A Norteño gang member from Yakima, Washington, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on a charge of distributing fentanyl. 38-year-old Hugo Enrique Davadi, who goes by the nickname “Flaco,” was ...

Drones have reshaped the battlefield. Its use recently gave Ukraine the opportunity to not just defend itself against mighty Russia, but actually strike back far behind the front lines. Like other wea...

Members of a crime group from Liverpool, England, have been jailed for trying to smuggle drugs to Australia and New Zealand. The narcotics had a street value of around £11.3 million in the United King...

The murder of a child can be a kind of silent social phenomenon, in some ways like a note unsaid. Something no one wants to contemplate. Never discuss. Embarrassingly ignore. Pedecide strikes at the v...

On this date (Sept. 28) in 1920, eight players on the Chicago White Sox baseball team were indicted by a Cook County, Illinois, grand jury f...

On this date in 1931... Reigning Mafia boss of bosses Salvatore Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death in his Park Avenue, Manhattan, off...

Old pal of 'Clutching Hand' put on the spot in Brooklyn New York Daily News On this date in 1931... Scores of afternoon prod...

Crescent City underworld leaders lost their lives in long Mafia feud

A member of one of New York’s Mafia Families Andimo Pappadio had become indentured into an industry of death that helped shape New York into a necropolis of infinite boundaries. Knowing this, why woul...

Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be ...

Former Crips boss Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been found guilty of the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, bringing a nearly three-decade-old mystery to a close. A 12-person jury in Las Vegas convicted Davis...

Lawyer for Sebastián Marset claims the U.S. cannot prosecute him based on a single wire transfer that routed through a server in Virginia.

Authorities have issued an exceptional warning about a particular type of ecstasy pill. The pills, which feature the head of U.S. President Donald Trump, contain a dangerous substance which causes the...

Museum heists used to be somewhat of an… art. Pardon the pun. Criminals would make elaborate plans to evade security and make off with cultural masterpieces of mind-boggling value within minutes witho...

Gambino Mafia family soldier Thomas Dono’s life of crime is filled with theft, but it was a murder that would define his Mafia career.

The Mafia in Sicily started using the Kalashnikov back in the day, in the early 1980s, during the Great Mafia War. From events kicking off in 2026, it looks like they are making a comeback. And maybe ...

A Norwegian teenager was convicted of murder conspiracy in an English court after he travelled to England to carry out what prosecutors described as a contract killing ordered by the notorious Foxtrot...

There are levels to everything. From the bottom to the top. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was functioning at the top level. Running his country. Not satisfied, he also trafficked co...

Authorities in Costa Rica arrested the country’s most wanted fugitive on Friday. 41-year-old Alejandro Arias-Monge, nicknamed “Diablo,” was caught during an hourlong standoff that injured six Costa Ri...

On this date in 1908: Former U.S. Secret Service operatives were assigned to serve under Chief Examiner Stanley Wellington Finch of the Just...

Two members of an Albanian gang have been jailed for drugs and firearms offences. 47-year-old Zyber Tusha and 21-year-old Oltjan Serferi were sentenced on Friday at Harrow Crown Court in London, Engla...

Using intercepted communications from the encrypted Sky app as evidence, a Montenegrin court handed down a combined 148 years in prison to the Kavač clan leader and his criminal network.

Jacapraro, Coll, others held for weeks during Christmas season 1928

Cosa è rimasto fuori da una sentenza su cocaina in Australia

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, one of the most powerful drug lords in Mexican history, will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a U.S. judge sentenced him on Monday to life in prison. 76-year-old ...

On this date in 1949... Los Angeles Times Los Angeles area gambling czar Mickey Cohen, a frequent target of Mafia assassination attem...

Italy's parliament has codified the "Free to Choose" program nationwide, offering permanent identity changes, safe houses, and comprehensive state support to mothers and minors escaping the grip of the...

On this date in 1961... Minutes after midnight on Monday, July 17, 1961, the "Uptown" (South Side) business district of Youngstow...

Dismantling paywalls, removing paid memberships, emphasizing tags

For a while, the Emerald Triangle in Northern California produced most of the cannabis in the United States. It is comprised of Trinity County, Mendocino County, and Humboldt County. Located on the co...

Gangland incidents in NYC, Colorado, New Jersey and Yonkers

Housing crusader's well known photo sped demolition of the ethnic slum

The two thieves caught after last year's audacious heist of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre Museum claim they have no idea who ultimately commissioned the operation. At least that's what the t...

Doing time behind bars is dangerous enough. Pack overcrowded prisons with rival gangs, hardened criminals and corrupt officials, add homemade weapons and a lust for power, and it doesn't take much for...

This is the story of two men. One, a boss in the oldest police force in Italy; the other, a boss in the oldest crime cartel in Sicily, possibly in Italy. They will become victims of a government young...

Mafia history is filled with bizarre stories – and dead bodies. Usually a combination of both. One of the most peculiar stories is the time New York mobster Greg Scarpa was allegedly ordered by the FB...

Joseph Theodore Leslie Taylor was a gangster with a dodgy, ulcerated left eye. He looked a bit like Peter Falk after too many Manhattan’s. It made him appear to be continually glancing around, or taki...

A widening property-fraud investigation into a $4 billion luxury resort linked to Jared Kushner has led Albanian authorities to freeze developer assets, compounding pressure from public protests and international...

Wilmer Chavarría, the presumed leader of the Los Lobos syndicate, claims the Ecuadorian government wants him silenced because he claims the president is tied to drug trafficking and political murder.

After money tied to a notorious Russian tax fraud slipped into Armenia's financial system unnoticed by regulators, the victim is stepping in to demand an immediate asset freeze.

OCCRP has obtained corporate documents for 31 companies registered in Azerbaijan, which have managed the safety aspects of “shadow fleet” tankers that avoid sanctions in order to trade in Russian...

News, notes, articles and book excerpts from authors of crime history.

News, notes, articles and book excerpts from authors of crime history.

Give a country or a city a world championship in any sport and you will be loved for life. Racing driver Alain Prost and footballer Marco van Basten are celebrated around the globe as stars in their r...