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The Standard
April 21, 2018
Police gunned down six suspected gangsters after a botched robbery in Kitisuru, Nairobi. Police spokesman Charles Owino said officers acted following reports by residents that young men were breaking into a house. ALSO READ: Girl claiming to be Uhuru's daughter in police 'custody'. The suspects wereÃâà...
Birmingham Live
April 21, 2018
Ten Birmingham gangsters have been jailed for more than 70 years as police continue to tackle violence in the city. In the last two months, ten people linked to Birmingham gangs have been put behind bars for a total of 71-and-a-half years by West Midlands Police. This week Northfield gangster, JamieÃâà...
Deccan Herald
April 21, 2018
Authorities have rejected an application of 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case convict Abu Salem seeking a 40-day parole to get married, a senior police official said on Saturday. The underworld don, lodged in Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, had moved the application a month ago, he said.
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 21, 2018
John Looney was the original Quad Cities vice lord and also one of the nation's earliest organized crime leaders. Looney was a thin, cold, gaunt, sort of dour-looking man with haunting eyes. He wore the same baggy, dirty suit every day and ate raw liver on toast. He ran for the Illinois state House as aÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
April 20, 2018
A botched burglary and two high-speed U-Haul chases led to the arrests of three men Columbus police say are members of the Ghostface Gangsters, a whites-only gang that began in the Cobb County jail nearly two decades ago. Kevin Carver of Columbus, Kevin Brian Davis of Fortson and BrandonÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 20, 2018
Yes, gangster style has surrounded Trump's affairs for a long time. Federal investigators looking into Russia's meddling in our 2016 elections and now the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which led the raids on Cohen's home and office, may shed some new light on how much theÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 20, 2018
Golda Sargento (left) as Rocky, Patrick Alparone as Orpheus, Jed Parsario as Voltaire and Lawrence Radecker as Fatima in Magic Theatre's “The Gangster of Love.” Golda Sargento (left) as Rocky, Patrick Alparone as Orpheus, Jed Parsario as Voltaire and Lawrence Radecker as Fatima in Magic Theatre'sÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 19, 2018
Italy ramps up search for mafia godfather after dawn arrests of mobster allies ... Francesco, a local boss, compared to Padre Pio (1887-1968), an Italian friar and saint who was the subject of great popular devotion in Italy, with a gangster saying that the two mafiosi should have statues dedicated to them.
San Francisco Examiner
April 19, 2018
The most interesting character in “The Gangster of Love,” Jessica Hagedorn's Magic Theatre world premiere adaptation of her own semi-autobiographical 1996 novel, is Milagros Rivera, the mother in an immigrant Filipino family. Milagros (Sarah Nina Hayon, whose portrayal is wonderfully complex: funnyÃâà...
The Hindu
March 30, 2018
A notorious gangster Sunil, serving prison sentence in Kadapa Central prison since three years, allegedly gave a slip to police at Pendlimary in Kadapa district late on Tuesday night and escaped after he was produced in court in connection with a case. This is the second time that Sunil, a resident ofÃâà...
Miami New Times
March 30, 2018
Seven years ago, filmmaker Tiller Russell was preparing to meet with the former Russian mobster at the center of Miami's craziest true-crime caper of the '90s. And he was hoping — or more like praying — a guard at a prison deep in a Panamanian jungle wouldn't screw him over. The filmmaker had beenÃâà...
Queens Chronicle
March 30, 2018
Besnik Llakatura lived a double life as an NYPD cop and an Albanian gangster. Now he's living a single life as a guest of the federal government. SONC-066146_300x250.jpg. Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:43 pm | Updated: 3:49 pm, Thu Mar 29, 2018. Gangster ex-cop gets 14 years for Astoria extortion 0 comments.
The Age
March 30, 2018
Commonwealth Bank loan officers provided millions of dollars in mortgages to Calabrian mafia kingpin Rocco Arico, who used them to amass a luxury property portfolio and launder cash from his drug and extortion empire. Employees at three of the big four banks, who were either very compliant or possiblyÃâà...
MMA Fighting
March 29, 2018
The grandson of the notorious New York mobster with whom he shares a name, Gotti made a successful pro MMA debut last October at Classic Entertainment & Sports MMA 46 in Lincoln, R.I., last October, forcing opponent Johnny Adams to tap to strikes in the first round. Gotti is next booked to fight EddieÃâà...
AV Club
March 29, 2018
It's after Archie has somehow Archie'd his way into a stereotypical Italian mobster meeting—alongside Andre and “Agent” Adams—and decides to step to the .... Anyway, this is now the show where Archie and a cadre of fascist teen jocks blow up mobsters' cars as part of an authorized after school activity.
Marshfield News-Herald
March 29, 2018
Prohibition had just ended in December 1933, but the days of the gangsters heading up from Chicago to the Northwoods of Wisconsin were far from over. While running bootleg whiskey up from the city, the gangsters grew very fond of the quiet, serene nature of the Northwoods, which allowed them to fish,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
A few years ago, when Redinel Dervishaj, a violent Albanian gangster, was running protection rackets in Astoria, Queens, he had a secret weapon in his arsenal: a New York City police officer who occasionally worked as his enforcer. In 2013, for instance, after the owner of a social club in the neighborhoodÃâà...
Newsday
March 24, 2018
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, the latest entry in the series about gangster Kazuma Kiryu, finds him at age 48, fresh out of prison and raising a new generation at his orphanage in Okinawa. He's sworn off the yakuza life but gets pulled back in after Haruka, one of his wards, is injured in a hit-and-run whileÃâà...
Jamaica Star Online
March 24, 2018
A member of the military takes up a strategic position along Pink Lane, Denham Town, St Andrew, on Monday. Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced plans for the creation of a watch list that would contain the names of persons with gang association and those who are a part of criminalÃâà...
Voice of America
March 24, 2018
A chemist who helped develop the nerve agent that Britain says was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter was investigated in the late 1990s for selling capsules of the toxin to Chechen mobsters. Leonid Rink, who worked in a Soviet-era chemical weapons facility near theÃâà...
Birmingham Live
March 24, 2018
This is the crime family who sold guns and bullets to gangsters. The weapons sold by the Bates family have been linked to the murder of Carl Campbell. Share. By. Annette Belcher-BM. 19:50, 23 MAR 2018. News. Enter your postcode to see news and information near you Community updates, Crime Statistics, Local NewsÃâà...
The Moscow Times
March 23, 2018
Russian Scientist Claims He Sold Deadly Novichok Nerve Agent to Chechen Gangsters in 1990s. Henry Nicholls / Reuters. A Soviet-era scientist claims to have sold a deadly nerve agent in the 1990s that Britain says poisoned an ex-spy and his daughter, classified documents obtained by a RussianÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 23, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — Singer, songwriter and poet Golda Sargento has been cast to play Raquel “Rocky” Rivera in Jessica Hagedorn's play “The Gangster of Love.” This world premiere, based on Hagedorn's novel of the same title, concludes Magic Theatre's 2017–18 season and will be helmed by theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
That decade saw the emergence of a tradition of monumental memorialisation, as fallen gangsters were buried with full Godfather-style pomp, with black limousines threading through paths lined with white carnations and tombs marked with huge headstones. Vastly expensive (the largest cost upwards ofÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
March 21, 2018
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) – The family of a mobster-turned-snitch who was killed more than a decade ago can look through sealed wiretap records to contest funds seized by prosecutors, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday. A soldier in the Lucchese crime family, 67-year-old Frank Lagano was shot andÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 21, 2018
Two suspected machete-welding gangsters were shot dead on Tuesday evening in Mombasa's Likoni area. They were killed in Mtongwe area by police officers as they planned to stage a robbery in Soko Mjinga. Likoni police boss Benjamin Rotich said they were in a group of five that used motorcycles toÃâà...
Kamloops This Week
March 21, 2018
A Lower Mainland man who in 2016 deliberately walked into the path of a train near his Kamloops motel days after shooting a gangster to death in Maple Ridge has been sentenced to serve more than six years in prison. Deane Sahantovitch, 56, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was ordered to spendÃâà...
9news.com.au
March 20, 2018
A New York mobster who turned snitch over the infamous 'Goodfellas' airport heist has evaded a jail sentence. Gaspare Valenti had taken part in the 1978 Lufthansa air cargo heist at JFK Airport when a gang of mobsters emptied a vault of $8m in cash and jewels, reports the New York Post. The robberyÃâà...
Green Bay Press Gazette
March 20, 2018
Renowned author Chad Lewis's presentation will be filled with deadly bank robberies, explosive shootouts, brutal murders and daring kidnappings. The audience will dicover the locations where gangster history will never die. Learn about John Dillinger's deadly shootout with the FBI in Northern Wisconsin,Ãâà...
VICE
March 20, 2018
VICE caught up with English about his new book and where El Padrino ranks in the chronicles of gangster lore. Here's what he had to say. ... How organized crime is a conduit between the upper world (the business and political class) and the underworld (the criminals and gangsters). Battle delivered theÃâà...
MassLive.com
March 19, 2018
The federal identification card for South Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger is up for auction as bids reached more than $1,500 over the weekend. The prison badge is being auctioned by Lelands.com. The company did not disclose the source of the card and stated only "Obtained from a spuriousÃâà...
Times of India
March 19, 2018
... causalities reported01:00; Rajasthan's village plants 111 trees for every girl born01:14; Nearly 38 hospitalised after drinking contaminated water01:37; Police arrest 2 gangsters after encounter in Hardoi01:34; Over dozen dead, 38 ailing after drinking toxic borewell water in Maharashtra's Yavatmal03:06Ãâà...
Manchester Evening News
March 19, 2018
This week in court: A Salford gangster, a drugs boss boxer, and a churchgoing paedophile. It's been a busy week in ... A notorious gangster was caged after spending years on the run on the Costa del Sol and staging a string of gunpoint heists, including a Ãâã200,000 raid on a jewellers. Lee Tansey, 40, fromÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 18, 2018
ON our screens he plays Enzo “Blueblood” Sangue Blu, the young, silver-tongued gangster hellbent on reclaiming his family's honour on the gritty streets .... Series 3 sees 26-year-old Enzo return to Naples from Bulgaria to reclaim the influence once commanded by his mobster grandfather, who once ruledÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 17, 2018
Gangster on run in Costa del Sol locked up over spate of armed robberies including Ãâã200k jewel heist. Lee Tansey, 40, was ... A notorious gangster who spent years on the run on the Costa del Sol after staging a string of gunpoint heists including a Ãâã200,000 jewelery raid had been jailed. Lee Tansey, 40Ãâà...
Sampan
March 14, 2018
If you were young Sara Porkalob, you would have waited 20 years to listen to the stories of an immigrant single woman who overcame child trafficking, sexual exploitation, and gangster feuds to bring her children to America. On March 22, Sara Porkalob will bring the first installment of her one-woman,Ãâà...
Yahoo Singapore News
March 14, 2018
Italy's anti-mafia force on Tuesday arrested 11 suspected gangsters accused of aiding and abetting fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, widely believed to head up the Sicilian mob. The operation, which involved over 100 special agents, implicated mafia families in Vita and Salemi, two towns in western Sicily,Ãâà...
Times of India
March 14, 2018
BATHINDA: Nagar panchayat president of Nihal Singh Wala town in Moga district and Congress activist, Inderjit Garg claimed that a wanted gangster, ... “A case against gangster Sukhpreet and unknown persons has been registered in the matter,” Nihal Singh Wala station house officer Jaswant Singh said.
Birmingham Live
March 14, 2018
Gangster who BLEW UP cashpoints facing jail - thanks to McDonald's breakfast. Surrounded by armed police, they were brought to justice and sentenced to lengthy prison stays. The men were part of a Liverpool and Birmingham-based burglary gang, which struck the length and breadth of the country inÃâà...
Northwest Georgia News
March 13, 2018
This image was presented during a press conference in early March showing 23 Ghost Face Gangsters members indicted. A 21-count indictment against 23 members of the Ghostface Gangsters was unsealed in early March, but of those, 20 were already in custody in either Georgia or federal prisons.
MinnPost
March 13, 2018
The first was the repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933. With the end of Prohibition, mobsters' primary revenue streams stopped flowing and then dried up altogether, signaling the death knell of what had become known as the gangster era in the city of St. Paul. Reform-minded community groups and public officialsÃâà...
The Tribune
March 13, 2018
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Surinder Bansal reached the spot and the accused was taken into police custody. His car was also impounded. Police officials said the preliminary probe indicated that Tejinder had links with gangsters. Further investigations are under way to nail his accomplicesÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 13, 2018
Githeri gangsters cart away millions from Habib Bank. Mar. 13, 2018, 12:45 am. By STAR REPROTER. Thugs broke into Habib Bank along Koinange Street, Nairobi and carted away millions of shillings. /COURTESY. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Google+ Ãâ÷ WhatsApp Ãâ÷ Email. In Kenya's latest daring bank heist, robbers stole as yetÃâà...
The Irish Sun
March 13, 2018
ASSISTANT Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll has vowed there will be no hiding place for kingpins living overseas. The senior officer was joined at a press conference by the UK's National Crime Agency Deputy Director Ian Cruxton who vowed to help gardai target Ireland's organised crime gangs.
Daily Nation
March 13, 2018
A pistol. The gangsters shot in the air and immediately started demanding valuables— including mobile phones, money and even eye glasses. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP. In Summary. In Mombasa, police on Tuesday morning shot dead a suspected ring leader of a criminal gang in Kisauni.
Newstalk ZB
March 13, 2018
The gangster, the Lotto winner and the $50k demand. Author: NZ Herald,; Section: National,; Publish Date: Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 8:10PM. The winner bought his ticket from the Te Kuiti Paper Plus last month and took home a whopping $7.3 million. (Photo / Michael Bradley). AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to FacebookÃâà...
Tuscaloosa News
March 13, 2018
ATLANTA — Nearly two dozen members of the Ghostface Gangsters prison gang, including some key leaders, have been arrested on federal charges after a lengthy investigation into the often gruesome crimes committed on behalf of the gang, federal prosecutors say. A federal grand jury returned aÃâà...
wwlp.com
March 13, 2018
WORCESTER, Mass. (WWLP) – A Longmeadow man associated with the Genovese La Cosa Nostra crime family will spend more than a year in prison for extortion-related charges. The state Department of Justice said 53-year-old Gerald Daniele was sentenced to two years in prison and three years ofÃâà...
GolfDigest.com
February 27, 2018
I've lived in New York City for going on seven years and I've never once been to Staten Island, partly because you have to take a boat (or a car, which is even less practical than a boat) and partly because Law & Order tells me its mostly populated by people like John “Porky” Zancocchio, the 60-year-oldÃâà...
seattlepi.com
December 31, 1999
“Me and mine before you and yours.” That motto is inked on Paul Esparza's chest next to a smoking shotgun. Thing is, Esparza, who helped found a Seattle street gang, doesn't have many of “his” left. At least not those who ran with the Sureno set they formed a decade ago. Some have gone straight. OthersÃâà...
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