The poppy trade that fuels terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan is a problem that must be addressed but doesn’t have a military solution, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a teleconference for Internet journalists and bloggers. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy, Navy Adm....
Eight members of the 662 Boss Piru gang, which purports to be a sect of the notorious, nationwide Bloods gang, have been charged by a federal grand jury in a 19-count indictment. The indictment includes conspiracy to commit kidnapping in aid of racketeering activity, kidnapping in aid of racketeering activity and numerous local offenses,...
By Special Guest Columnist Craig Cantoni: What happens when our overlords in Congress, the White House and the Federal Reserve destroy the economy and ruin millions of lives? They get invited to cocktail parties and news shows, and are treated with respect and dignity by the public. What happens when some poor schlemiel gets...
The first defendant to be sentenced in the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) case charging 14 members of the violent Texas Syndicate prison gang with conspiring to participate in a violent enterprise responsible for murders, attempted murders, conspiracies to commit murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and other crimes in North Texas and other areas, was...
Since its inception in 2003, the US Department of Homeland Security has faced significant challenges related to recruiting, retaining, and managing its workforce of over 170,000 employees. The US Congress requested the Government Accountability Office to analyze DHS’s attrition, efforts to recruit and retain staff, use of external employees, and compliance with certain provisions...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents together with federal, state and local law enforcement partners across Massachusetts, have arrested 52 gang members and associates and 28 other criminals last week as part of the agency’s Operation Community Shield initiative, which targets violent street gangs. Transnational gangs pose a growing threat to the safety...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working in conjunction with federal, state and local law enforcement partners across the United States, have arrested the 10,000th gang member under operation Community Shield, according to a report submitted to officials of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. This ongoing operation started in 2005 to curb gang...
The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services, has guided the enforcement efforts of the national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) since its inception in 1997. The program was designed to coordinate federal, state and local law enforcement on cases of health care fraud and...
by Jim Kouri, CPP The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country. Several...
by Jim Kouri, CPP While most of the focus of federal law enforcement today is on counterterrorism, federal police agencies must still contend with more traditional anti-crime operations including emerging organized crime gangs. Criminal enterprises represent a near and long-term threat to our nation. The criminal activities of these enterprises are increasing in scope...
Recently, Mexican military officials claimed they seized five-and-a-half tons of powdered cocaine from a commercial aircraft that landed in Mexico following a a trip from Venezuela. The street value of the drugs was estimated to be upwards of $100 million. Mexican cops reported that the cocaine was discovered inside over a hundred suitcases marked...
by Jim Kouri, CPP Last week, 96 street gang members and associates were arrested as a result of a state-wide public safety initiative in New Jersey, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Each of those arrested were targeted for their membership, participation or association with violent street...
by Jim Kouri, CPP Seventy members and associates of the Drew Street clique of the Avenues gang have been named in a federal racketeering indictment unsealed on June 25 that alleges a long series of narcotics-related offenses and violent crimes — including murder, attacks against police officers, witness intimidation and extortion of local businesses....
There is an extraordinary irony in America’s seemingly endless War on Drugs. What are arguably the most deadly mood- or mind-altering drugs known to humanity – tobacco and alcohol – are legal and socially acceptable. I don’t believe in a devil (or a deity) but if such a being existed, he – or she...
Betty Jefferson, age 70, an elected tax assessor in New Orleans, along with her brother Mose Jefferson, age 66, and her daughter, Angela Coleman, age 53 — all residents of New Orleans, Louisiana — were charged via a 31 count-indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and federal program...
Carlos Mario Jimenez-Naranjo, a/k/a Macaco, has been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face drug trafficking charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher announced yesterday. Jimenez-Naranjo faces drug-related charges in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Florida. Jimenez-Naranjo made his initial appearance today in the District of Columbia before...
Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) recently issued an alert of great importance pointing out how Avon’s sales representatives (of which Reese Witherspoon is the newest pitch-queen) are doing things tremendously damaging to women around the world. I was shocked to see an intelligent woman like Reese Witherspoon drumming war paint as the...
March 4, 2008 House Attempts to Expand List of “Mental Disorders†Covered by Employers Urge your Representative to Vote NO on the Mental Health Equity Act! Most Americans probably hear the phrase “more affordable health care†roll off the lips of certain presidential candidates on a daily basis, so why are Members of Congress...
Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, claims that Moses was high on psychedelic drugs on Mount Sinai when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments. Let’s see… Honor your father and mother, don’t steal, don’t kill, don’t covet your neighbor’s wife, don’t commit adultery, remember the Sabbath...
Jose Rodriguez Nieves, a/k/a “Menor,” a/k/a “Cuba,” was found guilty late Friday of charges related to his leadership of a highly lucrative drug organization responsible for distributing hundreds of kilograms of heroin in the Bronx from 1995 to January 2006. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John Gilbride told reporters, “Throughout this operation...
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