The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Jimena Romina Araya Navarro, a Venezuelan actress linked to the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.
U.S. law enforcement needs a single, articulated national strategy to counter the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua, José Gustavo Arocha, national security expert at the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), told Breitbart News.
NBA coach Chauncey Billups entered a plea of not guilty Monday against federal charges that he participated in rigged poker games.
Fourteen people were charged for their roles in a mob-linked, multimillion-dollar illegal sports betting ring that involved university students and former college wrestlers, New Jersey authorities announced this week.
The fight game suffered from sports fixing and gambling issues long before basketball, football, or any other sport, and it seems it still might.
A report from sports journalist Pablo Torre claims that Los Angeles Clippers head coach Ty Lue attended one of the allegedly rigged poker games where Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups played.
A mobster connected with the Gambino crime family has been denied bail in relation to the NBA gambling case.
If you read the news last week, you would be convinced that the NBA is currently suffering the biggest scandal in major American sports, but they may have some competition from the NFL.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is denying wrongdoing after being arrested in the FBI’s criminal gambling probe.
Meyer Lansky II, the grandson of the legendary mobster, has offered a glimpse into how star athletes who already possess wealth and fame manage to get caught up with the mafia.
The NBA is denying rumors that the league had quietly benched Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier after he was arrested by the FBI.
A former NBA referee, who is more than familiar with the perilous entrapments of illegal sports gambling, believes that the scandal rocking the NBA is just the “tip of the iceberg.” Tim Donaghy, who was once imprisoned for fixing games,
Consider FBI Director Kash Patel unimpressed by ESPN hot-take artist Stephen A. Smith’s take that President Trump is behind the FBI’s crackdown on illegal gambling in the NBA.
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith falsely claimed that an FBI investigation into illegal gambling in the NBA is Donald Trump’s revenge.
FBI Director Kash Patel went behind the microphone on Thursday and offered the first public glimpse of the massive federal law enforcement probe into an alleged mob-linked poker scheme and “sports rigging” gambling scheme that led to the arrests of 31 people, including an NBA coach and player.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been arrested for taking part in an alleged illegal poker gambling ring that has ties to organized crime, the New York Post reports.
Nigerian police announced Sunday they have extradited Chinese gang leader Dai Qisheng, who was arrested on August 8 in a joint operation with Interpol.
The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday imposed sanctions on Héctor “The Child” Guerrero, leader of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, and five other members of its top brass.
A rapidly escalating diplomatic feud between Russia and Azerbaijan has developed over the death of two Azeri men arrested by Russian police during an organized crime investigation who died in custody under mysterious circumstances. Azerbaijan has accused the Russians of torturing the men to death.
The Indian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that 283 Indian nationals rescued from enslavement by cybercrime rings in Southeast Asia have been brought home from Thailand by the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Growing demand for Ozempic and similar drugs used for weight loss in Brazil has sparked a wave of violent robberies across pharmacies by organized gangs who see it as a lucrative source of income, the New York Times reported over the weekend.
The Biden administration has pushed a regulation that would effectively ban cigarettes on the market as tobacco users have flocked to Trump during the 2024 presidential election.
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Heavily armed men released a video threatening Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Santa Fe Governor Maximiliano Pullaro.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted on Wednesday that his government has no “hard evidence” to prove Indian agents were behind the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver in June 2023.
Police are voicing concerns about South American and Romanian crime rings from California that target small towns for “distraction thefts.”
Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric recalled his ambassador to Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday after the socialist regime there denied the existence of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.
A six-month investigation led to a series of raids on Mexican cartel-connected chop shops in the Houston metroplex this week. The raids led to the seizure of more than $1 million in stolen vehicles.
Chilean media reported on Wednesday that one of the fugitive main suspects in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda is not just linked to the Tren de Aragua (Aragua Train) criminal organization, but worked for the Venezuelan government in 2015.
A new Washington Post report has garnered backlash for blaming empty store shelves on “capitalism” and conservative-driven “moral panic.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has for decades looked the other way – or worse – as fentanyl-pushing organized crime syndicates thrive in China, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
A mafia hitman in Italy allegedly poisoned a Catholic priest’s communion chalice in a small town after the holy cleric spoke out against organized crime.
A group of Chicago teens were caught on surveillance cameras breaking into a luxury Wisconsin vehicle dealership and speeding away with over half a million dollars worth of cars, leading police on a 40-mile chase.
Security authorities in Ecuador detained over 6,600 individuals in the first month since the country declared its operation to crush gang violence a formal “internal armed conflict.”
President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to the disappearance of José Adolfo Macías, Ecuador’s “most-wanted criminal.”
Law enforcement and scam victims are warning consumers of an uptick in “card draining,” a form of retail theft that robs gift card holders blind.
A mob of gunmen reportedly attacked and robbed an armed employee guarding a truck full of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes in Oakland, California, with shocking video appearing to show the organized crime go down in broad daylight.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.
The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.
ROME (AP) – Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out seven additional house searches in its investigation into divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate, an official said Thursday.
