By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
If you stroll through the gardens of Villa Bonanno, in Piazza Vittoria, Palermo, late in the afternoon as the sun is slowly sinking over Tunisia, the towering palms and beautiful walkways that seem to meander forev
By Milko for Gangsters Inc.
Drug boss Shurendy Quant (photo above) came from a small island in the Caribbean, but quickly saw his influence grow from the tropics into the rainy streets of Western Europe. His network enabled him to allegedly establish
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Alleged drug lord Tse Chi Lop was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, yesterday. He was on his way to Canada and was apprehended at the request of Australian police. The 56-year-old now faces extradit
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The world is a big place. While everyone was focusing on the narco kingpins in the Americas, a powerful Triad boss was operating in the shadows, organizing the Asian drug trade under his rule, creating a $8 billion
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Mafia hitman or crazy serial killer? Every so often people ask this question when they come upon a very capable and active mob assassin. A murderer like Bonanno crime family soldier “Tommy Karate” Pitera brings up
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Alleged Gambino Mafia family associate Peter Tuccio (photo above, right, sitting next to Philadelphia Mafia boss Joseph Merlino) pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday to using fire to commit the felony cri
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Published December 2019 - Updated January 2021: Two mobsters once praised by Mafia boss John Gotti are among twelve Gambino Mafia family gangsters and associates who were indicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Th
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Authorities are stepping up their hunt for Hung Tien Pham, a hitman of Boston Chinatown’s Ping On Triad, who is wanted for the brutal execution-style murders of five men at a Chinatown social club in Boston, Massachusetts, 3
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
In the Mafia, you don’t get to the top without leaving a trail of dead bodies in your wake. You have to kill to be on top of the hill. Whether you’re John Gotti, Carlo Gambino or Vito Genovese. Their soldiers know
By Joe Francis for Gangsters Inc.
Since Italy and Europe are becoming more diverse, the Italian organized crime groups no longer have a monopoly on crime in Italy. Not only are ethnic Albanians on the rise, Nigerian and Chinese gangs are also making
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The life of a mobster is one filled with lies and death. Still, Anthony Casso’s life was overflowing with both in ways that made many other hardcore gangsters blush. As a leading figure in New York’s Lucchese Mafia
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
The former president of an Australian outlaw motorcycle club was shot dead in a brazen hit in front of multiple witnesses at a racing event in Perth, Australia on Saturday evening. 51-year-old Nick Martin once headed the Reb
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Are you ready to listen to some stories about the New England Mafia family? Then you’re in luck! The Street Corner Soapbox is a brand-new podcast presented by co-hosts Rob Falso and Lord Willin and recently sat down with two
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Living the life of an outlaw tends to get you into trouble every now and then. On Tuesday, thirty bikers and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club were confronted with that reality in a massive way when an FBI-led investi
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Eight members and associates of the “Pure Armenian Blood” gang were indicted on Tuesday and charged with a variety of racketeering and fraud offenses. Prosecutors allege the group operated from Los Angeles to New York with b
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
This is a story of gangs of London, or at least one of them, the ruthless murder of a truly innocent man, and the irony of coincidence on a scale that is almost impossible to believe: A man shoots a man dead in bro
By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.
It sounded simple. The guns had already been bought in the United States by a straw buyer and crossed the border into Nogales, on the frontier with Arizona – most of the firepower in Mexico’s bloody narco wars is s
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
After years of anticipation the Feds finally brought another indictment against the hierarchy of the Philadelphia Mafia family this week. Fifteen alleged leaders, members, and associates of the South Philadelphia a
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
“For the gangster there is only the city, he must inhibit it in order to personify it….not the real city but that dangerous sad city of the imagination which is so much more important, which is the modern world. An
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
A legend of the Boston underworld has passed. Retired mob boss Howard “Howie” Winter passed away from a heart attack on Thursday. He was 91. Winter was an original member and onetime boss of the infamous Winter Hil
