NYPD cop busted for Cocaine, protecting dealers

Ishmael Bailey

Ishmael Bailey, 36, a 12-year veteran with the NYPD thought nobody would notice when he provided security for El Chapo's narco wife Emma Coronel Aispuro as she attended her husband’s drug trafficking trial. Investigators began looking closer into Bailey’s affairs and found the security detail was just one of a long list of shady side gigs.

Bailey was nailed on charges of conspiracy and sale of a controlled substance for acting as security twice when loads of cocaine were transported from various locations around Queens. Bailey was arrested by officers with the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau after a sting. He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance, bribe receiving and official misconduct. Bailey wept at his brief arraignment as a judge ordered him held on $50,000 bond and $25,000 cash bail. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years behind bars.

Winnipeg cops raid Manitoba HA clubhouses for being booze cans

Road 65 N. in the rural municipality of Rosser

Winnipeg cops raided two Manitoba HA clubhouses and charged three with selling liquor without a licence. Cops learned from rats that there was a set price for booze at the clubhouse bars and the HA thought that the law couldn't touch them if they put up signs that read "Donations". Individuals 'donated' between $3 to $5 to the HA for their booze. The club also ran tabs with a book behind the bar recording sales.

The 3 charged are Dale Donovan, who uses the name Kelland and is the president of the Manitoba Nomads, full patch Lorne Corlett, and prospect Cameron Barron. Donovan made global headlines for the club in 2018 when he called on his brothers to slag a 'discriminating' bar that refused to cater to those in HA colors. Police said raids were carried out in Kelowna, Sudbury, St. Catharines, Ottawa and Toronto.

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Poacher's root of choice - wild ginseng

The global illegal wildlife trade, which includes flora and fauna, is estimated at $12-30 billion annually.

The stakeout in the remote area of Ontario was coming to a conclusion. As the 2 poachers emerged from the bush they were immediately arrested. What were they stealing? Wild ginseng, which is protected in Canada, and cannot be touched. The two men pleaded guilty to picking ginseng. They received fines of $5,000 and $4,000 as well as four-month suspended sentences.

Natural American ginseng is rare and rapidly going extinct. Poaching poses the greatest threat. Natural ginseng can sell for anywhere from several hundred to thousands of dollars per root depending on its shape and size. A single root the size of an adult finger can fetch $1,000. The plant is slow to mature and reproduce and requires specific growing conditions. It takes a decade for a sizable root to form. Cultivated ginseng requires herbicides and is seen as inferior in quality and taste.

Worse, there is something called 'replant disease', meaning cultivated ginseng cannot ever be planted on the same ground twice.

Wild American ginseng grows in southern Ontario and western Quebec, and down to Georgia and Louisiana. French settlers exported it in bulk to China 300 years ago. At one point it was New France's biggest export after fur. That early over-harvesting kicked off a decline that has accelerated to the point where less than two dozen viable populations of wild American ginseng are left in Canada. Most of those are now monitored continuously in efforts to prevent extinction.

German Rocker 'Lenox AFFA'

Cora Schumacher publicized her budding relationship with Hells Angels rocker "Lenox AFFA" aka Nabil H. She divorced her husband, race driver Ralf Schumacher.  There was trouble in paradise with the two new lovebirds in the media spotlight.

"Hells Angels member Lenox has been with Cora Schumacher for six months. Now, the ex of the Hells Angels Rocker puts out her claws!"

The couple's unmitigated bliss was disturbed when a young woman appeared, claiming to be the wife of Lenox AFFA. She even created an Instagram profile called "Lenox Woman." Among other things, she posted a picture showing her back, showing a tattoo that is an image of Lenox's face. She also writes: "Lenox has been with me for years." Lenox AFFA clarifies that she is his 'ex-wife'.

The MS 13 tattoo is curious. Mara Salvatrucha, popularly known as MS-13, is a gang that originated in LA.

Cops looking for tipsters in 2016 Rocco Sollecito hit

Rocco Sollecito was shot to death at 8:30 a.m. on May 26, 2016, while at the wheel of his SUV. The high status mafioso was part of a committee that ran the Mafia while leader Vito Rizzutto was imprisoned in the US. An SQ command post was set up in the parking lot of a mall just a block south of the site of the killing. Cops made surveillance camera photos public and are seeking information on a pair on a motorcycle.

Con writing for biker magazine charged in 1972 murder

An Ohio prison inmate's writing published in biker magazines was cited by police in charging him with the shooting death of a motorist found along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1972. Larry Joseph Via, 75, was charged with criminal homicide and robbery in the death of Morgan Peters, who had been shot in the back. Via is serving a life sentence in the Marion Correctional Institute for a killing that occurred shortly after Peters' body was found in September 1972. He wrote poems and short stories for Easy Rider magazine under the pseudonym "Jody Via." A trooper found nine writings under that name in Easy Rider and Outlaw Biker magazines from the late 1980s.

"Dangerous Dave" published in Outlaw Biker in 1985 was about a hitchhiking woman who lured a man to stop, and the man is then surprised by a gunman.

Senior RCMP employee Cameron Ortis arrested, charged as spy

A director general of an intelligence unit within the RCMP has been arrested and charged. Cameron Ortis is facing multiple charges under both the Criminal Code and the Security of Information Act. Ortis was former RCMP Comm. Bob Paulson’s most elite advisor on issues related to national security and sensitive investigations, and likely the only civilian to ever achieve the position of director general of intelligence. Ortis would have had intimate access to secret national security information. He was found out by the US.

Charges relate specifically to unauthorized leaking of sensitive operational information, breach of trust, and unauthorized use of a computer. Ortis's case was put over to Sept. 20 and he remains in custody. The investigation lasted over 4 years.

Cameron Ortis faces seven counts dating as far back as 2015, including breach of trust, communicating “special operational information,” and obtaining information in order to pass it to a foreign entity.