Whoever said drug money is easy money forgot he had to clean it. Hundreds of millions of it. Cleaning dirty money is one of the underworld’s most valued – literally – tasks. Clean money, after all, is easy money. Free to spend wherever you please. Ro
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A convicted firearms supplier is facing more time behind bars after phone evidence gathered following his arrest showed he had also peddled drugs. 24-year-old Albanian national Klejdi Kazani was jailed for seven years in May 2022 after he was caught
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Moroccan-Dutch crime boss Ridouan Taghi was sentenced to life in prison today in a court in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was found guilty of six murders, four attempted murders, and several murder plots. Taghi is viewed by the DEA as one of Europe’
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug. With the emphasis on “hell”. It makes drug cartels so much money that they can corrupt every layer of society. The prize is so big that the fight to win sows death and destruction everywhere. Most of us are familiar with
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A Juarez Cartel boss admitted his role in a drug plot last week. 41-year-old Carlos “El 80” Arturo Quintana, the leader of La Linea, which also has been called the New Juárez Drug Cartel, was extradited to the United States in August of 2022 and pled
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The job of a secretary is anything but frightening or adventurous. Making appointments, administrative duties, all while working from nine to five under a boss is usually monotonous and generally looked down upon. So imagine being a secretary for the
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The leader of a Colombian drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. 38-year-old Hugo Gomez-Garcia, a/k/a “Simon,” “Guava,” and “Guavita,” used semi-su
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Drug trafficker Eliezer De Leon-Lopez (38, Guatemala), a/k/a “Wiro Loco” and “Daniel Martinez,” pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal
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An Albanian drug dealer who supplied more than £1 million of cocaine in just four months was imprisoned last Friday. Investigators of Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) identified Xhuljan Shehu as a prolific drug dealer who used the encrypted comm
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A former high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel entered a guilty plea last week to a conspiracy to import tons of cocaine into the United States. 43-year-old Jose Maria Guizar-Valencia, of Tulare, California, is considered one of the last number
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A New York man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Boston to leading a sophisticated international money laundering organization that also distributed large quantities of cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy).
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A Colombian man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston this week for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy connected to organized crime in the Republic of Colombia. 41-year-old Mario Zapata Velez, of Medellín, was sentenced to five years i
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The leader of One Family Clique (OFC), a Lowell-based gang, pleaded guilty Thursday, September 7, to conspiring with fellow OFC gang members to traffic wholesale quantities of cocaine, and to launder millions of dollars in drug proceeds through casin
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Trevor Scott Sparks, a Kansas City, Missouri, federal defendant who escaped after trial and was recaptured, was sentenced in federal district court on Tuesday for his role in leading a $4.1 million heavily armed drug-trafficking conspiracy, and direc
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A West Yorkshire-based organized crime group that trafficked cocaine were sentenced Wednesday to a combined 49 years behind bars. Their prison terms follow a National Crime Agency investigation under Operation Venetic – the UK’s response to the taked
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A Boston man pleaded guilty Friday to his involvement in a sophisticated international money laundering and drug trafficking organization. 57-year-old Mariano Santana pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Angel
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Two men who orchestrated the transportation and distribution of over 500 pounds of ice methamphetamine to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were sentenced on August 16 and 30, 2023, to a total of 63 years in federal prison.
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A 38-year-old Kent, Washington resident was sentenced Tuesday in Seattle to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. Omar Vazquez-Limon was arrested in August 2020 in northern California as he transported kilos of
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A Florida Bloods gang boss was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison on Monday. 36-year-old Antonio Eugene Brutton had pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl
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The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) dismantled a criminal organization smuggling large quantities of cocaine from South America to Europe via the Canary Islands. The investigation identified a significant threat; criminal organizations’ increasin
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