According to Lodi Police the victim is a 20 year old Hispanic male, who is also a known gang member. A police spokesperson said it is not certain if the shooting is gang related, but that it is a possibility.According to Lodi Police, the victim was on his way to a residence in the neighborhood when he was shot multiple times. After being shot, police said the victim started to head to friends who live at a nearby apartment complex,...
Day of the Dead, the Norteños initiated Sanchez in a process known as getting "jumped in," whereby he was severely beaten until the others were satisfied. "I got dropped a couple of times," he said, "but I got back up. I got heart." That was when he took the street name "Bloody." He was 16.Sometime this month, Alameda Superior Court Judge Robert Friedman is expected to deliver a verdict on a proposed gang injunction targeting 40 suspected...
Authorities say law enforcement officials converged on Carson Beach in South Boston and broke up fights involving youths from rival gangs.Massachusetts State Police said in a statement that about 1,000 youth had gathered at the beach Monday afternoon during the third consecutive day of disturbances there.One youth has been arrested for disorderly conduct and the others, ages 14-19, disbursed from the area. It is believed the youths arrived at the...
Denver-area street gangs have gotten into the bank-robbery business, helping fuel a surge in heists in the metro area this year.As of Friday, the Denver area recorded 80 bank robberies in 2011, compared with 64 at this time in 2010, according to FBI spokesman Dave Joly. Denver now ranks second nationwide only to Seattle in bank robberies per capita.The 25 percent increase has included more violent, takeover-style robberies and more robberies linked...
Authorities say a shootout between rival drug gangs at a Rio de Janeiro slum left six alleged traffickers dead and three bystanders injured.Rio de Janeiro police officer Rogerio Martins told local media that about 10 gunmen tried to invade the Para Pedro shantytown in Rio's north side early Sunday when the shootout began, leaving two dead. The other four gang members were killed when police arrived.Authorities said the three bystanders were hit by...
Detectives investigating the missing 24-year-old have spoken to Michael Archibald.The Sunday Mail can reveal that 30-year-old Archibald attended the same party as Ferry at the home of violent gangster Garry Smith.Ferry was last seen leaving the party in John Bowman Gardens, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, more than eight weeks ago.It is understood Archibald gave a voluntary statement and was not quizzed as a suspect.An insider said: "The case is attracting...
ONE million dollar reward has been offered for information over the underworld killing of Richard Mladenich.Mladenich, a feared stand over man from Altona North, was shot dead at St Kilda's notorious Esquire Motel on May 16, 2000, reported the Herald Sun.The 39-year-old was fatally shot about 3.30am in room 18 of the Acland St motel.A $100,000 reward was offered by police in December 2002.A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the reward was on offer...
Jeffrey Finnegan (31) from Finglas, north Dublin, absconded from Shelton Abbey open prison in Co Wicklow in December 2009 after being granted temporary release for Christmas.Sources say Finnegan fled Ireland using a false passport just hours after his jail release and then travelled to mainland Europe. Intelligence received by gardai indicates that he has been based in Turkey for "some months now".Known as a violent criminal, Finnegan was arrested...
the biggest gang trial in San Jose in years, a jury Friday found four Norteños guilty of a murderous rampage that took four lives and severely injured eight people, ending a nearly yearlong proceeding that cost taxpayers more than $1 million -- and entailed so many charges the verdict took 95 minutes to read aloud.The outcome was a victory for prosecutor Stacey Capps and San Jose detectives, who invested nearly five years in bringing to justice one...
An investigation that began after four teenage girls killed themselves two years ago led to a federal indictment Thursday that named 44 gang members and associates on drug and conspiracy-related charges.Authorities believe the Four Block Gang controlled much of the drug dealing in Schenectady’s Hamilton Hill neighborhood, committing drive-by shootings to protect turf and feuding with rival gangs.Those feuds, one of the indictments reads, “resulted...
The man, aged 20, was a passenger in the back seat of a car at Moorfield Avenue, Ronanstown when a gunman shot him several times.He was taken to Tallaght Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.The shooting, which has all the hallmarks of a gangland attack, happened just after 9pm.The victim was hit in the upper body and head.Gardaí in Ronanstown are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time or anyone with information to contact themIt...
The 20-year-old victim was sitting in a car in Moorfield Avenue, Clondalkin, at about 9pm when a gunman opened fire.He was shot in his upper body and head and was rushed to Tallaght Hospital where he was pronounced dead.Gardai said no one else was injured in the shooting.The scene was preserved for a technical examination.Earlier, a 23-year-old man was shot in the shoulder in the Cabra House pub on Faussagh Avenue, Cabra, north Dublin.A Garda spokeswoman...
Troubled rapper Torrence “Lil Boosie” Hatch continues to add more negative light to his present situation as the Baton Rouge native was charged by Louisiana police officials along with two fellow inmates for attempting to smuggle ingredients to make codeine syrup inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary as reported by CBS affiliate news channel WAFB 9 earlier today.Already potentially facing the death penalty as the result of a first-degree murder...
Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a 16-year-old boy caught posing as a woman following a Sunday’s deadly gunfight in Auburn that claimed another teen’s life.Also charged Wednesday was the slain teen’s father charged with assault following allegations that he emptied a pistol into an apartment he believed to be associated with his son’s killer. Asked if he meant to shoot those inside, the dead boy's father allegedly answered, “They...
Robert Kirkwood left James Hanlon permanently scarred after using the tool as a blunt weapon in a roadside attack.The High Court in Glasgow heard Hanlon - a pal of murdered gangster Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll - was a passenger in a car which was forced off the road last August.The Vauxhall Vectra was hit head-on by an Audi A4, then shunted from the rear by a Ford Focus.A man ran out of the Audi and pulled Hanlon, 26, from the Vectra - then Kirkwood,...
One of three Crips gang members accused of murdering a rival Blood gang member in prison sent a series of text messages calling for violence against the Bloods prior to the killing, a court has been told.Samoan born Tue Faavae, 23, was found strangled to death in a shower block at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo on March 1, 2009. He had also been stabbed in the face.Three other inmates, who all have name suppression, are on trial in the High Court...
arrests made this week highlight the presence of the Bloods street gang in Lackawanna County, but Lackawanna County Prison Intelligence Captain and Lackawanna County Gang Task Force Chairman Robert Maguire said even more nationally known gangs have shown a presence in the region for quite some time.“Obviously, the arrest the other day shows that there is a big presence of gangs from New York City operating in the area,” Maguire said.“Operation Sunset”...
He's only 21, yet Kevin Warner has already been involved in two high-profile murder cases on the Island.Yesterday he was convicted by unanimous jury of the premeditated murder of Dekimo (Purple) Martin on May 28 last year. Less than two years ago he was one of five young people charged with the killing of 18-year-old Kellon Hill. College-bound student Mr Hill was murdered as he left a late-night party at Elbow Beach on August 9, 2008. Prosecutors...
Pacoima gang member should receive the death penalty for his role as the shooter in the murder-for-hire slaying of a Buena Park businessman nearly 10 years ago, an Orange County jury recommended Thursday.Armando Macias, 35, watched the jurors when the death verdict was announced after two days of deliberations. Moments later, he swiveled in his chair, smiled at his sister – who was tearing-up in the courtroom gallery – and waved.He became the third...
20 year old Walla Walla man was shot to death Tuesday evening during a confrontation with suspected rival gang members. Julio Cesar Martinez was walking in an alley in the 300 block of Myrtle Street, when he and a friend were approached by several subjects. At least 4 shots were fired, two of which struck Martinez. He died a short time later at Providence Saint Mary Medical Center. The second subject with Martinez was not injured. Martinez was known...
Mexican soldiers arrested a suspected drug boss and a police chief accused of protecting him on Thursday, blaming them for much of the violence terrorizing tourist towns near Mexico City.
In an early morning swoop, soldiers in black ski masks captured Victor Valdez, known as "El...
The Kurdish Pride Gang has expanded, splintering into three groups and establishing a larger foothold in Middle Tennessee, gang experts say.The gang, which started in Nashville, has created three subsets, known in street parlance as cliques, said Metro Police Gang Unit Detective Mark Anderson, a speaker at the 2011 Ethnic Gangs Organized Crime Symposium.The conference, which ended Friday, ran for three days at Middle Tennessee State University in...
Police in Colombia say they have captured a man accused of involvement in at least 50 murders.He was on the run after being sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder.The Colombian government has warned that criminal gangs have become the state's new enemy and promised to devote more resources to their capture.Misleading printsHernandez, 34, was captured after a long-running investigation.In 2004, Hernandez was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in...
United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian said that Marcel Perry, a/k/a Juxx, a/k/a Jooks, age 23, of Albany, New York, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe to 111 months’ incarceration (Perry was facing a sentence of 130 months but received 19 months credit for time already served), five years of supervised release following his release from incarceration, and a $100 special assessment.This sentence follows...
Two rival gangs were involved in the shooting that killed Mario D. Brown, 22, early Saturday morning and injured another, Lt. Ken Landwehr said.It would be the first gang-related homicide of 2011, Landwehr said, because this is the first time this year where all those involved in the incident were gang members.Police are still looking for the suspect.Shortly before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, more than 100 people gathered for an after-hours party in a parking...
The first time Congress Tavern owner David Auffarth saw Mahdi Elting was in 2006 — when Elting approached the City of Poughkeepsie bar on his bike with a Glock handgun tucked in his waistband.Auffarth alerted police, and Elting ended up in state prison.The last time Auffarth saw Elting was early Thursday morning — the 26-year-old's bullet-riddled body lying where Auffarth first laid eyes on him nearly five years ago."Where he was shot dead was the...
A judge agreed to ban his partner, Kelly Green, from selling the s217,000 house.Carroll was reported to prosecutors for fraud and money-laundering in connection with the house before he was shot dead outside an ASDA supermarket.After his murder in January last year, the authorities launched a bid to seize the house in Lennoxtown, north of Glasgow, using proceeds of crime laws.They suspect that Carroll obtained the mortgage for the house - and a loan...
the Tenth Street Gang and the Seventh Street Gang — have waged a bloody war on Buffalo’s West Side for years, police say.Over the past three years, one violent retribution attack has followed another, causing grief for many families and making people afraid to walk the streets in some neighborhoods.Thursday, cops and federal prosecutors attempted to put a stop to the violence by filing criminal charges against 35 alleged members and associates of...
In the wake of the recent release of F.B.I. files on the murders of 2Pac and Biggie, Quik told HipHopDX.com that the L.A.P.D. followed his movements and tapped his phones, considering him a potential suspect in the revered Brooklyn MC's shooting death."Just because I was there at that [VIBE] party [with Biggie before the shooting], they tapped my phones, found out my accountant's number and went and posted up and waited for me at my accountant's...
32-year-old Martin Robles will find out his execution date tomorrow from District Court Judge Jose Longoria. Robles has been imprisoned since December of 2002 for the murders of Jesus Omar Gonzalez and John Commisky. Both men were shot and killed inside a home on Mary Street in November 2002.Robles and 27-year-old Joe David Padron, both known gang members, were convicted of capital murder. Patron was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the...
— Steve "King Silence" Calderon hesitated before pleading guilty Monday in federal court to plotting the murder of a Latin King gang associate for "snitching" about a 2004 slaying in Bethlehem's Saucon Park.Calderon, 28, told his attorney he didn't want to admit to a conspiracy because the murder never happened. But federal prosecutors have his words on tape urging other gang members to get revenge for the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation.In...
Four members of a Crips street gang clique in Pittsburgh pleaded guilty this week in federal court to charges of conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise, according to a report obtained by the Organized Crime Committee of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Vance Pearson, 25, aka “Vinny P;” Rayshawn Malachi, 25, aka “Melly Mel;” Arthur Davis, 24, aka “Seven;” and Phillip Turner, 22, aka “Philly C” each pleaded guilty to...
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