SPRINGFIELD - In a sweeping crackdown on crime, police arrested 50 people in less than 24 hours during "Operation Blue Heat."

The deployment, planned by Commissioner William J. Fitchet, started Friday morning and ended Saturday morning.

"The Springfield Police Department is putting on a full court press to combat crime throughout the city, to make life difficult for drug dealers, gang members, prostitutes and their 'johns,'" Sgt. John Delaney, Fitchet's executive aide, said in…

Violent gangs and drug traffickers in the Houston area are growing stronger and more international, spreading into the suburbs as they bulk up on newfound connections with Mexico's lucrative and brazen organized crime syndicates.

The region is home to far more gang members than anywhere in Texas, according to the National Gang Threat Assessment.…

Eight members of a Bronx gang who allegedly beat and tortured a new recruit they thought was gay and two other men in separate attacks early this week have been arrested on numerous charges, including hate crimes, police said.

The alleged attacks came amid…

Author: Mafia entrenched in Canada

By ROB LAMBERTI, QMI Agency

Last Updated: October 9, 2010 3:42pm

Abe "Kid Twist" Reles

In the 1930s, Abe Reles was one of the Brownsville, Brooklyn, assassins within the Syndicate's Murder Inc. wing. Reles answered to Murder Inc. boss and labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. When the State of New York brought first degree murder charges against Reles, the hit-man decided to answer to Uncle Sam instead. Reles became an informant for prosecutor Burton Turkus and provided information on Murder Inc.'s methods, hierarchy and…

Two Philadelphia police officers were arrested Monday evening and charged with robbing an undercover investigator posing as a drug dealer, authorities said today.

Officers Sean Alivera, 31, and Christopher Luciano, 23, allegedly stole 20 pounds of marijuana and $3,000 in cash.

Both officers, who were partners assigned to the 25th District, were arrested at the district headquarters. They were still in custody this morning, after being charged with robbery, kidnapping,…

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Sammy The Bull Gravano has gone down in Mafia history as the biggest rat ever to walk the streets of New York. No longer is he known as Sammy The Bull but as Sammy The Rat and since he has thrown away his second chance at life outside prison even his friends at the FBI turned on him. Sammy is…

Finally You Can Read the Truth...

From Lynda Milito, Author of the book Mafia…

The finding is based on a 2009 survey conducted by a team of researchers out of Hong Kong. They questioned 66 male and female teen and young adult ketamine users (13 to 25 years old) about their drug experience.…

Cheyenne gangs: "They're legit ... not just wannabes," says Sgt. Rob Dafoe



By Lindsey Erin Kroskob

lkroskob@wyomingnews.com



CHEYENNE -- The Cheyenne Area Gang Enforcement team is putting an ear to the ground.



It has positively identified 109 gang members living in Laramie County and is in the process of researching 67 more.



The team of 11 Cheyenne police officers and one supervisor is spearheading the…

The suburbs face more Mexican drug-trafficking activity as smugglers use "tactics to fit in" with the general immigrant population and avoid conventional areas of high scrutiny like the inner city, according to the new head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Chicago.

"This is what makes me sick," said Jack Riley, special agent in charge of the DEA's Chicago bureau. "When I see the hardworking other Mexican population being used by these people, it gets…