City liquor board renews Milan’s license - baltimoresun.com

City liquor board renews Milan’s license - baltimoresun.com: "Critics say the companies Jet Set Mafia and GoodLife Productions promote Milan as a place to party, drawing crowds that stay later, drink harder and make more noise than traditional Little Italy diners.'The board does not believe that the evidence shows that Jet Set Mafia or GoodLife is an outside party promoter. I don't know' what would, Liquor Board Chairman Stephan Fogleman said, announcing...

Reputed British gangster gunned down - UPI.com

Reputed British gangster gunned down - UPI.com: "Nicky Ayers, manager of a British soccer team and a reputed mobster in Liverpool, was gunned down early Thursday, police said.Ayers took at least three bullets in an execution-style killing just after midnight, the Liverpool Echo reported. He was shot on the street in West Derby, apparently as he returned home after a visit with a young grandson.The manager of the Western Approaches Football Club in...

Gangland widow Judy Moran has been refused bail after a magistrate found she had not met "exceptional circumstances".

Gangland widow Judy Moran has been refused bail after a magistrate found she had not met "exceptional circumstances".Deputy chief magistrate, Jelena Popovic told Moran that her bail application "had not gone well", and that while she maintained concerns about her health and transport...

Crime family head sentenced over £250,000 mortgage fraud | Glasgow and West | STV News

Crime family head sentenced over £250,000 mortgage fraud | Glasgow and West | STV News: "Edward Lyons, known as Eddie, lied to lenders about his income to secure the loans. He claimed he was self-employed and earning up to £48,000 a year when he was actually working at Chirnside Community Initiative earning just £20,000.The 52-year-old bought property in East Kilbride and Cumbernauld by self-certifying on mortgage applications. He then sold the East...

Gumbs, also known as 'Killer Reek, Bloods street gang leader accused of drug charges | - NJ.com

Alleged Newark Bloods street gang leader accused of drug charges | - NJ.com: "The leader of a Newark faction of the Bloods street gang was arrested on drug conspiracy charges Saturday, the same day he was scheduled to receive parole from a prior conviction, authorities said.Altariq Gumbs, 32, was accused of using a cell phone inside of an Arizona state prison to direct other members of the Brick City Brims, a set of the Bloods, to sell heroin in...

Top Mafia boss arrested in southern Italy: report

Top Mafia boss arrested in southern Italy: report: "Giovanni Tegano, 70, who had been on the run for 17 years, has been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder and Mafia association.Interior Minister Roberto Maroni hailed the arrest, saying it was the 'hardest blow that could be dealt today to the 'Ndrangheta, being the number one wanted from Calabria.'Tegano is considered the boss of the 'Ndrina clan of the 'Ndrangheta, considered...

Politicians, gangsters mix at funeral for Taiwan mafia boss

Politicians, gangsters mix at funeral for Taiwan mafia boss: "Senior Taiwanese politicians rubbed shoulders with mob bosses at the funeral Monday of one of the island's most prominent mafia leaders.The Buddhist service for Lee Chao-hsiung, who died of liver cancer last month, was expected to attract a gathering of up to 20,000 people in the central city of Taichung, organisers said.Taichung Mayor Jason Hu, a former foreign minister, was among the...

Mafia boss stymies extradition to Italy - Times LIVE

Mafia boss stymies extradition to Italy - Times LIVE: "fresh legal bid by Vito Palazzolo to block his extradition to Italy - where he was convicted in absentia in 2006 of 'aggravated Mafia-type association' and sentenced to nine years in prison. Palazzolo has lived in South Africa for over 20 years, is a successful businessman and has a R13-million home at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront. Former minister of justice Enver Surty set extradition procedures...

Reputed gangster Onofrio 'Noel' Modica won't say why he turned down the FBI - NYPOST.com

Reputed gangster Onofrio 'Noel' Modica won't say why he turned down the FBI - NYPOST.com: "reputed Gambino family mobster who turned down a deal with the feds refused to say why after getting sprung from jail this afternoon.'No, sorry,' Onofrio 'Noel' Modica said after leaving the Manhattan federal courthouse.Modica -- who's charged with two murders and plotting to tamper with the jury that convicted 'Dapper Don' John Gotti in 1992 -- spent a week...

Jailed mafia leader wants priest to secure release

Jailed mafia leader wants priest to secure release: "Italian mafia leader, currently in prison, wants a senior cardinal to mediate for his release on compassionate grounds, officials have said.Toto Riina, 79, who has heart problems, wants Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the Archbishop of Milan, to help him get released from prison on compassionate grounds, officials have said, according to Corriere della Sera dail...

Man accused of killing wannabe gangster

Man accused of killing wannabe gangster: "man has been charged with murder over the disappearance of a 'wannabe' Melbourne gangster who has been missing for more than five months.A 26-year-old man from Mickleham, in Melbourne's north, has been charged with murdering Peter Rule, 56, from nearby Meadow Heights.Rule was described by his sister and police shortly after his disappearance as a low-level petty criminal with a misguided desire to be a big-time...

Biography: Carlo Gambino, Mafia boss - by Justin Manucci - Helium

Biography: Carlo Gambino, Mafia boss - by Justin Manucci - Helium: "Carlo 'Don Carlo' Gambino is one of the most famous mob bosses of all time. He founded the Gambino Crime family, and even over 20 years past his death still uses his name.Carlo Gambino was born August 24, 1902 in Palermo, Sicily. Carlo Gambino was the boss of the Gambino crime family from 1957 to 1976. Before becoming the boss of the family, Carlo Gambino had to work his way up the...

Murdered gangster 'had it coming' - Underbelly author - World - NZ Herald News

Murdered gangster 'had it coming' - Underbelly author - World - NZ Herald News: "Murdered gangster Carl Williams 'had it coming,' an expert on Melbourne's gangland scene has said.Underbelly co-author and Melbourne Age senior crime writer Andrew Rule said that Carl Williams, 39, began a 'chain of violence' which ended with his death yesterday.Williams was in an exercise room in the maximum security Acacia unit at Barwon Prison when he was bashed to...

James J. "Whitey" Bulger, now 80,career criminal who's been on the run for 15 years

James J. "Whitey" Bulger, now 80, isn't a figment of some crime writer's imagination — he's a career criminal who's been on the run for 15 years. He also loves history books.Bulger's resume includes warrants for 19 murders in the early 1970s to mid-1980s, racketeering, conspiracy...

Underbelly gangster killed in prison - World - NZ Herald News

Underbelly gangster killed in prison - World - NZ Herald News: "Convicted Australian gangland killer Carl Williams has died after he suffered head injuries and went into cardiac arrest in prison, his lawyer says.An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said paramedics arrived at Barwon Prison about 1.18pm (3.18pm NZT) today to find him in a critical conditio...

Gangster admits to Rehal execution

Gangster admits to Rehal execution: "former member of the Red Scorpions gang has pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster to first-degree murder in connection with a 2001 Surrey slaying and a 2003 Abbotsford murder.Anton Hooites-Meursing appeared under tight security...

Eyewitness News: Mafia boss court bid postponed

Eyewitness News: Mafia boss court bid postponed: "lawyer representing alleged mafia boss Vito Palazzolo has confirmed their court action has been postponed.Palazzolo is opposing a nine-year sentence for colluding with the mafia and challenging his extradition to Italy.There are many questions as to what went wrong with Palazzolo’s court application.The bid was meant to begin in the Western Cape High Court on Friday.And although it was pencilled in...

Feds remove lien on Victoria Gotti's L.I. mansion after Mafia princess pays $2.6M to settle case

Feds remove lien on Victoria Gotti's L.I. mansion after Mafia princess pays $2.6M to settle case: "Federal prosecutors have removed the lien on Victoria Gotti's Long Island mansion because she's paid Uncle Sam $2.6 million to settle her ex-husband's forfeiture case.But the Mafia princess' castle in Old Westbury - the centerpiece of her cable series 'Growing Up Gotti' - isn't out of the foreclosure woods yet, sources sai...

Curtis Sliwa: Junior Gotti's revisionist history on Mafia life goes unchallenged on '60 Minutes'

Curtis Sliwa: Junior Gotti's revisionist history on Mafia life goes unchallenged on '60 Minutes': "interviewer Steve Kroft seemed in awe of Gotti.At points, he was smiling and laughing it up so much, I expected Gotti's mother to come out and serve him cannoli. When Kroft finally asked Junior if he had been the acting boss of the Gambino crime family, Gotti's lawyer jumped in and issued a denial.Charles Carnesi said Gotti was only guilty of being...

Drug kingpin convicted in murder for hire | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/14/2010

Drug kingpin convicted in murder for hire | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/14/2010: "Drug kingpin Maurice Phillips, who ran a multimillion-dollar cocaine-distribution network stretching from Texas to New York, was convicted Tuesday of hiring a hit man to murder a Montgomery County woman who was cooperating against him with federal investigators.Phillips, 38, could be sentenced to death for the contract killing, or life in prison. The jury of eight women...

Pictures of shooter sought after Colindale nightclub attack (From This Is Local London)

Pictures of shooter sought after Colindale nightclub attack (From This Is Local London): "POLICE are asking revellers who went to a warehouse party in Colindale which ended with three people being shot for their photographs of the evening. The first anniversary party for Grime Daily in the Capitol Way facility ended with one man opening fire, wounding three people including the DJ. Officers from Trident, which investigates gun crime in London, are...

Trenton gangsters charged with carjacking get $5M bail - The Trentonian News: Serving Trenton and surrounding communities. (trentonian.com)

Trenton gangsters charged with carjacking get $5M bail - The Trentonian News: Serving Trenton and surrounding communities. (trentonian.com): "Jerry Laventure of Columbus Avenue, Trenton, and Pierre Akim, of Ewing, were arraigned this morning before District Justice Donald Nasshorn at District Court in Newtown after being extradited to Pennsylvania from New Jersey.They are charged with 2 counts of kidnapping, 2 counts of robbery, 1 count of robbery...

Reputed Montreal mobster's parole plea granted

Reputed Montreal mobster's parole plea granted: "Moreno Gallo knows that as a man living on parole for the rest of his life for murder, he has to tread carefully.It was for this reason he found himself seeking a release for the second time in less than two weeks as he continues to...

Accused gang member goes on trial for double murder - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-

Accused gang member goes on trial for double murder - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-: "Alejandro Umana sat in federal court Monday with his white button down untucked. He's on trial for his life, accused of shooting two brothers in a Mexican restaurant in 2007.Umana is a suspected MS-13 gang member, and was arrested during a federal raid in Charlotte where 26 other alleged members were indicted two years ago.Umana was...

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - News - Liverpool News - Reformed Liverpool gangster Stephen French, aka 'The Devil', cleared by court over machete charge

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - News - Liverpool News - Reformed Liverpool gangster Stephen French, aka 'The Devil', cleared by court over machete charge: "Stephen French, 50, known by the city’s underworld in his darker days as ‘The Devil’, sat though a four day trial at Liverpool...

Court restricts Vancouver Hells Angel from visiting biker pals — except own son

Court restricts Vancouver Hells Angel from visiting biker pals — except own son: "Vancouver police say they are putting the East End Hells Angels on notice that the gang must reign in violent members like full-patch Angel Juel Ross Stanton.Insp. Brad Desmarais, head of the VPD's...

Gangsters Out Blog: Juel Stanton and the Surrey House of Horrors

Gangsters Out Blog: Juel Stanton and the Surrey House of Horrors: "Interesting new developments in Juels' new arrest. Kim Bolan reports that: 'Stanton was acquitted in September 2006 in a violent forcible confinement case where four men broke into a Surrey marijuana grow-op, beat it's owner with brass knuckles and held him captive. Stanton's brother Norman was convicted in the same case of conspiracy, forcible confinement, robbery and assault causing...

Murderer's plea for parole granted

Murderer's plea for parole granted: "Moreno Gallo knows that as a man living on parole for the rest of his life for murder, he has to tread carefully.It was for this reason he found himself seeking a release for the second time in less than two weeks as he continues to deal with problems that have piled upon him since he was caught on videotape bringing large amounts of cash to high-ranking members of the Montreal Mafia.'I am on parole for life....

Daily Herald | A summer sizzler: The case of the mob's missing diamond

Daily Herald | A summer sizzler: The case of the mob's missing diamond: "geriatric pair (Scalise is 73, Rachel, 71) is notorious for having stolen the Marlborough diamond from a London store in 1980. The 45-carat gem, once owned by Winston Churchill's cousin, has never been found.The FBI arrested Scalise and Rachel last Thursday night, along with their younger partner Robert Pullia, 69 of Plainfield. The men were found dressed in black, carrying...

Biography: John Gotti, Mafia boss - by Ray Langley - Helium

Biography: John Gotti, Mafia boss - by Ray Langley - Helium: "John Gotti evolved into an imminent danger of those who opposed him, finally leading one of the most powerful mob families in New York City.John Gotti was a middle child of Italian immigrants that struggled to make a life as foreigners in a new country. As a boy, he discovered the underworld of riches and glamour where the gangsters dwelled, and he began his life of crime at the age of...

In 'Infamous,' writer disarms myth of 'Machine Gun' Kelly | Dallas-Fort Worth Entertainment News and Events | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News

In 'Infamous,' writer disarms myth of 'Machine Gun' Kelly | Dallas-Fort Worth Entertainment News and Events | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News: "'Machine Gun' Kelly, the first Public Enemy No. 1, was easily the worst – as in the most inept – of the famous Prohibition-era gangsters.There was a story that made the rounds in the early 1930s about Kelly being so skilled with his trusty Tommy gun that he could 'write his name in bullets.'...

John Gotti Jr. blabs about the mob on 60 Minutes | Gather

John Gotti Jr. blabs about the mob on 60 Minutes | Gather: "John Gotti Jr. breaks his silence and speaks about his past mob life on 60 Minutes. You are probably thinking, what more can be said that hasn't already been shown on the Soprano...

The Associated Press: Haiti's police struggle to control ravaged capital

The Associated Press: Haiti's police struggle to control ravaged capital: "police inspector taunted the gangster they call 'Obama' through the bars of a downtown lockup. Stuffed into a tiny cell with nine other men, the 23-year-old inmate looked panicked, exhausted and freshly beaten.It's guys like this, the pudgy cop said, who threaten to upend Port-au-Prince three months after the earthquake, exploiting the continuing chaos to commit murder, assaults...

Behind the door of gang central | Adelaide Now

Behind the door of gang central | Adelaide Now: "walls are covered with street gang tags including the West Coast Boyz, West Coast Warriors and West Coast Siders.The reception at the home was in stark contrast to that which confronted The Advertiser investigations team two months ago.Then, we were spat at, abused and threatened without even asking a question, by a woman, the current occupant says was the female house leader and crime boss when the...

Alleged street gang leader pleads guilty to shooting - Aggravated Assault Gossip

Alleged street gang leader pleads guilty to shooting - Aggravated Assault Gossip: "man who allegedly led a Gray's Ferry street gang notorious for gunfights with rivals pleaded guilty Monday to a 2007 shooting in a deal that will send him to Prison for four to 15 years. Tyrik Upchurch, 22, pleaded guilty to Aggravated Assault and possession of an instrument of Crime on what was to have been the first day of his trial in Philadelphia Common Pleas ...

Man's arm injured in Lodi shooting; may be gang-related

Man's arm injured in Lodi shooting; may be gang-related: "23-year-old Lodi man received a minor injury to his arm Thursday night after suspected gang members shot at his vehicle in the Kmart parking lot.Police learned of the 9:30 p.m. incident after the victim drove himself to the hospital for treatment, said Sgt. Fernando Martinez. The victim, a former gang member from the Los Angeles area, had driven into the 520 S. Cherokee Lane lot to attend...

Sentence in killing of Bloods gang member | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/09/2010

Sentence in killing of Bloods gang member | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/09/2010: "Nathaniel Craig closed his eyes and squeezed off two rounds at an alleged rival drug dealer ordered killed by the Bloods street gang in Camden.The 6-foot-7 former Camden High School basketball player was no marksman, however. His wild shots hit another Bloods member in the head while his intended victim fled unscathed, said Craig's lawyer, Murray N. Sufrin.On Friday,...

Sweep targets Pico Rivera gang | Street Gangs Resource Center – Los Angeles and California | The Gang Experts | Crips | Bloods | Mara Salvatrucha | 18th Street

Sweep targets Pico Rivera gang | Street Gangs Resource Center – Los Angeles and California | The Gang Experts | Crips | Bloods | Mara Salvatrucha | 18th Street: "PICO RIVERA – Deputies arrested a parolee, a 17-year-old boy and seized a handgun, a shotgun and methamphetamine during an early morning sweep targeting a local gang.They served a search warrant at one home then went to four other residences to check if members of Rivera 13 were complying...

Gangs specialize in murder - UPI.com

Gangs specialize in murder - UPI.com: "The Barrio Azteca gang have been dealing drugs and stealing cars in El Paso, Texas, but across the border in Mexico the organization now specializes in contract killings, the report said.The Post said U.S. law enforcement officers believe the gang may have been involved in as many as half of the 2,660 killings in Juarez in the past year.The Aztecas locate targets, stalk them and finally kill them in ambushes...

John 'Junior' Gotti was afraid 'every day' of getting whacked - NYPOST.com

John 'Junior' Gotti was afraid 'every day' of getting whacked - NYPOST.com: "John 'Junior' Gotti feared he'd be whacked when he was a member of the Gambino crime family. 'Every day it's a possibility,' Gotti told CBS's '60 Minutes' in an interview that will air on Sunday. 'It's a possibility that something can happen to you every day of your life. And you know something, when you hang out in the streets, you're hanging with a different type of a...

Deportation ordered on Mafia charge - thestar.com

Deportation ordered on Mafia charge - thestar.com: "Carlo Figliomeni, 42, who applied for Canadian citizenship in 2003, has 15 days to appeal the decision.An Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in January was told Figliomeni didn’t tell Canadian authorities when he immigrated in 1988 that he had a record in Italy for stashing weapons for criminals connected to the ‘Ndrangheta, a strain of organized crime with roots in southern Italy.Figliomeni,...

Indictment: Killer mobsters running gangs at Trenton State Prison - The Trentonian News: Serving Trenton and surrounding communities. (trentonian.com)

Indictment: Killer mobsters running gangs at Trenton State Prison - The Trentonian News: Serving Trenton and surrounding communities. (trentonian.com): "Charged with running the so-called Nine Trey Hillside Beehive wing of the Bloods from the Trenton prison was Clarence Scott, 35, who is serving life for a 2002 murder in his native Passaic County.Also named in the indictment was ex-Jersey corrections officer Brian Teel, who allegedly received $500...

Randy P. Broward, 32, of Clyde Street in Hampton, who police say leads the "Original Bloods Gang," is accused of ordering the killings

Randy P. Broward, 32, of Clyde Street in Hampton, who police say leads the "Original Bloods Gang," is accused of ordering the killings during a March 28 conversation — identifying by name the three men he wanted dead. A woman who was supposed to carry out one of the killings has...

"I'm terrified of being incarcerated," Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada told the Mexican news magazine, Proceso

"I'm terrified of being incarcerated," Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada told the Mexican news magazine, Proceso, adding that he would even contemplate suicide if he was about to be caught. "I'd like to think that yes, I would kill myself."Zambada and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who allegedly...

Louis Bizzarro, 24, formerly of 208 State St., will be arraigned on one count of murder at a later date in Superior Court

reputed Monte Park gang member serving a state prison sentence for a 2005 firearm conviction has been charged with the previously unsolved December 2002 murder of Albert A. "Rocky" Lopes Jr. in New Bedford.Louis Bizzarro, 24, formerly of 208 State St., will be arraigned on one count of murder at a later date in Superior Court, according to The Standard Times.Bizzarro is serving a 12-to-14-year state prison sentence for a 2005 case in which he and...

Maurice "Papa Joe" Williams guilty of running a drug empire

Maurice "Papa Joe" Williams guilty of running a drug empire that brought hundreds and possibly thousands of kilos of cocaine to the region over 10 years.Jurors also concluded that Williams, 34, was guilty of conspiracy to distribute narcotics and marijuana, using a firearm during a drug crime and 26 counts of using a phone to distribute drugs.Family and friends of the defendant wept when the decision was announced in U.S. District Court in Columbus....