Dexter Cox

Dexter Cox has been charged with first degree murder. According to a Police Affidavit, Cox confessed to shooting Vidulich, taking his gun and his Ford Explorer - then setting the S-U-V on fire.
Another affidavit says Cox was arrested Wednesday in connection to a shooting outside Frayser High School. Police found him, searched a nearby home and found a gun they say was stolen from the Officer's home. Investigators then realized they had their guy.
Mack McKinna has some harsh words for Cox, calling him "a little 18 year-old punk, who killed a good policeman." McKinna, and other neighbors are happy to hear an arrest has been made. The crime scene tape is still outside Vidulich's home. Since Monday, there has been a constant police presence - squad cars, and the CSI Command Post is still across the street. Neighbors say they are relieved because an arrest has been made. But they also say this isn't over. Neighbor Archie Collins says a conviction or more arrests would add closure. Collins also says he'll be content when he hears "in detail, what happened in the death of Ed Vidulich." Collins has many questions for officers including, "why his (Vidulich) particular house?
A News Conference will take place Sunday February 3rd at 3p.m.
Police records show this isn't Cox's first run in with the law. In July of 2007, he was arrested for Aggravated Robbery and Evading Arrest.

Why was Martin Foley shot.

The grim reality of the attempt on Martin Foley's life began to sink in after the middle of last week when his body, weakened from three previous gun attacks, began to react severely to infection caused by the latest bullet wounds. Foley's spleen had been destroyed in one of the previous attacks. A normal healthy person can survive well enough without one, but the spleen is a necessary organ for helping the body repair itself from blood infection and Foley's is no longer there to do the job. He was "touch and go" on Thursday morning.
Senior garda sources said yesterday that while they can't be sure what will happen in terms of serious gangland crime in Ireland this year, they are certain that there are enough live disputes between gangs to ensure that there will be more killing in the coming months.
While Foley was in St James's Hospital's intensive care unit, gardai in Dublin were still trying to work out exactly what Foley had done or who exactly he had crossed to merit this latest attempt on his life. It is the absence of precise intelligence on matters such as the attempted assassination of a man who has probably the highest public profile of any criminal in Ireland that has prompted a major review of the anti-organised crime policing.
Within three days of the attempt on Foley's life, the new Garda Commissioner, Fachtna Murphy, announced that he was going to regularise and put on a permanent footing the 70-strong Organised Crime Unit (OCU), which is attached to the National Bureau of Crime Investigation at his Harcourt Square headquarters in Dublin.
The unit was set up just over two years ago as a temporary expedient after a rash of gangland murders in the city. It has had some significant successes in terms of seizures of guns and drugs, and in arrests. However, over the past six months, the dedicated and hard-working young gardai seconded to the unit found that their temporary status meant that their service was not being counted for promotion purposes. They were, effectively, doing down their promotion prospects by volunteering for dangerous policing.
After senior gardai in Dublin made a strong case for the regularising of the OCU, the new Commissioner agreed and last week officially dedicated the OCU as the permanent and, it is expected, leading unit in the fight against organised drugs crime, initially, in Dublin. It will be headed by a Detective Superintendent with considerable experience of the gang scene in Dublin.
A senior Dublin detective said the statistics, claims and counterclaims surrounding them were "irrelevant". "They don't paint a picture of the reality out there," he said.
Asked about the immediate priority of the OCU, a senior source involved in the development of the unit said: "Intelligence -- there is no point in having surveillance alone. You could spend all your life watching people. You need intelligence. We still don't know for sure why Martin Foley was shot, for instance."
He added: "There are feuds all over this city flaring up and we don't know why." He pointed out that last year, while gardai in the north inner city -- helped by dozens of armed gardai from the OCU -- had been concentrating on the blood feud surrounding ex-members of the IRA and criminal associates who had split and began killing each other after one had raped his partner's daughter, another feud erupted for unknown reasons.

Paul Kelly (26), from Gardiner Street, was shot dead outside a block of flats on the Malahide Road. It had been assumed, at first, that it was because he was from the inner city and known to people involved in the feud. However, it subsequently emerged that he was murdered over an entirely different argument and since then this has developed into a quite separate dispute.

The south inner Dublin gang leader who Martin Foley had been associating with in recent years is emerging as one of the most significant criminals in the State. Freddy Thompson is still only 27, yet has been associated with some of the biggest drugs seizures in recent times. He was arrested in Rotterdam with seven kilos of cocaine and six handguns and ammunition in October 2006 but evaded prosecution on a technicality.

Foley had once regarded "Fat" Freddie Thompson as a protégé but gardai say that Foley has, in recent years, been regarded as little more than a throwback to the old days of organised crime. It is regarded as highly possible that associates of Thompson shot Foley.

Gardai also believe that associates of Thompson were involved in the double murder of Brian Downes (40) and the innocent young mechanic, Eddie Ward (24), who were shot dead at the lock-up garage behind Downes' home in Walkinstown last October. An associate of Downes', Sean McMahon (35), was shot dead as he slept in his bed at his home in Tallaght two weeks later. It is now believed McMahon was murdered because it was merely believed he was intent on revenge for the murder of his friend. The major feud between the two south inner city Dublin drugs gangs that has resulted in over 10 deaths since 2000 has not been resolved and is showing little sign of stabilising.

Jorge “Rivi” Ayala

contract killer Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, Cocaine Cowboys director Billy Corben says: “He told me where there is a body buried in Miami, by the Florida turnpike. It’s all developed now, malls and condominiums. He knows where all the bodies are buried. We told the police. I think he told the police too. I just don’t think they care.”
Now serving three life sentences for 12 counts of murder, Rivi is a chillingly cool customer. He affably reels off the names of the victims he dispatched as if he were running through a shopping list. “The guy is one of the most pleasant interview subjects, the most laid-back, easy-going, polite, friendly and simple to deal with. But we’d be sitting there in an interview and you would have to kick yourself in the head to remind yourself what it is that this guy is talking about. He might as well be talking about the weather outside. But he’s talking about murdering women and children.”
Rivi was, for a time, the hit-man of choice for Griselda Blanco, aka the Black Widow. Griselda was the grande dame of the Miami cocaine business, a Colombian mother of three, of impoverished origins, who slaughtered and intimidated her way to the top of a billion-dollar industry. She is a central character in this movie, the most deadly figure in a story in which the bodies are stacked like dominos. Conspicuous by her absence as an interviewee, she is one of the few key survivors of the era whom the film-makers were unable to coax before the lens. “Her release was imminent at that point, as was her deportation. I think she has changed her mind since, because we have been reapproached,” Corben says.
Rapid-fire editing unleashes an onslaught of information. This is documentary-making for ADD sufferers and has now inspired a feature film to star Mark Wahlberg, based on the the drug dealer Jon Roberts, featured in Cocaine Cowboys.
Corben, a Miami native with a conversational style like a runaway train, acknowledges the drug’s influence on Cocaine Cowboys’ aesthetic. “My intended effect was that after this movie, you felt like you had been on a bender.” Besides Griselda and Rivi, the key characters in the film are Roberts and Mickey Munday. They are the “cowboys” of the title, two outlaws who imported but didn’t sell the drugs. The way they tell it, their clever smuggling methods transformed the fortunes of the once sleepy backwater of Miami.
Corben’s memories of growing up in Miami during the cocaine-fuelled 1980s are of nightly news stories with a body count to rival a small war, and an awful lot of money. “I remember being in this working-class neighbourhood and everybody was doing very well. Whatever business you were in, the city was flush with so much cash that it trickled down, sort of a Reagan theory of economics. The trickle-down theory worked as long as you had successful drug king-pins in the community.”

Wilber Varela, alias "Soap",New Bosses known as 'Red Shirt' '06'

Officials confirmed the body is that of Wilber Varela, alias "Soap", a man with a long and bloody history as leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel.
While Varela had a $5m (£2.5m) bounty from the US on his head, the evidence suggests he was killed by his own men.
His cocaine smuggling cartel was the successor to the infamous Medellin cartel of Pablo Escobar.
It is believed that Varela's cartel moved thousands of tonnes of cocaine into the US and Europe.
US and Colombian intelligence agencies said that Varela had been hiding in Venezuela for at least a year, running his operations out of their reach.
Venezuela is now the principle transit nation for Colombian cocaine and does not co-operate with international anti-drugs efforts.
Colombian intelligence sources said that communications intercepts suggested that Varela was killed by some of his own men, a not unexpected end for a man who started in the drug business as an a assassin.
Last year, the other three leaders of the Norte del Valle cartel were captured, in effect bringing an end to the organisation.
However, a new generation of traffickers is already stepping up to take their place.
The security forces have the aliases of two men believed to be picking up the pieces within the cartel and keeping the business moving.
They are known only as '06' and 'Red Shirt' and the hunt is on for them and their real identities as a new chapter in the war on drugs begins.

Patrick Booker, Kenneth Lamar Tucker,Reginald Edward Crutchfield

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing about 50 guns in a brazen armed attack at a Riverside gun store earlier this week.
Police are still searching for a fourth robber and some of the guns taken in Monday evening's armed robbery of Centerfire Firearms. Riverside police detectives worked around the clock to find the robbers and guns, police spokesman Steven Frasher said.
He does not know if this crime was gang related, or if there was a fifth person driving the getaway car, but police are investigating these possibilities. One of the robbers was seen on a video of the robbery talking on a cell phone, Riverside police Sgt. Mark Rossi said.
Four men armed with handguns rushed into the store in the 3500 block of Central Avenue about 6 p.m. Monday, ordered three customers and three employees to the floor, stuffed about 50 guns from display cases into backpacks and sped away in a black sedan, Riverside police Sgt. Leon Phillips said.
Police on Wednesday followed one suspect from Mead Valley to Mission Grove Center, where he was arrested on suspicion of robbing the gun store and conspiring to commit the robbery, according to a news release from the Riverside Police Department. The man was identified in the police press release as Kenneth Lamar Tucker, 20, of Riverside.
Police found at least one of the guns stolen in the robbery at Tucker's home, Frasher said.
On Thursday, police served search warrants in La Sierra and Moreno Valley, according to the release.
At the same time, the police gang unit and other officers arrested two men at a motel on Sunnymead Boulevard in Moreno Valley, the release stated. They were identified by police as Reginald Edward Crutchfield, 20, of Moreno Valley, and Patrick Booker, 19, of Riverside, the release stated.

Sujan Paudyal ,Kamal Thapa,Buddha Gurung ,Anil Thapa ,Debendra Kumar Garthi

gang of six criminals involved in different incidents of crime in the valley since a long time was arrested Friday and made public at the Kathmandu Metropolitan Crime Division of Hanumandhoka.
Of the six, five were the people responsible in the recent shooting that took place at Om Shanti Chowk in Baneshwor where two persons Barun Singh Lama and Ashish Gurung were injured.
?We have taken it as a major achievement of the police administration as these people were actively indulged in committing various crimes such as shooting, making telephone threats and abduction," Sarbendra Khanal, superintendent of police said at a press conference.
The arrested include ? Sujan Paudyal living at Duragaun-7 of Ramechap district, Kamal Thapa, alias Tere Nam living at Semlar VDC-7 of Rupandehi district, Buddha Gurung living at Gorisingh VDC-5 and currently living at Balaju of Tilingetar. Debendra Kumar Garthi living at Chaur VDC-2 of Balgung district and Anil Thapa living at Kalyanpur VDC-7 of Nuwakot district.

Aaren Dexter, V-Not gang

Aaren Dexter, 21, of Akron, was sentenced to four years in prison for the drive-by shooting of a crime witness.
He was found guilty of felonious assault, intimidation of a crime victim and being a felon with a gun.
On Aug. 22, Dexter shot a man in retaliation for the conviction of Brandon Whiteside, 18. Whiteside was convicted on July 19 of attempted murder and criminal gang activity. He is serving 15 years in prison.
Dexter and Whiteside were in the V-Not gang, prosecutors said.
The man Dexter shot is the father of the victim of another shooting carried out by the V-Not gang, prosecutors said.
"This case is a prime example of the threats posed by gangs and gang violence in our community," Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said.
"This sentence hopefully sends two messages; first, we will not tolerate the intimidation tactics of street thugs who think they are above the law. Second, we will do everything we can to protect citizens who do the right thing by reporting crimes and participating in the
judicial process."

Brandon T. Morris

Brandon T. Morris, 22. the judge said factors, including Morris' emotional immaturity and his history of "staggering" childhood abuse, outweighed the state's arguments for execution
Manck also sentenced Morris to 301 years to run consecutive to his life term, ensuring, the judge said, that he will die in prison.
Morris, of Baltimore, was convicted by a Howard County jury Jan. 18 of first-degree murder for killing Jeffery A. Wroten, 44, of Martinsburg, W.Va., at Washington ounty Hospital in Hagerstown.
After shooting Wroten with the guard's gun early in the morning of Jan. 26, 2006, Morris briefly took a hospital visitor hostage, carjacked a taxi, and forced the cabbie at gunpoint to drive him into nearby Pennsylvania, where the car crashed. Morris fled back into Maryland, where he was captured in an industrial park.
Morris had been brought to the hospital from nearby Roxbury Correctional Institution after jabbing a sewing needle so deeply into his abdomen that it pierced his liver. Prosecutors maintained that the injury and the murder were parts of a carefully planned escape.
After the sentencing, Morris flashed a derisive grin at Wroten's family members as they filed past him on their way out of the packed courtroom.
Manck, whose mother was murdered during a 1995 home invasion, spoke directly to Wroten's family before passing sentence. He assured them that his "gut-wrenching" decision would free them to enjoy memories of their slain loved one without the distraction of legal proceedings.
But Wroten's ex-wife Tracey, with whom he had four daughters, ages 7-13, told reporters afterward that she was "disappointed and probably a little angry" that Manck hadn't sentenced Morris to death.
She said no one should pity Morris, whose courtroom behavior included extending a middle finger toward the family whenever he held an earphone to his head during bench conferences.
"There is nothing I could say that would express the anger I have toward him. I have no mercy for him. He didn't show my children's father mercy. I don't believe he deserves mercy," Tracey Wroten told reporters.
One of the slain officer's co-workers, Capt. Mark A. Martin, said Morris "presents an enormous risk" to those guarding him and an "enormous cost" to taxpayers due to the extra security needed to transport him to any hospital visits or court hearings. An attempted courtroom escape in May led to intense security for Morris during the trial, where at least a half-dozen uniformed officers were never less than a few feet from him.
Manck, a retired Anne Arundel County jurist, said a defense expert witness had convinced him that any threat of escape "can be minimized greatly" by the Division of Correction.
Outweighing the cost of securing Morris, Manck said, was the damage Morris had suffered as a child at the hands of an abusive mother, stepfather and neighborhood thugs, one of whom raped him at 12 or 13, according to a social worker's testimony. The abuse and neglect stunted Morris' emotional development, making him no more mature than a high-school student, Manck said.
"He had no family management. He had nothing," Manck said. Growing up right on the streets of Baltimore is "impossible when you have a family that doesn't give a damn about you," the judge said.
Defense attorney Arcangelo Tuminelli said the sentence was appropriate. He said a death sentence would have resulted in years, if not decades, of appeal procedures that would have been hard on Wroten's family. "I think Judge Manck did those people a favor," Tuminelli said.

Wilber Varela aka Jabon

The body of Wilber Varela, known as "Jabon" or "Soap," was found on Wednesday in a hotel room in Merida state in neighboring Venezuela, said a Colombian police source who asked not to be identified.
The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was killed by gunfire in Venezuela in an apparent settling of accounts between drug gangs, Colombian security forces said on Friday.
"We have intelligence information that the person found dead in Venezuela is Jabon," the source said.
Varela, a former police sergeant wanted for extradition by the U.S. government for helping to smuggle tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was one of the last Colombian drug kingpins at large after last year's arrest of Diego "Don Diego" Montoya.
The two had battled for control of the Norte del Valle cartel, a violent rivalry that left hundreds of people dead.
The U.S. government had offered a $5 million reward leading to the arrest of Varela, who got his nickname from a brand of soap with the same name.
The Norte del Valle gang, based near the western city of Cali, is the only Colombian cartel that still controls all areas of the business from cultivation of coca plants to production of cocaine and its exportation. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Reginald Edward Crutchfield,Patrick Booker

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing about 50 guns in a brazen armed attack at a Riverside gun store earlier this week.
Police are still searching for a fourth robber and some of the guns taken in Monday evening's armed robbery of Centerfire Firearms. Riverside police detectives worked around the clock to find the robbers and guns, police spokesman Steven Frasher said.
He does not know if this crime was gang related, or if there was a fifth person driving the getaway car, but police are investigating these possibilities. One of the robbers was seen on a video of the robbery talking on a cell phone, Riverside police Sgt. Mark Rossi said.
Four men armed with handguns rushed into the store in the 3500 block of Central Avenue about 6 p.m. Monday, ordered three customers and three employees to the floor, stuffed about 50 guns from display cases into backpacks and sped away in a black sedan, Riverside police Sgt. Leon Phillips said.
Police on Wednesday followed one suspect from Mead Valley to Mission Grove Center, where he was arrested on suspicion of robbing the gun store and conspiring to commit the robbery, according to a news release from the Riverside Police Department. The man was identified in the police press release as Kenneth Lamar Tucker, 20, of Riverside.
Police found at least one of the guns stolen in the robbery at Tucker's home, Frasher said.
On Thursday, police served search warrants in La Sierra and Moreno Valley, according to the release.
At the same time, the police gang unit and other officers arrested two men at a motel on Sunnymead Boulevard in Moreno Valley, the release stated. They were identified by police as Reginald Edward Crutchfield, 20, of Moreno Valley, and Patrick Booker, 19, of Riverside, the release stated.