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Drug Trafficker Turned Informant Offers Up Private Island in Hopes of Leniency
A former drug smuggler and Van Gogh lover who evaded capture for over five years has handed over the deed to his private island off the coast of Dubai to Italian authorities to try and sway them to give him a lighter sentence for his many crimes.
November 30, 2023
Former Mobster Caught Smuggling Marijuana in Wyoming
Henry Robert Sentner, an old school mobster whose rap sheet includes a 15-year prison stint for a 1972…
September 28, 2017
How Anti-Mafia RICO Laws Could Cause Serious Problems for Legal Weed
Earlier this summer, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado decided that “noxious odors” from a…
August 28, 2017
Mexico: A New Pax Mafiosa?
Amid growing concern about horrific human rights abuses by Mexico’s security forces, Amnesty International on Sept. 4 issued a report,…
September 10, 2014