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Friday 26 November 2010

Military armoured vehicles were sent into a Rio de Janeiro slum as Brazil's security forces sought to restore order after five days of violence that killed at least 26 people.


Military armored vehicles carried police into the heart of a gang stronghold, chasing gunmen into nearby shantytowns and setting the stage for what many people expect to be a bloody battle in Rio's offensive to quell a surge of criminal violence.Decision Points
Authorities didn't say if police would immediately push into those slums, but said federal police would join the operation Friday to help hold territory taken from the gangs. Holiday leave and all administration duties have been cancelled for police since Tuesday, as the authorities flooded the streets with thousands of extra officers targeting about 28 shanty towns, known as favelas.
Heavily armed gang members have attacked police stations and stopped cars and buses, robbing passengers of money and valuables before setting vehicles alight.
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The scenes of carnage that have spread across large sections of the city since Sunday threaten seriously to undermine Rio's standing as a suitable host for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
Most of the dead were killed in gun battles with police in which two officers were wounded. One victim was reported to be a 14-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet.
The authorities in Rio believe the violence was ordered by imprisoned gang leaders in retaliation for attempts by police to reassert control over Rio's favelas before sporting events.
''This is a desperate attempt to weaken our security efforts,'' said Sergio Cabral, Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. ''What they want is to create panic, for society to retreat, but we will not retreat.''
Police said on Thursday that they were concentrating their efforts on the Vila Cruzeiro favela, where they say drug dealers are hiding after they were forced out of other slums.
Six M113 armoured vehicles from Brazil's Marine Corps were deployed, supported by armed police.
By yesterday troops had taken control of Vila Cruzeiro and police would hunt down the criminals who fled, said Mario Sergio Duarte, general commander of Rio de Janeiro state's military police.
''Territory has been taken away from them,'' said Jose Beltrame, Rio de Janeiro State Security Secretary. ''It's important to arrest these people but it's even more important to take over their territory.''
At least 47 people have been arrested since the start of the violence, some of them caught holding bottles filled with petrol, while weapons and drugs have also been confiscated.
About a third of Rio's 6 million people live in more than 1000 slums, many of them located close to some of the wealthiest areas of the city such as Ipanema, Leblon and Copacabana.
The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pledged support for the Rio de Janeiro State Governor's drive to fight organised crime.
''Whatever help he needs from the federal government to allow good people to live in peace, we will do it,'' Mr Lula da Silva said.
The President-elect, Dilma Rousseff, pledged to continue Mr Lula da Silva's support in a telephone call with Mr Cabral.
Mr Beltrame said on Wednesday that the city's two main rival criminal organisations, based in the Rocinha and Morro do Alemao favelas, might unite to react to growing police efforts to take over shanty towns.

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man was found shot dead in a disused Smethwick factory today refused to rule out a “gangland killing


The detective leading a murder investigation after a man was found shot dead in a disused Smethwick factory today refused to rule out a “gangland killing”.
Leon Corey Robinson, aged 33, was discovered in an industrial unit on November 18. He had been shot in the head.
Acting Chief Insp Wayne Jones said: “We can’t rule out a gangland killing. We think he was probably lured here. We know the street gangs and he wasn’t a gang member. He was known to the police though.”
Officers are investigating the possibility Mr Robinson was with a friend when he entered the disused factory in Foundry Lane.
Police are trying to piece together Mr Robinson’s movements after 11.10pm on November 7, when he first went missing from his home in Rubery.

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Sunday 21 November 2010

The West Side Gator Boyz were one of Dallas' most notorious street gangs.

The West Side Gator Boyz were one of Dallas' most notorious street gangs. Born from the surprising merger of Cripsand Bloods – the Hatfields and McCoys of modern-day street gangs – the Gator Boyz dominated the drug trade in West Dallas, authorities say.
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This property at 5630 Barree Drive in Dallas belonged to Gator Boyz gang leader Tyrone Weatherall, who was sentenced Friday to almost 22 years in prison.
They say the gang, numbering between 30 and 50 members and led by brothers Tyrone and Patrick Weatherall, maintained control over its enterprise and the neighborhood with a shrewd business approach to organization and a silent intimidation so encompassing that it rarely, if ever, required members to use physical violence.
The Weatherall brothers amassed a cache of weapons, cash and property, including a ranch with exotic animals that authorities say they often used to entice children as young as 14 to sell drugs or serve as lookouts in and around about 30 drug houses throughout West Dallas.
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Patrick Weatherall , who also led the Gator Boyz gang, once lived in this home at 1002 Jungle Drive inDuncanville. He was sentenced earlier this month to 30 years in prison.
"It's sad because these kids that are out there in this neighborhood, they see this [behavior] as acceptable, and that in and of itself does harm," said Dallas police gang Detective Danny Torres, who along with federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agent April Howell, headed the three-year investigation of the gang.
"To them, it's acceptable to see drug houses, it's acceptable to see dope dealers, it's acceptable to go to jail. I wanted to change that," he said.
Working undercover and with informants, local and federal authorities arrested nearly 20 Gator Boyz members in recent months. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater accepted Tyrone Weatherall's guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and sentenced the 35-year-old to almost 22 years in prison.
On Nov. 4, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor accepted a similar plea from Patrick Weatherall, 33, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
Several other Gator Boyz have been sentenced to federal prison terms, and four more are scheduled for sentencing over the next few weeks.
Authorities say the arrests and heavy sentences have crippled the gang and brought relief to the neighborhood it once ruled.
"I wanted to make things better for all of those little kids out there in West Dallas," said Torres. "I think we did that."
But some West Dallas residents aren't so optimistic.
"The Gator Boyz being imprisoned does not change anything for the community, the reason being, somebody always takes their place," said Dianne McGinnis, who maintained that drug dealing in the area continues unabated. "It is just like an infestation of rodents and roaches – you can exterminate but you never get them all. Someone always gets away to start over."
Troubled childhood
Tough times came early for the Weatherall brothers, neither of whom graduated from high school, family members said. Their father left the family and, according to court documents and testimony, their now-deceased stepfather was abusive to them, their siblings and their mother, Gwendolyn. By the time Tyrone was 12, his stepfather had him dealing drugs. Patrick soon followed.
Lawyer Paul Watler, who represents Tyrone Weatherall and is also a media attorney for The Dallas Morning News, said his client "accepts full responsibility for his actions." But at Friday's sentencing hearing, Watler described him as "a man who really did not have a chance. This case illustrates the poor outcome that results when a young man is surrounded by adults and peers who model a life of crime and drugs."
Patrick Weatherall's lawyer, Randall Parker, agreed. "They grew up in the West Dallas projects," Parker said. "In that community, drugs are a way of life."
When officials bulldozed the massive West Dallas housing projects a decade ago, police say, many of the Rupert Circle Crips and Fishtrap Bloods – named after streets within the projects – who lived there moved across Hampton Road to the small neighborhood of modest homes near Pinkston High and C.F. Carr Elementary.
Some of these gang members came together in an alliance that originally was an attempt to break into the rap music business, but soon became about easy drug money.
"Money and business are probably overriding loyalty to turf and one gang," said Lt. Edwin Ruiz-Diaz, head of the Dallas police gang unit. "They're uneducated, but they're not stupid. It's all about the money; that comes first."
Led by the Weatheralls and a third man, Devinn Mitchell, who has also pleaded guilty to drug charges and is awaiting sentencing, the Gator Boyz gradually acquired massive material wealth, authorities say. According to court documents, Tyrone Weatherall admitted using proceeds from drug deals to purchase exotic animals, several horses and houses – including one on a lake in Grand Prairie – lavish vehicles and a ranch.
"This was not a nickel-and-dime operation," Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon McCarthy told the jury hearing the drug case of another Gator Boyz member earlier this year. "For example, the leader of this gang ... owned as many as eight homes. They rented several more in this neighborhood driving around in 7 Series BMWs, Hummers, one even had a Bentley, a tiger and at one point they had an alligator which is where they originally got the name of being the Gator Boyz."
According to Torres, street legend has it that when the group first organized, members owned a small alligator that they used to parade around the neighborhood. Whenever folks saw them, Torres said, they would say, "There go those gator boys."
Torres said they did once have sincere plans to make a CD. But they built their foundation and earned a living by selling drugs, he said, and the easy profits from that quickly made rapping a distant memory.
Although a West Dallas rap group that calls itself the Gator Boys did eventually produce a "pretty damn good" CD, Torres said that those artists were friends with gang members, but not members of the gang.
By 2001 the Gator Boyz, with nicknames such as Boo Boo, Yardman, Monk Monk, Jamaican, Cat Daddy and Rodawg, had organized themselves into a formidable unit with a tiered system of control. They threw off old labels that might have previously kept them from working together.
"The Gator Boyz are what you call a hybrid gang," Torres testified during Patrick Weatherall's sentencing hearing. "It doesn't matter if you are a Blood or a Crip, as long as you're from that neighborhood you can be in that gang."
Well-organized gang
The gang's drug houses had reinforced windows, and doors were equipped with steel cages both inside and out, allowing members to trap anyone passing into the home, whether friend or foe. Gator Boyz members later testified that all of these modifications were done to keep SWAT out and give them time to get rid of or hide the drugs and guns if police made a raid.
Torres said in interviews that the Weatheralls were so organized in their "business" that their drug-dealing employees worked around-the-clock shifts, much like a factory. And he said the gang operated with a three-tiered hierarchy with the Weatheralls and Mitchell at the top, then mid-level managers who oversaw the handling of drugs and money at their more than 30 dope houses, and the young boys at the bottom who did much of the actual sales.
"The Gator Boyz were unique because of their leadership," Torres said. "They had a hold on that neighborhood because no one would challenge them. They owned that neighborhood and people understood the consequences if they messed with them."
But it wasn't actual violence that so much drove the gang, it was intimidation and the threat of violence that kept the neighborhood in line. One of the few incidents of violence was against an animal: Authorities say that Tyrone Weatherall was incensed that his pet tiger apparently attacked some of his beloved horses, so one of his Gator Boyz underlings killed it.
The bullet-riddled body of the female Bengal tiger mix – police say it was shot at least five times, including once through the heart – was found dumped near Interstate 35E and Overton Road two days after Christmas in 2007.
But it was the youngsters who fueled the machine, authorities say, and the brothers often shrewdly bought allegiance – and future employees – by doing nice things for children. Torres said Tyrone Weatherall would allow kids to ride his horses along the Trinity River Bottoms. And he said he's heard that the Weatheralls would often go to a store and personally pay for the school clothes and supplies of West Dallas children.
"A lot of the individuals started off when they were 14, 15, 16, going to Mr. Weatherall to sell drugs," ATF agent Howell testified Friday during Tyrone Weatherall's sentencing hearing. Howell testified that Weatherall provided the youngsters with "the drugs to sell and a place to sell them in."
One of those youngsters affected by what they saw was Demetrius Forward, now 20. While not a leader of the Gator Boyz, he was described in court documents as "not a minimal or minor participant" either. He has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. His sentence is pending.
His attorney, Buck Johnson, said Forward first encountered the Gator Boyz as a small child when his mother would go to their dope houses to buy drugs and would bring her son along. Soon, Forward was washing cars and mowing the lawns of Gator Boyz members.
"By the time he was 11 or 12, they had him selling dope for them," Johnson said. "He truly never had a chance. It's the only thing he ever knew. This is what he grew up in. And from what I understand, they used other young kids to sell for them."

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Shrien and Anni Dewani should be three weeks into married life. Instead, tragically, Shrien is coming to terms with life as a widower,

Shrien and Anni Dewani should be three weeks into married life. Instead, tragically, Shrien is coming to terms with life as a widower, one week after his wife was shot dead while they were honeymooning in South Africa.
Police in the Western Cape yesterday arrested a third suspect in connection with the murder, which occurred after the Dewanis' taxi was carjacked late last Saturday night in Gugulethu, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The latest arrest came after local media reports this weekend promised "an explosive revelation", saying police sources believe there is more to the case than a random hijacking.
The case, which has stunned not only the Dewanis' family but the entire Rainbow Nation, poses numerous questions for South Africa's stretched police force. Not the least of these concerns is the nature of the assault; and what the newlyweds were doing driving late at night through some of the country's most notorious settlements, when most honeymooners would have been enjoying the luxuries of their exclusive hotel on Cape Town's waterfront. In Gugulethu alone, 700 people have been murdered since 2005.
Then there is the perilous financial position of Mr Dewani's family firm. PSP Healthcare, the care home chain he set up with his father and brother in 2005, is £6.25m in debt and has yet to file its returns for this year.

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Friday 19 November 2010

'Gangster' city's ninth homicide

'Gangster' city's ninth homicide: "Saskatoon's latest homicide victim was 'a loving and passionate person to the people he knew and loved,' says a Facebook page dedicated to his memory.
However, Jackson 'Jax' McKenzie was also clearly ensnared in the aggressive lifestyle of the city's street gangs.
'I am the craziest, loudest T.S. gangster around Toon Town,' the 31-year-old father boasted on his own Facebook page, which contains expletive-heavy references against police officers, 'snitches' and members of the Cash Boys and Native Syndicate gangs."

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Monday 15 November 2010

Nicosia menaced by gangs - Cyprus Mail

Nicosia menaced by gangs - Cyprus Mail: "ORGANISED GANGS of youths dressed in black, terrorised residents of a well-heeled Nicosia neighbourhood on Friday night in four separate incidents of assault and attempted mugging resulting in three victims being taken to hospital.
The four attacks occurred between the hours of 9pm and 10.30pm in the area near the Hilton Hotel in the capital.
Nicosia district police chief Kypros Michaelides yesterday spoke of “organised attacks”, noting that the phenomenon of “juvenile delinquency” greatly concerned the police.
According to police information, “it seems that around 30 people are involved, who are active in this specific area,” he said.
The first incident occurred at 9pm as a young man from Bangladesh walked down Kalypsous Street. He was approached by a group of young people who asked him for a cigarette. When he replied that he had none, they beat him on the head and other parts of the body, before leaving the scene, without taking anything from him. He was taken to Nicosia general hospital’s emergency ward where he received stitches.
The second incident “involved an attack on a young woman, who was also walking in the same area, by three to four people, who in all cases were wearing the same type of clothing, black clothes, scarves and hoods,” said Michaelides.
The 29-year-old Greek Cypriot doctor from Strovolos was walking on Edessis Street at around 10.15pm when three youths tried unsuccessfully to snatch her bag from her. Failing to do so, they hit her on the head with a baton.
“After hitting this woman with a bat, they left her at the scene without taking anything from her,” said the Nicosia police head."

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Feds, police crack down on MS-13 members, a Central American gang violent international gangs - Wire - Lifestyle - bellinghamherald.com

Feds, police crack down on violent international gangs - Wire - Lifestyle - bellinghamherald.com: "Agents strapped on bulletproof vests behind empty warehouses and waited for the party to get started at a Hialeah, Fla., strip club popular with suspected MS-13 members, a Central American gang.
As people arrived after midnight, lights flashed from unmarked vehicles as the federal agents and police officers made traffic stops.
'What gang do you belong to?' an investigator with the Multi-Agency Gang Task Force asked a driver. An agent checked the driver's name in the gang database and let him go.
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This scene is repeated frequently outside South Florida bars, homes and clubs as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents work with local police to crack down on violent international street gangs. ICE more than doubled its gang arrests to 126 in the region since 2007 as its partnerships strengthened."

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Gangs storm hospital | Trinidad Express Newspaper | News

Gangs storm hospital Trinidad Express Newspaper News: "WARRING gangs took their fight from the dancehall to the Sangre Grande District Hospital yesterday morning, forcing doctors and nurses to scamper for safety and lock themselves in various rooms to avoid being injured.
According to the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Eastern Regional Health Authority, Anand Daniel, a group of men arrived at the hospital with an injured friend around 3 a.m. The man began behaving in a 'rowdy manner' and demanded that he be treated immediately. The man, whose identity was not given, was eventually taken into an examination room for treatment to several lacerations and cuts to his face.
However, as he was being treated another car drove into the hospital's car-park. Another group of men came out the vehicle and demanded to see the man brought in for treatment."

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Wednesday 10 November 2010

The Mob and the Cash Money Boys tied to double slaying

Gangs tied to double slaying | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN: "Gang activity played a role in a weekend shooting at a north-side club that left two men dead and another wounded, Fort Wayne police said Monday.
The second of two men slain in the shooting Sunday morning at Rick O’Shay’s Irish Pub was identified Monday as Jaquan Dartavis Gentry, 22, of Fort Wayne. Gentry’s shooting death was ruled the 23rd homicide in Allen County this year.
His death followed that of Jeffery James Moore, 23, also shot at the pub Sunday. A third man injured in the shooting was identified Monday by Fort Wayne police.
Demetrius Masterson, 26, of Fort Wayne, suffered minor injuries. He was treated at a hospital and released, according to officer Raquel Foster, police spokeswoman.
No arrests have been made in the double slaying, but police have determined gang activity played a role, Foster said, adding that police believe more than one shooter was involved."

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CBC News - British Columbia - New Westminster shooting victim ID'd

CBC News - British Columbia - New Westminster shooting victim ID'd: "Police have identified the man who was found shot dead next to his car in New Westminster, B.C., on Monday night while his three-year-old son sat inside the vehicle.
Nelson Ramirez Guerrero, 33, was shot at around 8 p.m. PT near the intersection of Cornwall Street and 10th Street.
Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said investigators believe Guerrero was inside the vehicle with his son when the shooting started.
'It's our understanding that the victim was dropping his son off at his mother's residence when the shooting occurred. Thankfully the little boy was not harmed physically in the gun battle and he is currently in the care of his mother,' Carr said.
Police said Guerrero appeared to have been targeted in the shooting, but detectives have not linked him to any investigations involving drugs or gangs."

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Court hears of Mafia meetings in deporation hearing for Montreal mobster

Court hears of Mafia meetings in deporation hearing for Montreal mobster: "Clear evidence of meeting with Mafia bosses to share bundles of cash, secretly caught on video by police, demonstrates organized crime involvement even if no charges or convictions stemmed from it, the Federal Court heard Tuesday in a hearing over whether a Montreal mobster should be deported.
Moreno Gallo, 65, has lived in Canada since the age of nine but never became a Canadian citizenship. In 1974 he was convicted of murder after shooting a Montreal man three times in the head as he sat at the wheel of his car. Gallo claimed he shot in self-defence when confronting the victim over selling drugs at his young sister’s school. Police said it was a settling of accounts in a mob war.
For decades, Gallo’s prison file had been mislabelled by Correctional Service Canada, listing him as a Canadian citizen. So, in 1983, he was released on full parole and has since lived in relative peace as a successful businessman."

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Florencia 13: Ex-Marines arrested in weapons scheme

The Associated Press: APNewsBreak: Ex-Marines arrested in weapons scheme: "Federal officials say they have arrested three former Marines for selling illegal assault weapons to a Los Angeles street gang.
The arrests were announced Tuesday, a week after a Navy SEAL in San Diego and two others were charged with smuggling machine guns from Iraq for sale on the black market.
Authorities say Adam Gitschlag, the suspected ringleader among the former Marines, was arrested Nov. 2 at his Orange County home.
Investigative documents obtained by The Associated Press state that Gitschlag oversaw the sale of two cases containing firearms. The weapons included an AK-47, two Russian and Romanian variants of the weapon and two other semiautomatic rifles.
One of those buying the guns allegedly was connected to the notorious street gang, Florencia 13."

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Friday 5 November 2010

47 arrests in mob swoop - mirror.co.uk

47 arrests in mob swoop - mirror.co.uk: "Italian police detained 47 suspected mobsters in a massive swoop on the Mafia and their supporters.
Yesterday's arrests included Mafia dons, businessmen, civil servants and a member of Sicily's regional council, Fausto Fagone.
Raffaele Lombardo, Sicily's governor, is also under investigation in the probe, which netted about £400million of mob assets."

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La Familia Michoacana. Mexico drugs cartel suspects arrested in Atlanta area

BBC News - Mexico drugs cartel suspects arrested in Atlanta area: "Police in the United States have arrested 45 people they accuse of belonging to the Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana.
Agents also seized cash, guns and drugs as part of their operation against the cell, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Police said the city had become a major drug distribution centre, from where drugs were being shipped to neighbouring states.
But they said the arrests would disrupt the cartel's operation in Atlanta."

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There's a vacuum at the top of Montreal's Mafia

There's a vacuum at the top of Montreal's Mafia: "Vito Rizzuto, long the Teflon don of Montreal's Mafia, to be extradited to the U.S. to face trial for the murder of Mafiosi in New York 25 years before.
Within hours, a four-vehicle police convoy was whisking the lanky, 60-year-old Rizzuto from his temporary home, the prison at Ste. Anne des Plaines, to Trudeau airport. An FBI jet was there, waiting to speed him back to the U.S. for trial.
As he sat in the van, the leader of the Sicilian-origin branch of the local Mafia poured out his bitterness to his Montreal police escorts. His absence from Montreal would be bad for the city, he said. The fragile equilibrium that existed among the city's organized-crime groups would be broken. Only he himself, he said, could ensure a relative peace among the groups.
Rizzuto's outburst is one of many insightful anecdotes in a book published last week -Mafia Inc., courageously written by Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel. What the kingpin said has turned out to be no idle boast but an uncannily accurate prophecy."

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Two Montreal pizzerias set ablaze overnight - CTV News

Two Montreal pizzerias set ablaze overnight - CTV News: "Sedat Koskocan owns one of two Montreal pizza parlours that received a late-night visit from an arsonist and were firebombed before the crack of dawn Wednesday.
The attacks triggered instant comparisons -- and speculation about possible links -- to a spate of Molotov cocktail attacks last year against the city's Italian cafes.
Police have put forward numerous theories for last year's firebombings -- including a Mafia war, or street gangs battling over turf.
At 3:18 a.m. Wednesday, and then again two minutes later, authorities received phone calls about fires at two pizzerias on the same street in the same north-end neighbourhood.
Koskocan says he's baffled by the whole thing."

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Tuesday 2 November 2010

Three teens arrested in Dublin - shotgun attacks linked to feuding drugs gangs

Three teens arrested in Dublin - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 02, 2010: "Three teenagers were arrested today after separate pipe bomb and shotgun attacks linked to feuding drugs gangs.
Detectives believe the incidents were in retaliation for a gun attack on Sunday night outside the Marble Arch pub in Crumlin, south Dublin.
It is believed a number of men walked into the bar, ordered another man outside and opened fire on the street. No-one was injured.
A 16-year-old youth was detained at about 2am today in the Herberton area near St James’s Hospital after a Garda patrol spotted him acting suspiciously.
A shotgun was recovered at the scene.
It is understood the teenager was being questioned over an earlier attack on a home in Galtymore Park in Drimnagh after shots were fired through a kitchen window.
No-one was injured in the incident and detectives were examining CCTV footage from the area."

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Hells Angels hitman arraigned in 22 killings | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Hells Angels hitman arraigned in 22 killings Canada News Toronto Sun: "powerful Hells Angels leader, who worked with a company involved in a controversial contract on Parliament Hill, was arraigned Tuesday on 22 counts of murder.
Normand (Casper) Ouimet, 41, is also charged with gangsterism and conspiracy to commit murder. He was arrested in Montreal on Monday and had altered his appearance while on the run, growing a long beard and hair.
Ouimet was once a business partner of construction entrepreneur Paul Sauve, who obtained a $9-million contract in 2008 to perform renovations on the West Block of Parliament Hill. Sauve later lost the contract when he couldn’t meet deadlines, and the RCMP is investigating the deal.
There is no indication that Ouimet worked on the contract, and Sauve says he was a victim who contacted police when the bikers tried to take over his company and threatened his family.
Police say Ouimet was trying to muscle into masonry companies as part of a money-laundering scheme. He was arraigned a second time Tuesday in connection with Project Diligence, a massive money-laundering investigation.
Ouimet is one of more than 150 bikers rounded up in Project SharQc, an April 2009 police operation that dealt a crippling blow to the Hells Angels in Eastern Canada.
He appeared calm in the prisoner’s box Tuesday amid extraordinary security measures. Everyone entering the court was scanned by metal detectors and a SWAT team guarded the Montreal courthourse."

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CBC News - Montreal - Top Hells Angel faces 22 murder charges

CBC News - Montreal - Top Hells Angel faces 22 murder charges: "Twenty-two murder charges have been laid against an alleged biker boss once tied to the construction company now involved in the renovation fiasco on Parliament Hill.
Normand (Casper) Ouimet has been wanted by police since 2009. (CBC)The whopping litany of accusations was delivered in a Montreal courtroom against an alleged Hells Angels boss, Normand (Casper) Ouimet, who police had been seeking for almost two years.
He is facing charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, gangsterism, and a slew of others related to criminal corruption in the construction industry.
All the murders date back to Quebec's infamous biker war that reached its peak in the 1990s with frequent bombings, drive-by shootings, and victims' bodies being disposed of in burning cars.
Ouimet was arraigned in court under tight security Tuesday, behind a set of metal detectors and airport-style scanners."

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