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[Link] 14-Year-Old Known as ‘El Chapito’ Arrested for Allegedly Killing 8 People at a Birthday Party

Read: 19/3/2023 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly being one of the gunmen in an attack on a birthday party in Mexico that killed eight people in January. The massacre took place in Chimalhuacan, a suburb just outside of Mexico City, on January 22.

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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.

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[Link] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida

Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

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[Link] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time

Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen. 

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[Link] Do Pirate IPTV Customers “Support Human Trafficking & Arms Trading”?

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

Over the years there have been frequent claims by entertainment companies that by using pirate services, users are helping to finance other crimes.

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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you

Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.

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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs

Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.

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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.

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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.

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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.

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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.

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[Link] Organised crime going undetected, says AFP, as Australian hits US ‘most wanted’ list

Read: 17/10/2021 www.smh.com.au

A top security official has warned that 90 per cent of Australia’s organised crime groups are operating with relative impunity, as police say employees of the Australian arm of Dubai’s government air services company have been used to infiltrate Sydney airport and smuggle drugs.

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[Link] These Gangsters Pretended to Be Lawyers To Kill Their Rival in Court

Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com

Stunning footage captured the moment after two gangs went head to head at a courtroom in India, resulting in three deaths and raising questions about security.

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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations

Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com

Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.

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[Link] Alex Murdaugh Hired a Hitman to Kill Him for Insurance Money

Read: 16/9/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] ‘You’ll Regret This For the Rest of Your Life’: Yakuza Boss Told Judge After Death Sentence

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of one of Japan’s most dangerous crime groups, Kudo-kai, was convicted for the attacks, including the killing of a fishermen’s union chief, carried out between 1998 and 2014. His second-in-command, 65-year-old Fumio Tanoue, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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[Link] The Unexpected Places the Taliban Got Rich From Before Taking Over Afghanistan

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

The extremist group made a staggering $1.6 billion last year, a key factor that helped them gain control of Afghanistan at lightning speed. On the streets of Kabul after the Taliban takeover, Afghans were running from one empty ATM to the next. Prices soared, the U.S. froze $9.

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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.

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[Link] Expected Afghan influx reopens divisions over refugees in Europe

Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

The fall of Kabul has reopened divisions over immigration in European countries as government leaders brace themselves for an inevitable surge in refugees.

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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.

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[Link] No conviction, $6000 fine for gangland cop who leaked corruption secret

Read: 6/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

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[Link] Cybercriminals work together to drive greater profits

Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com

Cybercrime is getting more organized than ever, as threat actors increase collaboration and adapt methods to drive greater monetization, selling access to breached systems to organized criminal groups and ransomware gangs.

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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.

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[Link] Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video

Read: 5/4/2021 www.theguardian.com

Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, led a quiet life in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, with the local Italian expat community considering him a “foreigner”, police said in a statement on Monday. He was betrayed by a YouTube channel in which he showed off his Italian cooking skills.

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