The ‘quiet, intelligent family man’ at the centre of three murder cases - Manchester Evening News

The ‘quiet, intelligent family man’ at the centre of three murder cases - Manchester Evening News: "Arran Coghlan is a quiet, hard-working company boss and family man.But a prosecutor, who handled an earlier – unsuccessful – murder case against him, described him in court as someone who built a crime ‘empire’ using ‘ruthless violence’ to achieve his aims.Mr Coghlan, 39, explains the difference by saying police have pursued a vendetta against him...

Drug smuggling with alleged Hells Angels links nets Washington State man 14 years

Drug smuggling with alleged Hells Angels links nets Washington State man 14 years: "Christopher Walters, 41, of Ferndale, Washington, received the load of drugs from a co-conspirator in an isolated cove in the San Juan Islands, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The drugs were delivered by jet ski from an organized crime group believed to be the Hells Angels, American officials sa...

Freedom near for reputed crime boss Gerald (Gerry) Matticks

Freedom near for reputed crime boss: "Gerald (Gerry) Matticks is scheduled to be released long before the end of his 12-year prison term. Matticks, reputed to be a leader in the West End Gang, is to reach his statutory release date on Aug. 6, the two-thirds mark of the sentence he received in 2002 after pleading guilty to several charges related to multimillion-dollar drug smuggling conspiracies carried out through the Port of Montreal. Because he...

coast around Marbella is still the favourite destination for criminals from Britain who want to escape the long arm of the law

shooting of Danny Smith, wanted in connection with an attempted murder in Essex in 2007, shows that the coast around Marbella is still the favourite destination for criminals from Britain who want to escape the long arm of the lawIt could have been a scene straight out of a bad British geezer film. A dark-haired young man having a drink on the terrace of a Spanish resort bar on a balmy Mediterranean night. A motorcycle cruises along the street. Suddenly...

Heavyweight Stevie Malcolm - dubbed The Fat Controller

Heavyweight Stevie Malcolm - dubbed The Fat Controller over the taxi firms he runs - has kept himself on the straight and narrow as he built up a huge personal fortune. The 46-year-old boasts a fleet of luxury cars and a string of sprawling homes - including one £9million pad with a £1.4million fish tank. And yesterday he was revealed as the owner of the plush property where fraud probe pal Hughes, 31, lives in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. But as well...

Man freed in gangland murder inquiry - The Irish Times - Mon, Jul 19, 2010

Man freed in gangland murder inquiry - The Irish Times - Mon, Jul 19, 2010: "25-year-old man arrested in connection with the shooting dead of convicted criminal Stephen Byrne has today been released without charge.The man was one of two people arrested over the weekend in relation to the murder of the 32-year-old Dubliner last Tuesday.A 20-year-old man is still being detained at Store Street Garda station under Section 30 of the Offences Against...

Jamaican-born MC faced deportation proceedings in Atlanta Immigration Court.

Over a month has passed since rumor sprouted surrounding legendary Geto Boys' MC Bushwick Bill's no-show at the June taping of VH1's 2010 Hip Hop Honors. At the time, there was some speculation that he'd been arrested on unknown charges before he was scheduled to perform during the Rap-A-Lot Records dedication to honor the label's founder, J. Prince.While those charges or the arrest have yet to be confirmed, Bill is definitely in some hot water....

northern Mexico drug gang rammed a car that may have been packed with explosives or inflammable material into two police patrol trucks

Members of a northern Mexico drug gang rammed a car that may have been packed with explosives or inflammable material into two police patrol trucks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing two officers and a medical technician, and wounding nine people.Federal police said the attack Thursday — which may be one of the first uses of an explosive-packed car in Mexico — was in retaliation for the arrest of a top leader of the La Linea drug gang,...

Band-Aid on a young client's neck to cover the tattooed word "murder."

Baltimore had "Peanut King." Now, "Murder" and "Killer" are becoming more common as nicknames, not to mention "Savage" and various forms of the word "bloody." Young men tattoo the names to their necks and arms, or ink teardrops under their eyes, one for each person they've killed.The very names and symbols reflect guilt.Defense attorney Warren A. Brown said that recently he put a Band-Aid on a young client's neck to cover the tattooed word "murder."...

Police launch worldwide criminal hunt

Police launch worldwide criminal hunt: "David MacDonald Carrol, said to frequent Australia, who is wanted by Canadian authorities for his alleged involvement in the murder of 13 rival bikie gang members in Canada between 1995 and 2001.Crime Stoppers International says Carrol, a member of the Quebec Nomads Chapter of the Hells Angels, is accused of conspiring to murder the rival bikies after they refused to buy drugs from him.Also possibly in Australia...

Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Vatican approves exhumation of Mafia figure in notorious Italian case

Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Vatican approves exhumation of Mafia figure in notorious Italian case: "Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, was a 15-year-old high-school student in June 1983, when she did not return from school to her home inside Vatican City. Her disappearance has never been explained, but the case gave rise to a series of sensational theories. One report suggested that she had been kidnapped, and her captors...

Who is Eskender Mafarani & Why Did “Canadian” Smuggle $2 Milln Into US?

Who is Eskender Mafarani & Why Did “Canadian” Smuggle $2 Milln Into US?: "Eskender Henareh Mafarani was sentenced to 37 months in prison for trying to smuggle into the U.S. more than $2.1 million in U.S. cash, six cell phones, and a laptop computer in late 2008. The cash was wrapped in 130 bundles and it and the cellphone and computer were hidden inside Mafarani’s truck as it attempted to cross into the U.S. from Canada over the Ambassador Bridge...

Gangsters have a new drug of choice

Gangsters have a new drug of choice: "Dennis Karbovanec walked into a Surrey highrise in October 2007 and shot three people in the head, he was addicted to the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin.And when his former Red Scorpion gang-mate Anton Hooites-Meursing played a role in the same Surrey Six murder plot, he was also struggling with an addiction to the pill police say is akin to “prescription heroin.”Jamie Bacon, the purported Red Scorpion...

CBC News - Montreal - Montreal Mafia boss was targeted: police

CBC News - Montreal - Montreal Mafia boss was targeted: police: "killing in St-Leonard earlier this week of a reputed mob boss is just the latest in a string of attacks against the Montreal Mafia, police say.Insp. Bernard Lamothe said the public should know the double slaying of Agostino Cuntrera and his guard Liborio Sciasciathis wasn't random.'They're not less safe today because Agostino Cuntrera was shot down' in front of his own business establishment,...