All Blog Posts Tagged 'Texas' (66)

By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.

Ross Ulbricht, or Rossman to his pals, was born in 1984 in Austin, Texas, where he smoked plenty of dope before going to study physics at the University of Dallas, then science and engineering at Penn State where he met his on-off girlfriend…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

On this day in 1951: On April 16, 1951, Texas Mafia family underboss Salvatore "Sam" Maceo died of natural causes.

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By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An alleged ranking member of the Clan Del Golfo has been extradited to the United States to face numerous drug…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Texas Mexican Mafia member Robert Eugene “Gino” Hernandez was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison on Wednesday for his role in a conspiracy to extort money from…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A member of the Sinaloa Cartel was extradited from Mexico last Friday to face federal racketeering charges in Texas. In April 2012,…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

A president in the Danish Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club was sentenced to a total of 14 years in prison on Friday. 35-year-old Kristian “Biggie” Beck Hansen (photo above) led the…

By Barbara Casey for Gangsters Inc.

Plans are being made to exhume the body of John Dillinger from his gravesite at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. It isn’t the first time the body of a historical figure has been exhumed. Jesse James, Eva Peron, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, and Daniel Boone are only a…

By David Amoruso

Greed can ruin a man. Carlos Montemayor (photo above) left Mexico and came to the United States in search of a better life. He started a trucking company and turned it into a major success. Rather than being satisfied, he decided to partner with the drug lord known as “La Barbie” and head his cocaine…

By Thom L. Jones

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As the famous song goes, “The Party's’ Over it’s Time to Call it a…

By Thom L. Jones

The Texas Almanac claims the heart of the territory lies near a small town called Brady, in McCulloch County. In square miles, Texas is the largest mainland state in the Union. Only Alaska tops it in size. “Bigger than Texas” is a somewhat overused expression, but hits the spot. It’s bigger than France…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Two men were sentenced to prison on Friday as a result of Operation Dirty Bird, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large-scale heroin trafficking network based in Ascension Parish,…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Jermaine Christopher Pleasant was sentenced yesterday to over 6 years in prison after being convicted of drug charges. 36-year-old Pleasant was charged in an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large-scale heroin trafficking network based in Ascension Parish,…

By David Amoruso

Family is everything. No surprise then that 35-year-old Victor Manuel Morales-Moreno moved from California to Houston to run a drug ring once operated by his imprisoned relatives.

Morales-Moreno took over following the arrests and incarceration of his relatives Jose Herrera-Alvarado and Pedro…

By David Amoruso

The former National Vice President of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Club, 59-year-old John Xavier Portillo, was sentenced on Monday to two consecutive life sentences, plus twenty years, in federal prison for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.

Portillo (photo above) was convicted alongside…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The leader of a massive heroin and money laundering conspiracy is heading to federal prison. 46-year-old Jesus Gutierrez pleaded guilty on April 26, 2018, to trafficking heroin and conspiracy to launder money. Today, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

At the time of his plea, the court…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and two subordinate gang members pleaded guilty this week to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder. 38-year-old David Wayne Williams - photo above, a senior leader in the gang, and 43-year-old Leland Hamm pleaded guilty to their role in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Two brothers were sentenced to decades behind bars on Thursday for their roles in an El Paso-based drug trafficking organization. 39–year-old Oscar Fierro-Sanchez and 38–year-old Ricardo Fierro-Sanchez were handed sentences of 40 years and 20 years, respectively, in federal prison followed by ten…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An alleged member of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Wednesday. 47-year-old Arturo “Chous” Shows Urquidi is charged with money laundering and organizing massive shipments of cocaine and marijuana into the United States.

His trial is scheduled…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Two federal inmates convicted of killing another inmate at a Beaumont Prison in Texas were sentenced to death on Wednesday. Both the two murderers and the victim were members of a white supremacist gang called Soldiers of the Aryan Culture.

34-year-old Ricky Fackrell and 36-year-old…

By David Amoruso

California drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross shows that you can play the game and survive. His story shows the hypocrisy of the government’s war on drugs, while also shining a light on the struggles of growing up in the ghetto. Above all, it’s about learning from mistakes and bettering yourself. “I used to…