All Blog Posts Tagged 'News' (1,000)

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

All is fair in love and war, but if one gets involved in either, prepare for things to get messy and end in disaster. As it did for…

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The boss of a drug trafficking gang operating in Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison. 33-year-old Keith Herd (photo above) previously pleaded guilty by videoconference to a third superseding…

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One of Colombia’s top cocaine producers pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn to leading a continuing criminal enterprise as charged in a superseding indictment. 46-year-old Roman Narvaez Ansazoy faces a…

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One of 19 defendants charged in a 2018 Columbus gang-related racketeering conspiracy pleaded guilty Tuesday for his part in the deadly activities of the local Crips gang. 28-year-old Jonathan Dantzler admitted to murdering a…

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Police in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates last month arrested a British man wanted in the United Kingdom for his alleged role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot. 35-year-old Michael Paul Moogan, from…

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In a new major operation against international drug trafficking and money laundering on Wednesday, Italian and German authorities, with the help of Europol and Eurojust, arrested 31 suspects in both countries that are…

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The boss of the “Get Dat Money” (GDM) drug trafficking organization in Macon, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison on Tuesday as the result of a lengthy investigation into the network’s illegal activities…

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40 alleged members of the Santapaola-Ercolano family in Catania, Sicily, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with Mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion, social security and pension fraud. The Santapaola-Ercolano clan is led by…

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A gangster-turned-informant has filed a lawsuit against Scotland Yard because it has failed to protect him after his identity was exposed to his underworld colleagues when a 166-page intelligence report on “endemic police…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Nigerian Mafia in Italy has been on the rise in recent years. Italian authorities took notice and on Monday made 30 arrests throughout Italy targeting the Black Axe, a Nigerian crime group viewed as one of the…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Some guys just don’t get it. When you’re involved in crime it is best to keep a low profile. It is a bad idea to impersonate the most famous Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion on the planet and hand out business cards…

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A motorcycle club named “Peckerwoods” conjures up certain images. The Peckerwoods Outlaw Motorcycle Club does not disappoint. Racism, neo-Nazi memorabilia, and meth: the entire picture is complete. On Monday, its former…

By Ron Chepusiuk exclusively for Gangsters Inc.

This is an excerpt from Ron Chepesiuk’s forthcoming book, The Real Mr. Big: How A Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom’s Most notorious Cocaine Kingpin. The book will be launched April 20, 2021. Jesus Ruiz…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

When your main business is illegal, it’s smart to have a legit front business. The Original Block Hustlaz officially were a rap music label that consisted of artists and producers. Behind the scenes, however, they…

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An associate of the Genovese crime family’s…

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A leader of the Aryan Knights prison gang was sentenced to life in federal prison on Thursday. 55-year-old Harlan Hale pleaded guilty to one count of participating in a RICO conspiracy and one count of committing a violent…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Women who climb to the top of the underworld remain a rare breed, but every now and then several manage to break through that glass ceiling. Among them Moroccan-Dutch drug boss Naima Jillal, dubbed “The Godmother…

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Thanks, but no thanks. Two religious paintings donated by an infamous Camorra Mafia boss were removed from a church last week on orders of the archbishop. The move occurs not long after Pope Francis loudly condemned Italy’s…

By Ron Chepesiuk for Gangsters Inc.

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARKSIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

They call him “Mouf” or “Poto” and they know he is one of France’s biggest narcotics traffickers. 41-year-old Moufide Bouchibi allegedly supplies France with 10 percent of its annual hashish intake. Police were on…