Thugs rip off 86 year old woman in TO

Cops have released surveillance camera footage of suspects wanted after an 86-year-old woman had a gold chain ripped off her neck while walking with her husband in Toronto. The couple was walking north on Park Road, near Asquith Avenue north of Bloor Street East at 8:10 p.m. on June 12 when three men approached them from behind. The scumbags are described as black and between 25-30 years old.

Pagan MC Boss Deric McGuire walks after wiretaps tossed

Deric 'Tuna' McGuire is out on home confinement after a judge this week threw out the wiretap investigators used on his phones. Cops wiretapped at least seven different telephones used by McGuire, capturing his recruitment to lead a new Rhode Island chapter of the Pagans outlaw motorcycle gang and documenting his illegal drug operation.

The investigation led to 29 raids in May 2018 and the seizure of drugs and weapons, including a rocket launcher. Fifty people were arrested and charged with crimes. McGuire, 33, faces more than 220 narcotics and weapons charges. Like McGuire, other defendants are also being released after remaining behind bars for more than a year.

Cathinones - The Zombie Drug

Cathinones are a family of synthetics better known as bath salts or the zombie drug. Various street names have been used such as krokodil and flakka. It is a stimulant with severe psychoactive effects.

The drug is hallucinogenic and causes panic and intense hysteria. Flakka can be smoked, inhaled, injected, swallowed, even vaped. Users exhibit demonic-like behavior and superhuman strength. Last year the U.S. had a flakka-related incident where a teenager stabbed a couple to death before eating the man’s face. It took four police to apprehend the youth.

Users pose a serious danger to themselves and those around them.

Users recall feeling brain-dead and paralyzed. There are reports of people having sometimes fatal heart attacks and strokes. Cases of kidney damage, liver damage and psychosis are common. The drug is extremely cheap and addictive. It can raise serotonin and dopamine which initially makes users feel good but that fades once the delayed effects take hold. The effects last between three to five hours.

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$1.4m of cocaine seized from two Edmonton homes

A June 8 seizure included 11 kilograms of cocaine, 84 kilograms of cocaine buffing agent phenacetin, slightly less than a kilo of ketamine and $15,465 in cash. The seizure of cutting agent phenacetin is one of the largest ever in Alberta. Phenacetin was once used as a pain reliever but was discontinued as both a prescription and non-prescription drug in 1973 over concerns it was leading to kidney damage and cancer. "This amount of buff speaks to the volume of cocaine potentially moving through that residence and ending up on the streets."

BCSC freeze order on BridgeMark properties being challenged

Waterfront home at 2854 Bellevue Avenue, West Vancouver was purchased by Lisa Jackson and her father Ken Tollstam in November 2018.

Freeze orders under the Securities Act are not made public, but their existence was revealed in a BCSC judicial panel decision on July 16. The court is to determine the constitutionality of the freeze orders. It is reported that at least one property related to the Bridgemark Group was listed for sale during the investigation. The residence of convicted securities scammer Aly Babu Mawji in West Vancouver was listed for sale in Feb. Anthony Jackson’s wife, realtor Lisa Jackson, sold Mawji’s $ 2.8m residence in a cash transaction to a numbered company.

The BCSC is seeking a permanent ban on Mawji.

$1b worth of cocaine found on a ship owned by JPMorgan - Update

A ship owned by JP Morgan and operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company was released on Friday, weeks after it was seized in a drug bust that found 20 tons of cocaine. JP Morgan’s asset management arm, which owns the ship, and MSC together paid $50 million in cash and a surety bond to secure its temporary release. For Mediterranean Shipping Company it was at least the third huge drug bust this year.

The container ship MSC Gayane, financed by JPMorgan, was seized by US customs officials after authorities found nearly 18 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1.3b on the vessel. The roughly 39,500 pounds, or 17.9 metric tons of cocaine is about the same weight as three African bull elephants. The MSC Gayane sailed under the flag of Liberia. It is a popular transit route for smugglers between South America and Europe because of its porous borders.

In May 2018 Algerian officials seized more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine on a Liberian-registered container ship from Brazil. In February of this year, Cape Verde officials found 21,000 pounds of cocaine, with a street value north of $700m, on a Panamanian-flagged vessel. A month later, authorities in Guinea-Bissau notched their biggest-ever cocaine bust when they discovered more than 1,700 pounds of the drug.

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Italian police join FBI in raids on mobsters

Raids in Italy and the US targeted links between the Cosa Nostra and US organized crime. Italian police said 18 people had been arrested in Italy and one in the US. Among those arrested was Thomas Gambino.

Thomas Gambino is taken into custody

The Inzerillo crime family has been trying to rebuild after the 2017 death of its enemy, Boss of Bosses Salvatore "Toto" Riina. His Mafia war in the 1980s forced the Inzerillo family to flee to the US. It's believed the Inzerillo family is attempting to reclaim its old territory, with the help of allies in New York. Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the boss of bosses, waves from behind bars in Rome court during a trial in 1993.