expat Gangsters:Seamus Ward,Mick `The Corporal' Weldon ,Tommy Savage,George `The Penguin' Mitchell ,John `The Coach' Traynor,Peter Mitchell

John `The Coach' Traynor (52)Traynor strenuously denies allegations that he set up crime reporter Veronica Guerin for her murder.Garda and criminal sources allege that Traynor travels regularly between southern Spain, Amsterdam and Brussels to organise large-scale cannabis deals. Traynor, a former fraudster and associate of `The General', Martin Cahill, is believed to have made and spent a fortune from his involvement in the hash trade between 1994 and October 1996. In a phone interview with this reporter he denied that he had any part in Guerin's death.Peter Mitchell (33)Mitchell, from Dublin's...

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Gary Nelson, Commissioner of the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has been fired.

Gary Nelson, Commissioner of the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda, had overseen the hunt for the killers of Benjamin and Catherine Mullany last month. A Canadian, he was appointed in February on a two-year commission to reform the police after a crimewave in which there was a tripling of the number of murders. head of police on a Caribbean island where a British honeymooning couple were murdered has been fired.Mr Nelson's probationary period ended this week and the island's Police Service Commission unanimously decided to end his contract, the Antigua Sun reported. The sacking will raise...

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Ernesto Valle will spend nearly 50 years in prison for shooting a man to death two years ago as part of a gang initiation.

Ernesto Valle will spend nearly 50 years in prison for shooting a man to death two years ago as part of a gang initiation.Valle, 21, of the 500 block of Columbia Street in Aurora was sentenced by Circuit Judge Grant Wegner on Friday to 45 years in prison for the gang-initiation shooting death of 19-year-old Jesse Lozano of Aurora, according the Kane County State's Attorney's office. Valle was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder on March 6.Just before 3 a.m. on Aug. 12, 2006, Valle and two other men, including co-defendant Hector D. Delgado, 19, were driving near Grove and Kendall streets...

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Mackenzie Phillips, was released on $10,000 bail following her arrest at the Los Angeles airport on Wednesday

Mackenzie Phillips, was released on $10,000 bail following her arrest at the Los Angeles airport on Wednesday. Phillips was headed to New York when she failed to pass a security screening. The secondary screening then revealed that the former actress was carrying on her a small amount of heroin and cocaine.The photos show three balloons and three small Ziplock bags which cops say contained heroin and cocaine. There is also a pic of 34 syringes, her mugshot and her driver’s license. Apparently...

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DNA evidence has linked Michael Gargiulo repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher

DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday. Michael Gargiulo, 32, of Santa Monica has been in custody since July for a separate knife attack and could face murder charges as soon as next week, police said. Santa Monica police Lt. Darrell Lowe said DNA collected from a crime scene last spring helped link Gargiulo to the stabbing deaths of women from Los Angeles, suburban Chicago and Monterey Park. One of the cases involves 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, Kutcher's former girlfriend,...

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Ralph Thurston O'Neal III, 33, of Roane County's Midtown area is identified by authorities as the drug network's kingpin

Ralph Thurston O'Neal III, 33, of Roane County's Midtown area is identified by authorities as the drug network's kingpin and is named in all 10 counts of the indictment.Also charged are Michael Currier, 32, of Clinton, Brandon Cooper, 26, and Randy Spears, 43, both of Harriman, and Demond Reed, 37, of Rockwood.According to a Roane County Sheriff's Department news release, O'Neal and others are accused of bringing in cocaine from Texas, California and Georgia.The drugs were then distributed to others for resale in Roane, Anderson and Knox counties, the news release alleges.Vehicles, cash and weapons...

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Jose Jaime Arroyos-Carrillo, 51, a convicted drug dealer, and two of his associates are believed to have worked for Guzman, Mexico's top drug kingpin

Jose Jaime Arroyos-Carrillo, 51, a convicted drug dealer, and two of his associates are believed to have worked for Guzman, Mexico's top drug kingpin and head of the Sinaloa Cartel. They are named in a 29-count indictment that an El Paso federal grand jury handed up in November 2006.All three were indicted on the following charges: conspiracy to import a controlled substance, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, importing a controlled substance, possession with...

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Terrance Clark, 19, was arrested Dec. 11 after he pulled a .40-caliber handgun from his waistband and pointed it at four members

Terrance Clark, 19, was arrested Dec. 11 after he pulled a .40-caliber handgun from his waistband and pointed it at four members of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Violent Crime Impact Task Force on a North Side street.Clark, who was wanted on three outstanding warrants, fled and was arrested in a nearby duplex. Senior U.S. District Judge Alan N. Bloch sentenced Clark, who pleaded guilty in June to a charge of using a firearm during a violent cri...

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Grant Wilkinson was told he would serve a minimum of 11 years for converting replica Mac-10 sub-machine guns into real weapons

Grant Wilkinson was told he would serve a minimum of 11 years for converting replica Mac-10 sub-machine guns into real weapons and selling them to the criminal underworld.The judge who jailed the 33-year-old suggested that the Government might consider reviewing legislation to counter "endemic" gun crime.The sub-machine guns were made in shabby sheds converted into a workshop and test firing range at The Briars in Three Mile Cross.They were later used in at least 51 shootings and eight murders, including that of Michael Dosonmu, an innocent 15-year-old who was shot in his bedroom in Peckham, South...

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Bermuda,Gun shots were reportedly fired in the St. Monica's Road area of Pembroke yesterday morning, in the second such incident this month.

Gun shots were reportedly fired in the St. Monica's Road area of Pembroke yesterday morning, in the second such incident this month. Police responded to a report of shots in the St. Monica's / Glebe Road vicinity around 11 a.m. "Details about the incident are unclear at this time. However, Police are appealing for any passengers of the Number Five Pond Hill bus that got on or off in the Glebe Road area, that may have seen two males on a motorcycle acting suspiciously, to contact the Serious Crime Unit," said a spokesman. He confirmed that no one was hurt, but would not comment on radio news reports...

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Rondell Rawlins, 33, and Jermaine Charles, 23, were gunned down by police and soldiers near the country's international airport, in Timehri

Rondell Rawlins, 33, and Jermaine Charles, 23, were gunned down by police and soldiers near the country's international airport, in Timehri, about 32 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Georgetown.An accomplice of the two fugitives was also killed in the shootout, but the police have no record of him being involved in any previous offense. One soldier was also wounded in the incident, Trotz said.The security forces are looking for a woman believed to have been harboring the fugitives.Rawlins and Charles were blamed for the April 2006 murder of Sawh, his brother and sister, shortly after they had...

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Armed police shot dead boss Mark Nunes, 35, after lying in wait outside a bank in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire.

Gang carried out detailed reconnaissance trips and used stolen cars to target cash in transit vans outside banks in at least 18 robberies across the south of England, Kingston Crown Court heard. Its 18-month crime spree was brought to an end in September last year when armed police shot dead two of its number, including boss Mark Nunes, 35, after lying in wait outside a bank in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire. The getaway driver, Terrence Wallace, 26, was arrested later that day after fleeing the scene, the court heard. Wallace and three other alleged members of the gang, Victor Iniodu, 34, Leroy Wilkinson,...

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Joseph Yelko surrendered to Internal Affairs detectives Monday morning and was taken to Cleveland City Jail.

Cleveland police officer accused of using cocaine was charged with drug abuse Monday. Police say an investigation ordered by Police Chief Michael McGrath uncovered evidence of cocaine abuse by Joseph Yelko, a 10-year veteran. "We will not tolerate drug use and abuse among our officers," McGrath said. "This officer will be suspended from work without pay and we will move towards terminating him from employment with the Division of Police." Yelko surrendered to Internal Affairs detectives Monday morning and was taken to Cleveland City Jail. He was released on bond and is scheduled to make his...

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Peter ‘Fatso’ Mitchell was being treated in a hospital on the Costa del Sol for two gunshot wounds to his shoulder

Peter ‘Fatso’ Mitchell was being treated in a hospital on the Costa del Sol for two gunshot wounds to his shoulder, which were not serious, after a hitman tried to whack him in a bar outside Puerto Banus on Thursday night.A year ago it was all so different as he settled down with his street dealer wife Sonia and their two children in a luxury villa worth around €1.5 million.Last August he and Walsh, who had been his girlfriend since the early 1990s, were about to open the Paparazzi bar and restaurant...

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Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who had been imprisoned for money laundering in Brazil, was handed over to U.S. agents in the Amazonian city of Manaus

Ramirez Abadia, known as "El Chupeta" (Lollipop) and long considered one of the world's major traffickers, is under U.S. indictment on racketeering, money laundering and murder charges. In one case, he is accused of ordering a hit team to kill a trafficker employed by his organization in Queens, N.Y.Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who had been imprisoned for money laundering in Brazil, was handed over to U.S. agents in the Amazonian city of Manaus and flown to New York, the Brazilian Justice Ministry...

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Inspector Jaco Botha, 37, a senior Pretoria police officer, was gunned down in an ambush as he responded to an ATM bombing by a gang

Inspector Jaco Botha, 37, a senior Pretoria police officer, was gunned down in an ambush as he responded to an ATM bombing by a gang of AK47-wielding gunmen during the early hours of on Wednesday morning.Describing Lunet Botha's smile as the police vehicle with its flashing lights arrived at the couple's Pyramid's home, Villieria police station commissioner, Superintendent Kushie Nair, said her (Botha's) face had lit up."She thought it was her husband who had come to say goodbye, but when I told her who I was she broke down. "She just knew that something had happened to him," said Nair, fighting...

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George Buchanan - Edinburgh's No.1 drugs baron.

George Buchanan - Edinburgh's No.1 drugs baron.The pug-faced body-builder keeps his sinister occupation secret from his middle-class neighbours in the upmarket estate of Gilbertstoun.But the father of two is to blame for most of the heroin, Ecstasy, hash and speed sold in city housing schemes such as Craigmillar, where he was brought up.Police sources yesterday confirmed Buchanan - known as Dode - commands the city's drugs underworld.But repeated attempts by drug squad officers to end cunning Buchanan's criminal career have ended in failure.More than £90,000 in cash was found in his home during...

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Neils Jorgen Tobiasen, 65, from Denmark, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to making corrupt payments.

Neils Jorgen Tobiasen, 65, from Denmark, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to making corrupt payments.Tobiasen, financial director of CBRN Team Ltd, will be sentenced at a later date.Anti-Corruption Minister John Hutton said:“I wholeheartedly congratulate the Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit for their landmark success in this case.“Extra government funding is helping the unit make a real impact by bringing to book the corrupt companies who pay bribes and foreign officials who take them.“Corruption hurts honest companies and raises the cost of doing business. This is the first of what I hope...

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Sgt. Tom Lovejoy claims MCSO officials illegally prevented him from gathering evidence for his own defense.

Since Sgt. Tom Lovejoy’s acquittal last week on misdemeanor animal-cruelty charges, in which a judge concluded “it was simply an accident”, the embattled sergeant has retained attorney Michael Manning who has won previous high-profile cases against the sheriff. Lovejoy claims MCSO officials illegally prevented him from gathering evidence for his own defense. “I have no problem accepting the fact we did go to court and had a trial,” Sgt. Lovejoy said. “That’s not the issue that I have. The issue is what I learned throughout this ordeal of the level of corruption inside the sheriff’s department.”...

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corruption trial of Bayswater panel beater, Pasquale Minniti.

Several senior West Australian MPs and the Police Commissioner are expected to be called as witnesses at the corruption trial of Bayswater panel beater, Pasquale Minniti.Summonses have been served on the Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan, the former Deputy Commissioner Murray Lampard, and former Labor ministers Bob Kucera and John D'Orazio.the Attorney General Jim McGinty and the former Police Minister, now Housing Minister, Michelle Roberts will also be summonsed to appear at the trial.Mr Kucera announced his decision to retire from politics 12 days ago, about the time he received the notice...

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Hells Angels remain the most powerful Drug-gang violence that has ripped through Metro Vancouver in recent months has been linked to gangwarfare

B.C.-based organized crime groups are controlling the sale of methamphetamine across Canada and abroad, according to Criminal Intelligence Service Canada's annual report.Meth production in the province was up in 2007 "primarily to meet expanding international market consumption," said the report, which marks trends in organized crime across the country."The number of super-labs in Canada indicates the capacity to produce significant quantities for foreign distribution," the report said.In 2007, seizures of Canadian-produced methamphetamine were interdicted in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and...

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Kevin McLean based at Heathrow Airport has been charged with a series of sex attacks on teenage girls, Scotland Yard has said.

special constable based at Heathrow Airport has been charged with a series of sex attacks on teenage girls, Scotland Yard has said.Kevin McLean, 29, who worked on the front desk of Ealing police station and as a volunteer officer at the airport, was charged with 22 offences following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards Anti Corruption Team.He faces 10 offences of indecent assault of girls under 16 and 11 charges of making indecent images of children, including two relating to girls under 13. He is also accused of misconduct in a public office. He...

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TWO female police reservists were arrested for corruption for allegedly trying to extort money from a grandmother in Jabulani

TWO female police reservists were arrested for corruption for allegedly trying to extort money from a grandmother in Jabulani, police said .Police spokesperson Inspector Kay Makhubela said the two wome n, aged 29 and 39, respectively, first went to the 58-year-old grandmother in Jabulani three weeks ago.The women told the grandmother that her daughter had been arrested and the case had been thrown out but was now being reopened.They demanded R750000 from the grandmother, but she said she could only pay R20000.The women later organised to meet her on Saturday at the Jabulani Mall.The 58-year-old...

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A sergeant with Abu Dhabi Traffic Department has been arrested after police uncovered a Dh13 million luxury car scam.

A sergeant with Abu Dhabi Traffic Department has been arrested after police uncovered a Dh13 million luxury car scam.The officer is facing corruption charges after he fraudulently altered the ownership certificates for 17 BMWs. Police said the man intended to sell the cars abroad.The UAE Government is committed to fighting corruption, enhancing performance and ensuring accountability for the benefit of its citizens, top officials said on Monday."The government is committed to combating corruption however large or sensitive in keeping with instructions from the political leadership," Lieutenant...

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10-second FBI video clip of two top Ramsey County sheriff's aides stashing $6,000 in purported drug money is either evidence of corruption

10-second FBI video clip of two top Ramsey County sheriff's aides stashing $6,000 in purported drug money is either evidence of corruption or a stupid practical joke, according to opening statements in their federal trial Tuesday. "Our criminal justice system fails when those who are charged with enforcing our laws act corruptly," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Dixon said in his 30-minute opening statement to 16 jurors. St. Paul Police Inspector Timothy Rehak and Mark Naylon, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher's public information officer, face identical eight-count federal indictments for two "integrity"...

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Ricky Sam Sisneros the shot-caller for a Torrance street gang

Convicted Ricky Sam Sisneros of being an ex-felon in possession of seven firearms as well as ammunition and drug counts. The jury also found true allegations the crimes were gang-related.The 45-year-old Sisneros was described during trial as the shot-caller for a Torrance street gang, but defense lawyer Caree Harper told jurors he was only a "junkie, bike-riding older ma...

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Gangster Kalid Dib, shot dead during a failed armoured van robbery on Tuesday.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered at Lakemba Mosque for the funeral of Kalid Dib, shot dead during a failed armoured van robbery on Tuesday.About 200 friends and relatives marched in a procession from a funeral parlour next door and into the mosque just before midday.A group of young men carried Dib's white casket, draped in a green religious sheet, up the steps and inside.The mourners included the clearly distraught immediately family of Dib, as well as controversial Sydney cleric Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly.After a half-hour service the crowd re-emerged and watched as the coffin was placed in...

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Gangster John Gizzi yesterday blamed the credit crunch for stopping him paying back his ill gotten gains to the state.

John Gizzi yesterday blamed the credit crunch for stopping him paying back his ill gotten gains to the state.Lawyers for Gizzi, 36, also blamed bad headlines in the media on him being unable to sell his house in St Asaph to raise the full amount of cash he owes.The 36-year-old faces a default sentence of eight years unless he finds £2.6m under a proceeds of crime order made against him in March last year for every asset he owned.At a Proceeds of Crime Hearing to discuss why the money had not yet been paid back yesterday, Prestatyn court heard that so far £300,000 had been realised.But several...

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Philbert Truong was gunned down outside the Red Jacket nightclub

The two young men charged in last month's shooting death of Victoria student Philbert Truong were among the 11 suspected associates of the violent Red Scorpion gang identified by Victoria police during a recent drug sting, sources close to the investigation said yesterday.Dubbed Operation Mongoose, the initiative kicked into gear on July 22, three days after Mr. Truong was gunned down outside a View Street nightclub.On Tuesday, police said they had seven of the 11 alleged Red Scorpion affiliates in custody. They later acknowledged that only five of the people arrested in the sting have been linked...

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Seven members of the Vancouver-based Red Scorpions gang are facing multiple drug trafficking charges in Victoria.

The Red Scorpions are a multi-ethnic gang known for its lack of mercy. The gang has been mentioned in connection with the death of six men in a Surrey apartment last October. Two of the people killed were uninvolved with crime (Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan). Seven members of the Vancouver-based Red Scorpions gang are facing multiple drug trafficking charges in Victoria. Victoria Police say the bust of a dial-a-dope scheme was designed to keep the notorious Vancouver gang from moving into the provincial capital. Victoria Police Sergeant Grant Hamilton says they started an undercover operation...

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Glock handgun seized by gardai during a raid on a house in Dublin's north inner city is being linked to a series of underworld hits.

Glock handgun seized by gardai during a raid on a house in Dublin's north inner city is being linked to a series of underworld hits. And one of the men arrested during the raids has been described as a 'serious player' in Dublin's inner city underworld by informed gardai. The gun which was fitted with a silencer was uncovered by gardai from Pearse Street Drugs Unit when they raided a house on Sean McDermott Street. Drugs with a potential street value of nearly €500,000 were also seized in separate searches in Dublin. In addition to the weapon, detectives also seized 10 rounds of ammunition at...

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Arthur Thompson, organised the hit. Thompson, was a notorious Glasgow-born gangster who took charge of organised crime in the city

John McGranaghan said that a city businessman, who now lives in Spain, went to Glasgow crime baron, Arthur Thompson, to organise the hit. Thompson, was a notorious Glasgow-born gangster who took charge of organised crime in the city for more than 30 years.Thompson began his career as a money lender and became infamous for nailing those who failed to pay debts to him to the floor by their hands and feet.Linked to the notorious Kray twins, protection rackets soon followed and Thompson invested his money into legitimate businesses, making him very wealthy.One of the most feared criminals in Scotland,...

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Lil Wayne and Yung Berg have reportedly failed to appear in a New York court for hearings relating to gun charges.

Lil Wayne and Yung Berg have reportedly failed to appear in a New York court for hearings relating to gun charges.According to TMZ, Wayne's camp claims that the New Orleans bred rapper failed to show because of a dental condition that restricts him from driving. A reason for Berg's no-show was not given.Wayne's gun charges are from a 2007 arrest. A .40 caliber handgun was found by authorities in his tour bus last July following a performance with Ja Rule at Manhattan's Beacon Theater.Wayne, who...

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Handgun was recovered in the car park of a south London pub after the gunman was tackled to the ground.

Handgun was recovered in the car park of a south London pub after the gunman was tackled to the ground.The drama began in Tulse Hill when three uniformed officers, including a woman special officer, attempted to pull over a car.The green Ford Focus sped off and following a short pursuit stopped in Abbess Close where the driver was arrested.The passenger ran down an alleyway and a 27-year-old officer and the special gave chase on foot as they radioed for back-up.As they closed in on the man he stopped, pulled a gun from his waistband and shot at the officers.Neither officer was injured and they...

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Christopher Nakia Johnson Police believe Mr. Johnson was the masked gunman who entered a Sam's Club

Christopher Nakia Johnson, 27,arrested Friday at an undisclosed location on unrelated misdemeanor warrants, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Mr. Johnson was charged with aggravated robbery and possession of marijuana and cocaine; officers found the drugs during the arrest. He was being held Saturday morning at the Dallas County Jail on $115,000 bail. Police believe Mr. Johnson was the masked gunman who entered a Sam's Club in the 2900 block of West Wheatland Road on June 27, grabbed off-duty...

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Executed a federal search warrant on the Gun Barn and seized all of the store’s guns while arresting two Highland residents

More details have been released concerning last week’s raid on a Highland Township gun store. On Friday WHMI reported that the Gun Barn on M-59 had been raided by federal agents and closed down, but authorities did not release any further information. Over the weekend, it was learned that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a federal search warrant on the Gun Barn and seized all of the store’s guns while arresting two Highland residents, Gabriel Kish and...

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Benson Keganne pulled the trigger of a pistol to kill Gloria Mahowe

Benson Keganne pulled the trigger of a pistol to kill Gloria Mahowe in the morning of Saturday March 10, 2001 - eight years ago - in a bush near Molapowabojang, little did he know that he was calling for an appointment with the hangman. The High Court has ruled that he killed the woman in cold-blood and he deserved to be hanged by the neck until he dies. He stood still with a blank facial expression as Justice David Newman delivered his ruling that he killed a "Good Samaritan" execution-style, shooting...

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Carlos Gonzales Sr., 51, of Wharton, and Carlos Gonzalez Jr., 20, of Randolph, a father and son who had set up competing drug businesses

Attorney General Anne Milgram and the state director of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration came to Morristown to make the announcement this afternoon with Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi.Photos of nine of the 11 individuals were made available by authorities.Bianchi said the five-month, gang, gun and drug investigation was one of the most successful launched in Morris County as it targeted individuals based in Dover, Rockaway, Wharton and Randolph. He said it racked up the first...

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Kelly Gibbs, 39, of 1320 Elizabeth Ave., New Bern, was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.

Kelly Gibbs, 39, of 1320 Elizabeth Ave., New Bern, was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.Police said shots were fired during a disturbance involving a crowd at 609 Highway 55 West.The police said they went toward the sound of the shots and found Gibbs.No one was injured from gunfire and no other arrests were reported.Gibbs was put in jail with his bail set at $5,000.Police say Gibbs is a convicted felon and could face additional federal charges under the Project Safe Neighborhoods...

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Three people have been arrested for the shooting death of a Queen Creek teenager over the weekend.

Three people have been arrested for the shooting death of a Queen Creek teenager over the weekend.Pinal County sheriff's officials say they received several 911 calls around 2:30 a.m. reporting that multiple shots were fired and someone was face down in the street.The victim, 17-year-old Anibel Mendoza was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials say the teen was involved in an altercation with several people, and a gun fight ensued.Sunday afternoon police arrested 20 year-old Thais "Lamar" Cooper of Queen Creek and 21 year-old Johnny Lee Cooks, also of Queen Creek, in relation to that shooting....

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Bermudan Police officers descended on Princess Street, including officers armed with submachine guns.

young man was shot in an apparent drive-by shooting on Princess Street in Hamilton last night. Police had few details at presstime but neighbours reported that the man was shot by another man who fled as the pillion passenger on a cycle. A source said the gunman fired several shots over his shoulder as he was being driven away at high speed. Dozens of Police officers descended on Princess Street, including officers armed with submachine guns. The victim was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital...

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Shawn Walker, also called Coach, was taken into custody after he was injured during a shootout with the police on Wednesday.

Shawn Walker, also called Coach, was taken into custody after he was injured during a shootout with the police on Wednesday. He is still in hospital under police guard. Walker has since been charged for shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. The police say Walker is the leader of a gang, which operates out of a section of the Phase Two Housing Scheme in Seaview Gardens known as Marley. According to the police he was also a suspect in the murder of bus driver, Roy McFarlene about three weeks ago. The police say he will be facing an identification parade in connection...

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Nate Craft the former hit man testified against a Detroit drug gang in return for prosecutors reducing a first-degree murder charge

Nate Craft the former hit man testified against a Detroit drug gang in return for prosecutors reducing a first-degree murder charge for the killing of a drug dealer. Released from prison in April, Craft thought he would enter the Witness Protection Program. Not only was he rejected, but his probation requires him to live in Michigan for the next two years. By forcing him to live in the same place as the people he testified against, many of whom were paid killers and already have been released from prison, Craft said his probation amounts to a virtual death sentence. "You might as well pull the...

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