Jonathan Bacon won't appear in court again, after all. The eldest of three perennially accused, criminally sanctioned brothers, he was facing trial on more drugs and weapons charges. Then bang, bang, bang. Bullets flew on Sunday.

Jonathan Bacon won't appear in court again, after all. The eldest of three perennially accused, criminally sanctioned brothers, he was facing trial on more drugs and weapons charges. Then bang, bang, bang. Bullets flew on Sunday. One-third of a notorious fraternal enterprise is gone.

Bacon was shot dead Sunday afternoon after leaving the Delta Grand Okanagan, a conspicuous hotel and casino complex in downtown Kelowna. A masked assailant pointed an automatic rifle at a white Porsche Cayenne and fired, killing Bacon and wounding as many as five other passengers, including two women and at least one known member of the Hells Angels, reportedly a close friend of the deceased. The shooter fled in another vehicle. As of Monday afternoon, no arrests had been made.

According to published accounts, Bacon and alleged criminal cohorts had been under police surveillance but not immediately before the brazen attack, which took place about one kilometre from a clubhouse used by a local chapter of the Hells Angels.

It had to be horrifying, especially to bystanders at the Delta Grand, but violence has followed the Bacons everywhere. Alleged to be the core of a criminal gang called the Red Scorpions, the brothers have suffered attempts on their lives before, and had always survived. Police took the very unusual step of warning the public to steer clear of the Bacons, lest innocents get caught in gang wars and deadly crossfire.

Jonathan, 29, survived a 2006 shooting on the driveway of his family's former Abbotsford home. James (Jamie) Bacon, 25, the youngest of the three brothers, took a bullet outside the same suburban house the following year, as he climbed out of his brother's Corvette sports car.

"Someone, but more likely two people, opened fire on him with a barrage of 45 calibre bullets," read a B.C. provincial court judgment, related to that shooting incident.

"At least five bullets hit the Corvette, seven went through the attached garage door, and one became embedded in [a Bacon family SUV]. James Bacon was hit by one bullet in the back between his shoulder blades, which would likely have seriously injured or killed him, except for the ballistic vest he was wearing."

The Bacons aren't boys to back down. Jamie fired back at his unnamed assailants with a Glock handgun, a prohibited weapon in Canada. Two men then emerged from the Bacon home and stashed the weapon in a "secret compartment" installed inside the family SUV.

Police discovered the gun, and three other prohibited semi-automatic weapons, inside the secret compartment, during their investigations the next day.

Not two weeks prior, Jamie Bacon was sentenced to three years in prison, on an earlier drugs-related robbery conviction. Why was he not locked behind bars, but instead free to drive around in a Corvette? Because the court had determined he'd already served an "equivalent sentence" of 14 months for the robbery, in pre-trial custody. So he walked, took a bullet in the back, and fired at his assailants with his Glock.

He was arrested again in 2008, this time with Jarrod, the middle Bacon brother, now 28. The pair were accused of dozens of firearms offences. Jamie was eventually convicted on some of those charges; Jarrod's charges were stayed. But their legal problems were far from over and their notoriety only grew.

In 2009, Jamie was charged with first-degree murder, and conspiracy to commit murder, for his alleged role in the 2007 massacre of six people in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb. He was delivered to a Surrey remand centre and eventually was placed in solitary confinement. He complained: He found his living conditions deplorable.

Bacon took the remand centre to court and won. A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that Bacon's Charter rights had been breached. "His treatment by the administration and guards is highly arbitrary and further accentuates his powerlessness," the judge ruled.

Later court documents attest that "Mr. Bacon's circumstances at Surrey Pre-Trial have improved considerably" since the ruling. His trial on the so-called Surrey Six charges still looms.

Jarrod Bacon, meanwhile, is locked up and awaiting trial on charges related to more drug trafficking allegations. Jarrod avoided prosecution in 2004 on an attempted-murder rap; the charge was stayed after an alleged victim refused to testify.

Although brother Jonathan's luck ran out Sunday, all three Bacon boys had caught some breaks.

They benefitted from able defence lawyers and a legal system that spat them back into society. And they had supportive parents: That's made their trajectories more strange.

The brothers didn't come from poverty or a broken home. As one judge noted recently in a court decision, the Bacons brothers were raised "in a middle-class home - both parents had good employment."

David Bacon was employed by the Abbotsford school district, and was put on paid leave in 2008. Susan Bacon has been manager at a local credit union.

They have stood by their sons - and fought for them, in the courts and in the press - through all of the shootings, the accusations, the trials and convictions, and through what they have claimed are campaigns of police and public harassment aimed at themselves, always themselves, the self-appointed victims caught in a cycle of mean-spirited prosecution, to say nothing of guns and drugs and bloodshed.

Now they are forced to cope with the murder of one of their own. Awful for any parent. But no one can say this came as a surprise.

Everyone was warned and we all saw it coming: Retaliatory violence. What else could come, except for more?

Camden torture-murder suspect indicted in separate shooting incident

A city man who is among 10 accused of the February 2010 torture-murders of an alleged gang rival and his girlfriend has been indicted by a Camden County grand jury in connection with a pair of shootings the day before that incident, Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk said Wednesday.

Kuasheim “Piesto” Powell, 25, of Berkley Street, is charged in the presentment with two counts each of attempted murder and aggravated assault and weapons offenses.
 
Powell is accused of shooting two Camden brothers, Tyee and Tomeik Harris, 22 and 21, outside a NJ Transit train stop at 36th Street and River Road in Pennsauken Township on Feb. 21, 2010. It is alleged Powell got in an argument with Tyee Harris after Harris said hello to Powell’s girlfriend in passing. Harris called his brother to help him and shortly after Tomeik Harris arrived Powell drew a gun and shot them both. It is alleged he fled on foot.
 
Powell is also accused of participating in killing Muriah Huff, 18, of Cinnaminson Township and Michael Hawkins, 23, of Mount Holly Township at a home on Berkley Street here on Feb. 22, 2010. Powell is the alleged triggerman in Hawkins murder. After Hawkins was shot to death, Powell allegedly came downstairs, pistol-whipped Huff and ordered others to “finish her off.”

Huff was beaten with a wooden chair until it fell apart, punched, choked and had a plastic bag placed over her head. A 14-year-old girl, Sharara Carter, admitted she attempted to stab her. Carter is serving a 20-year term.

The victims were buried in a shallow snow-covered grave. Carter is among two of the defendants who have pleaded guilty in connection with the murders.

 

man has been convicted for taking part in a series of gang killings that randomly targeted people in San Pablo who wore red.

The Contra Costa Times reports that a jury found 22-year-old Jorge Camacho guilty of three counts of murder and conspiracy Thursday.

Authorities say the gang decided to randomly shoot people wearing red to reclaim their territory after a loss of gang leadership. Four people died in the 2007 and 2008 shootings.

Jurors found Camacho guilty of killing two people himself and conspiring in a third, but acquitted him in the murder of a 15-year-old boy.

Camacho faces life in prison without parole at his June 17 sentencing.

He's the fourth gang member convicted at trial. Six others reached plea deals, and one trial remains for Hector Molina, who's charged with killing the 15-year-old.

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gang member with scenes from a liquor store murder tattooed across his chest was sentenced to 65 years to life in prison, according to reports.

Anthony Garcia was convicted of first degree murder in April in connection with the Jan. 2004 killing of John Juarez in front of Ed's Liquor in Pico Rivera, Calif.  According to the Whittier Daily News, Garcia was sentenced on Thursday.

The case went cold until Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detective Sgt. Kevin Lloyd came across a photo of Garcia's tattoo, and recognized the crime scene images and details of the killing.

"I remembered in 2004, I'd been at the scene when the murder occurred in the city of Pico Rivera and so right away, it caught my attention," Lloyd told CBS affiliate KCBS Friday of the tattoo. "The victim was standing at the corner, gets shot in the head and then falls down in the... driveway of the liquor store."

Lloyd said the murder was a shooting against Garcia's rival gang.

Garcia was arrested at a La Habra home in October 2008. Parker said he confessed while in the Norwalk sheriff's station jail and was booked for murder the same day.

"All I can say is he's very boastful and arrogant and so he was very proud of his tattoo and when he was in a position, he would talk to other people about it," Lloyd added.

The man who drove the getaway car also confessed and faces 20 years in prison.

Detective Lloyd said in his 30 years in law enforcement, he had never seen a tattoo that depicted an entire crime scene, until this unusual case.

Gur Finkelstein, a lawyer who represents the Scientology Center in Israel paid mobster members of the Jaffa gang

Gur Finkelstein, a lawyer who represents the Scientology Center in Israel  paid mobster  members of the Jaffa gang,  an Arab organized crime gang of assasins between 120 and 140 thousand NIS for assassination attempts on his ex-wifes husband 
Finkelstein is also alleged to have commissioned a hit against Tel Aviv building inspector Shoter Hovel, after the latter had stopped work on construction for the Scientology sect that Finkelstein represented.

flashy New York City mobster has been convicted of federal charges he ordered a gangland hit in 2004.

flashy New York City mobster has been convicted of federal charges he ordered a gangland hit in 2004.

A Brooklyn jury reached the verdict against former acting boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano on Monday, its fourth day of deliberations.

Basciano already was serving a life sentence for an attempted murder conviction in 2007. This time, prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for the killing of a mob associate who ran afoul of the Bonanno organized crime family.

The trial featured testimony by former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino, the highest-ranking member of a New York City Mafia family ever to testify against his own.

Jurors heard secret recordings by Massino that prosecutors said captured the 51-year-old Basciano admitting to the killing.

James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24, were attempting to flee when they were shot multiple times and left to die in a run down housing project known for drug dealing and gang activity

Detectives believe and left to die in a run down housing project known for drug dealing and gang activity.
One theory being investigated is that they accepted a lift back to their rented condominium in the fashionable tourist resort of Longboat Key after spending the night bar hopping.
But instead, they were driven to the low income housing project where they were ambushed by at least one armed teenager.
Police sources said both men had been running away when they were gunned down. Their bodies were found 50 feet apart.
They were still in possession of cash, and police did not find any evidence to suggest they had been wanting to buy drugs.

Local residents living near the crime scene said they had been told the two former University of Sheffield students were ambushed by masked men who attempted to rob them.
Sonja Seymour, 31, who lives on the street, said:” I heard that when they arrived here there were already some people waiting for them. They were wearing masks.
“The men ran away and they were shot. I saw one of them lying in the street on his back with his arms outstretched. The other was across the road and lying in his back.
“They were not moving. The ambulance arrived and tried to work on the two men, but they could not do anything. They were covered up and taken away and the police put up all yellow tape.”
A police source said: ”It is entirely plausible that they were taken to this location where they were confronted by at least one individual. We are still trying to determine why they would want to be in this area at that time of night. We know they did not have their own transport so they were brought to this location. Someone could have called ahead and people were waiting for them
"It was late at night and the would not have known what this area was like."
The bodies of Cooper and Kouzaris were found in an area known as Newtown in the north of Sarasota.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the double murder.
Police sources revealed he had been arrested for a violent gun offence just over two weeks ago when shots were fired in an attempted robbery.
The teenager was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but released by a court while police carried out further inquiries.
As it was his first offence the boy, who has just turned 16, was released but police said they had been planning to pursue the case.
The alleged killer’s name has not been released but he lives with his mother in the housing project block where both men were killed.
Police said he will be charged as an adult which could lead to the death penalty if convicted of first degree murder.
The parents of Mr Cooper, a former child tennis star, were said by a family friend to be “too distraught” to speak about their only son’s death.
Speaking outside the rented condominium building a family friend said: ”They are both hysterical and are still just coming to terms with what has happened.
“It is like a very bad film, a complete nightmare.”

Gang members found guilty in Juarez murders

A pair of imprisoned gang members has been found guilty of murdering two brothers who were gunned down more than a decade ago while visiting their cousin's clothing store on Lincoln Boulevard.

The verdict was read Tuesday in the murder trial of David Robles and Jessie Garcia, cousins affiliated with local street gangs and the Mexican mafia who law enforcement officials said were out to settle a dispute over drugs and money when they and two other suspects drove to the Westside Clothing store on Oct. 27, 1998 and shot and killed Michael Juarez, 27, and Anthony Juarez, 19, and wounded two others.

The shooting raised alarm in Santa Monica because of the extreme nature of the crime. The Juarez brothers, who were visiting from out of town, and the two who were wounded were described by police as innocent victims who had no ties to gangs.

"We've been waiting for this day for a long time," said Francisco Juarez, the victims' uncle. "Justice has finally been served and now we're hoping this brings some closure."

The defendants were convicted on two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Robles is scheduled to be sentenced on May 3. Garcia is expected to return to court on May 19. Both could receive life in prison.

For Ginger Blackstone, the mother of Anthony Juarez, the verdict was welcomed but it has done little to ease the family's pain. She and her ex-husband, Bill Juarez, Anthony and Michael's father, recently had to bury their daughter, who they said fell into a deep depression following her brothers' murder and committed suicide.



The family also had to endure a mistrial in 2009 when a jury failed to reach a verdict.

"We were extremely frustrated [after the first trial], but we are so grateful this time around," she said. "We thought the prosecution did an excellent job. It was tough to sit through it again and see those crime scene and autopsy photos. And even though I'm still dying inside at least we were able to get justice for our boys, something we've been fighting for for years."

Fighting through tears, Bill Juarez said he was extremely grateful for the work of Santa Monica detectives as well as the kindness and support given to the family from various sources over the past 11 years.

SMPD Detective Michael Bambrick, who took over the case in December 2004 after the previous lead detective retired, said eye witness testimony along with DNA evidence collected from a ski mask left at the scene of the murders were key pieces in the prosecution's case the second time around.

He said police initially believed the murders were in retaliation for an earlier shooting involving a gang member, however, further investigation led detectives to believe a dispute over drugs and money fueled the hit. The suspected target was not at the clothing store the day of the shooting, Bambrick said.

"It could have been they were trying to send a message," he said of the shooters.

Three men wearing masks entered the clothing store shortly before noon, opened fire and ran out. Bambrick said Robles acted as the getaway driver and was positively identified by witnesses. Garcia dropped his mask in the store and was also identified by witnesses.

Using DNA evidence collected from the mask, Bambrick said detectives were able to link Garcia and Robles, who were roommates at the time, to the crime scene. The two other shooters were never identified. Bambrick continues to investigate in hopes of locating the suspects.

"We're still working it, but there's not a ton of information out there," he said, urging anyone who may have knowledge about the shooting to come forward.

As for the Juarez family, Blackstone said she is looking forward to sentencing when she will be able to speak directly to the defendants and tell them how their actions have hurt the family. She hopes Robles and Garcia spend the rest of their lives behind bars so they suffer for their crimes.

At the time that murder charges were filed, Robles, also known as "Puppet," was serving an eight-year sentence in Corcoran State Prison. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in February 2001. Garcia, also known as "Psycho," was convicted of carjacking and assault with a deadly weapon with a firearm causing great bodily injury in May 1999. He was serving a 15-year sentence.

 

TEENAGE gang is suspected of using a young girl's mobile phone to lure a 19-year-old youth to his death last weekend.

Gardai believe that the gang used the girl's mobile phone to send David Byrne a text message to get him to leave his flat.

The gang of boys were outside a local chip shop when Byrne emerged at 10pm last Saturday. They chased him into a car park where he was knifed six times in the back and side and left for dead. Mobile phone records show he received text messages encouraging him outside shortly before he died.

The prime suspect for the stabbing and three other boys suspected of involvement are all juveniles. Seven teenagers, including two 13-year-olds, were arrested but released without charge. Byrne had an outstanding debt to drug dealers, which one source put at €8,000.

The murder has led to renewed concerns over the effects of gangland culture on schoolchildren. The problem is believed to be particularly acute in the south city enclaves of Crumlin and Drimnagh where a murderous feud has raged for years between rival drugs gangs.

David Byrne was a street dealer who graduated from his local youth club to peddling hash around the area, according to gardai. Although he was just 19, he had been in trouble since he was in his early teens. He came to garda attention for drinking in public places, theft, burglary and selling drugs and at one point he was the subject of a barring order.

He might still be alive had his stash not been seized by gardai last year. He had bought €8,000 worth of cannabis from a gang of teenage dealers who, although under 18, were slightly further up the criminal pecking order than he. Before he had the chance to sell it, the cannabis was seized by gardai, according to sources. Without the drug to sell, Byrne had no way of paying his debt. He had certainly been hounded for the money over a long period of time and had survived a previous stabbing.

At 10pm last Saturday week, teenagers loitered outside a local chip shop on Benbulben Road in Drimnagh -- the scene of numerous altercations between local youths including the murders of two Polish men.

When Byrne emerged from his flat in nearby Davitt House, they chased him across a bridge over the Grand Canal and through St Michael's council estate to Inchicore.

The gang had caught up with him in the car park of Emmet Court apartment complex. CCTV footage shows a hooded youth stabbing him six times in the back and side.

Residents looked on horrified. One of them rang gardai, but Byrne had suffered a punctured lung and kidney and bled to death where he lay.

The teenagers may not even have been aware that they had killed Byrne, according to gardai. Closed circuit television caught them up running back to the chip shop on Benbulben Road, moments after they attack.

Other young teenagers who had congregated at the takeaway may have noticed their bloodied clothes.

Gardai arrested seven local teenagers, four on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of withholding information. Two were 13 and they included two girls.

Byrne's stabbing occurred in a week when sociologist Niamh Hourigan warned that children as young as three were used by criminal gangs to spread fear and intimidation.

Gardai said David Byrne's death was not connected to the long-running murderous drugs feud between the two criminal gangs vying for dominance in Crumlin and Drimnagh.

But it was a by-product of the gangland culture that festers in some communities, drawing in local children as mules and gofers. A 16-year-old was caught with a pipe bomb in the area last summer. In 2008, two Polish mechanics were stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by a 17-year-old after accidentally brushing against a crew of "highly aroused and mouthy" teenagers outside the same chip shop where David Byrne's alleged killers lurked.

"They are used for bringing stuff from Billy to Jack. If they don't talk to police, and work their way up, they continue up the organisation," said one source

Pierre Mercado, a former member of the Asian Boyz street gang appeared in court handcuffed and wearing a blue prison suit to have his charges consolidated into one case.

Pierre Mercado, a former member of the Asian Boyz street gang appeared in court handcuffed and wearing a blue prison suit to have his charges consolidated into one case.

Pierre is the younger brother of Marvin Mercado, who was convicted of eight murder charges last month.

The younger Mercado is facing four counts of murder and one count of a home invasion robbery. The crimes were done in three separate incidents. He is facing life in prison.

Consolidating the cases would make his trial move faster. The jury trial is expected to last five weeks.

As members of the Asian Boyz gang, Pierre and Marvin were connected to a series of gang-related murders and violent crimes in the mid 1990s. They fled to the Philippines in the late 90s, where they lived as fugitives under false names. They were eventually captured and sent back to the US to face trial in 2007. Marvin was given a life sentence after being found guilty of eight murders and ten attempted murders last month.

While the Mercado brothers were hiding out in the Philippines, seven members of the Asian boys were handed life sentences. Pierre Mercado is the last of the Asian Boyz to face trial. His jury trial is expected to begin in August.

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."

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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 army said.

The hostages – three women and 13 men – being held by the suspects were rescued, the 8th Military Zone said, without providing further details about the group.

Army troops seized a rifle, three ammunition clips and a vehicle that had been reported stolen.

In August, 72 Latin American migrants were massacred at a ranch in Tamaulipas."

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 committed several murders for the South Pacific drug cartel.

A judge in the central state of Morelos ruled that the boy should be kept in prison while the investigation moves forward.

The teenager spent several hours Sunday at the courthouse in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos, and was taken away with his head covered and under tight security.

Prosecutors have charged the boy with murder, illegal arms possession and drug possession, the Reforma newspaper reported on its Web site."

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."

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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 upheld his claim."

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‘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 from don Chhota Rajan and was trying to gain a foothold in Mumbai’s extortion racket.
Sources said the meeting was arranged by Punjabi’s college friend Bhusan Satam, son of another former Rajan confidant Guru Satam. Bhusan is thought to be hiding in a South East Asian country."

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 Kelvin Naidoo in a drive-by shooting.
Duncan, owner of the Dre Boyz taxi fleet, Pravandran Perumal and Brandon Govender were convicted of murder, attempted murder and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
The men pleaded not guilty to all charges. All three were sentenced to life imprisonment. They plan to appeal but a date has not been set.
During the trial, it emerged that Naidoo's killing was motivated by revenge. In 2005, the Arumugams' five-year-old son, Dredin-Lee, was killed in a drive-by shooting."

‘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 crime branch killed three of our top shooters, Jaggu Shetty, Sushil Gaonkar and Pandya Salvi, in an encounter in Bangalore in 2003…Salvi’s wife was handicapped and he had saved
very little,” Pandey told the police."

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 leaving another brain damaged, boasted he was 'living the dream' behind bars.
The dad-of-two, who called himself the 'Devil's son', posted sexually explicit and vile racist and bigoted rants on his Facebook page.
Balding Venuti, 33, of Rutherglen, Glasgow, was told by Judge Lord Bracadale at the High Court in Glasgow that he would serve 15 years for deliberately running over Liam Henderson near Hampden Park.
The Scottish Prison Service and Sodexo Justice Services - who run the prison - took immediate action to find Venuti's illegal phone and pull his Facebook after being alerted by the Record.
A prison insider said: 'They swooped on him as soon as they heard about it and took the right action.
'Venuti got the shock of his life when intelligence officers appeared at this cell.'"

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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' Nova Scotia chapter. He was last seen alive on Oct. 31, 1999.
The discovery of the body on Sunday afternoon could have implications for Jeffrey Albert Lynds, 42, of Nova Scotia. He, too, is a former Hells Angel, and is currently in custody in Montreal while he faces two first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of two South Shore men who were fatally shot in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Notre Dame de Grâce in January."

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