According to the DEA’s national drug assessment, Colombia is the source of at least 97% of all cocaine consumed in the United States. Despite this fact, The DEA also claims that the production pattern is on the verge of changing.

In the report, the DEA claims that Mexican cartels are experimenting with crops of coca leaf in Mexico. The agency claims that if the cartels were to be successful they could take over the “Colombian” business.

In the chapter regarding drug trafficking trends in the report, the DEA suggests that Mexican cartels, especially the Jalisco Cartel, are looking to cultivate coca and produce their own cocaine from start to finish.

https://colombiaone.com/2024/05/12/colombia-cocaine-production/

How ties to Italy’s Mafia brought Robert Fico’s second term to an abrupt end in Slovakia
NICK SQUIRES
15 May 2024 at 8:14 pm

The placard seemed to express the fury of a nation.

As tens of thousands of people took to the streets calling for Robert Fico to resign as prime minister of Slovakia in 2018, one protester had scrawled the words “mafia prostitute” across a strip of cardboard.

Mr Fico was depicted in the striped black-and-white uniform of a prisoner – an indication the crowds wanted him jailed over the murder of Jan Kuciak, an investigative journalist who had been exploring links between government advisers and organised crime.

Kuciak was shot dead along with his fiancée at their home outside Bratislava, provoking a wave of horror in a nation that had become almost inured to stories of corruption.

The 27-year-old journalist had been investigating alleged links between government figures and the ‘Ndrangheta, the powerful Italian mafia based in the southern region of Calabria.

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/ties-ita...ZOIUTWLG45RdLh9dMBm433taaBW8CcRv8ZLwcaLp

Back to the original title of this thread that turned into another attack on NYM. Enough is enough!

Most the the Pittsburgh guy's I had cocktails with preferred Chivas Royal Salute. Very good and very expensive.

The leader of Brooklyn's Camorrista...the infamous Frankie Yale!

A very unique, eye-opening biography...

https://thenewyorkmafia.com/francesco-frankie-yale-ioele/?

....btw heres what the government thought about Daddano Jr's statutus within the Outfit in 2001...

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...naloa-cartel-network-seized-18-110303372

Spanish police say they've broken up Sinaloa cartel network, and seized 1.8 tons of meth

Operation “Monte Nuovo”: raid by the Carabinieri at the University of Sassari

According to the accusation, a mafia-style association is active in Sardinia with connections between Orgolese crime, attributable to Graziano Mesina, politics and institutions.

https://www.unionesarda.it/en/sardi...ri-at-the-university-of-sassari-nstpzmn1

it is the first time that the crime of mafia-type association is contested in Sardinia

Robert's voice warms up nicely after a few songs...

LOL

McQueen in the living room of his eclectic home in Hollywood, 1963.

The same clubhouse was shot up last year and all reports said it was the Dark Souls. Now with the recent shooting at the same location they're saying it's the Red Devils and there's no mention of Dark Souls. Even if there was some patchover you'd think they would still mention that.

Members of Brooklyn-Based Hyena Crips Gang Charged with Multiple Murders and Racketeering Activity Spanning Nearly a Decade

Earlier today, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in EDNY federal court in Brooklyn, a superseding indictment was partially unsealed variously charging seven members of the Brooklyn-based Hyena Crips gang with racketeering and using a firearm in the course of a murder in connection with three murders, murder conspiracies, robberies and identity-fraud schemes dating back to 2012.  Three defendants were arrested this morning and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho.  The four remaining defendants, who are in state and federal custody on other charges, will be arraigned at a later date.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Ivan J. Arvelo, Special Agent-in-Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI), Edward A. Caban, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD), and Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Region (DOL-OIG), announced the arrests and superseding indictment.
“For years, the Hyena Crips terrorized our community with brutal acts of violence—including murders, shootings and brazen armed-robberies—and funded their criminal activities through fraud schemes,” stated United States Attorney Peace.  “The crimes alleged in today’s superseding indictment illustrate well the damage this gang has wrought on individuals, small businesses and the community at-large.  This Office and its law enforcement partners are working tirelessly to dismantle violent criminal enterprises, take out their leadership and obtain justice for their victims.  It is my hope that today’s indictment brings some measure of solace particularly to the families of Samuel Joseph, Leandre Mallinckrodt and Roodson Polynice who were senselessly murdered.” 
“As alleged, these defendants and the Hyena Crips gang at-large have for years inflicted unimaginable pain on the community and claimed the lives of innocent New Yorkers. While nothing can bring back Leandre Mallinckrodt, Samuel Joseph, and Roodson Polynice, HSI New York will never forget its commitment to seeking justice on behalf of victims, regardless of how much time has passed,” said Special Agent-in-Charge Arvelo. “HSI New York will not sit idly by as gangs terrorize the public. I commend our law enforcement partners, including the New York Police Department, for working together to eliminate violent criminal organizations and the fear they cause.”
“The ‘Hyena lifestyle’ was one of wanton violence coupled with acute ineptitude, as the individuals charged today allegedly murdered innocent men they mistook for rival gang members,” stated NYPD Commissioner Caban.  “The actions of this busy criminal network ranged from robbery to financial fraud, which, for too long, cast a pall over large swaths of our city. I highly commend all the investigators involved in this case, starting us toward a modicum of justice for the grieving families of those senselessly killed.”
“An important part of the mission of the U.S Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General is to investigate allegations of fraud involving COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance programs. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate these types of allegations,” stated Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent-in-Charge, Northeast Region, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General.
As detailed in the government’s detention letter filed earlier today, the Hyena Crips set of the Crips street gang is a violent criminal enterprise operating in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn.  The gang engages in acts of violence, including murder, robbery and assault, and earns money through drug trafficking, bank fraud and access device fraud.  Members of the gang refer to each other as “Hyenas,” “Heenz” or some variation of hyena, and use social media emojis depicting a bluish-purple face with horns and an animal resembling what appears to be a hyena, wolf or fox. 

Murder of Leandre Mallinckrodt
On September 3, 2012, defendant Rick Jasmin and other members of the Hyena Crips were present at the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.  A fight broke out and Jasmin allegedly stabbed Leandre Mallinckrodt, who the defendant mistook for a rival gang member, in the neck.  Mallinckrodt, who had been visiting from upstate New York and had no gang affiliation, died from the wound.

Murder of Samuel Joseph
On February 22, 2019, Martial H. Amilcar and a co-conspirator drove to 15-year-old Samuel Joseph’s apartment building and waited outside until Joseph’s teenage sister arrived at the building’s entrance.  While Joseph’s sister prepared to enter the building, the victim was walking down an internal staircase towards the building’s exit.  When Joseph’s sister opened the building door to enter, Amilcar walked into the building behind her, pulled out a gun and shot Joseph three times at close range, killing him. The shooting and events leading up to it were captured on security camera footage taken nearby.  Amilcar and the co-conspirator allegedly killed Joseph in retaliation for an altercation earlier that day between Amilcar’s relative, a fellow gang member, and Joseph’s older brother, a rival gang member.

Murder of Roodson Polynice
In the summer of 2020, Hyena Crips leader Dave Augustin allegedly directed Richler Morette and Bradley Augustin to retaliate against a rival gang for the non-fatal shootings of two Hyena Crips leaders.  On September 2, 2020, Bradley Augustin, Morette and others allegedly carried out the fatal shooting of Roodson Polynice.  Polynice, like Mallincrodt, had no gang affiliation and was killed after he was wrongly identified by the defendants as a rival.  Following the murder, Morette responded to a group Facebook messages about Polynice’s death in which he replied with three laughing-face emojis and stated, “[d]on’t care who got hit” and “pic [sic] a side or get killed with them Hyenalifestyle or no life.”

COVID-19 Fraud
Dave Augustin, Matthew Harris, Rick Jasmin, Wisny Joseph, and Richler Morette are charged with allegedly conspiring to commit identity fraud in connection with fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits and loans issued by the Small Business Administration for relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Dave Augustin, Harris, Joseph and Morette are also charged with money laundering conspiracy arising from their fraudulently opening bank accounts to conceal the source of ill-gotten gains obtained by members of the Hyena Crips.
The superseding indictment also charges several defendants with the attempted armed robbery of a Caribbean Air check cashing businesses, the attempted robbery of a pharmacy and the non-fatal shooting of an individual following an argument during a dice game.
The charges in the indictment are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
If convicted, Martial H. Amilcar, Bradley Augustin, Dave Augustin, Jasmin, and Morette face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.  Harris and Joseph face prison terms of up to 20 years.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.  The Department of Justice reinvigorated PSN in 2017 as part of the Department’s renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally based strategies to reduce violent crime.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s Organized Crime and Gangs Section.  Assistant United States Attorneys Devon Lash, Jessica Weigel, Joshua Dugan and Andres Palacio are in charge of the prosecution.  The case was initiated and investigated by Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Wenzel in the Long Island Division.
The Defendants:
MARTIAL H. AMILCAR (also known as “Drippy”)
Age:  27
Brooklyn, New York
BRADLEY AUGUSTIN (also known as “Cradley”)
Age:  24
Brooklyn, New York
DAVE AUGUSTIN (also known as “Juice”)
Age: 38
Brooklyn, New York
MATTHEW HARRIS (also known as “Kappy”)
Age: 24
Brooklyn, New York
RICK JASMIN (also known as “Jab”)
Age: 31
Brooklyn, New York
WISNY JOSEPH (also known as “Weezy”)
Age: 32
Brooklyn, New York
RICHLER MORETTE (also known as “Breezy”)
Age: 29
Brooklyn, New York
E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 23-CR-18 (S1) (AMD)