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Anti-Drug Plan Set For Mexican Border Better Technology, Intelligence Stressed By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 6, 2009 The Obama administration released yesterday a counternarcotics strategy for the U.S.-Mexico border that calls for deploying new technology, stepping u...

Gangsters could be part of the solution Richmond-born criminologist says Hells Angels could stop gang war By Nelson Bennett, Vancouver Sun June 5, 2009 If police really want to end the gang war raging throughout the Lower Mainland, they might want to have a sit-down with the Hell's Angels. That is ...

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VANCOUVER — B.C.’s top-echelon crime groups are co-existing “peaceably” despite high-profile tit-for-tat slayings among lower-level gangs, a new RCMP report says. The 2009 Integrated Threat Assessment on Organized Crime also says the number of organized crime groups in B.C. has risen for the sixth s...

Mexican authorities say they have arrested an alleged top member of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Police detained Jesus Zambada and 15 other suspects after a shootout in Mexico City, Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora told journalists. Mr Medina Mora said Jesus Zambada directed cocain...

Feds: Bus companies were bullied by Chinatown gang NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged 13 members of a Chinatown gang in New York City with bullying at least two interstate bus companies for a share of ownership and a cut of profits. The members of the gang, dubbed the Banya organizatio...

Federal prosecutors have charged 13 members of a Chinatown gang in New York City with bullying at least two interstate bus companies for a share of ownership and a cut of profits. The members of the gang, dubbed the Banya organization after the village in China where many of them lived, are accused ...

Police have arrested a suspect in the attempted assassination of reputed organized crime kingpin Charlie Abutbul. Roee Bunker, 23, reportedly an associate of the Netanya-based Shirazi family, has been in police custody for eleven days. He was arrested by the National Serious and International Crimes...

The Crown is expected to reveal Thursday what riches will be confiscated from six mob leaders, including Nicolo Rizzuto, as the case against them enters the sentencing stage. Last month, when Rizzuto and the five other reputed leaders of the Montreal Mafia pleaded guilty to charges stemming from Pro...

LARGO — After a two-year investigation, authorities said Wednesday that they have broken up a widespread check counterfeiting network that stole millions of dollars from Florida banks. About 100 people, broken into six rings, took part in the scheme, which started in Tampa more than a decade ago, Pi...

A 'supergrass' witness has been shot dead by a sniper perched on a hill overlooking the exercise yard of his jail. Convicted gangster Sghair Larimi - a key police witness in an ongoing murder investigation - died from a bullet to the chest at Varces-Grenoble prison. A second man in the exercise yard...

The leaders of a large scale nationwide cocaine trafficking ring known as the Black Mafia Family were sentenced in Detroit federal court today to 30 years in prison. Brothers Terry Flenory, 38 of Los Angeles and Demetrius Flenory, 40, of Atlanta, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn. The...

A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water? The city's king distributor of bottled beverages likes the wiseguys by Tom Robbins May 27th, 2008 12:00 AM For those who insist that New York's Mafia is mainly a relic of the bad old past, consider this: The day job of the man currently alleged to be the ...

Mexico’s War Against Drugs Kills Its Police MEXICO CITY — The assassination was an inside job. The federal police commander kept his schedule secret and slept in a different place each night, yet the killer had the keys to the official’s apartment and was waiting for him when he arrived after midni...

Family's agony at horror attack May 23 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner A TEENAGER remains seriously ill in hospital after a horror machete attack left him possibly scarred for life. The family of 18-year-old Rizwan Awan say he was an innocent victim caught up in gang warfare on th...

Promising prison plan: Officials should sign on the Reporter, 05/22/2008 A plan proposed by federal court referees tasked with correcting an array of problems in California's overcrowded prison system looks promising. The trick will be to get everyone involved to sign onto the deal. Of course, the ...

Thugs milk desperate refugees By Munyaradzi Makoni Refugees queuing on the Foreshore in Cape Town for the home affairs bus that takes them to the Barrack Street offices for their asylum applications to be processed are being terrorised by thugs who demand cash for positions at the front of the queu...

Mexican official says organized crime targeted By KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press Writer AUSTIN — Mexico is attempting to combat organized crime through judicial system reforms while working with the U.S. to try to curb a security crisis on the border, a Mexican deputy attorney general said Wednesd...

Reputed mob underboss to go free on bail By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff / May 21, 2008 Reputed New England Mafia underboss Carmen "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio has been ordered released on $20,000 cash bail by a federal magistrate who rejected the government's assertion that he is dangerous and should r...