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Bassam Hamzy
Brothers for Life (often stylised as B4L), also referred to as the Hamzy Family, is a Middle Eastern criminal organisation based in the South-Western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Brothers for Life first came to public prominence in the early 2010s as internal disputes between its Bankstown and Blacktown chapters resulted in a violent gang war. Between 2020 and 2022, the gang was again in the public eye as one side of a new conflict, then against the Alameddine crime network. Since 2024, the gang has been active in Melbourne. Founding (2007) The Brothers for Life gang was founded by Bassam Hamzy. The son of Lebanese-Australian immigrants Khaled and Lola, Hamzy was sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment in 2002 for the May 1998 shooting murder of Kris Toumazis outside of the Mr Goodbar nightclub in Darlinghurst. Police first heard of 'Brothers 4 Life' following a raid on Hamzy's jail cell in early 2007. Preceding the raid, officers had observed that Hamzy had become the ring-le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBL/BFL
CBL/BFL, also known by the full name Cash Been Long / Brothers For Life, is an American gang based in Buffalo, New York and was established in the Towne Gardens Housing Complex located in Willert Park in 2009. History The gang was established around 2009 in the Towne Gardens Housing Complex and to this day it remains the central hub and operational center for the gang in which they use the housing complex to racketeer weapons and narcotics which lead to many gang members being convicted for and the nearby area of the Town Gardens Housing Complex has caused drug trafficking turf wars to see who would get control of the area as their gang's turf. Many of the members of the gang live in the housing complex. Members utilized parking lots and a retail plaza adjacent to the Towne Gardens to distribute narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and other controlled substances. The gang has extended operations outside of the Towne Gardens area and out nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithgow Correctional Centre
Lithgow Correctional Centre is a prison near Lithgow, Australia, operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the New South Wales state government. The prison houses sentenced male inmates with a maximum security classification. History Data obtained from Corrective Services NSW by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' revealed that between July 2006 and May 2009, 67 assaults occurred at the centre, one of which was considered serious. Following the 2008 discovery of a prison drug ring orchestrated from inside Lithgow Correctional Centre by Bassam Hamzy through use of a mobile phone, prison officials sought approval for the introduction of a trial of mobile phone jamming technology. The trial began on 24 September 2013, and has been extended to 1 November 2018. In 2011, prison officials announced a trial ban of smoking in the centre, impacting both inmates and officers. Nicotine patches were issued to inmates as a substitute. Prisoners were permitted to smoke in some designate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine News
Nine News (stylized as 9News) is a national News agency, news service on the Nine Network in Australia. Its flagship program is an hour-long ''9News'' bulletin at 6:00 pm, with editions produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in TCN, Sydney, GTV (Australian TV station), Melbourne, QTQ, Brisbane, NWS (TV station), Adelaide, and STW, Perth. Regional editions for Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast are broadcast under the NBN Television, NBN News brand and are produced in NBN (TV station), Newcastle. A supplementary regional news program for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast in Queensland also airs every weeknight. National bulletins air throughout the day and evening, broadcast from Nine's headquarters in Sydney. Until the mid-2000s, ''Nine News'' was positioned as the highest-rated news service in Australia, but it was overtaken by rival news service ''Seven News'' in 2005 before regaining the top position in 2013. History ''9News, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Gym
World Gym International LLC is an American fitness center founded in 1976 by Joe Gold during the glory days of "Muscle Beach" in Venice Beach, California. Joe Gold is also the founder of Gold's Gym, another unaffiliated gym chain, which he sold in 1973. The gym was often frequented by celebrities and famous bodybuilders such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Dave Draper and Franco Columbu. In March 2021, World Gym said it had over 200 franchises across six continents. Owned by the Cammilleri family since 2009, its plans included further global expansion of the franchise network and the opening of regional flagship gyms. On October 28, 2024, World Fitness Services, Ltd., the parent company of World Gym Taiwan, announced its acquisition of parent company World Gym International for US$9 million. History Joe Gold started Gold's gym in 1965. Many world-famous bodybuilders trained there. Gold sold the gym in 1973 and went back out to sea as a sea merchant. When he came back, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yagoona, New South Wales
Yagoona, a suburb of the local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 20 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the South-western Sydney region. Yagoona is an Aboriginal word meaning 'now' or 'today'. It was the site of the first McDonald's restaurant to open in Australia in December 1971. History The area now known as Yagoona—Bass Hill, and north Bankstown—was once known as Irish Town, due to the high concentration of Irish rebels transported here from Ireland in the late 1700s. Land grants were issued to Irish families and finally the suburb of Yagoona was created in 1927. St Matthew's Anglican Church was built on Liverpool Road (now Hume Highway) in 1861 to cater for the Protestants of the district as well as to function as a school. Commercial area The main commercial area is located on the Hume Highway (Liverpool Road), near Yagoona railway station. In 1963, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kneecapping
Kneecapping is a form of malicious wounding, often as torture, in which the victim is injured in the knee. The injury is typically inflicted by a low-velocity gunshot to the knee pit with a handgun. The term is considered a misnomer by medical professionals because only a very small minority of victims suffer damage to the kneecap. A review of eighty kneecapping victims found that only two had a fractured kneecap. Some victims have their elbows and ankles shot as well. Treatment The severity of the injury can vary from simple soft tissue damage to a knee joint fracture with neurovascular damage. The latter requires several weeks in hospital and intensive outpatient physiotherapy for recovery. If the damage is too great, amputation may be necessary, but this rarely occurs. In Northern Ireland thirteen people had their legs amputated as a consequence of limb punishment shootings over the duration of the Troubles. In the long term it is estimated that one out of five victims wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monterey, New South Wales
Monterey ( ) is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 15 km south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area. Monterey is in the local government area of the Bayside Council. Monterey sits on the western shores of Botany Bay. Lady Robinsons Beach and Cook Park run along the eastern border. Scarborough Park, which features a pond, runs along the western border. The suburb is mostly residential with a small group of shops on Chuter Avenue, near the intersection of Scarborough Street. The 1987 Music Video for Mental As Anything's single "He's just no good for you" was filmed in Scarborough Street, Monterey. History Monterey was originally part of Brighton-Le-Sands and Ramsgate. As the area developed, street names with a Californian influence were selected such as Hollywood, Monterey, Pasadena and Culver. A small group of shops were built on Chuter Avenue, near Monterey Street. When the post office opened here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenacre
Greenacre is a suburb in Sydney, located 20 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Most of Greenacre is in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, while a part in the east is in the Municipality of Strathfield. History This area was previously known as East Bankstown. When the first road went through the area, an acre of land was cleared for cultivation. The contrast to its surrounding area led to it being referred to as the 'Green Acre'. In 1909, Greenacre Park Estate became one of the first subdivisions in the area. Michael Ryan operated an inn called the Harp of Ould Erin on land he owned to the north of Liverpool Road. The eastern part of the suburb, east of Roberts Road and north of Juno Parade, was mostly part of the large logistical and industrial area surrounding Enfield Marshalling Yards, with a small residential area. This area was incorporated into Enfield Council in 1889, and transf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Odisho
Michael Odisho is an Assyrian-Australian underworld figure and former member of the DLASTHR and Brothers for Life (BFL) organized crime gangs which operated in Sydney, Australia. He was featured on a short ABC Television documentary '' 7.30'' giving access into his former gang life. In 2016 he was found guilty of a shooting involvement where he was sentenced up to 5 years in prison. Gang affiliations Odisho was named at the inquest into the shooting death of Ramon Khananyah at a Fairfield, New South Wales café in November 2005. Police believed the shooting was linked to DLASTHR (The Last Hour) who Odisho was a member of. Khananyah was killed and three others wounded when three gunmen peppered the Babylon Café in the Civic Centre Arcade, Fairfield, with at least 15 bullets. At a 2011 inquest into the death of Khananyah, Mr MacMahon said the evidence against the key police suspects was "cogent" - but not strong enough for a jury to convict them. He referred the case back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DLASTHR
DLASTHR (''The Last Hour'') is an Assyrian criminal organization that is active in the south western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The group is said to have originated from another gang, called the Assyrian Kings. The crime gang was formed by Raymon Youmaran who served a 19- year sentence for the murder of Dimitri DeBaz in 2002. The crime gang has been involved in a number of murders and public shootings, as they established themselves as a major drug dealing and distribution syndicate. Many members sport plenty of ink, including a distinctive clenched fist on their back. NSW police have actively pursued the gang for years, conducting numerous operations that have netted weapons and drugs. In recent years, gun violence is thought to be part of the gang's turf war over drug supply with its rival gang, ''The True Kings''. The conflict between the two gangs led to a string of drive by shootings and firebombing in the western suburbs of Sydney. History Origins In the 1990s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandidos Motorcycle Club
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas, San Leon, Texas, in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters located in 22 countries, making it the second-largest motorcycle club in the world behind the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Hells Angels. Michael E. Miller, ''The Washington Post'' (May 18, 2015) Numerous law enforcement and international intelligence agencies classify the Bandidos as an organized crime syndicate. National Alliance of Gang Investigators Association (2005) Europol History The Bandidos Motorcycle Club was founded by 36-year-old dockworker Donald Eugene Chambers on March 4, 1966, in San Leon, Texas, San Leon, Texas. APRIL 2007 Chambers named the club in honor of the Mexican bandits who lived by their own rules, and he recruited members from biker bars locally in Houston as well as in Corpus Christi, Texas, Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auburn, New South Wales
Auburn is a Western Sydney suburb in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Auburn is located west of the Sydney central business district and is in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Cumberland City Council, having previously been the administrative centre of Auburn City, Auburn Council. The suburb was named after Oliver Goldsmith's poem ''The Deserted Village'', which describes 'Auburn' in England as the "loveliest village of the plain". History Origins The Auburn area was once used by Aboriginal people as a market place for the exchange of goods, a site for ritual battles and a 'Law Place' for ceremonies. The area was located on the border between the Darug inland group and the Eora/Dharawal coastal group. The Wangal and Wategoro, sub-groups or clans, are the groups most often recognised as the original inhabitants of the Auburn/Homebush Bay region. Bennelong, one of the most famous Natives of the time, was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
