53 killed in Mexico casino attack

arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 53 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said.Governor Rodrigo Medina announced the grim toll in an interview with the Televisa network, adding that the vast establishment, the Casino Royale, had been set ablaze using some kind of flammable liquid "like gasoline."President Felipe Calderon condemned the attack, calling...

GANGSTER who lost £60,000 in a break-in ordered a revenge hit in which an innocent dad was murdered.

GANGSTER who lost £60,000 in a break-in ordered a revenge hit in which an innocent dad was murdered.Painter and decorator Hugh Porteous was at a block of flats when three masked men burst in.The dad-of-two was only at the building in Greenock, Renfrewshire, to pick up work gear but was attacked and stabbed.Two other men, aged 40 and 43, were taken to hospital with serious injuries.Yesterday, sources told the Record that Hugh, 49, had stumbled into...

Notorious B.C. gangster Jonathan Bacon, 30, was quietly laid to rest earlier this week, according to police sources.

Officers watched from the sidelines Monday to ensure the private funeral was peaceful. No larger memorial service is expected.Bacon, a member of the violent Red Scorpions gang, was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon on Aug. 14 outside the Delta Grand Okanagan hotel and casino...

Socialite gangster held in shooting is pal to models

MAJOR criminal arrested after gardai opened fire on his accomplice, is a well known socialite on the Dublin nightclub scene, it emerged today.The 30-year-old from Lucan -- who is facing a possible life sentence in relation to separate Tiger Kidnapping charges -- is still being questioned at Naas Garda Station today.MODELSThe Herald can reveal that the gangster has a number of female models as friends and is even close to a well known media personality.He...

man linked to the United Nations gang has been charged with conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates

 man linked to the United Nations gang has been charged with conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates, the Vancouver Sun has learned.Amir Eghtesad, 29, appeared in Vancouver provincial court Monday afternoon after being picked up Sunday evening...

NOTORIOUS criminal is recovering in hospital today after being shot in the stomach in a leafy Wicklow town

Gardai are still trying to establish a motive for why Philip 'Philly' O'Toole was shot at around 12.45am on Thursday in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin after the incident where his condition is described as stable.Sources say that O' Toole (31) is refusing to co-operate with gardai.gunman"He said he would rather die on the side of the road than help gardai with their enquiries," said a source.O'Toole, from Fassaroe...

working to seize $7M in criminal property

Nearly $7 million in real estate, cash, jewelry and other allegedly ill-gotten assets are frozen in Manitoba right now as a result of the province’s criminal property forfeiture process.The NDP government first introduced the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act in 2003 as a way to deter crime by allowing the province to seize the assets of convicted gangsters. However, that version of the law was never once used because it put the onus on police to...

Gang boss tells Mexican state AG he wanted to kill him

Oscar Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, the suspected leader of the La Mano con Ojos gang, tells Mexico state Attorney General Alfredo Castillo in a video released by prosecutors that he planned to kill him because he believed the official had betrayed him after supposedly taking a pay-off."I would have killed you, I would have found you and cut you into pieces," Garcia Montoya told Castillo, who questioned the gang leader following his arrest last week.Garcia...

Philadelphia man already serving life goes on trial in two more killings

Philadelphia man whom police once described as a hit man for drug dealers, and who is already serving two life sentences, went on trial Tuesday, charged with murder in two more killings.Malik Collins, 24, and Anthony Collins, 28, are charged with shooting two people in a parked pickup truck the night of March 18, 2006. The killings in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Brewerytown were the result of a turf dispute between drug dealers, Assistant...

87, gangster in wheelchair faces at least 35 years in prison

87, Samuel Volpendesto's first criminal conviction will no doubt be his last.After what prosecutors say has been a decades-long association with the Chicago Outfit — one that included numerous arrests but no convictions — the octogenarian faces at least 35 years in prison when he enters a federal courtroom in his wheelchair Wednesday.The silver-haired Volpendesto slumped in his seat for most of his monthlong trial beside reputed mob boss Michael...

Police say several men with gang connections were involved in a late-night shooting Monday in Surrey

Police say several men with gang connections were involved in a late-night shooting Monday in Surrey, just two days after a prominent gangster was killed in Kelowna.RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said one man sustained minor injuries after an unknown man fired several shots inside an SUV...

Deported gangster spills underworld’s secrets

Interrogation of deported gangster Santosh Shetty has provided vital clues about the murder of Chotta Rajan aide, Farid Tanasha, last year. On June 2, 2010, Tanasha was shot dead by eight men at his Tilak Nagar residence. Mumbai police rounded up the gang, which claimed to have been deputed by another Rajan aide, Bharat Nepali, for the job. However, the cause for feud between two comrades from the same gang wasn’t ascertained.Highly-placed sources...

Jon Bacon Gunned Down; Larry Amero Shot Several Times

Jonathan Bacon, the eldest Bacon brother and long-time Red Scorpion, was shot dead Sunday in a targeted attack that left six victims outside a busy Kelowna casino. And his friend, Larry Amero, of the White Rock Hells Angels, was seriously injured after being targeted in the same...

Jonathan Bacon, one of British Columbia's most notorious gangsters, was shot dead Sunday in a brazen daylight attack outside an upscale Kelowna hotel.

The RCMP are taking "swift and extraordinary measures" to find those responsible for a deadly attack that claimed the life of a man outside an upscale hotel in Kelowna, B.C.Witnesses have told police that the violence began when a white Porsche SUV was driving away from the Delta...

GOODFELLAS gangster Henry Hill is to visit the North for a special screening of the movie about his life.

The former Mafia mobster was played by Ray Liotta in the famous 1990 gangster flick by Martin Scorsese, which told the story of how the American turned supergrass to shop some 50 fellow crooks.Hill, now 68, was then placed into a witness protection programme giving him and his family...

Police release image of Croydon riots murder victim

Police have released this image of Croydon riot murder victim Trevor Ellis.The 26-year-old was found shot dead in a car in Duppas Hill road at about 9.20pm on Monday, August 8 by police officers.The father of four was taken to St George's Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head...

Gangster brought back from Bangkok

A team from the Mumbai Police Crime Branch brought fugitive gangster Santosh Shetty to the city from Bangkok on Friday morning in “a complex and delicate operation”, with top Crime Branch officers promising that they would go after other gangsters running operations in the city from safe havens outside the country.Shetty, a former aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, was wanted in connection with dozens of serious offences across the country, including...

Whitey Bulger's companion charged with harboring gangster

federal grand jury in Boston on Thursday indicted James "Whitey" Bulger's longtime companion, Catherine Greig, with harboring and concealing a fugitive.Greig and Bulger lived for years hiding in plain sight in a Santa Monica apartment. Bulger had fled from Boston, wanted in connection...

Manchester's most notorious suspected gang boss, Dominic Noonan, has been arrested after being seen allegedly helping to orchestrate the wave of violence and looting

Noonan, 45, was detained yesterday morning on suspicion of disorder after footage emerged of him apparently speaking to a gang of looters during the riots.Witnesses told The Daily Telegraph that the alleged gang boss stood on the corner of King Street speaking on his mobile telephone throughout the trouble, flanked by two teenage boys dressed in black suits.Amateur footage emerged yesterday showing him dressed smartly in a dark suit, addressing a...

The murder trial of five Murupara Mongrel Mob members in the High Court at Rotorua has been hit by another hiccup.

One of the senior defence counsel involved, Herman Roose of Tauranga who was acting for David Te Wharerangi Rewi, suffered a heart attack overnight and is in Waikato Hospital.His illness stalled the start of today's proceedings and when they resumed junior counsel Alistair Burns carried on in his stead until a new senior counsel could be appointed.Before the lunch break Justice John Priestley announced senior Rotorua practitioner Andy Schultz had...

Matriarch of Australia's underworld, Judy Moran, has been sentenced to 26 years in jail for the murder of her brother-in-law.

The 66-year-old was convicted in March for her role in killing Des "Tuppence" Moran, who was shot dead in a Melbourne cafe in June 2009.Moran has previously lost two husbands and two sons to gangland killings.Moran is one of Australia's most infamous gangland figures, and her trial attracted worldwide attention.'Deliberate and brutal'Correspondents say Moran, who is in poor health, appeared shocked by the sentencing and shouted out her innocence.Sentencing...

underworld boss poses such a high escape risk in the prison system that he has been placed in a special security unit, described as a 'prison within a prison'.

Bodybuilder Colin Gunn, 41, who is serving 35 years for the revenge murders of an enemy’s parents is also under 24 hour surveillance.The crime boss spends 22 hours in the concrete cell at Belmarsh jail which was originally built in 1991 to house IRA prisoners.A source told the Mirror:...

MAN gunned down in a suspected gangland feud after he allowed his attacker into his house may have known his killer.

The man -- named locally as Darren Falsey (37) -- was discovered with gunshot wounds in his rented Ashbourne Court home in Carrigaline, Co Cork yesterday.The grim find was made when his partner returned from a shopping trip around 3pm.It is believed the victim may have known his killer -- and opened his front door to unwittingly allow the attacker into the house.He sustained at least one gunshot wound and was found lying in a pool of blood in a downstairs...

GANGSTER Colin Gunn has continued to plot his escape from prison over the past five months

GANGSTER Colin Gunn has continued to plot his escape from prison over the past five months, according to new intelligence information.The man behind the murder of Lincolnshire couple John and Joan Stirland is now one of just two Category A prisoners in the country assessed as being...

Was Donald Frankos, aka Tony the Greek, involved in the Kingfish Boat Ramp Murders

- He’s been described as a notorious mobster and as a pathological liar, but no one denies that convicted murderer Donald Frankos, aka Tony the Greek, was involved in organized crime. Frankos himself once said “I picked the wrong profession. Let’s put it that way.”But more than a...

Gangster loses legal battle to keep £90,000 from criminal fortune

A Gangland figure has lost his legal battle to keep £90,000 from his criminal fortune.William Thomson was caught with £120,000 in cash following an undercover police operation five years ago.He had been under surveillance by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency who suspected his involvement in organised crime including drug dealing.However the £120,000 was later stolen from a police station store room by civilian worker Robert Morris.Morris...