Paul McGovern police want to quiz the crime boss about a recent stabbing

Paul McGovern police want to quiz the crime boss about a recent stabbing - if they believe he was involved, his life licence may be revoked.McGovern, 35, has not been seen since James Bentley was knifed in Bearsden, Glasgow, two weeks ago. And last night underworld sources insisted McGovern had left the UK.A gangland insider said: "Cops want to speak to Paul about the incident. If he had ANY involvement they'll sling him back behind bars. So he is...

John McCabe, 47, was arrested Detectives had been tipped off that he was to be targeted by gunmen.

John McCabe, 47, was arrested Detectives had been tipped off that he was to be targeted by gunmen.They feared a bloodbath as McCabe and his Daniel cronies were also aware of the threat and were preparing to retaliate.One source said: "There was a well-developed plan to target McCabe at a party which was to be attended by most of the Daniel mob."He and the Daniels were ready for it. If the party had gone ahead, there could have been carnage with innocent...

Bloods, Gangster Disciples, Sur-13, Kurdish Pride

Gangs call themselves the Bloods, Gangster Disciples, Sur-13, Kurdish Pride and dozens of other names. Some are chapters of national brands. They recruit in schools and in parks. Girls are joining at increasing rates, and affiliation among whites is on the rise — shattering stereotypes...

‘Killer Miller' was fatally shot by members of the Joint Task Force (JTF)

major gang leaders of remnants of the Joel Andem Gang in St. Thomas was shot and killed by the police Friday morning.Rupert Wallace otherwise called ‘Killer Miller' was fatally shot by members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Stanton Housing Scheme near Morant Bay in St. A team from the JTF reportedly went to the Stanton Housing Scheme in search of Wallace and his cronies.The security team circled the house where it was believed Wallace was located...

Terry Smith, 50, was plotting a series of cash-in-transit attacks that netted his gang £172,000.

Terry Smith, 50, who appeared on chat shows and worked as a film consultant capitalising on his criminal expertise, inflicted near fatal injuries on a commuter.While publishing his memoirs and providing commentary on such events as the £53m Securitas raid in 2006, Smith was plotting a series of cash-in-transit attacks that netted his gang £172,000.Chelmsford crown court heard that during one of the raids at Rayleigh railway station a passerby, Adam...

Harminder Thiara, 24, was sentenced to 39 months in prison

Harminder Thiara, 24, was sentenced to 39 months in prison on Friday in provincial court after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including criminal harassment, uttering death threats and attempted obstruction of justice.Crown prosecutor Christian Lim told court Thiara had been dating Alexandra Walters, but the relationship had ended and she had told him numerous times that she “didn’t want to be his significant other.” Lim said Thiara contacted...

Marisa Merico, 40 father is Mafia Don Emilio DiGiovine, who was jailed for 30 years in the early 90s.

Marisa Merico, 40, served 14 months of a 42 month sentence in the late 1990s and returned to the UK shortly after. But Italy wants her to serve more time in Milan after appealing her release.Her father is Mafia Don Emilio DiGiovine, who was jailed for 30 years in the early 90s. He is now under a witness protection scheme in his homeland after he allegedly gave evidence about the Mafia in exchange for leniency.Since then he has been the target of...

24-year-old man up to late yesterday afternoon was assisting police with investigations in connection with the shooting deaths of four people

24-year-old man up to late yesterday afternoon was assisting police with investigations in connection with the shooting deaths of four people at their Gonzales home on Monday. The man, police sources said, was a member of a gang in the area. According to Deputy Police Commissioner Gilbert Reyes yesterday the suspect, from Gonzales, was arrested by a party of police officers on Tuesday night. During the attack at their family home around 12.30 am...

Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeMaria is a member of the 'Ndrangheta and a family leader," the letter says. It further alleges that DeMaria "

bold legal challenge an accused Toronto Mafia boss made to prevent serious police allegations of underworld activities interfering with his release from prison will cost him thousands more now that a judge has ordered him to pay the government's legal bills.But for Vincenzo "Jimmy" DeMaria, a successful businessman, convicted killer and accused leader within the city's Mafia, the fact he was released from prison despite the damning allegations means...

Deportation order against Oboc Peter Amon, 24, has been stayed and may be withdrawn completely

'He's a nice guy. Great guy.'—Teen Challenge counsellor Steve Solomon order against Oboc Peter Amon, 24, has been stayed and may be withdrawn completely if Amon successfully follows a raft of strict conditions for the next five years, IRB member Douglas Cochran ruled in a decision made public on Friday.Amon had been ordered deported based on recent convictions for aggravated assault and assault with a weapon — offences he served time in jail for.Amon...

Osiel Cárdenas Guillen was ordered to forfeit $50 million, a small slice of his estimated earnings.

Osiel Cárdenas Guillen was ordered to forfeit $50 million, a small slice of his estimated earnings.Cárdenas, 42, a native of the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, moved tons of cocaine and made millions as he ruled the Gulf cartel drug empire with a viciousness seldom before seen, authorities said."Osiel Cárdenas Guillen headed one of the most prolific and certainly most violent drug trafficking organizations that Mexico has ever spawned," said Mike...

Mexican Mafia wanted a paroled Avenues gang member named Frank "Kiko" Cordova dead.

Pancho Real was at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church with his wife and daughter one Sunday in October 2006 when his cellphone rang.He was summoned to a park near his home on Drew Street, a drug and gang haven in Northeast Los Angeles, to kill a man he didn't know. The Mexican Mafia wanted a paroled Avenues gang member named Frank "Kiko" Cordova dead.Real left church with his family and called another gang member, Carlos Renteria.At the park that afternoon,...

Lawon Marshawn Hall, 19, of Richmond, died after two men opened fire outside the Suede nightclub near Fisherman's Wharf.

Lawon Marshawn Hall, 19, of Richmond, died after two men opened fire outside the Suede nightclub near Fisherman's Wharf. Hall was shot several times; three other men were also hit and survived.One of the suspected gunmen, 20-year-old Keandre Davis, also of Richmond, was arrested after being shot by a patrol special officer assigned to help provide security for the club.Lt. Mike Stasko, head of the San Francisco Police Department's homicide detail,...

Dawn raids on Fox drug gang, a notorious crime family as part of a crackdown over the assassination of gangster Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll.

Dawn raids on a notorious crime family as part of a crackdown over the assassination of gangster Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll.Officers swooped on nine homes in Calton, Glasgow, belonging to members and associates of the Fox drug gang.But they found nothing - as it appeared the Foxs had been tipped off.The Record can reveal that Calton's Millroad Street was sealed off on Friday as three homes were turned over. One belongs to John Fox, the other to brother...

Bell Gardens street gang, included a suspected hit man for a Mexican drug cartel

Bell Gardens street gang, included a suspected hit man for a Mexican drug cartel, have been arrested on drug trafficking and weapons charges, federal officials said today.The suspects — six U.S. citizens and three illegal Mexican immigrants — were arrested Thursday as agents served search warrants in Bell Gardens and Los Angeles, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.Several assault weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle,...

Henry “Silent” Valenzuela, 27, of Bell Gardens, told an ICE undercover investigator that he is a hit man for a Tijuana-based drug cartel

Henry “Silent” Valenzuela, 27, of Bell Gardens, told an ICE undercover investigator that he is a hit man for a Tijuana-based drug cartel, officials said.The arrests culminated a nine-month investigation of the Barrio Evil 13 street gang by ICE, which was assisted in the arrests by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Bell, Huntington Park, Vernon and Long Beach police departments.“This...

Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, hailed as a hero after the 9/11 attacks, has been sentenced to four years in jail.

Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, hailed as a hero after the 9/11 attacks, has been sentenced to four years in jail.Kerik pleaded guilty in November to eight charges, including lying to the White House and tax evasion.He lied while being vetted for the post of homeland security chief in 2004.Federal judge Stephen Robinson said the fact that Kerik, 54, used the attacks for “personal gain and aggrandisement” was “a dark place in the...

Nigro is alleged to have ordered the hit on Bruno

Nigro is alleged to have ordered the hit on Bruno (pictured at left with his son in 1993), that was carried out by Frankie Roche in the parking lot of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Springfield MA. Springfield's ABC 40 has more details on today's indictment, reporting that five...

Julian Jose Garza, 28, of Notus, Idaho, and a member of the East Side Locos gang

Julian Jose Garza, 28, of Notus, Idaho, and a member of the East Side Locos gang in Caldwell, was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, the United States Attorney's Office announced.He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge, who also ordered Garza to serve 3 years of supervised release after he completes his prison term. He will serve his sentence in a federal prison outside of Idaho.Garza...

Alberto Hurtado Osorio, 60, was behind bars in Colombia last night

Alberto Hurtado Osorio, 60, was behind bars in Colombia last night. His arrest came two years after the Australian Federal Police and counterparts in South America and Latin America launched a sting to smash his cartel, which is suspected of smuggling drugs across the world through the post.Osorio, who served two years in Sydney on drug charges in the early 1990s, had been on the AFP's secret "top 10" target list for years.But the Colombian, a senior...

Scott William Schneider, 30, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to driving while impaired and possession of a prohibited firearm.

Scott William Schneider, 30, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to driving while impaired and possession of a prohibited firearm.He was handed a two-year and nine-month sentence, a 10-year firearm ban and a two-year driving ban.Schneider was carrying a loaded handgun when he was arrested early Christmas Day after a hit-and-run in the 800-block Parker Street in White Rock.His passenger, a 27-year-old White Rock man, is scheduled to appear...

Bomb blast killed two men in Adelaide.

The man, of suburban Munno Para West, has not been charged in relation to the fatal explosion that claimed the lives of a Hells Angels bikie gang associate and a convicted drug dealer.The pair died when a homemade bomb went off in a car at suburban Enfield before dawn.Police believe the bomb was triggered by accident and a rival gang member was the intended target.The man charged was detained after police went to the home of one of the dead men and...

Joseph Ferraiolo was targeted.

"To me it seems like there was some inside or some targeting here because we never ever had problems here," says Steve Frydman who has owned a real estate business on the second floor of this building for 20 years.In that time he says he's never experienced the violence police say took place right below his office, "the space that they rented here was always quiet and discrete I never saw any unusual amount of people at once that would come here."Things...

“RIP King Of The Hill.”

Another said: “True Bad Man. RIP bro. Never forgotten.”And another said: “Words cannot explain how we all feel as you were a true friend to us all and you did many good things for us all and helped us out in ways others would not.“You were at the top but still had time for us at...

Chris Little was known to police in Stockport as an empire-builder

Chris Little was a product of Greater Manchester, a city now coping with some of the most viciously criminal neighbourhoods in urban Europe. As a local villain, he was known to police in Stockport as an empire-builder rather than 'self-employed builder' as he had lately styled himself....

Arran Coghlan, 39,guarded by armed police in hospital while being treated for knife wounds.

Arran Coghlan, 39,guarded by armed police in hospital while being treated for knife wounds.His business associate Stephen ‘Aki’ Akinyemi, 36, was found stabbed to death in his bathroom following an alleged row.Yesterday, officers were searching Coghlan's £2million converted chapel in Alderley Edge, Cheshire – known as ‘Millionaires’ Row’ where Premiership footballers rub shoulders with soap stars.Members of his family have been taken into protective...

Danielle Bardsley, 30, wept as she was imprisoned after ignoring a court order

Danielle Bardsley, 30, wept as she was imprisoned after ignoring a court order demanding she pay back some of the money stolen by her boyfriend Peter Anderson.Last year the M.E.N. revealed how Bardsley, of Barrow Street, Salford, enjoyed a footballer's ‘WAG’ lifestyle thanks to Anderson’s...

Stephen Marshall, 38, admitted having butchered the bodies of four other men while working as a doorman for a London nightclub

Stephen Marshall, 38, also admitted having butchered the bodies of four other men while working as a doorman for a London nightclub run by gangsters in the 1990s. Police will reopen a number of cold cases involving missing people and body parts found in the past 15 years.Described as both "charming" and "highly volatile", Marshall will serve a minimum of 36 years for murdering Jeffrey Howe and then scattering his body parts across two counties before...

Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair has said that he always feels "relaxed and safe" whenever he stays in Dublin.

Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair has said that he always feels "relaxed and safe" whenever he stays in Dublin. Adair (46) is currently living in Troon in Scotland but plans to end his self-imposed exile and return to Ireland. In an interview with Dublin's Herald newspaper, the gangster ruled out living permanently in Dublin but said he never felt threatened in the Irish capital. "The thing that struck me about Dublin is how relaxing it was and how safe I felt...