Fresh appeal to find Liverpool Sunday League gangster's killer

Police are making a fresh appeal for information two years after Sunday League football manager with gangster links was shot to death. Nicky Ayers was shot at close range outside his mother-in-law's home in Liverpool on 29th April 2010. The 46 year-old was shot at least seven times outside the property on South Cantrill Avenue and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. At the crime scene forensic teams found at least six bullet-casings...

7 killed in drug gang shoot out

Seven people, including two members of the security forces and five people thought to be drug cartel members, have been killed in a shootout between rival gangs in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, according to The Associated Press. The gun battle broke out early today near the town of Choix, causing the Mexican army and local police to intervene, the news agency said, citing a state police spokesman. More from GlobalPost: Sinaloa:...

B.C. gangster survives explosion only to be gunned down in Mexico

A high-ranking gangster from B.C. was gunned down in Mexico late Friday night. Lower Mainland resident Thomas Gisby, said by RCMP to be about 50 years old, was shot to death inside a Starbucks in the tourist town of Nuevo Vallarta. Gisby is believed to be linked to Metro Vancouver’s notorious Dhak group, who alongside the Duhre gang have been the subject of retaliatory hits since last summer’s well-publicized Kelowna murder of Red Scorpion...

Indicted in multistate, murder-for-hire drug trafficking case

Columbia man and two Hopkins men are among seven charged in a five-count federal indictment in a drug-trafficking and murder-for-hire case stretching from South Carolina to Texas. Robert Corley, 23, of Columbia was arrested Wednesday and appeared in a Columbia courtroom Thursday, following which the US Attorney’s Office in Houston unsealed its indictment. In 15 pages, available at the end of this story, the indictment details charges against...

Shooting a 'warning' from rival bikie gang

SIMMERING tension between rival bikie gangs exploded on the Gold Coast yesterday with the drive-by shooting of a tattoo parlour in the heart of Bandidos territory. Police fear the attack could be a push for territory by the Hells Angels as the outlaw gang seeks a toehold on the lucrative Glitter Strip. Less than 24 hours after police commissioner Bob Atkinson told the Bulletin that bikie gangs were "one of the greatest challenges to face...

Jury hears grisly details about murder scene

Police discovered a grisly scene on Sept. 10, 2000, when they entered a Cogmagun Road home in Hants County. “It was a very brutal scene,” Cpl. Shawn Sweeney, who was a constable with the Windsor rural RCMP detachment that day, testified Tuesday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Kentville. It was the second day of trial for Leslie Douglas Greenwood, 42, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of...

Gang violence erupts again in Hyde Park

The man who wound up fatally wounded outside a Hyde Park supermarket had connections to Mission Hill's violent Heath Street gang, according to sources. It's the second time in seven months violence linked to gangs in other neighborhoods has hit Hyde Park. Last September, an alleged associate of Roxbury's H Block gang was unloading groceries outside his girlfriend's Readville apartment when he was shot repeatedly. Prosecutors at the time...

Former gangster used his wife as honeytrap in Mumbai murders

The probe into two separate instances of murder of citizens from Delhi has revealed that former gangster and prime accused Vijay Palande used his model wife Simran Sood as a 'honeytrap' to commit the crimes for usurping properties of the victims, police said. "It has now emerged that Simran Sood is not Vijay Palande's friend but his wife. Both married in year 1998 or 1999. After the marriage, Palande was involved in a crime and was behind...

Former gangster used his wife as honeytrap in Mumbai murders

The probe into two separate instances of murder of citizens from Delhi has revealed that former gangster and prime accused Vijay Palande used his model wife Simran Sood as a 'honeytrap' to commit the crimes for usurping properties of the victims, police said. "It has now emerged that Simran Sood is not Vijay Palande's friend but his wife. Both married in year 1998 or 1999. After the marriage, Palande was involved in a crime and was behind...

Gangster, brother turn themselves in to police

A Prince George gangster who was ordered deported to South Africa more than four years ago has turned himself in to police on charges of kidnapping and assault. Prince George RCMP said Wednesday Francois (Frankie) Meerholz, 24, who they say is linked to the Game Tight Soldiers and Renegades biker gangs, and his brother Dillan Meerholz, 22, turned themselves in late Tuesday. Responding to a report of a kidnapping, Mounties went to a rural...

The indictment said three gangs called the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia and the Lady Outlaws were forcing teenage girls into prostitution

:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.  Bare Naked IslamOver two dozen Somali Muslims, including women, were indicted for kidnapping, raping and selling underage girls. It’s the largest human trafficking case in US history. Cleveland.com reported:A...

Police in downtown Los Angelese are fighting crime by predicting offences - before they have even happened.

Unlike the usual method of responding to 911 calls, cops use computers which show them 'red spots' where an incident is most likely to occur.They are then deployed onto the streets in a bid to deter thugs, burglers and gangsters from going on their next crime spree.Technical: LAPD cops study an enormous computer screen showing 'red spots' where the next crime...

British terror supergrass sentence cut by two years

jailed British terrorist has had his sentence cut by two years in a supergrass deal after giving evidence about an al Qaeda-linked “martyrdom” plot in New York, it was revealed today. Former teacher Saajid Badat was jailed for 13 years in 2005 for plotting with shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a transatlantic airliner in 2001 in what an Old Bailey judge said was a “wicked and inhuman” plot. He has now had his term reduced by two years...

Western embassies targeted in Afghanistan attacks

 Gunmen have launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul. Western embassies in the heavily-guarded, central diplomatic area are understood to be among the targets as well as the parliament building in the west. There are reports that up to seven different locations have been hit. The Taliban has admitted responsibility, saying their main targets were the British and German embassies. There is no word at this stage...

Taliban free hundreds from Pakistan prison

Hundreds of prisoners are believed to have escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan after it was attacked by anti-government fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Some of those who escaped from the facility in the town of Bannu, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early on Sunday morning were "militants", an intelligence official told the Reuters news agency. "Dozens of militants attacked Bannu's Central...

Alaska coast guards found dead at Kodiak Island

 Two members of the US Coast Guard in Alaska have been found dead, prompting concerns that a killer could have struck at a remote island outpost. A captain at the Kodiak Island Station said they were unsure what happened and a suspect could still be at large. The base and schools in the area were put on lockdown and residents of the island were told to remain vigilant. The names of the victims will be released after their families...

An Albanian fugitive accused of multiple murders in his home country has been arrested in north London after 15 years on the run.

Ndrieim Sadushi, 41, was last night picked up on an international warrant by police outside his home in Southgate.An Albanian court found him guilty in his absence of three killings and an attempted murder in the eastern European country in 1997.At an extradition hearing in Westminster Magistrates' Court today, Sadushi claimed he had been the victim of mistaken...

Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll's driver tells murder trial of Asda shooting

A man who was driving the car in which Glasgow gangster Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll was shot has told his murder trial how he escaped from the gunmen. John Bonner described how he clambered out of the passenger side of the black Audi as masked men ran towards him. He said he fell to the ground, heard about three gun shots and ran away. Ross Monaghan, 30, denies murdering Mr Carroll at the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January 2010....

BRIT Government 'planning new Internet snooping laws'

The British government wants to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits, The Sunday Times reported. Internet companies would be instructed to install hardware to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to go through "on demand" every text message and email sent, websites accessed and phone calls made "in real time, the paper said. The plans are expected to be unveiled next month. The Home Office said...

Eight people from 'Holy Death' cult arrested in Mexico over ritual sacrifices of woman and two 10-year-old boys

Eight people have been arrested in northern Mexico have over the killing of two 10-year-old boys and a woman in what appears to be ritual sacrifices. Prosecutors in Sonora, in the north-west of the country have accused the suspects of belonging to the La Santa Muerte (Holy Death) cult. The victims' blood has been poured round an altar to the idol, which is portrayed as a skeleton holding a scythe and clothed in flowing robes. The cult,...

Gang dispute sparked funeral home shooting that left 2 dead, 12 injured

 Dispute among gang members at a North Miami-area funeral home sparked a mass shooting that injured 12 people and killed two men, according to Miami-Dade police and law enforcement. The gunmen, who fired a barrage of bullets at a crowd of mourners Friday night, remained on the loose. Investigators have not released information about the shooters, only that a white car may have been involved. One of the victims, a 43-year-old man,...

Kansas man struck by lightning hours after buying lottery tickets

A Kansas man was struck by lightning hours after buying three Mega Millions lottery tickets on Thursday, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot. Bill Isles, 48, bought three tickets in the record $656 million lottery Thursday at a Wichita, Kansas grocery store. On the way to his car, Isles said he commented to a friend: "I've got a better chance of getting...