Spirit of Johnny Stompanato Jr. haunts graveyard

Some say Oakland Cemetery is chock full of the paranormal. Oakland Cemetery was established in 1859 and holds dozens of children from the Chicago Industrial Home for Children.

The children mysteriously died between 1894 and 1926. Also resting there is Johnny Stompanato Jr., a bodyguard and enforcer for crime boss Mickey Cohen and the Cohen crime family.

Johnny Stompanato, renowned for his violent temper, soon abused film star Lana Turner. Her teenaged daughter fatally stabbed Stompanato to death in 1958.

Its said that people standing near his gravesite have reported suddenly feeling abrasive energy and becoming angry or irritable for no reason.

Aaron Shamo = Life - revisited

This appeared in 2020.

Suburban millennial Aaron Shamo was convicted of being a drug kingpin and was sent to prison for life.

Mormon college dropout Aaron Shamo, 29, made himself a millionaire by building a fentanyl trafficking empire in his spare time with little more than his computer. Shamo called himself a 'white-collar drug dealer' who was helping people get the drugs they needed. His attorney called him a fool and his primary defence was that he isn’t smart enough to be a drug kingpin. Shamo flooded the US with half a million fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl.

On the stand at trial Shamo rambled about how customers wrote thank you notes because doctors refused to prescribe painkillers. He said it was “a win-win situation” — he got rich and his customers got drugs. Ruslan Klyuev died in his bedroom with an envelope from Shamo at his feet. Shamo was charged in connection to that overdose death, but when investigators scoured his list of customers they said dozens more were also dead. His was the only death with which Shamo would be charged.

The DEA estimates a kilogram of fentanyl purchased for a few thousand dollars from China could make a dealer more than $1 million. “Any moron can basically become a major drug kingpin by dealing in fentanyl.” Shamo's business boomed. He hired a personal assistant. He stuffed a duffel bag with $429k cash and asked his parents to hold it. He bragged to friends about gambling in Las Vegas. He shopped for real estate in Puerto Rico; sipped champagne on a cruise ship; bought designer clothes, a boat and expensive cars.

Shamo penned a note: “I am Shamo. I am awesome. My friends love me. I created an empire.”

On Nov. 22, 2016 Federal agents raided Shamo’s home. They found more than $1.2m in cash. They seized another $800k from one of his associates. Shamo’s other ex-partners and packagers pleaded guilty and agreed to testify. Aaron Shamo was convicted of 12 counts including the 'kingpin charge' that is usually reserved for drug lords like El Chapo. It carries a mandatory life sentence. The jury deadlocked on the death of Ruslan Klyuev.

Vikings Motorcycle Club done in NL say cops

Mounties are crowing that Newfoundland and Labrador are likely the only province in Canada without an active Hells Angels presence. This comes after the latest Vikings MC drug convictions, which saw Vincent Leonard, Wayne Johnson and James Curran get put away for 60 months, 66 months and 42 months, respectively.Wayne Johnson, James Curran and Vince Leonard.

Captagon fingered

Syria produces over 80% of global supply.

Captagon pills fueled Hamas militants during terrorist attacks. Pills of the drug have been found on the bodies of Hamas prisoners and fighters killed in the conflict. Captagon is the brand name of the drug fenethylline hydrochloride. Its highly addictive nature led to it being banned in the 1980s, but a clandestine trade of counterfeit versions of the pills booms in the Middle East. A mixture of amphetamine and theophylline, it is often cut with other things like caffeine and paracetamol.

Captagon 'Abu Hilalain (father of the two crescent moons)' is the drug of choice in the Middle East. The UK says at least 80% of it is produced in Syria, generating three times the combined trade of the Mexican cartels for Assad’s regime. The regime's annual Captagon trade is estimated to be worth $57 billion in 2022, about three times the trade of all Mexican cartels. Captagon was developed in Germany during the 1960s as a remedy for ADHD, narcolepsy and depression. One of its active ingredients, fenethylline, was blacklisted by the UN in 1986, leading most countries to discontinue it's use. In 2020 Italian police seized 14 tonnes of Captagon pills worth around €1 billion, describing it as the world’s single largest operation of its kind.

Counterfeit Captagon production in the Middle East is centred primarily in Syria and Lebanon. Counterfeit versions of the drug often contains amphetamine, caffeine and other fillers. Captagon is common across the Middle East, but the biggest destinations for the drugs are Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.

Captagon has so far only been consumed on a very small scale in Europe but that has potential to change. Sold for fractions of a dollar in parts of Syria, the same tablet can fetch more than $20 in Saudi Arabia. Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine.

Vancouver whore Jessica Kane beats some charges, busted again - update VII

Alberta cops announced today that Jessica Kane, 31, has been charged with robbery, overcoming resistance by administering a drug and 4 counts of breaching of a release order after a year-long investigation. Kane had some charges dropped by the crown in Vancouver. The mother of Dustin Lefebvre, who died in his home after an encounter with Kane, is speaking out. She wants to know why Kane still enjoys her freedom after new charges of drugging and robbing a man while out on bail. Lefebvre, a father of two, died in February 2021. A noxious substance caused his heart to fail. In addition to the 24 odd charges she currently faces, Kane is also being investigated in Calgary.

Jessica Nicole Renee Kane, was released again, this time on house arrest with a $20k cash deposit. During her bail, Kane must stay inside her home 24/7/365 except on Fridays between noon and 2 p.m. for groceries. Kane is banned from sex work, possessing drugs or drug paraphernalia, and other conditions.

Kane is set for another appearance March 9 in Surrey. She was charged in another drugging while she was out on bail. She also faces new charges of obstruction and breaching a release order. She was busted again Jan. 9 for another count of administering a drug to commit an indictable offence and one count of robbery. Kane initially faced 21 charges of drugging and robbing Johns across the Lower Mainland over 18 months. One said there are similar teams of women posing as escorts on Leolist, drugging and robbing clients.

Kane was charged in multiple incidents of Lower Mainland men being drugged and robbed during escort-service encounters. She was released on $50k bail with no deposit or sureties. Jessica Kane was charged with manslaughter in a man’s death in Feb 2021. He had ingested a substance during an encounter with her.

HA Andrew Lamositele-Brown claims Flatbush murder an accident - guilty

Former Melbourne HA bikie boss Andrew Lamositele-Brown, 40, has been found guilty of murder of Auckland prospect Petau Petau. He was expelled from Australia as a 501 deportee months before. Lamositele-Brown blamed a mystery man (who he refused to identify) who had given him a gun that was loaded.

It took jurors in the High Court at Auckland less than an hour to reject the biker's tale.

Lamositele-Brown, otherwise known as Andrew Tovia Fepuleai, began his jury trial in the High Court at Auckland 2 weeks ago. He claimed that he unintentionally triggered a handgun while showing it off to his good friend Petau Petau, freezing in shock as he collapsed in the following mayhem. The cop standoff lasted 7 hours.

Prosecutors told a starkly different scenario of a mad killer out of control.

Stitches busts self - revisted

What happened to "Stiches"? He caught a break and had all charges dropped in Sept 2022 after dopey cops misplaced cocaine evidence. Stiches has apparently kept that nose clean since. Cop body camera video caught events leading to the arrest of Phillip Katsabanis, the South Florida rapper far better known as Stitches. Bay Harbor Islands police arrested Katsabanis, whose albums include “Cocaine Holiday,” “I Need Rehab” and “Married to the Bricks,” on charges of felony cocaine possession and misdemeanor discharge of a firearm.

Stitches rose to fame in the mid-2010s with the single "Brick in Yo Face." His star has faded.

Stitches called cops on himself, claiming four men were hiding in his business. When police arrived, they didn't find anything to corroborate his claim. They did uncover cocaine and a weapon.

Stitches is said to have asked the people to leave multiple times. When police arrived at the scene, there were no signs of a break-in or struggle and the shop was empty. Stitches bonded out of jail.

U.K gangster Dave Courtney goes out his way

Dave Courtney, 64, recorded a video explaining that he was planning to take his own life, and why - three months before the reformed London gangster was found dead in his home on Sunday morning. He apologizes for taking what he called 'the cowards' way out' - but celebrated "the wicked life I have had". Courtney's goodbye message was filmed on July 5 but was only discovered on his mobile phone later. He explains his decision, saying his arthritis is 'crippling me up' and that he is having to hide a lot of pain.

Gangster moll Owl has evil intent - on borrowed time

Burnaby's gangster owl has crossed the Rubicon with an attack on a toddler. "The owl scratched my son's face and scalp, missing his eye by mere millimetres, It could have taken out his eye." The City of Burnaby has closed the trail at Squint Lake Park and contacted conservation. The owl's behaviour has no explanation as nesting season is over. It may need to be destroyed for public safety.

Locals in Burnaby are arming themselves with helmets and umbrellas against a silent menace terrorizing a Burnaby park. Users of Squint Lake Park at the foot of Burnaby Mountain have been targeted for silent airborne attacks by a mother owl. The fowl has staked out a corner of the park and to venture through it is to incur her significant wrath. Citizens complaining about the abuse cried to the province’s conservation officers. They focus on animals that are deadly. “They do not attend owl interactions” Experts say the bird is a barred owl and its aggressive behaviour will taper off. “They have young right now; they have owlets, so they’re being defensive,” The owlets are probably learning to fly nearby. Crossing a grouchy mother is never a good idea.

200k in dimes lifted - busted

4 men have been charged for swiping $234,500 in dimes from a tractor-trailer. They sold only $5k worth of dimes before being busted.

Cops are on the hunt for the crooks behind a “dime and dash” in northeast Philadelphia. Thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot and made off with about 2 million dimes. The trailer was carrying an estimated $750k in dimes, and the thieves managed to haul away $200k worth.

Mobster Vincent Asaro dead

Its 2017, and wise guy Vincent Asaro has been found guilty. For nearly 50 years mobster Vincent Asaro has escaped conviction on a huge array of criminal charges, having been accused — and then acquitted — of, among other things, strangling a man with a dog chain and taking part in the infamous Lufthansa heist in 1978. Now age 87, Asaro was sentenced to eight years in prison for what may be the pettiest allegation he ever faced: ordering his underlings to set fire to the car of a motorist who cut him off in traffic in Queens.

Vincent Asaro, center, with John Gotti.

Asaro held various positions in the Bonanno crime family, and he was a killer, but also involved in bookmaking, loan-sharking, extortion and robbing delivery trucks. He largely managed to avoid ever being punished. Asaro was acquitted at the Lufthansa trial. Judge Ross noted that, despite the jury’s verdict, she was “firmly convinced” that the feds had proved its case.

Gene Borrello was lauded by prosecutors for being a rat. John J. Gotti, the grandson of the late Gambino boss, pleaded guilty to being the getaway driver.

A federal judge granted Vincent Asaro's release in April 2020. His was a compassionate release from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic. Asaro’s age and his deteriorating health were “extraordinary and compelling” reasons for his release.

John J. Gotti robbed a bank weeks later and pulled 5 years.

Bonanno capo Vincent Asaro, 83, says eight years in prison is over the top for a conviction on ordering the 2012 torching of a car that cut him off. The aging gangster says he’s getting shafted. Asaro said the reason the prison term is so out of whack is that the judge wrongly weighed his 2015 acquittal in a trial where the feds tried linking him to a 1969 murder and the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist. Asaro is pressing for the appeals court to make another judge available to re-sentence him. The prison term is about three times the length of federal guideline recommendations. Federal prosecutors asked for 15 years.