Sep 18 2008
The arrests of 175 drug-smuggling suspects provide a look into the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico’s most fearsome drug-trafficking groups, and ‘Ndrangheta, perhaps Italy’s most powerful organized crime syndicate. Continue Reading »
Sep 17 2008
Police in four nations have held about 200 people over alleged trans-Atlantic drug-trafficking involving a major Mexican drugs cartel.
US and Italian police seized 175, some of them picked up in Italy’s Reggio Calabria region, where the N’drangheta mafia run the cocaine trade. Continue Reading »
Jun 01 2008
The body of Carmine Galante was found in Brooklyn in 1979.
The headline in The New York Times that morning in 1984 was macabre, if unintentionally hilarious: “Unknown Arm of Sicilian Mafia Is Uncovered in the United States.”
The arm in question was not a body part but rather an overseas cell of the Italian criminal underworld operating alongside its better-known American counterpart — the Bonanno family in Brooklyn. Through neighborhood fronts around the country, the Italians had been masterminding the billion-dollar heroin pipeline that became known as the Pizza Connection. Continue Reading »
Dec 21 2007
SAN ANTONIO — A man who escaped from the Bexar County Jail in October – by walking out the front door – now has federal law enforcement on his tail.
The U.S. Marshals Service has added 28-year-old David Sauceda to its Top 15 Most Wanted List and added a large cash incentive for information leading to his capture. Continue Reading »
Nov 15 2007
‘Frankie B’ was believed to be a member of the Mexican Mafia. He and another man were shot at a Pomona bar. Continue Reading »
Oct 29 2007
Tony Gonzales-Rodriguez Jr.
The person who federal authorities say is the Mexican Mafia’s No. 2 man in the Coachella Valley appeared on drug-trafficking charges in a Riverside federal courtroom Monday after months on the lam. Continue Reading »
