NYPD detective suspended after kidnapping victim found in his garage

17-year veteran of the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay after a kidnapping victim was found tied up in his garage. The New York Post reports Ondre Johnson, a detective with the Brooklyn north gang unit, was being questioned in connection with the incident and was forced to surrender his gun and badge. A source tells the Post the 25-year-old victim was snatched off the street on July 26. The victim's friends then got calls...

Milllionaire mobster Jamie Stevenson started his criminal career in the McGovern clan.

The best friend and best man of Tony McGovern joined the north Glasgow mob, who became one of the most feared drugs gangs of the 90s.But a bitter fall-out led to a botched McGovern attempt on Stevenson’s life.The betrayal infuriated him and soon afterwards 35-year-old McGovern...

Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson is back on the streets

Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson is back on the streets – less than halfway through his prison sentence for laundering £1million of drugs cash. Scotland’s most powerful mobster has been enjoying meals at expensive restaurants and socialising with pals after being allowed home for a week each month. Stevenson – who was also accused of shooting dead his best friend in an underworld hit – was put behind bars in September 2006 when he was arrested after a four-year...

Four Dead in Gang Related Shooting

Police in Alice are investigating a shooting that occurred near Reynolds Street. According to investigators, it all started on South Nayer Street where police say Isaac Vela was standing on the side of the road waiting for a ride. A vehicle -- with four people inside passed by. One of the passengers, police say, shot Vela in the face. The vehicle fled the scene, but the driver only made it a few blocks before he lost control of the vehicle. It smashed...

Tulisa's Friend, 21, Shot Dead In Gangland Hit

Reece James, 21, a close friend of Tulisa Contostavlos has been shot dead in a reported gangland attack. The 21-year-old, who appeared with Tulisa in a video for rapper Nines, was shot in the head in a "pre-planned and targeted" hit, 100 miles from his home in London, reports the UK's Sun newspaper. Police found James' body in Boscombe, Bournemouth, at around 2.30am near where Somali drug gangs are said operate. A 22-year-old man was arrested. Reece...

Out of dozens suspected to have connections with the Bloods street gang, only three went for a chance at bond on Monday.

 The rest waived their hearings.The locals are suspected of crimes ranging from kidnapping to tax crimes to murder.Most of them quickly walked in and out of the federal courthouse. Family, friends, and even a pastor to one of the suspects were also on hand to try and learn more about the case.One suspect was described as a church member, another as a caretaker to his sick grandmother -- all sat inside together in a courthouse where cameras weren't...

An alleged member of the New York Chinatown gang was pulled off a flight to Hong Kong

An alleged member of the New York Chinatown gang was pulled off a flight to Hong Kong, minutes before takeoff, as he tried to flee to China because he is suspected of executing two women and burning down their apartment. US authorities boarded the Delta Airlines flight at John...

Abu Salem will remain in India

Underworld don Abu Salem will remain in India as the top Portugal Court has observed that it was not obliged to extradite the gangster back to the European country after it was held there was violation of deportation rules by Indian authorities. Official sources in New Delhi on Wednesday explained the position on the extradition status of Salem against the backdrop of the top court rejecting India's plea challenging a Supreme Court verdict upholding...

Gangster 'Leggy Pownall’ jailed for plot to rob St Helens drug dealer

A CRIMINAL gangster known as ‘Leggy Pownall’ has been jailed for seven years for conspiring to rob a St Helens drug dealer. Described in court by Judge David Aubrey as “ruthless”, John Pownall, aged 51 of Third Street, Bamfurlong, Wigan pleaded guilty to the plot against Michael Baker in January, 2011. Pownall’s conviction follows an 18-month long investigation by officers from Titan (North West Regional Organised Crime Unit), into a group of criminals...

1 man killed, 1 wounded in South L.A. drive-by shooting

One man was killed and a second wounded Monday in a drive-by shooting at a gas station in Hyde Park, Los Angeles police said. The shooting occurred shortly after 4 p.m. at a gas station near Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles, police said. The names of the victims have not been released. Both men were taken to a hospital, where one died and the other was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said. ...

A Cadillac made especially for 1920’s mobster Al Capone is going on sale for £325,000.

Designed to protect the notorious Chicago gangster the car is fitted with 3,000lbs of steel armour, bulletproof windows and painted to look like a police car.The armour was fitted so rivals would not be able to shoot him as they drove by and the colour scheme of the 1928 Cadillac...

Alleged gang members arraigned on murder charges in Marine veteran's slaying at Antioch bar

Four alleged gang members, including two teens being prosecuted as adults, were arraigned Friday on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a Marine veteran at an Antioch bar. Lizandro "Tony" Bertolazzi, a 38-year-old married father of four, was having a drink with a friend at Cruisers Saloon on A Street early in the morning of March 31 when he was killed by gunfire that rang out during a brawl involving the gang members and some...

Gang members found guilty of murdering innocent bystander in Rexdale

 A jury found two Jamestown Crips gang members guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the execution-style slaying of an innocent bystander in Rexdale. After three days of deliberations, the jury decided that Christopher Sheriffe, 22, was the getaway car driver and Awet Asfaha, 27, was the triggerman in the August 2009 fatal shooting of Michael Kim Bishen Golaub on Mount Olive Dr. The 34-year-old Toronto father of five and furniture-maker...

Two suspected gangsters were killed in two separate incidents in the city yesterday.

A gangster was lynched by a mob in Olekasasi Trading Centre,  Rongai after a gang raided Kiandisi ACK Church, waking up the Pastor in charge  who raised alarm. Neighbors responded to the alarm and nabbed one of of the criminals whom they lynched to death.An amplifier and a piano keyboard were recovered from the lynched suspect whose accomplices managed to escape. In another incident, a suspected robber was shot dead by police minutes after...

Ex-Winter Hill Gang slapped with $25G bail

The one-time leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang and an associate were ordered held today on $25,000 cash bail each after their arraignments on attempted extortion and conspiracy charges. Howie Winter, 83, and James Melvin, 70, appeared in Somerville District Court today to answer charges related to the January 2012 incident, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said. “This type of illegal activity is at the root of many crimes that corrupt...

Accused shooter of two teenagers was being threatened by street gang, defense lawyer says

Syracuse teenager accused of shooting two other youths last week thought the victims were armed and members of a street gang that had been threatening him, his defense lawyer said today. Defense lawyer Donald VanStry said Jaquell Greer believed Sherron Jones and Quavon Cosby were reaching for weapons of their own when he shot them about 5 p.m. June 25 in the 400 block of Rich Street. Greer, 17, of Glenwood Avenue, was supposed to be back in Syracuse...

Gangster Tony Mokbel jailed for at least 22 years

GANGSTER Drug lord Tony Mokbel arrives at the Supreme Court in Melbourne for sentencing over trafficking charges. Picture: Trevor PinderDRUG lord Tony Mokbel has been jailed for at least 22 years on a string of drug trafficking charges.Mokbel will serve the time after pleading guilty...