Monthly Archives: November 2009

Diary of a Showgirl Murderer

Marjorie  Orbin     VIDEO

In Full: In a series of exclusive video diaries, a showgirl reveals secrets about the web of sex, lies and greed that ended in murder. Peter Van Sant reports.

 

 

Drug bust pays off big

OPP Sgt. Dave Rektor is surrounded by picture boards which show some of the items seized in Project Ulverston. (Sue Reeve, Sun Media

Several suspected high-level drug traffickers and street-level dealers have been busted after a months-long investigation in London in which $2.6 million in drugs, $300,000 in vehicles — and even a house — were seized.

Thirty-six people, most of them Londoners, face 127 charges after what police dubbed Project Ulverston, a joint investigation between the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau

Another suspect arrested in Surrey Six murders

Six people were found dead on the 15th floor of the Balmoral Tower at 9830 East Whalley Ring Rd. in Surrey on Oct. 19, 2007
Cloverdale resident Sophon Sek won the BC Poker Championships at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond on Sunday night, taking home the grand prize of $364,364. The next day he was arrested and charged in connection with the ‘Surrey Six’ murders.

Italy: Senate committee bars request to arrest Camorra linked’ minister

Nicola Cosentino

Rome, 25 Nov. (AKI) – An Italian Senate on Wednesday rejected a request by Naples prosecutors to arrest junior government minister Nicola Cosentino for alleged links with the local mafia or Camorra. According to Italian media, the committee voted 11 against and six in favour of the arrest, while one committee member abstained.   

 

‘Freddy’ Geas, accused in plot to kill mob boss ‘Big Al’ Bruno: Defense lawyers look at rat

Mob boss   ’Big Al’ Bruno
 
SPRINGFIELD – If a petty criminal ever wanted to sign on to be a high-profile government informant whose every move will be mined by defense lawyers, take a page from Frankie A. Roche
Defense lawyers for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, accused in the 2003 murder plot of mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, are fighting for every shred of paperwork

Anti-mafia police arrest Italian club president

Giuseppe Postiglione

Potenza president arrested by Italian police

Italian media are reporting that police have arrested the president of the third-division club Potenza and eight other people on charges of sports fraud, illegal betting or links with organised crime.

Investigators are reportedly examining a game in the Italian second-division from the 2007-08 season and seven matches in the third division for any evidence of corruption.

Up to 20 people are being investigated under the operation, led by Potenza anti-mafia prosecutor Francesco Basentini.

Giuseppe Postiglione became the youngest club leader in Italy when he was named president of Potenza in 2006 at the age of 24.

Serbia: Four arrested for cocaine smuggling

Belgrade, 20 Nov. (AKI) – Serbian police claimed to have smashed a major drug smuggling ring on Friday with the arrest of four suspects in the capital Belgrade for allegedly smuggling cocaine from Paraguay.
 
Serbian police said five kilos of cocaine worth 500,000 euros was seized after a courier package was intercepted from Paraguay

Covering Mexico’s cartel wars puts journalists in the line of fire

This photograph, taken in Cuidad Juarez on October 20, records the 2,000th dead in Mexico’s cartel drug wars.
CNN) — Lucio Soria is a recorder of the dead in Ciudad Juarez’s drug cartel war.
El Sorias,” as he is affectionately called by his colleagues, is a photojournalist for the Mexican city’s two main daily newspapers, El Diario and El PM. For the last 10 years,

Las Vegas mob museum continues to move forward

Pedestrians pass by the old courthouse and U.S. post office, the site of the Mob Museum, in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.

The Las Vegas City Council took another step forward this morning on building a mob museum in the city’s downtown.

And they also heard it is still on track to be open to the public in a little more than a year in the historic federal office building and post office building at 300 Stewart.

Meth dealing Mother deals baby to drug dealer

Alma Castillo (Salt Lake County Jail)
ROSE PARK, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Was a baby used as currency in an illegal drug deal? Investigators want to know if that child was traded for drugs. When deputies went into the house at 772 West 300 North they say they found the nine month old with a woman they believe is a meth dealer