Matthew Medlin mugshot series - revisited again

Matthew Medlin remains very enigmatic after more than 3 years, which suggests he may not be still among the living. There doesn't seem to be any new and improved Matthew Medlin mugshots since May 2020. That downward spiral of his doesn't have an off switch. Medlin was made uber famous by the New York Times in 2017. Here.

Matthew Joseph Medlin in 2002.

Meth head Matthew Medlin, 37, was arrested for the 16th time in 2019 for licking another man's face, damaging cars and trying to bite a cop. The Portland native has a series of mugshots dating to when he was 18. Matthew Medlin’s most recent mugshot is a real doozey. Its over 22 convictions now in case anybody is keeping count. On May 12, 2020 cops charged the registered sex offender for second-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, menacing, second-degree disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Medlin shot up meth while throwing rocks and metal objects at cops. He had to be forcibly sedated, twice. He was eventually transported to Oregon State Hospital, and that is the last anyone has heard of Matthew Medlin.

Oct. 18, 2006.

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HA Robert Barletta has same problem as Scarface - cash

A condo in Yorkville was used as a stash house for $5m in cash. Photos showed multiple people carrying shopping bags night and day. A successful criminal operation generates more dirty cash than people know what to do with. A cop explains.

“You end up with this pitfall of cash. You think of Scarface – he had cash in garbage bags. His biggest complaint: what do we do with all this cash?" Robert Barletta, Craig 'Truck' McIlquham

The sports betting operation was surveilled and infiltrated by cop rats in what became known as Project Hobart. The OPP held a news conference Dec 2019 to crow about 228 charges from their two-year probe of an illegal gambling ring run by HAMC and mafioso. Charges flopped miserably.

Cops describe a pyramid with hundreds of agents at various levels who were assigned code names and solicited bets, took commissions and passed a cut up. At the top were Robert Barletta of the Montreal Chapter and Craig McIlquham of the Niagara Chapter. Collection was "enforced through violence.” Barletta and McIlquham met with Hansley Joseph and Salvatore Cazzetta to “remove between $3 and $5 million in cash obtained from the illegal gaming operation from the 18 Yorkville Stash house.” Michael Deabaitua-Schulde was being watched by cops when he was whacked outside a Mississauga gym. That unsolved murder is said to be an internal matter.

Hansley Joseph

While the boys walked on criminal charges, civil forfeiture is on the hunt for proceeds of crime from their $160m operation. 14 websites brought in that amount over 6 years. McIlquham, 51, hid his loot in secret locations. In a hidden trap at his Toronto condo, cops found $40k in Canadian cash, $1,800 in US cash, a Brazilian visa in his name and ID with his photo but another man’s name. One of his vehicles in the underground parking lot returned $11k, a gun and a cellphone with evidence of bookmaking. From another vehicle cops seized a gold bar worth $206k. At another of his properties, cops found 27, 1 ounce gold coins in a black satin Louis Vuitton bag.

Most of the assets sought are real estate, many of them luxury homes. Parking dirty money in real estate has long been a preferred way to launder money in Canada.

See ----->HA Robert Barletta ensnared in dueling lawsuits
See ----->Michael Deabaitua-Schulde murder trial over

Dillon Juel Stanton sorry for crime spree - revisited

One year ago Vancouver cops lassoed 'violent offender' Dillon Juel Stanton, 33. He was wanted for violating release conditions.

Dillon Juel Stanton was serving a three-year sentence for an armed robbery in Coquitlam in 2017. He was on statutory release and had been ordered to live in a Vancouver halfway house and bolted. Stanton, son of ex-Hells Angel Juel Ross Stanton, was home when his father was gunned down in the family backyard in 2010. He blew the $500k insurance cash in 5 years and became a drug addict.

Juel Ross Stanton

Dillon Stanton in 2019.

A long string of often violent armed robberies followed. On March 13, 2017 cops found a massive hoard of stolen property, including 11 firearms, some with the serial numbers filed off. "I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.” Stanton lied again in 2019. He had more than a dozen often violent convictions on his lengthy record.

India’s sand mafia - update II

Two mafia groups in northeast India exchanged gunfire, and torched a half dozen machines of each other, in an increasingly violent war over a natural resource. They aren’t battling over diamonds or oil: they want sand and they will kill for it. Intense demand, coupled with weak regulation, has made sand mining an easy target for criminals, especially in Cambodia, Kenya, Nigeria, and India.

The Enforcement Directorate cracked down on illegal sand mining in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu. The agency raided more than 25 locations across the state over money laundering and tax evasion. Sand is illegally extracted from riverbeds, causing environmental damage. It is then sold with no taxes being paid to the state. Sand miners S Ramachandran and ‘Dindigul’ Rathinam are being probed, as are 10 locations owned by jailed minister V Senthil Balaji.The enforcement case was registered without informing the corrupt Tamil Nadu Police.

300 trucks a day take their fill of sand at a mine on the Sone River in Bihar state.

The driver of an illegal sand-laden truck tried to run over an inspector. In another incident a mining inspector and cops narrowly escaped an attack by a gang of sand mafia in Bihar's Buxar district. Prices are up sharply and sand mining is becoming ever more profitable. Sand is a lucrative commodity in India. It fuels a black market for the illegal strip-mining of waterways. India’s construction boom helps keep the sand mining frontier lawless. Sand miners kill those who oppose them. Our modern world is built on sand: concrete, paved roads, ceramics, metallurgy, petroleum fracking, even the glass on smart phones. River sand is best: desert sand is too rounded to serve as industrial binding agents, and marine sand is corrosive.

Sand has become so valuable that it is shipped huge distances. Australia sends sand to Arabia for land reclamation. China is a sand glutton. The world uses 50 billion tonnes of sand every year — more than any other natural resource, except water. India’s sand mafia is well established. It is said the police cut of royalties inflates the price of river sands from 15k rupees ($150) a truckload to between 40k and 80k rupees.

A scarcity of sand, and efforts to regulate sand mining, have spawned illegal trade and black markets. The demand for sand is so intense in some places that gangs have taken over the trade completely.

Zombie deer disease on the rise

Scientists are warning a zombie deer disease could spread to humans after hundreds of animals were infected with the illness in the US over the last year. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in 800 samples of deer, elk and moose across Wyoming. Experts warn the disease is a “slow-moving disaster”. CWD is very hard to eradicate. It persists for years and is resistant to disinfectants, formaldehyde, radiation and incineration.

CWD has also been found in elk and white-tailed deer in Alberta and Saskatchewan this year.

Zambia's Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo quits after video

Zambia’s Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo resigned hours after he was caught in a social media frenzy over a cash payment from a Chinese businessman. Kakubo said in a letter he was quitting because of “malicious claims over a business transaction”. A signed note, dated July 8, 2022, was also posted. The note named a Chinese mining firm and a Zambian mining firm and said they had “exchanged US $100,000”.

Pablo Escobar, the Narcos King

Colombia's most feared drug lord, Pablo Escobar died 30 years ago at age 44. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and Medellín cartel leader. One of the wealthiest men in the world at the height of his power, the Medellín cartel was smuggling tons of cocaine a day, worth hundreds of millions, into America. In the early 1970s Escobar was a thief and bodyguard. He made $100k from the kidnapping and ransoming a Medellín executive before entering the drug trade with Alvaro Prieto. In 1975 Escobar started his own cocaine operation.

He flew a plane himself, between Colombia and Panama, to smuggle loads into the US. When he later bought 15 new and bigger airplanes (including a Learjet) and 6 helicopters, he decommissioned the plane and hung it above the gate to his ranch.

Corruption and intimidation characterized Escobar's operations. His policy in dealing with authority was referred to as "plata o plomo," (literally silver or lead, colloquially [accept] money or [face] bullets).

Colombia quickly became the world’s murder capital. Escobar was responsible for the deaths of about 4,000 people, including three Colombian presidential candidates, an attorney general, an estimated 200 judges and 1,000 police. In 1989, he bombed a Colombian plane and Bogota's DAS building, killing 159 and injuring 1,000 others. In 1989, Forbes estimated Escobar to be the seventh-richest man in the world with a personal wealth of US$25 billion while his Medellín cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market.

In 1992 US Delta Force, Navy SEALs and Centra Spike joined an all-out manhunt for Escobar. They trained and advised a special Colombian police task force, known as the Search Bloc. The war against Escobar ended on December 2, 1993. Using radio triangulation technology provided by the US, a Colombian electronic surveillance team found him hiding in a middle-class barrio in Medellín. A firefight with Escobar and his bodyguard ensued. The two fugitives attempted to escape by running across the roofs of adjoining houses to reach a back street, but both were shot and killed.

Pablo Escobar’s once-opulent Colombian vacation home was demolished. The 20-room mansion, complete with a private runway for Escobar’s planes, was one of the main tourist draws at a theme park that now covers much of the drug dealer’s former estate of Hacienda Napoles. Theme park managers demolished the semi-ruined mansion before it collapsed.

A growing herd of hippos, the offspring of four animals bought in the 1980s for Escobar’s personal zoo, still roam the area. There’s also a former bullring.

See ----->Pablo Escobar’s hippos

RidgeView Place - Langford hi-rise still vacant

The owner of the building, Centurion Property Associates Inc., is suing the seller, builder, engineers and the City of Langford. Renters were first told to get out Dec. 20, 2019, after investigation by the Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. found many serious structural flaws. Two engineers involved in the original work lost their registration. Plans for the building had been stolen by the now bankrupt builder DB Services and improperly modified by the two. Langford re-issued an occupancy permit in April 2022 after another engineer’s review, but in April, the engineering body informed Centurion and the city it had opened an investigation into that engineer.

info@egbc.ca

130 people had to evacuate the building and it has sat untouched since. The building trade in British Columbia at 3rd world levels is due to the continuous supply of incompetent criminals from the Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. A recent DeCotiis excavation wall collapse demonstrates all. The engineers/bums need to be regulated in B.C. for the public's safety.
See ----->DB Services - 3rd world criminal builder - Bankrupt
See ----->Decotiis wall collapse = Amacon Developments

Hakan Ayik luxury fleet turned into police cars

See ---->Hakan Ayik - Australia's top drug importer busted

21 cars formerly owned by drug kingpin Hakan Ayik were given a £3m makeover and are now Turkish police cars. Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, BMWs, Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes are part of the assets from 55 gangsters worth £130m and includes bank accounts, houses, and shares in 22 different companies.

Ayik's fortune is estimated at $1 billion. He had been running his operation openly, with reports claiming he was paying $1m per month as protection money to corrupt government and military officials.

Toronto cop threatens to confiscate Canadian flag

Toronto Police tells counter-demonstrator to stop waving the Canadian flag in front of Palestinian supporters pic.twitter.com/XwnnhECwh9 — 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) December 24, 2023

A peaceful protest against a rapidly increasing Israel genocide found a Toronto pig loudly lecturing folks about his plans to steal the nation's flag. Where DO these little jackboot dickfaces on the TPS come from?This dopey cop is not de-escalating anything and should STFU.