All Blog Posts Tagged 'Drugs' (580)

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

For a few years, the New York Mafia seemed to have quieted down. Increased scrutiny from law enforcement coupled with RICO made mobsters rethink their violent deeds, opting for less conspicuous ways of getting…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Will a banker finally be held responsible for his financial crimes that led to a global recession? Nope. But as part of the War on Drugs, Alvaro Estuardo Cobar Bustamante, the director of a national Guatemalan bank, was…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Two members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a to racketeering conspiracy charge.…

By Gary Jenkins for Gangsters Inc. via Gangland Wire

Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo Lonardo (photo above) was the highest-ranking mob member to ever break the code of Omerta. Lonardo…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Dutch government and its intelligence service AIVD have “strong evidence” that Iran not only used Moroccan Dutch gangsters to eliminate two of its “enemies of the state” on foreign soil, but that…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The leader of an MS-13 clique in Columbus,…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.              

“You never know what enough is unless you know what is more than enough.” - William Blake     

It’s a story with more twists and turns than a novel by Agatha Christie. A list of…

This is part 2 of Five Minutes to Midnight. Read part 1 here.

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By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An international drug boss from the Belgian city of…

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Three bosses of the Gangster Disciples national criminal organization were convicted in federal court Tuesday of racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking conspiracy,…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) calls it “an industrial-scale operation – the biggest ever uncovered in the United Kingdom” involving the importation of over 50 tons of drugs worth billions of pounds from the…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Men like him are the lubricant of the underworld. 43-year-old Feng Xu pleaded guilty Tuesday to operating a network of properties used by organized crime groups for…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Stanley James II isn’t silent about his membership in the Crips. It’s something that defined him as a person and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Who said the New York Mafia lost its teeth? The Lucchese crime family, one of the city’s five La…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Nothing is more despicable than a public servant abusing the trust citizens placed in him or her. Especially when so many people suffer by his or her actions. Like in the case of Edgar Veytia, the former State…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Three members of a Coney Island-based street gang named the West End Enterprise pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday and Wednesday to a racketeering conspiracy involving their…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

If the Mexican Mafia needed guns, they called Fady Esho. If they needed drugs? They called Esho. If they needed someone to collect money on their behalf? 37-year-old Esho was their man or, as they called him, their…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Three Modesto Hells Angels bikers, including the charter’s vice president and secretary, were indicted and hit with gun and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

We often hear the phrase: “They don’t pay cops enough.” Some of these guys have to work extra jobs to make ends meet. One NYPD officer even worked as a security guard for the wife of infamous Mexican drug lord…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A high-ranking gangster with links to the Mexican Mafia was found guilty of a federal drug charge last week. 36-year-old Armando “Criminal” Molina was part of the Oxnard-based Surtown Chiques street…