Longtime gangster and founder of the Independent Soldiers Randy Naicker was shot to death in Port Moody Monday.

 Randy Naicker (right) with Hell’s Angel Larry Amero.Photograph by: Handout photo , Vancouver Sun files  Naicker, a convicted kidnapper once targeted by killers at his Vancouver halfway house, was gunned down at about 4:45 p.m. near St. Johns and Queens streets.Police confirmed Tuesday morning that Naicker was the victim of the fatal shooting.Vancouver...

2 killed in possible gang shooting in LA

Los Angeles police say two people were shot and killed in the Arlington Heights neighborhood in what is believed to be a gang shooting. Spokesman Bruce Borihahn says it's unclear if the two killed were targets or innocent bystanders when shots rang out at about noon on Wednesday. Borihahn says the shooter walked by the victims and fired numerous times at the two male victims near the intersection of West Pico and 6th Avenue. Borihahn...

Convicted killer in Bolsa Restaurant gang slaying to apply for mistrial after confession comes to light

Calgary man convicted in the gang-related triple homicide at Bolsa Restaurant on New Year’s Day 2009 will make a formal application for a mistrial, based on a confession by a key witness just disclosed recently. Andrea Urquhart, acting as agent for Real Christian Honorio on Friday, told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Bryan Mahoney that co-counsel Tonii Roulston and Greg Dunn have reviewed the new evidence and will make the application...

Charges filed in fatal Murray shooting

28-year-old Magna man has been charged with the shooting death of a man in Murray that was apparently gang-related. Jonas Rodriguez Perez was charged last week in 3rd District Court with first-degree murder for the slaying of Alvert John Mike, 21. Join the Discussion Post a Comment According to charging documents, Perez began fighting with Mike at a party near 6600 South 630 West in the early morning hours of May 19. The party...

Conclusions in Trial to 37 Zetas Captured in Guatemala

The Public Ministry is starting to give its conclusions here in the trial to 37 accused people of belonging to Mexican criminal group Los Zetas, captured in Guatemala.   According to the information, the Public Ministry will make the summary on more than 250 pieces of evidence given in the process in course in a high court. The accused are indistinctly imputed the kidnapping, murder, attacks against the forces of security, illegal...

Murdered Bronx gang member Abdul Garcia Jr. was on streets since 12, tried to go legit, his companion insists

Abdul “Showtime” Garcia, Jr., was found June 4 at Hoe and Aldus Aves. with five bullets in him. Cops said he was a Bloods gang member. A red bandanna adorned the sidewalk memorial to him. Police say Garcia had a long criminal record, was a suspect in a recent shooting that paralyzed a man, and died with a gun in his back pocket. But his common-law wife painted a different portrait. The softspoken, petite 23-year-old woman said he was...

Fatal shooting possibly to bolster San Bernardino gang

Anthony Phillips, 26, of San Bernardino, is accused of fatally shooting Maurice Major, 29, of Riverside, at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of North Sierra Way. Phillips was arrested the next day. He is charged with one count of murder, and prosecutors have added a gang enhancement for Phillips' alleged involvement in a San Bernardino gang. Phillips, who was in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday, has pleaded not guilty to...

ranking member of the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced to 63 months in prison Wednesday

A Jersey City man who is a ranking member of the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced to 63 months in prison Wednesday for his role in the gang’s criminal enterprises, officials said. Tequan Ryals, 34, had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy before U.S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler, who imposed the sentence in Newark federal court Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Ryals, with fellow...

Mob snitch who botched three hits ratted out Colombo gangster in murder trial

A mob snitch who couldn’t shoot straight easily pointed the finger at a reputed Colombo gangster on trial for murder. Dino Basciano took the witness stand in Brooklyn Federal Court to testify that he heard Frank (BF) Guerra was part of a hit team that successfully whacked Joseph Scopo in 1993. Basciano, 56, wasn’t much of a hit man himself, botching at least three rubout attempts. In one case, he shot Patricia Capozzalo, the sister of...

Slain teen Ramarly Graham's twin brothers convicted of heading gang

The twin half brothers of Ramarley Graham, the Bronx teen fatally shot by a police officer in February, were convicted Tuesday for gun possenion and being part of a Harlem street gang. Hodean and Kadean Graham were sentenced to eight years in jail for heading a crew known as "One-Twenty-Nine" and "Goodfellas/The New Dons" between 2007 and 2011 in the area around W. 129th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues. The 20-year-old brothers...

Fears for Chicago teens as fatal shootings in city outnumber US troops killed in Afghanistan

A funeral director in Chicago has revealed how young people in the city do not expect to live late into adult life, as the number of fatal shootings continues to surge.The worrying revelation by Spencer Leak, Sr. came as it emerged that more people have been shot dead on the streets of Chicago this year than U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan.'These...

Little Italy shooting victim had long association with bikers, police say

The day after a brazen daytime shooting in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood, a single bouquet of flowers lay outside the Sicilian Sidewalk Cafe in memory of the 35-year-old victim who died at the scene. The shooting during a Euro 2012 soccer match appeared to be targeted, and sources say the slain man once belonged to an outlaw motorcycle gang, prompting police to investigate possible mob links. A second victim was wounded in the ...

Murdered Strand Gang henchman Joseph Thompson was a prime suspect into the unsolved killing of a rival gang leader

MURDERED Strand Gang henchman Joseph Thompson was a prime suspect in the unsolved killing of a rival gang leader. The 31-year-old was among five arrested by police over the murder of Croxteth Crew leader Danny McDonald, who was gunned down in Norris Green’s Royal Oak pub on New Year’s Day in 2004. He was blasted four times with a powerful handgun as he drank with other Crew members. But despite intense investigations, no one was ever...

Fifteen members of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel

Fifteen members of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel — co-leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales — have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Austin on money laundering conspiracy charges. The 25-page indictment was handed up May 30 and unsealed this afternoon. It accuses the men of funneling the proceeds from drug sales into the United States, where it was used to invest in quarter horses. “The money laundering network of this conspiracy...

2 Suspected members of Mexican cartel arrested in Guatemala

Two Guatemalans suspected of belonging to Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel were arrested in a town in northern Guatemala, President Otto Perez Molina said. The suspects "are hitmen and members of the operations group of Los Zetas," which has a presence in northern Guatemala, the president said. Edwin Otoniel Sis and Abel de Jesus Bolvito were arrested at a soccer field Sunday afternoon in Salama, a city about 180 kilometers ( miles) north...

Kin Of Mexican Drug Cartel Boss Held In US

U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had arrested the brother of a suspected Mexican drug cartel boss after busting a major money-laundering operation involving horse-racing ventures. According to officials, law-enforcement officers arrested Jose Trevino Morales and six others in raids carried out in Oklahama and New Mexico. Morales is the brother of Miguel Angel Trevino, the suspected leader of Mexico's infamous Zetas drug cartel....

Suspects in Veto Street NW assault, robbery have admitted to crime, court records show

Four of five suspects in last week's brutal Veto Street NW home invasion, robbery and sexual assault have admitted to the crime, police said in court records. "Investigators spoke with four of the suspects, who all admitted to the home invasion/armed robbery," a Grand Rapids police officer wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant against the suspects. "The four suspects implicated their co-defendants as the ones who committed the multiple...

shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana.

Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force on a public servant — including an officer of the law — in cases of “unlawful intrusion.” Proponents of both the Second and Fourth Amendments — those that allow for the ownership of firearms and the security against unlawful searches, respectively — are celebrating the update by saying it ensures that residents are protected...