The Classic Crime Thread........ Sponsored by !@#$%

[abrasivesaint]

haha, gotta love the 80s.

 

one of Bulgers coke man John Shea actually wrote a book as well, called Rat Bastard, and was the only one of 50 some odd people not to give up anything, or anyone, or accept any plea deals when everyone got bagged.

 

also a real good read.

[MayorMeanBeans]

 

I read this one, great read, reads like a very long newspaper article (was written by reporters) -

 

"Two boys - John Connolly and James "Whitley" Bulger - grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid-1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitley had become godfather of the Irish mob. Connolly had an idea, a scheme that might bring Bulger into the FBI fold and John Connolly into the Bureau's big leagues. But Bulger had other plans. "Black Mass" is the story of what happened beween them - a dark deal to trade secrets and take down Boston's Italian Mafia in exchange for "immunity" - that spiralled out of control, leading to murders, drug dealing and racketeering indictments. Ultimately, in what would become the biggest internal scandal in the history of the FBI, Bulger would find himself at the top of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Told in gripping narrative style by the "Boston Globe" reporters who covered the case from the beginning, "Black Mass" is a riveting epic crime story that is also a book about Irish America, about the pull of place, and about the ties that bind."

[abrasivesaint]

Patrick Nee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nee

 

dude manufactured, and transported 7 tons of guns to the IRA only to be arrested as soon as he got back to port in Glouchester.. it goes into detail in his book "A Criminal and a Irishman."

 

 

 

 

After Winter was convicted of fixing horse races in 1979 the leadership of the gang fell on James "Whitey" Bulger. Nee responded by relocating to Charlestown, Massachusetts and concentrating his energy on raising money and smuggling guns to the Provisional IRA. He has written that Bulger frequently urged him to cut his links to the IRA, saying that it was too great a risk for not enough profit.

 

However, Nee remained an occasional associate throughout the years and masterminded a 1984 attempt to smuggle seven tons of assault rifles to the IRA. With Bulger's assistance, the guns were loaded aboard the Valhalla, a fishing trawler from Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, British Intelligence learned of the scheme via an informant in the IRA's Kerry Brigade and the cargo was intercepted by a combined force of the Irish Navy and the Garda Síochána. The Valhalla's crew was arrested by U.S. Customs agents immediately after returning to Gloucester.

 

The failure of that attempt led Bulger to torture and murder John McIntyre, a member of the Valhalla's crew who had informed on the scheme to U.S. Customs agents and had agreed to wear a wire on Bulger and Nee. Nee has admitted to bringing McIntyre to the South Boston house where Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and Kevin Weeks were waiting for him. He claims that he believed they were only going to talk to him and that he was disgusted to return later and find the trio about to bury McIntyre's ravaged body in the basement.

 

Nee fled Boston after being informed by Bulger that Federal agents were looking for him. After several years in hiding, he was arrested in 1987 and served an 18-month sentence in Federal prison.

 

After his release in 1989, Nee was disgusted by McIntyre's murder and, motivated increasingly by Irish nationalism, he decided to cut his links to Bulger. He put together a crew of his own and began planning armed robberies to raise money for the IRA. He was arrested by the FBI during an armored car robbery in Abington, Massachusetts on January 13, 1990. He was sentenced to 37 years in Federal prison, but was released after eight.

[hatetown]

Bought this for $2 at a "garage" sale.

 

 

Murders, crimes, kidnappings, serial killings, frauds/scams, etc

 

Good read.

[pissdrunkwhat?!]

GOOD FIND.

[abrasivesaint]

Yeah that's awesome.

[mountain dew]

the Departed is based off the movie Infernal Affairs i guess, i've never seen it. Theres a whole lot of similarities to Nicholson's character and Bulger but Scorsese never admitted it was based around him.. but it is.

 

the books written about that whole ordeal are awesome and def. worth the read. theres some awesome stories of shit they did.. like boarding up a heroin dealers house with plywood to put them out of business, (i believe it was the book Brutal by Kevin Weeks that claimed Bulger never dealt with any drugs that can fuck up someones life on its own, like heroin, meth.. ect. only weed and cocaine, and wouldnt allow the sale of it in Southie either.)

 

I thought that when Whitey was in jail at Alcatraz they tested a bunch of hallucinogenics on him, and that has effected him mentally.

[IOU]

Gonna dump this link in here: http://flavorwire.com/149248/typewriters-and-mug-shots-the-top-10-literary-outlaws

[abrasivesaint]

I thought that when Whitey was in jail at Alcatraz they tested a bunch of hallucinogenics on him, and that has effected him mentally.

 

yeah thats true from what i've read, maybe thats why he wasnt into selling too many drugs. some people say the dude was a pedophile too to make him seem like more of a monster, but most of those books say thats not true and that hje liked young women like 18-20s like a lot of big business/politicians/mobsters ect...

 

if your into Mafias/Mobs and shit def. read up on the Irish mob in Boston from the 60s up. cool stories of armored car robberies, hotel/bank robberies, all the hits they did and shit, some crazy stories. according to the books they would never kill anyone if there were children around too, there was one story of a dude sitting in his living room with his niece or something and looks out the window and Bulger was pointing a gun right at him, Bulger smiled, and turned and ran back to his car and took off.

 

which is also why they said they never killed the reporter Howie Carr, because when they were trying to kill him, he'd always leave his house with his daughter in his arms, knowing they wouldnt shoot at him if he had his daughter with him.

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i can't decide if this website is good, or terrible

 

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html

 

prolly both.

 

...philadelphia poison ring?!

 

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/gang/poison_ring/index.html

[mosluggo]

Being on ACID in Prison sounds like it would work wonders, rehibilitation-wise....

[Realism]

Symbols, that website is aiiight. A lot of stuff on there, especially if you're interested in serial killer cases...not all of it is written that well, but I've wasted hours on there before.

[mosluggo]

Don't really know where to put this, so here you goHigh-profile drug prosecutor who took on Bruno Mars and Paris Hilton is arrested - for buying crack cocaine

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:20 PM on 21st March 2011

 

 

Accused: High-profile drugs prosecutor David Schubert has been arrested for allegedly buying crack cocaine

 

The prosecutor who leads some of Las Vegas's most high-profile drugs cases has been arrested - for allegedly buying crack cocaine.

 

David Charles Schubert, 47, prosecuted Paris Hilton after her arrest on cocaine charges last year, and most recently took on singer Bruno Mars for possession of the same drug.

 

Now the chief deputy district attorney faces a criminal investigation himself after police allegedly caught him buying crack cocaine from a street dealer.

 

A patrol officer stopped Schubert's BMW on Saturday afternoon when he spotted what he thought was a drugs transaction, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

 

According to district attorney David Roger, a dealer was sitting with Schubert in the car.

 

The dealer ran off when officers arrived, 8 News Now reports, but police say when they caught him he claimed he had been selling the prosecutor crack cocaine.

 

Schubert was taken into custody and booked on cocaine possession charges. His two Las Vegas homes were searched and police took a blood sample, the Review-Journal reports.

 

Mr Roger told 8 News Now: 'I just can't wrap my head around the idea that a prosecutor who knows the dangers of drugs would try crack cocaine.'

 

He has suspended Schubert - who earned $119,000 in 2009 - from his post, and has already started the process to fire him.

 

 

High-profile: Schubert, left, brought a drugs case case against singer Bruno Mars last year, centre. Mars pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine

 

Schubert's badge has been seized and his computer secured.

 

According to the Review-Journal, investigators are also looking into whether he may have compromised any previous cases.

 

The prosecutor has worked for Clark County district attorney's office since 2002. He leads a state drugs task force and has been assigned some of its most high-profile cases.

 

Mr Roger told the newspaper: 'It's disheartening to know the individual who I assigned to prosecute high-level drug cases is allegedly using rock cocaine.

 

'His future is bleak with the district attorney's office.'

 

In February Schubert prosecuted the case against singer Bruno Mars - real name Peter Hernandez - who admitted to possessing cocaine in a plea deal. He was sentenced to a year of informal probation.

 

 

Celebrity cases: Deputy district attorney David Schubert is seen here, right, with Paris Hilton, who he prosecuted on cocaine charges last year

 

And last year he prosecuted Paris Hilton, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges after police found 0.8grams of cocaine in her handbag.

 

Lawyer David Chesnoff, who represented both celebrities, told the Review-Journal he wouldn't speak badly of Schubert.

 

He said: 'I'm a big believer in the Constitution. I believe everyone is innocent until proven guilty. And I always root for the underdog.

 

'I will say this: David's always been a real professional and always treated me with respect, so I wish him the best.'

 

Schubert also prosecuted the case of Steven Zegrean, who was convicted for shooting four people at the New York-New York casino in 2007.

 

His case has been assigned to the attorney general. If found guilty, he could face up to four years in a Nevada jail.

 

 

Hope they throw the book at his face. They probably won't though.

By no means classic crime, my bad--

[publicenemyno.3]

he'll probably just parlay this into a successful career as a criminal defense attorney. it is interesting that they even arrested him in the first place. i would've figured his driver's license and credentials would be a get out of jail free card.

[mosluggo]

Victor Bout- The "Merchant of Death." International arms trader on 60 minutes. There should be a 60 minutes appreciation thread. Best show on tv

 

60 planes used as flying dump trucks--Nuts

 

Pretty stupid fuck up on his part.. Greed

[!@#$%]

can't watch that now but thanks

i too love 60 minutes.

 

 

i think frontline takes 'best show on my tv' though

[mosluggo]

Saw this today and thought, WTF???? Old timers doing that work--

Aspen and Los Angeles Residents Indicted for Cocaine Distribution

 

May 20 -- DENVER – Ten defendants, six from Aspen and four from Los Angeles, were charged in a sealed indicted returned by a federal grand jury in Denver on April 19, 2011, United States Attorney John Walsh and Acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin Merrill announced today. Of the ten defendants, 9 were arrested yesterday (5 in Aspen, 3 in Los Angeles, and 1 in Dallas) without incident. One Los Angeles defendant is a fugitive. Those who were arrested yesterday in Colorado are scheduled to make their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Denver this afternoon.

 

During the course of this one year investigation, defendants allegedly distributed more than 5 kilograms of cocaine in the Aspen, Colorado area. The investigation has revealed that this organization has transported and distributed over 200 kilograms of cocaine into Aspen over the past 15 years.

 

According to the indictment, starting in July 2010 and continuing through April 2011, the ten defendants did knowingly and intentionally conspire with each other and others both known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. The nine count indictment also includes other allegations of cocaine trafficking by the various defendants.

 

The indictment also includes asset forfeiture allegations, where the defendants shall forfeit to the United States any right, title and interest in property constituting and derived from any proceeds obtained directly and indirectly as a result of such offenses, including $175,614 in cash seized during the investigation as well as in excess of $2,000,000 in drug related property in Aspen which was indicted as a result of this investigation.

 

The defendants in this case are:

Joan Anastasi, age 67, of Aspen

Valentin Barrios, age 42, of Los Angeles

Anthony Buchanan, age 67, of Los Angeles

Joseph James Burke, age 63, of Aspen

Alfonso Elvao-Allocati, age 70, of Los Angeles

Jack Fellner, age 60, of Aspen

Wayne Alan Reid, age 65, of Aspen

Peggy Schlaugher, age 41, of Aspen

Christopher James Sheehan, age 65, of Aspen

Jesse Trujillo, age 33, of Los Angeles (fugitive)

 

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Puerto Rican Drug Kingpin Among Ten Charged

Over $1 Million Cocaine Delivery at Times Square Hotel

 

MAY 20 - MANHATTAN -- John P. Gilbride, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, and Charles R. Pine, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, announced today the arrests and indictments of a major drug kingpin, Ricardo Gonzalez-Santiago, and ten other narcotics traffickers who conducted their drug business in Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn.

 

The arrests – five of which took place this morning – were the result of a ten-month wiretap investigation by the NYPD’s Vice Squad and the DEA-led New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force. The investigation began with street-level sales of ketamine, ecstasy and oxycodone at Manhattan nightclubs and ultimately led to the arrest of a lieutenant in a Puerto Rican drug cartel.

 

Gonzalez-Santiago trafficked in large quantities of cocaine and lived as a fugitive for two years after escaping from federal authorities who were about to arrest him in a major drug case in Philadelphia. He was apprehended in the New York case on March 25 after he picked up two suitcases containing 36 kilos (79 lbs.) of cocaine worth approximately $1.3 million at the Paramount Hotel in the heart of Times Square.

 

That morning, Gonzalez-Santiago had flown to JFK Airport from San Juan, P.R., in order to oversee distribution of the shipment of cocaine. Gonzalez-Santiago was a subject of the wiretap investigation at the time and law enforcement officers knew of his travel plans. Upon arriving at JFK Airport, Gonzalez-Santiago was immediately placed under surveillance by a team of officers, who first followed him to an apartment in The Bronx and then to the Paramount Hotel on West 46 th Street.

 

Gonzalez-Santiago entered the hotel, returned with the suitcases and loaded them into his car. The team stopped the car several blocks away on West 45 th Street between 5 th and 6 th Avenues, arrested Gonzalez-Santiago and seized the 36 kilos, which were still inside the suitcases and bundled into 18 packages covered in carbon paper.

 

Earlier this month, a grand jury voted to indict Gonzalez-Santiago for operating as a major drug trafficker, which is the only drug charge in New York State that carries a possible life sentence. He has being held without bail since his arrest on several other drug charges in March and is now awaiting arraignment on the new indictment.

 

Based on recorded phone conversations, law enforcement officers learned that Gonzalez-Santiago intended to sell some of the 36 kilos of cocaine he picked up at the Paramount Hotel to a Bronx supplier, Francisco Rivera, for approximately $32,000 per kilo. During the investigation, Rivera was in contact with other members of the Puerto Rican cartel and made trips to both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to set up drug sales. Rivera was among the five defendants arrested this morning.

 

During the 10-month wiretap investigation, which began in July 2010, undercover officers with the NYPD’s Vice Squad made a total of 18 drug purchases and seized $315,000 in criminal proceeds. At the outset of the case, the undercover officers made seven purchases of ketamine, ecstasy and oxycodone from a low-level drug dealer, Angela Como, who catered to Manhattan club-goers. These sales occurred inside Webster Hall, an East Village nightspot, outside Pacha NYC in Hell’s Kitchen and other locations. Como worked at a pharmacy and told her customers she’d stolen the oxycodone pills she sold.

 

As the investigation proceeded, Como introduced the undercover officers to cocaine dealers, including Daniel Gradzki, who sold to the officers on 11 occasions in Manhattan and Queens. It was at this stage that the NYPD and SNP launched the wiretap portion of the investigation, which enabled the officers to work their way up the chain of cocaine suppliers to Kevin Collins, Phillip Gonzalez, Francisco Rivera and Ricardo Gonzalez-Santiago.

 

The officers learned Bronx drug supplier Francisco Rivera, who had intended to buy some of the 36 kilos of cocaine seized from Ricardo Gonzalez-Santiago on March 25, sold cocaine to numerous lower-level dealers. One of these dealers was Phillip Gonzalez, who was arrested in Queens on Jan. 11 when his car became stuck in a snow bank following the January snow storms. Gonzalez was transporting more than a pound of cocaine at the time.

 

Rivera also supplied another dealer, Jose Santana, who was arrested on May 6. Santana ran a crew of lower-level drug dealers, including Matthew Velez, Michael Falcon and Melvin Nieves. Velez and Falcon were arrested in February while transporting 178 grams of cocaine in a hidden trap in a car.

 

The five defendants arrested this morning were Rivera, Collins, Gradzki, Como and Nieves. All of the defendants except Como face a conspiracy charge in additional to charges for criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance.

 

32k for a key is pretty high isn't it??? And Murphy's Law Oner to the guy driving with an elbo in the snowstorm :lol: :lol:

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good shit in here

[!@#$%]

Gonzalez-Santiago trafficked in large quantities of cocaine and lived as a fugitive for two years after escaping from federal authorities who were about to arrest him in a major drug case in Philadelphia. He was apprehended in the New York case on March 25 after he picked up two suitcases containing 36 kilos (79 lbs.) of cocaine worth approximately $1.3 million at the Paramount Hotel in the heart of Times Square.

 

Earlier this month, a grand jury voted to indict Gonzalez-Santiago for operating as a major drug trafficker, which is the only drug charge in New York State that carries a possible life sentence. He has being held without bail since his arrest on several other drug charges in March and is now awaiting arraignment on the new indictment.

 

 

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i'm not sure they get much more fucking hardcore than this

hard for me to imagine that kind of life, you are wanted on this crazy indictment in Philly, and you are trafficking cocaine from PR to nyc WHILE ON THE RUN. gaAAAHAHAHAHAt-damn.

[abrasivesaint]

^^

a fuck, he gives none.

i thought of Blow and the scene where he gets stopped at a airport with a bunch of womens underwear in his suitcase the whole time i was reading that.

[bigdoughnut69]

This STORY is an excellent read on two of the most prolific drug trafficers in the history of the U.S. Here's the brief Wiki entry:

Salvador Magluta & Augusto FalconSalvador "Sal" Magluta and Augusto "Willy" Falcon operated one of the most significant cocaine trafficking organizations in South Florida history. They were indicted by a federal grand jury in April 1991 for a plethora of drug trafficking crimes, including operating a continuing criminal enterprise. They were accused of importing and distributing over 75 tons of cocaine, or over 68,181 kilograms (150,000 lbs). Both Magluta and Flacon were found not guilty after a lengthy trial before Judge Federico Moreno. Magluta was represented by Roy Black and Falcon was represented by Albert Krieger. Following the trial, the United States Attorney's Office directed an investigation into Magluta and Falcon's finances that ultimately revealed that members of their jury - including the jury foreman - had been bribed. Magluta, Falcon, several of the jurors, their associates and even some of their lawyers were ultimately charged with various criminal offenses arising from the conduct. Magluta was eventually sentenced to 205 years in federal prison, while Falcon received only 20 years after striking a plea deal with the government. Magluta was initially transferred to the supermax federal prison facility in Florence, Colorado. In 2010, after Magluta's attorney, Paul Petruzzi, sued the Federal Government, Magluta was transferred out of ADX Florence. Federal agents involved in the case say there are few drug traffickers in history more successful or well-known than Magluta and Falcon. Magluta is currently seeking a new trial based on over 40 legal violations. He is presently represented by Paul Petruzzi and Richard Klugh

[!@#$%]

cagney, you are so right.. haha blow is a great movie.

 

bigdoughnut, you have shown us the winners!

 

hahaaha bribing juries and shit, i mean, i know it happens but that is some real cinema shit.

that's power.

[jbrshmonster]

they just caught whitey bulger

:D

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/whitey-bulger-arrested-in_n_882728.html

[mosluggo]

N0 Wai!!

 

And to think he was in beautiful Los Angeles the whole time-

[!@#$%]

seriously i thought he'd elude em fo eva

bad choice in women maybe :haha:

[MayorMeanBeans]

on tuesday when i read about all the ad spots they had bought about the girl i thought to myself, 'no way is this gonna work', im surprised they didnt do this sooner considering it worked so fast.

 

but yeah, pretty crazy, everyone here in boston is talking about it.

[!@#$%]

someone on fbook was bitching that there was literally nothing else on tv up there. :haha:

 

yeah, isn't that amazing how fast it worked and it took em this long to come up with that?

all that FBI informant/they let him get away with murder stuff.. just fuckin good ol US of A type shit

[anything goes]

Cornell "The Ghost" Jones

 

Drug kingpin. Jones' family moved to the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., during the 1940s. Living in the low-income Hanover Place housing projects, Jones' father tried to support the family as a brick-layer. Money was short in the Jones household, however, and Cornell frequently got by through hustling on the streets. His illegal behavior often got him into trouble at school, and at the local boy's club.

 

At the age of 16, Jones staged his first large-scale crime—robbing the Army - Navy Bank only blocks away from the Pentagon. During the police chase afterward, Jones and his associates parked their stolen car in front of the Justice Center in D.C. Police did not catch the criminals, which bolstered the boys' confidence. Jones and his friends began planning more heists while still attending high school, bringing in enough cash to get themselves cars, clothes, and jewelry. At age 17, Jones' suspicious wealth made him a target for a police investigation, and he was arrested and sent to juvenile detention for his crimes.

 

Upon his release from prison in 1975, Jones returned to Hanover with close connections to the drug trade and a plan. Using suppliers from Thailand and Amsterdam, Jones was able to get a cheap supply of drugs funneled into his Hanover neighborhood. The money he made trafficking cocaine, heroin, PCP, and crack was used to not only give Jones a lavish lifestyle, but to help the members of his community. Cornell frequently made sure children in the community had shoes, or that neighbors could pay their rent. He also used his funds to help children in the boy's club, specifically aspiring athletes. With Jones' financial support, many basketball players were sent to private Catholic schools, given new basketballs and uniforms, and even provided with college assistance.

 

Jones' business wasn't entirely compassionate; his money was made from draining the very community he was also helping. Not only was he cultivating his clients' tastes for certain drugs, but he also began mixing new ones. In the mid-1970s, Jones and his crew discovered a method for mixing PCP and marijuana that earned the nickname "butt naked" for its tendency to "inspire" its users to strip out of their clothes. Also called "love boat," the drug frequently caused hallucinations and had violent results—users engaged in self-harm or harm to others while under its influence. The wildly popular drug had to be created by the oil drum to satisfy the new influx of clients.

 

In 1979 Jones was arrested for heroin possession, for which he spent two years in prison. By the time he was released from prison, Jones had made enough connections to become a supplier for other dealers. He set up outlets all over the world, and then used them to regularly ship large quantities of product to Hanover Place. Jones' wide variety of drug offerings—known for their high quality and generous amounts—helped to create the first "open air" drug market in the country. Lines of users and dealers looking for fair prices often wrapped around the block, and Jones frequently spent $200,000 a week employing soldiers and lieutenants to keep his 24-hour a day franchise going.

 

By the mid-1980s, Jones started using his ill-gotten gains to purchase legitimate businesses, including real estate and nightclubs. He had also assembled a management company that handled his purchases. The excess of wealth gained the attention of authorities, who set up a sting operation. On October 29, 1985, Jones met with a dealer, who was actually a wired informant. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess. Search warrants revealed the rest of his crimes, including millions of dollars in illegal assets.

 

Jones negotiated a deal of nine to 27 years in prison in 1986, and was sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was released in 1995, and began work at a family business in his Hanover neighborhood. He currently volunteers work at the nonprofit Miracle Hands, which helps rehabilitate ex-cons.

 

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Currently this is going down at one of Jones' clubs were it was just reported DC Gov money intended to help HIV/AIDS patients actually went to starting this strip club

 

http://dcist.com/2011/09/nonprofit_director_blames_stadium_c.php

[mosluggo]

Been waiting to see if they caught up with these guys.. For being as smart as they were they made some dumbass mistakes..

 

$80-million mystery solved? Brothers held in pharmaceutical heist

May 03, 2012|By Michael Muskal

 

Two brothers from Cuba have been arrested in the $80-million heist of pharmaceutical drugs from a Connecticut warehouse, solving what was one of the largest -- and most daring -- such robberies in U.S. history, officials said Thursday.

 

Some of the drugs believed stolen in the March 2010 robbery of the Enfield, Conn., building were recovered in a storage facility in Florida, officials said at a news conference from New Haven, Conn. At least 11 people were arrested Thursday in Florida, accused of possessing and selling stolen goods -- including some from the Connecticut warehouse.

 

 

An errant water bottle played a role in identifying the suspects, officials said.

 

Amaury Villa, 37, and Amed Villa, 46, citizens of Cuba who have been living in Miami, were arrested in connection with the Connecticut robbery. During the heist, thieves scaled a wall of the Eli Lilly & Co. warehouse, cut a hole in the roof, then lowered themselves with ropes into the interior, officials said. Once inside, the suspects disabled the security system and loaded dozens of pallets of costly anti-depressants and other drugs onto a truck.

 

The Villa brothers were charged in an indictment unsealed Thursday with conspiracy and theft of interstate shipment, according to U.S. Atty. David B. Fein.

 

“The charges announced today are the result of a sustained and thorough investigation by the FBI and the Enfield Police Department,” Fein said. “As a result of their efforts, and our counterparts in Florida and across the country, we believe that a prolific cargo theft ring has been dismantled.”

 

At the televised news conference, Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza praised the spirit of cooperation that led to the arrests; the heist was the biggest in the state’s history and one of the largest thefts of legal drugs in the nation.

 

“I am extremely happy that the alleged perpetrators in this case have been identified and arrested,” Sferrazza said. “I believe this case shows that collaborative efforts between federal law enforcement officers and local law enforcement officers can yield successful results.”

 

The robbery reads like the plot of a “Mission Impossible,” movie, complete with an unexpected twist.

 

According to the indictment emailed to reporters, Amaury Villa flew from Miami to LaGuardia Airport in January 2010, rented a car and drove to Windsor, Conn., where he checked into a hotel. The following day, Eli Lilly surveillance video captured an individual looking through the front door of the warehouse in Enfield.

 

On the day before the robbery, two individuals purchased a “particular combination of tools” at a Home Depot in Flushing, N.Y., officials allege.

 

Just before the heist, Amaury Villa again flew from Miami to LaGuardia Airport, arriving in the early morning hours of March 13, according to the indictment. Villa rented a car and, later that morning, checked into a hotel in Windsor, Conn.

 

Between 10:22 p.m. and 10:32 p.m. on the night of March 13, 2010, surveillance video recorded individuals at the scene. After 10:30 p.m., the individuals using the tools purchased at Home Depot cut a hole in the roof of the warehouse and disabled parts of the facility’s security system, authorities say.

 

 

 

Over the next five hours, Amed Villa and others used a forklift inside the warehouse to load numerous boxes of drugs, including the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa, the antidepressant Prozac and the chemotherapy drug Gemzar, into a tractor-trailer truck, officials charge. During that time, they say, Amed Villa touched a water bottle that had been stored within the warehouse; he reportedly left that bottle inside the warehouse when he departed.

 

Officials did not give further details about the evidence, saying they were waiting for the trial to present it

 

The tractor-trailer carrying the stolen drugs was on the road by 3:40 a.m. on March 14.

 

Later that morning, Amaury Villa checked out of the hotel room, and his rental car is logged going through a southbound toll station on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge at approximately 11:35 a.m. On March 15, he flew from LaGuardia Airport to Miami, according to the charges.

 

In Connecticut, Amaury Villa and Amed Villa are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit theft from an interstate shipment; that charge carries a maximum penalty of five years. They also face four counts of theft from an interstate shipment; each of those counts could bring 10 years in prison.

 

In Florida, 11 people -- including Amaury Villa -- face a variety of charges, including attempting to sell some of the medications taken from Enfield. A storage facility in Florida was searched in October 2011, and some of the drugs from Connecticut were recovered, officials said.

 

As part of the overall investigation, Amed Villa has been charged with the theft of more than 3,500 cases of cigarettes valued at more than $8 million from a warehouse in Tazewell County, Ill., near Peoria, on Jan. 24, 2010, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday in Illinois.

$75 million in drugs stolen from Connecticut warehouse

March 16, 2010

 

Eli Lilly

Heist

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Also, I would Imagine that they also did this one even though it hasn't been said yet.. BEST ROBBERY I'VE EVER SEEN.. Winning lotto ticket shit...

 

Actavis opiate shipment hit by cargo thieves in USA

Phil Taylor

21-Oct-2011

 

Generic drugmaker Actavis suffered a full truckload (FTL) cargo theft on October 19, losing more than 30 pallets of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines and epilepsy drugs.

 

The thieves made off with 14 pallets of oxycodone HCl tablets (around 70,000 units), six pallets of anxiety drug alprazolam (around 24,000 units) and nine pallets of the epilepsy drug gabapentin (about 5,000 units). The estimated value of the haul has not yet been released.

 

The shipment was taken at a truck stop in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whilst en route from a facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, according to an alert from the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Consortium (PCSC).

 

The carrier was GSI Trucking and both trailer and tractor were taken after the driver left the vehicle running while he went inside the truck stop to purchase cigarettes. While the truck had a GPS tracker installed the alarm was not raised immediately because the legitimate driver was thought to be behind the wheel.

 

The tractor was recovered by Pennsylvania State Police but the trailer and its contents remain unaccounted for.

 

A quarterly update on North American cargo theft trends by Chubb Insurance notes that there were 16 pharmaceutical and over-the-counter medicines thefts in the third quarter of 2011, around 7 per cent of the total of 216 recorded in the period.

 

Pharmaceuticals were the fourth most common target for the thieves, after food and non-alcoholic beverages (42 losses), consumer electronics (23) and building materials (21). Clothing also featured highly with 15 incidents, followed by metals (14) and alcoholic drinks (12).

 

Also, I look up drug bust's when bored at work and came across this..

 

The following is a Press Release from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office:

On May 18, at approximately 6 a.m., Combined Anti-Drug Task Force (C.A.T. Team) Detective Cpl. Kevin Hoover conducted a stop on a car for a traffic violation near mile marker 14 eastbound on I-10.

When Cpl. Hoover spoke with the driver, Sharon M. Leblanc, 44, of Lafayette, she began to act suspiciously.

 

Cpl. Hoover received permission from Leblanc to search the car, and with his K-9 “Mako” located an area where the front passenger side airbag cover had been tampered with. After further investigation Cpl. Hoover located an electronic hidden compartment in the airbag area.

Once the compartment was opened Cpl. Hoover recovered eight clear zip lock bags, containing a total of 7,684 pills identified as (Alprazolam / Xanax), with an estimated street value of $80,000.

Leblanc was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with possession with intent to distribute CDS IV. Leblanc’s bond was set at $15,000 by Judge Savoie.+

 

I'm not sure there's many people out there that are able to get a hold of 8,000 Xanax at a time.. Would imagine she might have gotten them from one of the guys involved with the truck robbery.. All happened within the same time period.. Who knows, maybe they snitched on her after they got busted..I'm sure the feds were trying their hardest to locate 70,000 bottles of 30mg Oxy's.. WOW WTF that's awesome...

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And not that crazy of a story but kind of funny.. Nothing like stealing 3 keys and dying of OD...Lawls

Man tied to heroin theft from evidence locker died with opiates in body

Drugs were stolen from Will County evidence container

 

March 29, 2012|By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune reporter

A man authorities say was involved in the theft of 3 kilos of heroin from a Will County sheriff's evidence container died of heart disease with opiates in his system within days of the break-in, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

 

Police sources said heroin was the drug found in his system.

 

The sources said the man, whose name was not released, discovered last year that police were storing seized drugs in an outdoor evidence container at the Laraway Road substation near Joliet after he was asked to go there to identify recovered items that may have been stolen from him.

 

Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas, a sheriff's department spokesman, confirmed that several items were returned to the man before the heroin theft.

 

The man smelled marijuana in the shipping container, police sources said, and he decided to return to steal it with help from two others Oct. 12. He died Oct. 22, said Charles Colburn of the Illinois state's attorney appellate prosecutor's office.

 

Colburn said that he was told the man died of heart disease and that opiates were found in his system, but he did not have the autopsy report on hand and did not know which county investigated the death. Police sources described the death as involving a possible heroin overdose. It's not clear whether the heroin was the same that was taken from the sheriff's evidence container.

 

Prosecutors have charged Midlothian resident Terry Jenkins, 43, and another man with burglary in connection with the break-in. Jenkins is being held on $150,000 bail.

 

The other man's name hasn't been released because he remains wanted on a $50,000 warrant, said Colburn, who was appointed to handle the cases to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

 

Sheriff's police discovered the heroin was missing Oct. 14 when someone noticed the door to the outdoor evidence container was ajar. A food delivery truck blocked a lone surveillance camera covering the trailer during the burglary, a prosecutor has said.

 

Police have said the narcotics never should have been stored in the outdoor container. Kaupas said drugs are no longer stored outside and security has been tightened since the theft.

 

The heroin was seized from a semi allegedly driven by Jose Zamago-Mena and had been tested at the state crime lab months before it was stolen. A Will County judge hasn't yet ruled on whether the felony drug case against Zamago-Mena will go forward.

 

Hope they throw his case out..And I like how the Dog up there alerted to a part of the car that had been tampered with... Didn't know dogs could do that.. They can't smell pills, so to me it sounds like there was a tattle tale and that was said to cover the snitch..And Riiiight. She acted suspiciously...WTF does that mean anyway???

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