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A sprightly 81 year old grandmother has been arrested by Italian police for being - The Godmother.

Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 13:19. Robert Taylor's career is a non-stop game of cat and mouse.

Johnny Depp stars as legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger, in a scene from, " Public Enemies." Some of America's most infamous criminals emerged during the 1930s.

Authorities charged eight people, including four from Franklin and St. Lawrence counties, over their alleged roles in an international drug smuggling operation linked to the Russian Mafia that moved about $27 million worth of marijuana.

H e has one more promise he intends to keep, but Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio today agreed to serve a six-year prison sentence and pay up to $500,000 in fines for crimes federal and state prosecutors allege he committed as godfather of the Boston Mafia.

Peter Scarcella, imprisoned for a bungled gangland plot that saw an innocent bystander paralyzed, has won a court-ordered transfer to a minimum-security prison despite objections by the Correctional Service of Canada.

Dennis faces 6 1/2 years in prison. Foster pleaded guilty to firearms possession.

In April 2005, federal prosecutors charged 16 members of Aurora's Insane Deuces gang with racketeering.

The wife of a jailed Mexican Mafia member acted on his behalf to manage narcotics sales and oversee collection of "taxes" from dealers to benefit the prison-based gang in San Bernardino County, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.

Berlusconi's beauties: Family friend Noemi Letizia and Italy's Minister for Equal Opportunities Mara Carfagna In pictures: the women in Berlusconi's life There is a sudden stench of decay coming off the court of King Silvio.

In an eighteen-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in February 2009 and unsealed this morning, 34 defendants are charged with narcotics and firearms violations arising from an alleged conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine in and around San Bernardino and Redlands under the oversight of the Mexican Mafia.

One of the many pieces of art seized on June 25, 2009, by Italian police from Beniamino Zappia, an associate of the Rizzuto Mafia family of Montreal.

Comment about "Italy seeks 50 people in drug trafficking probe " Phone Name Comment 0 Friday, 26th June 2009 - 12:10CET Italy seeks 50 people in drug trafficking probe Reuters Italian authorities are rounding up scores of people involved in a drug trafficking ring, including senior figures of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia, investigative sources ...

There are fewer gang members on Redlands streets after an interdepartmental crackdown on three gangs Thursday.

By Adrian Humphreys, National Post TORONTO - After Peter Scarcella was sentenced in the notoriously bungled gangland plot that paralyzed an innocent bystander, the man long named as an influential Mafia boss arrived at the imposing maximum-security Millhaven prison and was "very surprised" to find officials linking him to organized crime, he says.

A tyrannical government is by nature in a constant state of war with its own people.

A controversial $2-million payment by gangsters to a Toronto mother paralyzed in their botched mob hit bought them silence from police and prosecutors and could soon help them get earlier parole, prison lawyers complain.

The Italian mafia is targeting Melbourne as a destination for the illegal profits of organised crime as part of its global money-laundering operations, a Liberal MP says.

A man who said he left a ruthless street gang in Central America and later won praise for his anti-gang work in Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday by authorities who allege he conspired to kill a rival even as he spoke out against gang life.

Federal and local law enforcement authorities on Tuesday arrested eight of 39 members and associates of one of the most entrenched "cliques" of the 18th Street Gang after the return of federal criminal charges alleging that the gang operated a racketeering enterprise responsible for the October 2007 attempted murder of a street vendor near ...