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Operation Falling Star Redux: Raids, Seizures Had Quasand Lewis’ Detroit Drug...
The stress of an aggressive federal probe into their activities in the mid-2000s sent Detroit drug lord Quasand (Q-Dawg) Lewis’s inner-circle into paranoid chaos in the months before the Operation...
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Operation Falling Star Redux: Detroit Drug Gang Enforcer ‘L-Boogie’ Paris...
Notorious Detroit hit man and cowboy-style drug gang lieutenant Lamont (L-Boogie) Paris didn’t let his fugitive status affect his ability to ply his trade, according to federal court filings, as the...
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GR SOURCES: Investigation Into Chicago Outfit’s Westsiders Has Law...
The continuing multi-agency probe into the affairs of the Chicago mafia’s Grand Avenue crew has expanded out of Illinois and into Wisconsin and Iowa, per sources in Midwest law enforcement. The...
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Trusted Outfit Lieutenant ‘Louie Tomatoes’ Marino Dead At 84, Chicago Mafia...
Chicago mob power Louis (Louie Tomatoes) Marino had a brief taste of freedom in his latter years and is now headed to that big social club in the sky. The 84-year Marino, the Outfit’s alleged main man...
View ArticleThe Bangkok Bust: Summer of ’76 Unkind To NYC Mafia Don Madonna, Nailed For...
Alleged New York mob boss and noted 1970s mafia narcotics trafficker Matty Madonna got busted for drug dealing in the Bicentennial summer of 1976 after he went looking for a heroin source in Southeast...
View ArticleA Year In The Life: Federal Documents Track Former Detroit Mobster Billy...
An FBI dossier detailing surveillance and intelligence gleaned from a series of confidential informants related to deceased Detroit mafia chief Vito (Billy Jack) Giacalone’s activities throughout an...
View ArticleFeds May Have Fumbled 2016 East Coast Mafia Takedown, So-Called Devil On...
The uncanny luck of Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino never ceases to amaze. He’s been known to joke with those close to him about the devil on his shoulder looking after him in his...
View ArticleESSAY: Retired Detroit Goodfella ‘Gunner’ Lindbloom On The Mob & Poker Games
Former Detroit mafia associate Alan (Gunner) Lindbloom was recently released from a 13-year state prison term, has put his criminal ways behind him and is embarking on a writing career. Lindbloom is...
View ArticleMid-2000s Motown Mob Takedown Had Mixed Results: Detroit Godfather Beat...
The book was shut on the federal government’s last full-scale assault against the Detroit mafia ten years ago this spring, resulting in prison time for two reputed high-ranking members of the...
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Reputed Detroit Mob Associate Accettola Nailed In Credit-Card Scam, Has To...
The legal troubles continue to mount for alleged Detroit mafia associate and accomplished con man Gino Accettola. Two months after agreeing to pay a cool $12,000,000 in restitution fees to victims in a...
View ArticleESSAY: Former Detroit Wiseguy Talks About The Mob, His Family, Stolen Cars...
Retired Detroit mafia associate Alan (Gunner) Lindbloom was recently released from a 13-year state prison term, has put his criminal ways behind him and is embarking on a writing career. Lindbloom is...
View ArticleAnd They Call It Puppy Love: Crimetown Podcast Puts The Microscope On...
Reputed former mob banker and convicted felon Joe (The Puppy Dog) Mollicone, Jr., the poster boy for causing an east coast banking crisis in the 1990s, is the focus of the most recent Crimetown...
View ArticleFeds In Detroit Failed To Put ‘Peanut’ Brown Away On Coke Charges In Early...
Slow and sloppy work by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the 1990s allowed alleged Detroit drug lord Brian (Peanut) Brown to slip away from cocaine trafficking charges 20 years ago. A federal judge threw...
View ArticleDEA Probe Could Cost Alleged Detroit Drug Boss ‘Peanut’ Brown His Reality TV...
The upcoming Lifetime Network reality television show Detroit Dynasty, centering around the life of Motor City rap mogul and reputed drug chief Brian (Peanut) Brown, is in jeopardy of being shelved...
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Lights, Camera, Action: Fmr. Motown Drug Game Muscle Chuckie Hardaway...
Once highly-feared Detroit drug world enforcer Charles (Chuckie Lights Out) Hardaway was killed ten years ago this week, only days after being released from prison on a narcotics trafficking conviction...
View ArticleThe Crack Era In Philadelphia Revisited: Philly Junior Black Mafia Timeline...
In the years after the original Philadelphia Black Mafia was dismantled by court convictions and internal squabbling, Aaron (A.J.) Jones, a former gopher as a young boy for founding Philly Black Mafia...
View ArticleLights, Camera, Action Pt. 2: Detroit’s ‘Mae West’ May Have Been Killed...
The 1991 murder of Tanya (Mae West) Moore in Detroit was most likely the result of a combustible gangland love triangle and rumors that she was a federal informant, according to those familiar with the...
View ArticleNo More Lip Service: Outlaws MC Lieutenant ‘Louie the Lip’ Keating Killed In...
Florida biker luminary Christopher (Louie the Lip) Keating, a veteran member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club’s Jacksonville chapter, was stabbed to death this week in a bar fight at the eerily-named...
View ArticleAn Explosive Situation: Early-80s Tampa Biker Boss J.J. Hall Joined Team...
The Florida biker bust 35 years ago that sent recently-slain 59-year old Outlaws Motorcycle Club lieutenant Christopher (Louie the Lip) Keating to prison back in the 1980s led to the cracking of two...
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Outlaws Homecoming: Florida Outlaws MC Sees One Member Die, Two More “Reborn”...
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club down in Florida lost a brother this week with the fatal stabbing of seasoned Jacksonville chapter lieutenant Christopher (Louie the Lip) Keating in a Daytona Beach bar...
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