member of Spanish Town's notorious Klansman gang was yesterday shot dead

"A member of Spanish Town's notorious Klansman gang was yesterday shot dead in the St Catherine capital in what police believe is a feud among members of the criminal outfit.
The gangster, identified as Jermaine Morrison, alias 'Speedy', 31, was shot dead while at a service station at the corner of Young Street by men travelling in a motor car. A man and a woman were injured in the shooting, which sent scores of pedestrians scampering from the busy commercial area shortly after 2:00 pm.
Police said the injured persons were admitted to hospital in stable condition.
Head of the St Catherine North Police Division, Superintendent Anthony Castell, said Morrison's death was the latest in a heated internal rift between members of the gang, believed to be one of the deadliest in the country.
'It is an internal or intra-gang rivalry between the members. Tesha Miller (reputed head of the gang) is now in jail so the others are fighting over who must control which turf,' said Castell."

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Police arrest gangster with guns, 2,400 rounds of ammunition in Chilliwack house

Police arrest gangster with guns, 2,400 rounds of ammunition in Chilliwack house: "Abbotsford police arrested a gangster linked to the Duhre crime group Tuesday after seven firearms, including an Uzi, were found in his residence along with 2,400 rounds of ammunition and various quantities of drugs.

Const. Ian MacDonald said the department's Gang Suppression Unit excuted a search warrant at the house in the 47000-block of Brewster Place in Chilliwack.

'This was regarded to be a high-risk warrant and the contents of the residence proved that this assessment was accurate,' MacDonald said. Along with the firearms, police seized oxycontin, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine and thousands of dollars.

'The home was vacant at the time of the warrant execution,' MacDonald said."

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Alleged gangster charged with violent home invasion

Alleged gangster charged with violent home invasion: "member of the Providence Street Posse was arraigned yesterday on home invasion charges stemming from a September robbery in which three men broke into a Valmor Street home and pistol-whipped a man inside.

Devon Smith, 19, of 3 Crown St., Apt. 1, was arraigned in Central District Court on charges of home invasion, armed robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and armed assault in a dwelling.

Mr. Smith and two other men broke into a Valmor Street home Sept. 23, according to Assistant District Attorney Marc W. Dupuis.

An 18-year-old woman ran into a room when the break-in occurred and called her 20-year-old brother, who was in another room."

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Police arrest mastermind of 1976 French Ocean's Eleven bank heist - Telegraph

Police arrest mastermind of 1976 French Ocean's Eleven bank heist - Telegraph: "Police seized Jacques Cassandri, a known figure of the southern French underworld, after he purported to set the record straight in writing about his role in the Rivieria robbery.
Mr Cassandri, 68, is under investigation on suspicion of possessing 'illegally obtained funds, money laundering and non-justification of (financial) resources'.
In The Truth about the Nice Heist, Mr Cassandri – writing under the pseudonym Amigo – says he is tired of living in the shadow of the man assumed to have run the Ocean's Eleven-style bank job, Albert Spaggiari, who he claims in fact only played a bit part.
On 16 July 1976, after two months of drilling through the underlying sewers, a commando of 13 robbers finally broke into the vaults of the Société Générale bank in central Nice. They spent the next six days clearing 370 coffers of gold ingots, jewellery and cash amounting to 50 million francs – today worth around £24 million – before making their getaway just as the rising sewage waters began to flood the bank.
When police arrived, they found the words 'neither weapons, nor violence, nor hatred,' scrawled on the walls."

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Providence Street Posse gang alleged gangster charged with violent home invasion

Alleged gangster charged with violent home invasion: "member of the Providence Street Posse gang was arraigned this morning on home invasion charges stemming from a September robbery in which three men broke into a Valmor Street home and pistol-whipped a man inside.

Devon Smith, 19, of 3 Crown St., Apt. 1, was arraigned on charges of home invasion, armed robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and armed assault in a dwelling in Central District Court.

Mr. Smith and two other men broke into a Valmor Street home on Sept. 23, according to Assistant District Attorney Marc W. Dupuis.

An 18-year-old woman ran into a room when the break-in occurred and called her 20-year-old brother, who was in another room. It is unclear if anyone else has been arrested in the case."

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Jail time reduced for gangster in baby shooting | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Jail time reduced for gangster in baby shooting | Canada | News | Toronto Sun: "Alberta's highest court has reduced the sentence of a Hobbema gangster who wounded a 23-month-old girl in a drive-by shooting on the Samson Cree Nation reserve.

Christopher Shane Crane, 20, had been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault, robbery with a firearm and two gun charges in connection with the April 13, 2008, shooting that left Asia Saddleback with a stray bullet lodged near her heart.

However, in a decision released Wednesday, the Court of Appeal of Alberta lowered the sentence to seven years after finding the trial judge erred in his sentencing.

Court heard the charges stemmed from two separate events on the same day, the robbery of a marijuana dealer and the shooting of Saddleback.

Crane had been drinking with two other men as part of his 18th birthday celebrations and at 7 p.m. one of them drove Crane to the dealer's house to rob him of his wares.

Crane had a loaded sawed-off .22-calibre rifle which he used during the robbery to threaten the dealer, fire into a wall and hit him on the nose."

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CTV British Columbia - $200k in gangster bling seized by RCMP - CTV News

CTV British Columbia - $200k in gangster bling seized by RCMP - CTV News: "A palm-sized gold and diamond skull medallion is among hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury jewelry seized by RCMP Wednesday as part of a proceeds of crime investigation against a high-ranking gang member in Prince George, B.C.

Prince George RCMP Gang Task Force removed gold chains, silver and diamond rings as well as watches while executing a search warrant on a local property.

Cpl. Craig Douglass told ctvbc.ca one of the showpieces is a large gold medallion encrusted with diamonds.

'Sort of a mask with fangs and golden eyes -- that sort of thing,' he said in a telephone interview. 'This isn't stuff that you're going to find in a jewelry store that's for sure.'

An appraiser valued the haul at more than $200,000.

Police have executed search warrants at six locations against a man they say is a member of the Game Tight Soldiers and is also connected to the Renegades motorcycle gang.

Task members also found $40,000 cash, three handguns, a machine gun and cocaine, Douglass said."

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New York Mafia gangster raids: 100 suspected mobsters arrested - mirror.co.uk

New York Mafia gangster raids: 100 suspected mobsters arrested - mirror.co.uk: "FBI have arrested over 100 suspected mobsters in raids on New York’s organised crime families.

Many of the arrests occurred in Brooklyn, but they also took place in New York City, New Jersey and New England.

Charges made include murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking with cases set to be discussed as a news conference later.

Federal probes assisted by mob deserters have devastated ranks of New York's five Mafia crime families, resulting in lengthy prison terms for several leaders."

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Brother of gangster gunned down at Metrotown released on bail

Brother of gangster gunned down at Metrotown released on bail: "younger brother of a gangster killed in a targeted shooting at Metrotown has been released on bail.

Sukhveer Dhak, 26, was arrested on Dec. 18 near 136th Street and 58th Avenue in Surrey by anti-gang police officers and charged with one count of counselling to commit an aggravated assault that did not occur.

The assault was supposed to occur in Surrey on Nov. 15, according to police, one month after Dhak’s 32-year-old brother Gurmit was shot to death.

He was also charged with breaching the conditions of his bail on charges of production of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Dhak was arrested in 2008 as part of Project Gateway, a joint drug-trafficking investigation between Delta Police, Surrey RCMP and B.C.’s gang task force."

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Kray prison letters up for auction - News - Morpeth Herald

Kray prison letters up for auction - News - Morpeth Herald: "Letters and artwork produced by killer Reggie Kray while he was in an Isle of Wight prison are being auctioned by the woman credited with helping him become a born-again Christian.

Carol-Ann Kelly struck up an unlikely friendship with the East End gangster while visiting her then husband in Parkhurst prison in 1983.

Their bond flourished over the years after Kray said she reminded him of his late wife Frances, and the pair read the Bible together during visits. The villain was so fond of Ms Kelly that she said he even paid for the rent on a flat on the Isle of Wight so she could visit him in prison with her then eight-year-old son David.

To some, Kray's claim to have become a born-again Christian was seen as a cynical attempt by him to help secure his release from jail. But in the previously unseen letters, he shows apparent sincerity in his actions, according to Ms Kelly.

Writing to her after the breakdown of her marriage, he told her: 'Get your head together. Don't contemplate suicide. It would be like turning traitor on David and your mother. I became a born-again Christian on behalf of you.'"

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NARCO BLOG: Confessions of a Zeta Assassin - Hispanically Speaking News

Confessions of a Zeta Assassin - Hispanically Speaking News: "Nicolas Ortiz Javier Miranda, alias El Flaco or Javi, who is currently imprisoned at the central prison of Cancun, belonged to a cell of Los Zetas during one of their bloodiest periods of violence in 2010 and slowly his testimony is coming to light. He operated with a group of assassins in which over 23 executions, including the killings of two police officials, were carried out in less than a six months period.
Javi was born on November 20, 1986, in the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas; finished his high school education and then went on to be a hitman for the group of Los Zetas. He earned $8,000 pesos monthly for his work with this drug cartel organization.
This is how Javi began his sworn testimonial before the Public Security Ministry of Mexico investigating homicides."

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