The Crime Book
159 threatening their clients. Bitter rivals of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the two syndicates share a history of fierce conflict. In Fe ...
160 R alph “Sonny” Barger was an ex-military man who, having forged his birth certificate to join the army at 16, had been disch ...
161 See also: The Triads 146–49 ■ The Yakuza 154–59 ■ The Medellín Cartel 166–67 Barger’s group joined forces with them, and sha ...
162 essentially sold itself. Smoked, snorted, or injected, this synthetic “upper” became the Hells Angels’ best-selling product. ...
163 wild, and wanted them gone. In March 1985, five Laval Angels were invited to a clubhouse in Lennoxville, Quebec, by the Sher ...
164 THEY WERE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES THE KRAYS AND THE RICHARDSONS, 1960s I n 1960s’ London, the notorious Brixton-based Ri ...
165 See also: The Sicilian Mafia 138–45 ■ The Yakuza 154–59 ■ Jack the Ripper 266–73 ORGANIZED CRIME The twins started a protect ...
166 ALL EMPIRES ARE CREATED OF BLOOD AND FIRE THE MEDELLÍN CARTEL, 1972–93 T he story of the Medellín Cartel’s Colombian cocaine ...
167 Fabio Ochoa, a key figure in the Medellín Cartel, is escorted by two police officers at Bogotá’s airport on 13 October 1999. ...
168 A t the peak of his criminal career, “Freeway” Rick Ross – not to be confused with the rapper Rick Ross – earned up to $3 mi ...
169 See also: Hells Angels 160–63 ■ The Krays and the Richardsons 164–65 ■ The Medellín Cartel 166–67 At the age of 17, Ross dro ...
170 nine months in a Texas state prison for drug offences. He was paroled in September 1994. The sting In the meantime, in 1992, ...
171 San Jose Mercury News. His articles revealed that Blandón had long been working for the government as an informant. Webb’s “ ...
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174 K idnapping is the illegal transportation of a non- consenting person through the use of force or fraud. In the US and UK, t ...
175 was captured by the kidnappers. She was pictured holding an automatic weapon in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army’s lo ...
176 See also: The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst 188–89 ■ The Abduction of Aldo Moro 322–23 ■ The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt 32 ...
177 See also: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace 64–65 ■ Harry Domela 70–73 ■ Frank Abagnale 86–87 R oger Tichborne, heir to the ...
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