Police have charged four men with ties to the Outlaws motorcycle gang after a Medicine Hat area drug bust. On Wednesday, RCMP pulled a vehicle over on the Trans-Canada Highway near Redcliff and found a cocaine stash inside. Police seized 57 grams of cocaine worth an estimated street value of $5,600. Police have charged Calgarian Norman Playter, 44, Rene Luedee, 49, of Medicine Hat, and Redcliff resident Brian Gougeon, 45 with possession...
Known members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang have been busted on drug trafficking charges, say police. On Jan. 25, officers from the Medicine Hat Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) pulled over a vehicle along the Trans-Canada Hwy., near Redcliff, about 285 km southeast of Calgary. Police say 57 grams of cocaine found inside resulted in the arrests of 45-year-old Redcliff resident Brian Gougeon, 44-year-old Calgary resident Norman...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks Oklahoma City right up there with Los Angeles in the number of gang-related homicides. KOCO Eyewitness News 5's Katy Blakey took those numbers to Oklahoma City's police chief. "We've had the gang problem since the late 80s, and it's grown. We saw huge growth in the early 90s, and we saw huge growth in the early 2000s," said Police Chief Bill Citty. The study shows between 2004 and...
BIKIE leader Vince Focarelli has survived a fourth attempt on his life - but his son Giovanni was shot dead in a ''targeted attack'' in Adelaide's north. Read on for the latest updates on this rapidly developing story. The Royal Adelaide Hospital has reopened after a package addressed to shot bikie Vince Focarelli forced the evacuation of the hospital's main foyer. The package was intercepted by police, who had treated it as suspicious. ...
Director Spike Lee is taking a page out of comedian Bill Cosby’s playbook. The man who gave us “Do the Right Thing” and “He Got Game” is talking up the power of getting a good education and how the media makes gangster life far too appealing. Cosby said essentially the same thing a few years back, but members of the black community didn’t take kindly to the veteran comic’s message. Despite 100 years of slavery, our ancestors were smart enough...
Two men allegedly linked to the Comancheros bikie gang are to face court over driving offences, after a Gang Squad operation in Sydney's south-west on Friday. Officers from Strike Force Raptor stopped a motorcycle they say was being driven by a Comancheros member at Milperra about 10:15pm (AEDT). Police say the 51-year-old rider returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.106, more than twice the legal limit. The Marrickville man's license was suspended...
COMANCHERO bikie gang member has been shot dead while his father and club president survived a fourth attempt on his life. Witnesses said they heard up to five gunshots in quick succession at 9pm last night in an Adelaide suburb. Peter Frost, a resident of Dry Creek for 13 years, said he heard a popping noise but thought it might have been fireworks. "I wasn't sure if it was gunshots or what it was," he said. "It was like pop, pop,...
A firebug left a smouldering trail of destruction as four vehicles were torched in four east London driveways, dangerously close to homes as their owners slept. The separate blazes in the Whitney St. and Edgeworth Ave. area broke out about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, rattling area residents. Police had no suspects, but said the string of fires doesn’t appear connected to a rash of fires three weeks ago that damaged two massage parlours and a strip...
Twenty-two-year-old Giovanni Focarelli died in the shooting in Flame Avenue at Dry Creek on Sunday night. His father Vince Focarelli is in a stable condition after being shot up to four times. Police say Mr Focarelli, the self-appointed head of the South Australian chapter of the Comancheros bikie gang, is refusing to help with investigations into his son's death. Detective Superintendent Grant Moyle says the two men were shot in a street...
South Australian Police are this morning investigating another bikie-related shooting that's left the son of one gang leader dead. Comancheros boss, Vince Focarelli was wounded several times but survived. His son however died from his wounds. Gang shootings have plagued police in more than one state in recent weeks. So is the long running crackdown on bikie gang violence actually working? Hayden Cooper reports. HAYDEN COOPER: When a police...
The shooting of a bikie gang member and his club president father has been declared a major crime as the South Australian police minister says some outlaw gangs have no regard for the law or the community. Giovanni Focarelli, 22, is dead and his father, Comanchero club president Vince Focarelli, is in Royal Adelaide Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds after the shooting on Sunday night. Police Minister Jennifer Rankine said the state has...
Two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were convicted Thursday of assault in connection with a stabbing at last summer's Sturgis motorcycle rally.
Mark Allen Duclos, 48, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was convicted of aggravated assault, a felony, and George James Caruso, 57 of Shirley, Mass., was convicted of simple assault, a misdemeanor.Duclos is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 21 and Caruso on March 5.According to police, members of the Hells...
The shooting of a bikie gang member and his club president father has been declared a major crime as the South Australian police minister says some outlaw gangs have no regard for the law or the community.
Giovanni Focarelli, 22, is dead and his father, Comanchero club president Vince Focarelli, is in Royal Adelaide Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds after the shooting on Sunday night.Police Minister Jennifer Rankine said the state has tough laws...
Prosecutors have welcomed the conviction of a drugs gang boss who plotted to supply heroin and cocaine in Bedford while on licence from a previous jail sentence.
Domenico Masciopinto will be sentenced in March after being convicted of two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs by a jury at Luton Crown Court.The Crown Prosecution Service said the 31-year-old, formerly of Farrer Court, Bedford, was part of a gang which supplied "mid-level" street...
The 53-year-old, who also spent time in jail for kidnapping beer magnate Freddie Heineken, was taken by car to a secret location ‘on a public road’ where he was picked up by friends, the Telegraaf reported.The paper said the release had been closely coordinated by justice ministry officials in an effort to avoid Holleeder being either greeted as a hero or attacked.The NRC reported at the beginning of January that Holleeder would not face charges...
:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder A longtime Richmond-area gang member whose testimony last week helped prosecutors win convictions and a recommendation of life in prison against the gang's leader walked free Thursday from the Henrico County Jail.
William D. Hargrove, 19, one of four gang defendants facing murder, robbery, weapons and conspiracy...
Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said. Late Tuesday, officers carrying search warrants raided locations in Elizabeth, Rahway and the Fords section of Woodbridge, seizing 75 bricks of heroin, a .40-caliber handgun and $36,000 in cash. The drugs, packed for street distribution, are worth $38,000, the prosecutor’s office said. Arrested in the raids was a drug ring leader, Dennis Jones, known to many as "Fat Cat," said Union County Prosecutor...
Police Chief Gerard Dessoye walked behind the table, pointing to the plastic bags filled with more than $60,000 worth of various narcotics and describing the vast array of firearms investigators seized Thursday during a raid carried out in undisclosed parts of Wilkes-Barre and Plains Township. The haul, Luzerne County Assistant District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce said, included "100 percent pure" heroin and cocaine and a cache of firearms ranging...
An unidentified man is listed in serious condition in hospital after an evening shooting in Ottawa's west-end. Ottawa Police say the victim was found in a parking lot on Woodfield Drive around 9:30 p.m. suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. No other information on suspects or the victim has been released. The Guns and Gangs Unit is investigating the shooting. Woodfield Drive is in the area of Merivale Road and Hunt Club Ro...
The suspects, members of two rival gangs, were caught in what law enforcement is calling "Operation Tidal Wave." NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and Kings Country District Attorney Charles Hynes made the announcement about the arrests at a press conference last week. They said the feuding gangs, known as the Wave Gang and Hoodstarz, had been "terrorizing" the Brownsville area. Their victims include an innocent bystander who was killed during...
Fueled largely by the drug trade, gang violence in Newark is on par with historically violent California cities like Los Angeles and Oakland, according to a report the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released today. Using data from 2003 through 2008, the analysis looked at homicides in large cities in 17 states and found the highest level of gang-related murders in Los Angeles, Oakland and Long Beach, Calif., Oklahoma City and...
A statewide takedown of several suspected Native Mob gang members prompted a rare lockdown of Minnesota's entire prison system, so authorities could ensure that word of the arrests didn't get out and protect the safety of officers in the field, officials said Wednesday. A sweeping, 47-count indictment partially unsealed Tuesday and made available Wednesday charges 24 alleged gang members with conspiracy to participate in racketeering...
Social media Web sites have become popular mechanisms by which gang members carry out drug-dealing and other illegal activity. This trend is explored in the Chicago Crime Commission Gang Book, which also highlights profiles, colors and other identifiers of 70 of the most prominent street gangs in Chicago, a city estimated to have more than 68,000 gang members, according to a news release about the book. Released Thursday, the book also contains...
Edward "Special Ed" Borough, 40, of the 500 block of Sappington Barracks Road, pleaded guilty to murdering three men and was sentenced Monday to three 30-year terms to run concurrently.
Boroughf was accused, along with several other members of a motorcycle gang called the Invaders, of killing Alan Little, 61, of the 10000 block of Niblic Drive on May 31, 2007. His remains were found in a sinkhole in Ste. Genevieve County in April 2009.Randy...
Cassone Arnaze Taylor, 19, and Darell Spates, a 22-year-old John Street resident, have been charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault and handgun violations in connection with the murder of Arnold G. Fagans Jr., who was shot multiple times in the West Road Apartments parking lot on Jan. 12.They continue to be held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center following a District Court bail review hearing Monday.Taylor and...
And Ariana Drews said Adam Cavanagh was involved in multiple ongoing disputes, including one with the cousin of a man allegedly present when he was slain.Cavanagh was also “pistol whipped” by crackheads in an ambush within days of his Feb. 3, 2007 killing, Drews told the youth court trial of his alleged killer.Drews said she was at the house party at Cavanagh’s parents’ northeast Calgary home, but left before he was fatally shot by a gunman...
The dead man, a young Latino whom police did not immediately name, fell dead in the crosswalk at 5th Ave. and 53rd St. in Sunset Park, blood pouring from one of his ears, a witness said.The shooting, which a police source said is being investigated as a possible gang rubout, happened about 7:40 p.m.“This area is really busy at that time,” said area resident Jennifer Diaz, 24. “For someone to do this that early, it’s crazy.”Police used a K-9...
Crossing out another gang's graffiti shows disrespect to that group and could lead to a violent confrontation or worse, a detective testified Tuesday in the trial of three gang members accused of killing a Pico Rivera grandmother.
"It's complete disrespect to that gang. It's disrespect and needs to be answered," Detective Hank Ortega of the Sheriff's Operation Safe Streets Bureau said. OSS is the department's gang unit.Ortega was a prosecution...
:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder The Zetas cartel has become the biggest drug gang in Mexico, overtaking its bitter rival, the Sinaloa cartel, a new report suggests.
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