Federal law enforcement agencies announce series of major busts

While most of us are focused on the pandemic and the final weeks of the presidential campaign, federal law enforcement…


The Camorra and the garbage racket in the ‘Land of Fires’

This is a condensed version of a longer case study, “Organized Crime and Environmental Issues in Naples, Italy,” that will…


DEA report: Drug overdoses top cause of death for Americans

Drug poisoning was the chief cause of injury deaths among Americans from 2011 to 2017, more than the loss of…


FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime

Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…


Organized Crime Roundup: Mobs killed 1 million from 2000-2017, big Mafia takedown in Italy and more

Criminals kill far more people than do armed conflicts and terrorist attacks put together, and organized crime groups and street…


Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar spent seven years on Forbes list of world’s richest

In the summer of 1989, the world’s most wanted drug lord had narrowly averted assassination, challenged extradition treaties, dared the…



Organized crime roundup: Sex trafficking in Venezuela, ‘waste crimes’ in England, political corruption in Central America and more

In the South American nation of Venezuela, in both good times and bad, the trafficking of misled teenage girls into…


Chinese Triads launder billions through Vancouver, buying luxury real estate, cars

The laundering scheme is so infamous that investigators call it the “Vancouver model.” The Triads, China’s organized crime syndicate, created…


European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism

Many of Europe’s top police officers were in the Netherlands last week attending a high-level conference focused on doing a…