Indian Posse street gang 'striker' who stabbed a man pleads guilty to aggravated assault - Brandon Sun

Indian Posse street gang 'striker' who stabbed a man -- nearly piercing the victim's heart -- was acting under orders of higher ranking gang members, court has heard. Crown attorney Jim Ross described how the blade entered through the victim's back, passed through his ribs, punctured a lung and 'nicked' the victim's heart." DISCLAIMER:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains...

Army Troops Rescue 16 Kidnapped in Mexico

Army Troops Rescue 16 Kidnapped in Mexico: "Soldiers rescued 16 people being held hostage in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas and killed two suspected kidnappers in a shootout, the army said Monday. An army patrol was attacked Saturday near the highway that links Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, and Mante, the 8th Military Zone said. The soldiers “repelled the attack, killing two of the suspected assailants,” the...

Mexico’s Teen Hitman to Be Held Under Preventive Arrest

Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexico’s Teen Hitman to Be Held Under Preventive Arrest: "Mexican teenager accused of being a drug cartel hitman who allegedly decapitated his victims has been ordered held in preventive arrest for 60 days by a juvenile court judge, giving prosecutors and the defense more time to gather evidence in the case, the press reported. Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a 14-year-old boy known as “El Ponchis” (The Cloak), allegedly...

Borderland Beat: Four Cops Die in Ambush in Ciudad Juarez

 Four Cops Die in Ambush in Ciudad Juarez: "Four municipal police officers were killed and one was wounded in an ambush staged by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital, police spokesmen said. The officers were driving Saturday through Aguilas de Zaragoza, a neighborhood on the east side of the border city, when the gunmen opened fire on them at the intersection of Acamapiztle and Cuauhtlatoatzin streets." :Text may be...

Jailed gangster Colin Gunn wins demand for prison officers to call him 'Mr' - mirror.co.uk

Jailed gangster Colin Gunn wins demand for prison officers to call him 'Mr' - mirror.co.uk: "NOTORIOUS gangster will now be called “Mister” by prison officers. Colin Gunn, serving 35 years for ordering the killing of two ­grandparents, made an official complaint that he did not receive enough respect. Officers at Belmarsh Prison in South-East London have now been told to address him as “Mr Gunn” after the Prison and Probation Ombudsman...

‘Khar builder helped gangster identify targets’ - Hindustan Times

‘Khar builder helped gangster identify targets’ - Hindustan Times: "Ravi Punjabi, 32, the Khar-based builder arrested by the Crime Branch on Wednesday for alleged underworld links, is said to have come across gangster Ravi Pujari five years ago. Crime Branch sources said on Thursday, on condition of anonymity, that Punjabi met Pujari when he just broken away...

Heartbreak for gangster's wife - Times LIVE

Heartbreak for gangster's wife - Times LIVE: "On Tuesday, her world fell apart when her husband of 11 years, school sweetheart and gang leader Duncan, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Speaking to the Sunday Times Extra from her home, an outbuilding on her parents' Chats-worth property, she recounted her disbelief when Durban High Court Judge Esther Steyn sentenced her husband to life imprisonment for the 2008 murder of Chatsworth businessman...

‘I didn’t trust Chhota Rajan’ - Hindustan Times

‘I didn’t trust Chhota Rajan’ - Hindustan Times: "Notorious gangster Bunty Pandey, who was deported from Vietnam in November, has told officers from the Mumbai crime branch that he broke away from underworld don, Chhota Rajan, because he had stopped trusting him. Police sources said Pandey has told interrogators that Rajan’s refusal to help the family of an aide, who was killed in an encounter, was a “wake-up call” for him. “The Mumbai...

Jailed killer has Facebook account closed after probe by Daily Record - Glasgowgangland.com

Jailed killer has Facebook account closed after probe by Daily Record - Glasgowgangland.com: "PRISON chiefs raided a maniac killer's cell after the Record revealed he was using a mobile phone to update his Facebook site. Brian Venuti's social networking page was shut down yesterday as a probe was launched into the latest scandal to hit Addiewell jail in West Lothain. Venuti, jailed for life in 2004 for killing a Scotland football fan and...

Remains found in decade-old hunt for ex-Hells Angel

Remains found in decade-old hunt for ex-Hells Angel: "RCMP in Nova Scotia have uncovered remains in a wooded area near downtown Truro, but say it's too soon to confirm whether or not they belong a missing former Hells Angel. Officers had been combing the area for several days in hopes of finding some trace of Randy Mersereau, 48, a past member of the Hells Angels'...

SLAIN gangland killer Carl Williams was beaten so badly paramedics trying to save him were unable to recognise one of Victoria's best-known faces.

A jail source told the Herald Sun yesterday that prison authorities hadn't told the five ambulance officers who their stricken patient was. "Carl was beaten to such a pulp that he was unrecognisable. The ambos never even knew who it was they were treating," the source said. The Herald Sun has discovered Williams was attacked at 12.48pm on Monday, and jail authorities didn't call Ambulance Victoria until 1.21pm. Williams, 39, who had been...

Job News | Big and Dangerous U.s. Gangs Making Alliances in Other States and Countries

Job News | Big and Dangerous U.s. Gangs Making Alliances in Other States and Countries: "25,000 or more gangs currently operating in the U.S. and more than 1,000.000 active gang members. Most current gang members in the U.S. are believed to possess automatic AK 47’s, shot guns, hand guns, other weapons such as explosives and police report confiscating more and more bullet proof vests. Gangs conduct all sorts of criminal activity in all...

Project Folkstone focused on a “criminal organization” involved in a cross-border gun smuggling operation that specialized in trafficking illegal guns

Project Folkstone focused on a “criminal organization” involved in a cross-border gun smuggling operation that specialized in trafficking illegal guns in the GTA. Police said that criminal organization was smuggling guns into Canada from the U.S., along with various drugs including cocaine, marijuana and heroin.David Barker, 39, of Windsor, is charged with possession...

Russians are on trial in the United States in at least three separate cases involving gun crimes

Russians are on trial in the United States in at least three separate cases involving gun crimes, including a waiting-room murder, a Kalashnikov-armed gang of thieves and a repeat-offender bank robber.Oregon prosecutors are struggling to solve a mysterious murder in which a Russian-speaking unlicensed dentist is accused of shooting another Russian-speaking man believed to be his patient.
Viktor Gebauer, 79, has pleaded not guilty in the...

Christopher Tres Cadejuste, of the 500 block Oak Hill Lane, allegedly fired the gun at the victim

Christopher Tres Cadejuste, of the 500 block Oak Hill Lane, allegedly fired the gun at the victim, the ex-boyfriend of Cadejuste's girlfriend, after the two men had a physical altercation in 700 block of Edgar Drive around 9:16 p.m., according to police.The men were arguing about an previous altercation between the victim and Cadejuste's girlfriend, according to police.Cadejuste, 17, has been charged as an adult with attempted murder, assault,...

unnamed accused serial rapist demanded tougher gun control laws from his hospital bed in suburban Philadelphia

unnamed accused serial rapist demanded tougher gun control laws from his hospital bed in suburban Philadelphia earlier today, just hours after being admitted by police for a gun shot wound incurred while attempting to assault a local woman. Lawyers for the alleged rapist charged their client was “the real victim of this assault,” and warned that easy access to legal firearms was “[Making] committing a rape or other violent crime nearly...

68-YEAR-OLD pensioner and her three grandchildren were gunned down while asleep

68-YEAR-OLD pensioner and her three grandchildren were gunned down while asleep at their home at Gonzales, Belmont shortly after midnight on Sunday.Four-year-old Zara Sylvester and her aunt Jehial Roberts, 22, were also shot and wounded. Those murdered were Carmen Mc Hutchinson, 68, and siblings Asha Roberts, 23, Javon Roberts, 18, and LL Roberts, 13. Up to late yesterday little Zara, who was shot in the chest, was warded in a critical...

judge in Peru who pulled a gun on a photojournalist

judge in Peru who pulled a gun on a photojournalist is now saying he confused him for a thief.Perhaps he thought Carlos Saavedra was going to steal his soul with the camera.Either way, the photo made the cover of Caretas this month, the leading newsweekly magazine in Peru.And the incident is now being addressed by the Committee to Protect Journalists.The incident...

gang-related shootout Monday afternoon.

Two Visalia schools were on lockdown, after a gang-related shootout Monday afternoon. It happened on Conyer and Tulare Avenue near Mount Whitney High School.Investigators said a van drove by an apartment complex -- and someone inside the van started shooting. At the same time, they said people at the apartment shot back at the van.No injuries were reported -- but Mount Whitney High School and nearby Conyer School were on lockdown for about...

Aidan Byrne, undeterred by the threats against his life, Byrne had also agreed to act as a gun for hire on behalf of major gang bosses.

Aidan Byrne, undeterred by the threats against his life, Byrne had also agreed to act as a gun for hire on behalf of major gang bosses.The sordid life of the father of one, who was lured to his death, was revealed yesterday as gardai stepped up the hunt for his killer, who made off on foot after shooting him 10 times in the chest, stomach and upper body as he sat in the passenger seat of a parked car on the northside of Dublin city.Byrne...

Authorities are searching for a man who they say robbed the Anderson Township Sunoco and fired a gun at a witness

Authorities are searching for a man who they say robbed the Anderson Township Sunoco and fired a gun at a witness Sunday evening. No one was injured.According to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect entered the gas station, 6090 Sutton Road, around 7:40 p.m. He approached the counter with a bottle of Vodka and asked the clerk a question, then showed a handgun and demanded cash. He took an undisclosed amount of cash and several...

man who they believe attacked a UW student on a downtown bike path over the weekend

Madison Police are searching for a man who they believe attacked a UW student on a downtown bike path over the weekend.The victim, a 20-year-old woman, told officers she was walking on the bike path in the 100 block of N. Mills St. Saturday around 7:40 p.m. when a man approached her with a gun and grabbed her purse.She says the robber fled west on the bike path.The suspect is described as a man possibly of Asian ethnicity between 20-25...

Heavily armed gunman has killed himself after an eight-hour siege in central Queensland.

Heavily armed gunman has killed himself after an eight-hour siege in central Queensland.Police have refused to confirm if the man opened fire on a marked police car while holed up in a house in the coal mining town of Moranbah.Officers say the man broke into the home on Monday afternoon and while alone inside fired a weapon several times.Negotiators were unable to talk him out and he shot himself, reportedly in front of officers, about...

Javaris Crittendon, the “other” player involved in the infamous Showdown at the OK Corral style standoff in the Verizon Center locker room

Guard Javaris Crittendon, the “other” player involved in the infamous Showdown at the OK Corral style standoff in the Verizon Center locker room, plead guilty to a misdemeanor gun charges Monday in D.C. Superior Court.Reports of the possibility of Crittendon being charged with a gun crime began to pop up on multiple websites early Monday morning, with the Washington...

man suspected of attempting to rob the TwinStar Credit Union in Centralia on Monday morning escaped and should be considered armed

man suspected of attempting to rob the TwinStar Credit Union in Centralia on Monday morning escaped and should be considered armed, police said. “He went out the same window he came in,” Centralia Police Chief Bob Berg said. “We should assume he’s armed, because he presented a gun to the employee.”The man was shot at by Centralia police officer Neil Hoium, but apparently was not hit. He might have been cut when climbing through a broken...