Putin’s Kleptocracy and the Russian Nationalized Mafia As deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Vladimir Putin spent a lot of time with gangsters. He collaborated with the infamous Tambov and Malyshev organized crime groups to gain control of St. Petersburg’s gambling industry. He used his office to help launder mafia money and to…
Category: Modern Crime
Modern Crime: Another True Story to Reinforce your Faith in the Criminal Justice System
It is absolutely astounding to me that random drug test are not administered to people (Like State Chemist) who handle MASSIVE amounts of drugs every day! How many innocent people are now sitting in a cell because of this dope fiend? What has happened to common sense?? -SF State chemist was high on the job…
Cartel Corner #78: The Rise of Mexican Black Tar Heroin
As the rate of opioid addiction has surged in the United States, Mexico has become the world’s third-largest producer of opium used to process heroin. Mexican cartels are now the primary suppliers of the drug to the US, producing a crude and unrefined form known as black tar. VICE News travels to the fertile mountains…
Armed Citizen Corner: Texas Marine Shot Dead While Making Citizens Arrest
Whether or not you carry a gun for Self-Defense, here is a basic guideline: NEVER get involved in a situation that does not threaten you or your family’s immediate personal safety. You are not a Policeman. You are not Batman. You have no responsibility to put your life on the line to stop criminal behavior…
Cyber-Crime: Hackers Steal $81 Million in Sneak Attack on World Banking
Bet you did not hear about this during your morning coffee.Your money is not safe in banks anymore folks..between crooked Governments and wily Hackers you are better off using a coffee can.-SF NEW YORK — Tens of millions of dollars siphoned from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A shadowy set of casinos…
Modern Crime: The Golden Age of Drug Trafficking
Diplomats and top officials from governments around the world gathered last week at United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss what to do about the global drug problem. Over the course of four days and multiple discussions, the assembled dignitaries vowed to take a more comprehensive approach to the issue than in years past…
Cartel Corner #77: Some Drug Cartels Making More Money From Gold than Coke
Organized crime networks in Latin America have long made their money off of drugs. But over the past decade, as gold prices have soared, cartels have increasingly turned to illegally mining the metal to earn cash. In Peru and Colombia, they’re now making more money exporting illegal gold than cocaine. Eighty percent of the gold…
Modern Crime: Canadian Cops Seize New Synthetic Opiate 100 Times More Powerful than Fentanyl
This is yet another step in China’s plan to weaken the U.S. and it’s allies without ever having to fire a shot or use it’s military. First it was Bath Salts, now this. I will be doing a full report on China’s 4GW Strategy later this month.-SF For the second time in a year, police…
Modern Crime: A Bloody Gang War is Raging in Amsterdam
On March 10, a 23-year-old man’s severed head was displayed at the entrance of a hookah lounge in Amsterdam where drug dealers are known to gather. The rest of the victim’s body was found in a burned-out car on the other side of the city. It was the latest grisly episode in a conflict between…
Modern Crime: Meth, Murder and Mercs
The mercenaries had gathered in Phuket, a tropical resort island off the west coast of Thailand, to discuss a job. They were supposed to safeguard 300 kilos of Colombian cocaine on its way from the Bahamas to New York and kill two people: One a DEA agent, the other his snitch, a ship’s captain who…