Recently, chickens have come home to roost for some of the world’s most brutal drug lords.  Infamous “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco was gunned down in her native Colombia last month… a long overdue slaying.  Gotta respect a woman who claws her way to the top of a male-dominated coke game but if anyone deserved those […]

The Japanese Yakuza is a notoriously secretive crime organization… inaccessible to outsiders.  But Belgian-based photographer Anton Kusters and his brother, Malik, became the first westerners invited into the criminal underworld in 2008, after 10 months of negotiations with the Shinseikai, who control Tokyo’s infamous red light district, Kabukicho. Kusters must be a master in the […]

No, this is NOT an April Fools joke. I’d expect this shit from a drug bust in the hood.  But in Italy? My man Crucifixio Jones hipped me to this nugget of foolishness from BBC News: Italian police discovered a bust of actor Al Pacino as the drugs boss “Scarface” when they raided the home […]

The GOP would have you believe that President Barack Obama is soft on terrorism, national security, blah blah blah.  Clearly they’re blind with bias.  Like the Chi-town gangsta he is, Barry O has murked out a bunch of bad guys.  Bin Laden, Gaddafi (however you spell his damn name), miscellaneous al-Qaeda bigwigs and other super […]

Wow.  The most feared drug gang in Mexico, Cartel Los Zetas, finally buckled under pressure.  But it wasn’t law enforcement, the military or rival gangsters that made the violent Zetas bow to threats… it was a gang of computer geeks. A few days ago, the hacking collective known as Anonymous threatened to expose the identities […]

People have gone to great lengths to save the whales, trees and oceans.  Hopefully the same effort will be made to save an “uncontacted,” isolated native tribe in the Amazon jungles of Brazil.  The Panoan Indians were first photographed from the air in 2008 and to this day, have never been contacted by the outside […]

Rick Ross got the Triple C’s? Well, I’m gonna trump him with Five C’s: Cars Carrying Cocaine Cross Country. Guess if you’re gonna ride dirty, you might as well do it in the cleanest whip. From the Wall Street Journal: Four men have been arrested and a suspected ringleader was still being sought in a […]

If you’re going to kill people in Mexico, do it while you’re a teenager. You thought the Casey Anthony verdict was proof of a flawed justice system? That was small potatoes compared to this.  After calmly confessing to torturing and beheading at least four people, American-born 14-year old Edgar Jiminez Lugo was sentenced in a […]

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREAS ROCHA First published in 1997, The Mafia Manager: A Guide To The  Corporate Machiavelli was allegedly written by a Mafia wiseguy simply known as V.  According to his bio, V is “a capo of distinguished fame” who “keeps several residences around the world.”  The business guidelines laid out in his now-famous book […]

There’s a new video game in stores titled Call of Juarez: The Cartel, based on the never-ending drug war in Mexico.  Users can play as a Los Angeles cop, DEA agent or gang affiliate-turned-FBI agent to hunt down cartels from Los Angeles to Ciudad Juarez, a main drug capital in Mexico.  Mexican politicians feel the […]

TREATMENT WRITTEN BY DETECTIVE WILLIAM COURTNEY A can of worms was opened last week when prison inmate Dexter Issac, an associate of hip-hop mogul/gangster James “Jimmy Henchmen” Rosemon, claimed he was paid by Henchmen to rob Tupac at Quad Studios in 1994. There is currently a nationwide manhunt for Jimmy Henchmen, who is wanted by […]