Cesar Emilio Peralta - David Ortiz

Cesar Emilio Peralta

International drug trafficker César Emilio Peralta, 48, has pled guilty to drug trafficking in U.S. federal court and will be sentenced in May. Peralta, known as 'César the Abuser' was accused of ordering the shooting of David Ortiz in a Dominican nightclub. The drug kingpin was never formally charged with the Ortiz shooting. Ten men connected to the shooting of David Ortiz received sentences ranging from five to 30 years. They were handed down by a court in the Dominican Republic. Ortiz was shot in the back at a bar in 2019. News reports speculated that the hit was ordered by Peralta over a love triangle involving Dominican model Maria Yeribell Martinez Garcia.

Cops described the shooting as an organized mob hit on Ortiz, who was shot in the lower back at point blank range as he sat with friends.

When David “Big Papi” Ortiz began his major-league baseball career in 1992 he bought his family a new home with his $10k signing bonus. The two-story brick and stucco house is still owned by Ortiz on the outskirts of the Dominican capital where he grew up. Dominican prosecutors had claimed that Peralta often leaned on MLB stars in order to launder cash from the proceeds of his cocaine empire.

Funeral home owner buys 20 years - sold body parts

Megan Hess

Funeral Home owner Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud in July. She operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado. Her 20 year stretch was the maximum allowed under law. Her mother, Shirley Koch, 69 also pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to 15 years. Her central role was chopping up the bodies. The judge ordered that Hess and Koch be sent to prison immediately.

Hess' lawyer said she has been unfairly vilified as a "witch," a "monster" and a "ghoul," when instead she is actually a "broken human being".

Shirley Koch

26 victims described their horror at discovering what had happened to their loved ones. "Our sweet mother, they dismembered her," Erin Smith said, selling her shoulders, knees and feet for profit. "We don't even have a name for a crime this heinous." Tina Shanon, whose mother was dismembered said "I'll never be OK." Selling body parts such as heads, arms and spines – which is what Hess did – for use in research or education is not regulated by federal law.

Crimes came when the disugusting duo defrauded relatives of the deceased by lying and selling parts without permission.

Jamaica reels in 2,000 pounds of cocaine

Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) seized approximately 2,000 pounds of cocaine from a go fast boat. Three people aboard the vessel were arrested.

Drug dealers in Peru get visit from Santa Police

A gang of drug dealers in Peru got a nasty surprise when Santa and a merry band of elves broke down their door, cuffed them and seized their goods. Agents disguised as from the North Pole, complete with helpers, entered the unsafe neighborhood of Surquillo in Lima and made the busts.

Jordan seizes 1 ton of captagon

Jordan has seized a tonne of amphetamine pills being smuggled in date paste at the border with Iraq. A total of six million pills of the drug known as Captagon were found inside two refrigerated trucks. It was one of the largest haul ever intercepted. Captagon, dubbed "the poor man's cocaine", is produced in huge quantities in Syria, which is now a narco-state. Syrian captagon trade is now worth far more than any legal exports. Skirmishes between the Jordanian military and drug traffickers are more frequent. Jordan soldiers have a shoot-to-kill policy. See ----->Captagon trade on the rise

TrigglyPuff (Cora Segal) revisited

A girlfriend of the permanent student known to the internet as “Trigglypuff” filed complaints against the journalist who posted video of her friend misbehaving at an April 25, 2016 event at the University of Massachusetts. The woman in the video, revealed to be Hampshire College 'student' Cora Segal, became the center of widespread criticism for her childlike behavior.

Cora Segal didn't actually attend Hampshire College. She attended for one semester and then became a squatter on campus teaching seminars about 'Health and Fat Oppression.'

We can report Trigglypuff now attends University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Cora is a first year MA student in Gender & Women’s Studies. Her work examines how state and capitalist violence such as borders, policing, prisons, and colonial occupation create what is considered a normative bodymind." Here.

Francis 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme dies in prison

Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has died in prison at age 89.

Former New England Mafia don Francis 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme’s last hope for a new trial was dashed when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal last year. Salemme was serving a life sentence for murder at a federal medical prison in Missouri. He was convicted in 2018 on one count of murder of a witness for the 1993 gangland slaying of Boston nightclub owner Steven DiSarro. DiSarro hadn't been seen since 1993. What happened to him was a mystery until his body was found buried behind a mill building at 715 Branch Ave. in Providence.

DiSarro was going to be a witness in a federal investigation against Salemme, but his late son Frank Jr. killed DiSarro as Cadillac Frank watched. Salemme led the New England family of La Cosa Nostra in the early 1990s.

Gambler Howard Ferrini, with daughter Kelly, was murdered in 1991.

On Aug. 22, 1991 cops found the body of Howard Ferrini in the trunk of his Cadillac, which had been parked at the Hub’s Logan Airport in Boston. They got a report about a foul odour coming from the car. One of Ferrini's killers was Kevin Hanrahan. A cold case forensics team found his fingerprints on the bag wrapped around Ferrini’s battered head. Hanrahan was an enforcer for New England’s Patriarca crime family, and his boss was 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme. Hanrahan was gunned down on a Providence street in 1992.

Salemme rose from hitman to boss, then became a rat.

In 1995 Salemme was indicted for racketeering and turned rat. He was sentenced to life in 2018.

See ----->Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi to Testify at Salemme Trial

Phil Boudreault revisited

Phil Boudreault goes on with life as a wheelchair bound, partially disabled Ontario Nomad. See Here. In mid-April 2016 then Nomad vice president Phil Boudreault was shot off his bike in Lachute. He was seriously injured with a punctured lung and a bullet fragment that had lodged near his spine. He was reported to be permanently disabled. The shooting was said to be an internal club matter as Quebec HA territory (Sherbrook chapter) had been encroached with no tax being paid. Martin Bernatchez, head of the Nomads chapter in Ontario was shot three times in August 2016. He recovered. Nobody was charged in either shooting. See -->Rebuild of Quebec HA See -->HST = 'Hells Sales Tax'

'Surrey Six' killer Matthew James Johnston dies of cancer in prison

Matthew James Johnston, 38, died of cancer at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam. Johnston and co-accused Cody Rae Haevischer were found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in October 2014. The Red Scorpion gangsters were convicted in the Oct. 19, 2007 executions of Corey Lal, Michael Lal, Eddie Narong and Ryan Bartolomeo, and innocent bystanders Christopher Mohan and Ed Schellenberg. The victims were lying defenceless on the floor in a suite at the Balmoral Tower in Surrey when they were executed.

See ----->Red Scorpion Justin Lee Haevischer whacked

Claude Savoie - Cop corruption revealed 30 years on

Before being transferred to Ottawa, Claude Savoie led the C Division’s Montreal drug-trafficking investigations.

Claude Savoie sat alone in his office at RCMP headquarters in Ottawa on a Monday morning. Savoie felt the walls closing in. Savoie was corrupt. He was taking money from one of the biggest drug traffickers in Canada, Allan 'The Weasel' Ross of the West End Gang. Savoie knew the Fifth Estate was scheduled to air the story. Sometime between 9:15 and 9:20 a.m., he used his service revolver to end his life.

Alan Ross after his 1979 arrest for drug trafficking. Ross paid Claude Savoie $200k in bribes in 1990 and 1991.

The Fifth Estate story was only half the tale. Savoie had several meetings with Ross and with Sidney Leithman, a defence lawyer who acted as middleman for Ross. Savoie revealed the identity of a RCMP informant through Leithman. Leithman was executed weeks later on May 13, 1991. Leithman’s homicide remains unsolved. Savoie's involvement was heavily censored. While Savoie was being bribed by Ross, the RCMP lost a 240kg shipment of cocaine sent by a Colombian drug cartel to the West End Gang. The cocaine vanished after a leak about investigation 'Project Carton/Valpro'.

The leak coincided with a period in April 1991 during which Savoie held three meetings with Leithman before he was killed.

Curtis 'Cocky' Warren freed

Drug lord Curtis 'Cocky' Warren, 59, was released from Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire after serving 14 years. Known as Britain's Pablo Escobar, his path was to become synonymous with Escobar - a man who was head of the Medellin Cartel and known as the 'King of Cocaine'. In the late 1980s Warren teamed up with Brian Charrington and headed to Venezuela. The men arranged to import cocaine sealed inside lead ingots, making it difficult for the authorities to detect by X-ray. Curtis Warren rose to become one of the UK's richest men thanks to his drug importation empire.

Warren cut out middle men and dealt with South American cartels direct.

Stephanie Smithwhite, 40, was an officer at HMP Frankland where 'Cocky' was serving time. Smithwhite denied cutting a hole in the pants of her uniform for sexual purposes, but the judge said it was hard to imagine why else it was there. She was handed a sentence of two years.

'Cocky' Warren ran his criminal enterprises from behind bars using mobile phones, but Smithwhite didn't report him. Investigators found they had called each other 213 times in three months.

Philly mob boss Steven Mazzone off to big house again

Steven Mazzone, 59, underboss of the Philly mob, pleaded guilty in Sept to racketeering, loansharking, and gambling charges. He will spend the next 5 years in the federal pen. A smoking gun for prosecutors came from a 2015 wiretap of a mafia induction ceremony, where Mazzone coached new members on their intimidation tactics and encouraged them to grow the business. Mazzone was sentenced to 9 years for a similar conviction in 2000.

Steven 'Handsome Stevie' Mazzone, has been a top gangster in the Philly crime family since the 1990s and the No. 2 man since 2011.

HA connect in Prince George drug bust

Raids on three homes in February 2021 resulted in the seizure of drugs, firearms and proceeds of crime. Derek Timmins, 49, Garth Goodkey, 53, and Daniel Wilson, 35, now face a charge of trafficking cocaine “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal organization,” along with other drug charges. Warrants have been issued for all three men. Goodkey faces several firearms charges related to two semi-automatic rifles, a restricted revolver and high-capacity magazines.

The 3 face a combined 17 drug and firearms offences. Seven search warrants returned 1.7 kg of cocaine, 3,000 pills, MDMA, LSD, 958 pot plants, and more than 70 kg of cannabis and cannabis resin. Cops seized three trucks, $40k in cash, 29 firearms, ammunition, a money counter, and a diamond ring worth more than $100k.

Anniversary of Paul Castellano hit

The mob hit that went down at 5:26 p.m. on Dec. 16, 1985 in New York is considered among the most famous hits in the history of the American Mafia. According to mob rat Gravano it was tapes of John Gotti's childhood friend, Angelo 'Quack Quack' Ruggiero, that caused the hit. His big mouth, detailing his heroin dealing and giving the Feds a reason to bug boss Paul Castellano put everyone in jeopardy. Gotti had ignored Castellano’s edict and continued to have his people sell heroin. “It was common knowledge that John Gotti, Angelo Ruggierio and that whole crew was gonna get taken out,” Gravano said.

The gangsters took their positions near Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan. A 4 man hit team waited near the restaurant entrance; positioned down the street were backup shooters Dominick Pizzonia, Angelo Ruggiero, and Anthony Rampino. Sitting across the street in a Lincoln Town Car were John Gotti and Gravano with a front row seat. As he exited his limo, Castellano was shot in the head and was dead before he hit the ground. Seconds later, underboss and Big Paul’s driver Thomas Bilotti was also dead.

Gotti was behind the wheel of the Lincoln and drove over to see his crew’s handiwork.

John Carneglia with Gene Gotti

John Carneglia is the one who put the bullets into Paul Castellano's head. On July 7, 1989, Carneglia was sentenced to 50 years in prison and fined $75k. He was released in 2018. Eddie Lino and Salvatore 'Fat Sal' Scala shot Tommy Bilotti. 'Fat Sal' Scala died in jail. Lino was shot nine times by notorious NYPD Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. Vincent “Vinny” Artuso's gun jammed. He died in 2021.

Weeks after Castellano's murder capos elected Gotti as the new Gambino boss. The murder enraged Vincent Gigante, boss of the Genovese crime family, because Gotti never received permission from the Commission.

On April 13, 1986, a car bomb meant for Gotti exploded, but the only casualty was Frank DeCicco. Afterward, Gotti and Gigante called a truce.

See ----->John Gotti the 'Teflon Don'