Comanchero bikie Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi walked free from jail yesterday after raising $200,000 bail .

Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi walked free from jail yesterday after raising $200,000 bail - and celebrated with a kiss for his expectant wife.The Comanchero bikie gang president emerged from Silverwater Correctional Facility just before 3pm after spending five days in solitary confinement waiting for friends to raise the surety.A female friend managed to raise the bail after mortgaging her home as security.Hawi is charged with affray over his alleged involvement in the Sydney airport brawl with Hells Angels, in which Anthony Zervas, 27, died.As he waited more than three hours for his release, Hawi was met by up to a dozen family, friends and Comanchero...

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Dennis Karbovanec Red Scorpion gang member convicted last month of executing three people in the Surrey Six slayings

Red Scorpion gang member convicted last month of executing three people in the Surrey Six slayings has had two other sets of criminal charges he was facing stayed, a Crown spokesman confirmed Thursday.Neil MacKenzie said the prosecution team decided it would not be in the public interest to continue with other cases against Dennis Karbovanec, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the October 2007 killings in a Surrey highrise.Karbovanec’s...

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Rastrojos the armed wing of the Norte del Valle cartel surrendered in Choco province

Rastrojos the armed wing of the Norte del Valle cartel surrendered in Choco province, near the border with Panama. They had been surrounded during a Colombian military operation that involved army and naval units. The Rastrojos had become such a big threat that President Alvaro Uribe declared them his main target. The men had formed a private army controlling a crucial part of the Pacific Coast in Choco province, a launch pad for cocaine leaving Colombia, the BBC's Jeremy McDemrott reports from Bogota. It is considered a major player in Colombia's illegal drugs trade, which accounts for exports of more than 600 tonnes of cocaine and heroin every...

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Race War gang members take pride in their racism and often refer to the VHG Gang as the 'Hate Gang,'"

Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang members take pride in their racism and often refer to the VHG Gang as the 'Hate Gang,'" the main indictment states. "VHG gang members have expressed a desire to rid the city of Hawaiian Gardens of all African-Americans and have engaged in a systematic effort to achieve that result by perpetrating crimes against African-Americans."Latino street gang has waged a racist campaign to eliminate black people from a Southern California city through attempted murders and other crimes. Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested...

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Giovanni Strangio, the Calabrian mafia boss suspected of organising a massacre in Germany in 2007, has been extradited to Italy

Giovanni Strangio, the Calabrian mafia boss suspected of organising a massacre in Germany in 2007, has been extradited to Italy from The Netherlands. Escorted by Interpol agents, he arrived at Rome's Ciampino military airport and was transferred to the Italian capital's high-security Rebibbia prison.Strangio is believed to have masterminded and led the massacre of six members of a rival crime family in Duisburg in western Germany on 15 August 2007. A Dutch court last week approved Strangio's extradition to Italy. Strangio, 30, was arrested in the Netherlands in March, with another of Italy's 30 most wanted criminals, his brother-in-law Francesco...

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Charged 17-year old Eduardo Escobar with seven counts, including felony assault and armed criminal action.

Charged 17-year old Eduardo Escobar with seven counts, including felony assault and armed criminal action.The shooting happened Monday afternoon in the 1000 block of Cleveland Avenue.According to court documents, the victim was shot inside a car as Escobar walked across the street. Police say Escobar unzipped his jacket, and opened fire.The bullet pierced the front passenger side door before hitting the victim in the abdomen.He was taken to the...

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Hells Angels linked to Aussie ex-pat murder

Sandie Dave, 61, was found battered and stabbed to death at a recycling plant on the Gold Coast, while his wife Susan, 50, was found stabbed and butchered six miles from her husband's body. The owner of a security firm, Sandie was investigated in 2006 after four guns, including two Smith and Wessons, were stolen from his business. At the time the police investigated the victim because the weapons were reported stolen from the wrong address to which they were licensed. Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson said he believed they were hunting for more than one person. Playing down the link with biker gang warfare that has recently blighted Australia...

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Annual murder rate of around 1,500, Jamaica is one of the world's most violent countries, on a par with South Africa and Colombia

The postmortem room at the Spanish Town Hospital, outside Kingston, typically has no refrigeration. So what might serve as evidence disintegrates fast. Bodies are brought in by the commercial funeral homes in the early morning, and piled up in corners. The pathologists rarely get to them before midday, if at all. Annual murder rate of around 1,500, Jamaica is one of the world's most violent countries, on a par with South Africa and Colombia. A recent...

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Police arrested Raymond John Garcia, 24; Ernesto Guadalupe Ruiz Esparza, 19; and Ralph Anthony Garcia, 21

Police arrested Raymond John Garcia, 24; Ernesto Guadalupe Ruiz Esparza, 19; and Ralph Anthony Garcia, 21 — all San Jose residents.They were arrested on April 23, 25 and 29 respectively, according to officer Garcia. He did not know specifically why police waited to announce the information until Thursday.The arrests stem from the death of Enrique Flores on April 17, as he walked from his house about 10 p.m. to a market near Almaden Expressway and Foxworthy Avenue. His girlfriend, Nancy Nieto, said he went out to buy beer, and chips for their daughter, who is a kindergartner at Schallenberger Elementary School. He never came home.According to...

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Worlds first declaration against members of the Finks motorcycle gang.

world-first declaration against members of the Finks motorcycle gang.It may do so under controversial new laws aimed at curbing bikie criminal activity.Premier Mike Rann on Sunday confirmed that Attorney General Michael Atkinson was considering an application from South Australian police to have a declaration issued against members of the gang.According to the Sunday Mail newspaper, 42 gang members are the subject of the application, with the declaration likely to occur this week."The Finks are thugs," Mr Rann told journalists in Adelaide."Members of the Finks have got criminal records involving drugs and violence and illegal firearms and everything...

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Sintray Bell twice in the head ,The six week Gang War

17-year-old man has been killed as part of a a six-week dispute between two gangs in Columbia.Police say a member of a rival gang shot Sintray Bell twice in the head as he drove by in a car with other gang members early Friday morning.Authorities say Bell's fellow gang members left his body in the vehicle and fled. Investigators arrested 22-year-old Cola Taylor several hours later and charged him with murder.Authorities say the rival gangs have been shooting at each other for several weeks, but this is the first time someone has been struck.Taylor remains in the Richland County jail. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. Early Friday...

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Ian "Blink" McDonald is a former friend of gangster Paul Ferris and worked for the late Glasgow godfather Arthur Thompson Snr.

Ian "Blink" McDonald, 47, said the men who put the homemade bomb beneath his luxury car put children at risk. Police and army bomb disposal experts evacuated the block of flats where he lives and closed the street. McDonald said: "I've a very good idea who's behind this. "There are people who'd like to see me dead but I don't understand why they put the lives of others at risk to hurt me. "Children play outside my flat all the time. Women walk by with their babies in buggies."The police told me they think the device would've taken half my building away."The guys who planted this bomb obviously know where I live so why didn't they come to my door...

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Gangwar in Chattanooga Gangster Disciples, Crips and Bloods.

On Friday, a woman on 4th Avenue Court was shot buy a man police say is a gang member. Two other men involved in this case also have ties to the Bloods. That night there was a shooting on Dodds Avenue. Police say the victim in this case was shot in the arm and showed up at Parkridge Hospital. They say he's also a member of the Bloods.Weary says other shootings involving at least six other men and other shootings were the ones investigators were tipped about. They've been investigating three gangs: Gangster Disciples, Crips and Bloods. Crime Supression Unit investigators are continuing to identify and locate others that may possibly be involved...

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Everyone's worried it could explode at the funeral,Police on high alert Tuesday during the funeral of a woman gunned down in a Rockaways gang shooting

Everyone's worried it could explode at the funeral.The Bloods and GIB have been warring since at least May 2006, when one man was shot and wounded after a GIB member caught him handing out stolen GIB sweatshirts, sources said.Police on high alert Tuesday during the funeral of a woman gunned down in a Rockaways gang shooting, police sources said Monday.Police from a number of different units - including the Gang Division, Narcotics, the Queens South Task Force and Community Affairs - will be on hand when Melissa Williams, 28, is mourned at St. John's Baptist Church on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, sources said. There will be a two-hour viewing at...

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Joseph Randay and Dilsher Gill,were killed in gang-style violence at Abbotsford

Joseph Randay and Dilsher Gill, both 18, were reportedly kidnapped at gun-point from a city park at dinner time Thursday by a car-borne assailant, Amarjit Randay, father of the one of the slain teenagers, told the media. Their bodies were discovered inside the abandoned car on a rural road Friday.Two Indo-Canadian teenage boys were killed in gang-style violence at Abbotsford near here Friday. Abbotsford is home to one of the largest Punjabi communities in Canada.Randay said his son Joseph and Gill were hanging out with their school mates in the park when the assailant pulled up to them. He said his son confronted the assailant when he tried to...

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