 | UK cops have arrested 13 after a group imported 50 TONS of heroin, cocaine and cannabis into the UK over an 18 month period. Cops seized 351 kg of cocaine, 92 kg of heroin, 250 kg of cannabis and 1,850 kg of hemp/hashish. Street value is more than £38m. The drugs were hidden in trucks bringing children's juice drinks and vegetables from Holland. |  |
 | Raids took place in London, Manchester, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and Leeds. |  |
 | Sophon Sek was a child when he came to Canada from Cambodia. Now, the 39-year-old gangster convicted of helping the Surrey Six killers will be returning to the country he left more than 30 years ago. Sek remains in custody until the CBSA secures travel documents. Sek gained statutory release in September after serving two-thirds of his nearly six-year sentence for trafficking, firearms offences and break and enter. The break and enter count was connected to his role in aiding Red Scorpions on Oct. 19, 2007, where they murdered six. |  |
 | Daniel Spain, 51, argued that a three-year mandatory minimum sentence was a violation of his charter rights. His application was tossed. Spain pleaded guilty to two counts of manufacturing prohibited firearms and was sentenced to 42 months. He worked for Perfection Métal, a company based in LaSalle where its owner Jean-Pierre Huot made scores of Tec-9 machine guns. |  |
 | Huot was convicted on six similar charges despite his claims that he was merely making paintball guns. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. Huot is appealing. Huot's guns were used in numerous organized crime hits around Montreal, including the Aug 1, 2014 murder of high profile gangster Ducarme Joseph. |  |
 | Established in 2009, Strike Force Raptor is a high-impact operation targeting OMCGs and associated criminal enterprises. The strike force is an elite, militarized police unit made up of 55 top cops with the primary goal of dismantling violent bikie gangs. The unit has become known for using every available legal means to punish bikies, from arcane 1800s laws to road violations. The 'hostile' tactics of Strike Force Raptor have been an unmitigated success in causing OMGs to leave NSW. One of their greatest victories is the deportation of bikies back to New Zealand. |
 | Officers accepted into Raptor's tactical unit have to prove their worth in the ring with their command leader, who rarely loses. Strike Force Raptor has made more than 4,000 arrests across New South Wales since 2009 and laid almost 10,000 charges. Strike Force Raptor has shut down at least 40 OMCG clubhouses, forcing many clubs - including Hells Angels, Rebels, Bandidos and Commanchero - to relocate to South East Asia. There is now evidence of 36 Australian-affiliated clubs in Thailand alone. |
 | Two drug dealers found with nearly £3 million of cocaine and £12,000 in cash have been jailed. Aleksandar Uljaveric and Alexandru Mitu were seen by police wheeling a suitcase containing 22kg of cocaine down the street. A search of Uljaveric’s home resulted in a further 12kg of cocaine, 1,900 Ecstasy tablets, ¾ kilo of MDMA, cutting agent ketamine and cash. |  |
 | Police estimate the drugs to be worth a combined total of £2.7 million. The pair pleaded guilty to several drug offences and were sentenced at Kingston Crown Court. Uljaveric was jailed for 12 years and Mitu, 26, originally from Romania, was jailed for eight years. |  |
 Gregory Bodemer | A chemistry professor who died of an overdose had his apartment raided. Cops found one of the biggest stashes of fentanyl seen in San Diego at over 5 pounds (2.5kg) Agents also found carfentanil and drug manufacturing equipment, including a pill press, powder, liquids, and dyes used to make street drugs. The amount of fentanyl seized was enough to kill 1.5m people. Gregory Bodemer was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman, Rose Griffin, was taken away in an ambulance and recovered. She said she had been lacing her vaping cartridges with fentanyl, which had led to her overdose. |  A hazmat crew was called in to help clear and decontaminate the unit. It remains off-limits. |
 | Australian drug smuggler Cassandra Sainsbury has had her bid for freedom delayed after a series of incidents in her Colombian jail. Sainsbury was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of trying to smuggle 6kg of cocaine out of Colombia in April 2017. 'Cocaine Cassie' was due to begin the parole process this year after serving three-fifths of her sentence. Sainsbury was caught trying to fly out of Bogota's El Dorado International Airport with 5.8kg of cocaine stuffed into 18 headphones hidden in her luggage. |  She was nailed after a tip-off from the US Drug Enforcement Agency. |
 Taking into account a seven-month reduction in her sentence for good behavior, she could be released next year. |
Former Kelowna president Damiano Dipopolo and vice-president Lester Jones were kicked out of the HAMC in bad standing for pilfering club f...
