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Wolfpack Alliance
The Wolfpack Alliance is a Canadian organized crime group. The Canadian journalist Peter Edwards and the Mexican journalist Luis Horacio Nájera wrote that the Wolfpack Alliance were "...a loosely allied and multi-ethnic group of mostly Millennial-aged gangsters who operated across the country". The police described the Wolfpack as not a single group, but rather a consortium that united several organized crime groups together. History Origins The Wolfpack Alliance was founded in 2010 in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia by the Hells Angels member Larry Amero as a "side project". Hells Angels are allowed to create "side projects", as long as the other members of the relevant chapter are aware of the project and allowed to participate if they so desire. The other leaders of the Wolfpack Alliance were Jonathan Bacon of the Red Scorpions and Randy Naicker and James Riach of the Independent Soldiers. The first public evidence of the existence of the group was that Bacon was often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Amero
Lawrence Ronald Amero (born 1977) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster affiliated with the Hells Angels and the Wolfpack Alliance. Hells Angels Amero was born and grew up in Langley, British Columbia. He is of Portuguese descent. Amero's father worked as a longshoreman for the Port of Vancouver. At the Port of Vancouver, the British Columbia Maritime Employers' Association does not hire its workers, who are instead hired by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, with the Employers' Association being merely responsible for training and paying the wages of those workers selected by the union. The International Longshore & Warehouse workers union only hires workers who have been sponsored by a current worker, and in this way Amero was sponsored by his father to work as a longshoreman. As a teenager, he was bullied, which led him to become as journalist Jerry Langton described him "a steroid-fueled behemoth" as an adult. Amero's arms have been massively bulked up, caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siderno Group
The Siderno Group is a criminal association in Canada, Australia and Italy related to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria. The association is labelled the "Siderno Group" because its members primarily came from the town of Siderno on the Ionian coast in Calabria and migrated to Canada and Australia in the 1950s.Why Italy's scariest Mob loves Canada , National Post, November 24, 2007Myths, Legends, and Affiliation Prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad López Mateos
Ciudad López Mateos (most commonly called "Atizapán") is a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico, and the municipal seat of the municipality called Atizapán de Zaragoza. The city was previously named San Francisco Atizapán, but the official name was changed after president Adolfo López Mateos, who was born in that town. However, the city is still commonly known as Atizapán. There were 489,160 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. It is the seventh-largest city in the state. It includes the upscale neighborhood Zona Esmeralda. This was the hometown of Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos, and a mausoleum was built for his remains in downtown Atizapán de Zaragoza. Geography Three rivers have their waterway across Atizapán: Tlalnepatla River, San Javier River and Moritas River, all of them located north of the municipality. Inside Atizapán, near the border with Naucalpan, is located the Madin Dam, which provides water to the north west part of the Greater Mexico City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a city in Ontario, Canada, adjacent to, and named after, Niagara Falls. As of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, the city had a population of 94,415. The city is located on the Niagara Peninsula along the western bank of the Niagara River, which forms part of the Canada–United States border, with the other side being the twin city of Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is within the Regional Municipality of Niagara and a part of the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, St. Catharines - Niagara Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Tourism is a major part of the city's economy: its skyline consists of multiple high-rise hotels and observation towers that overlook the waterfalls and adjacent parkland. Souvenir shops, arcades, museums, amusement rides, indoor water parks, casinos, theatres and a Niagara Falls Convention Centre, convention centre are located nearby in the city's large tourist area. Other parts of the city include histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Kenneth Maloney
Shane Kenneth Maloney (born 1977) is a Canadian criminal and the reputed leader of the West End Gang. West End Gang Maloney was born in Montreal, where he is alleged to be the illegitimate son of Frank Ryan by his mistress, Sandra Maloney. In 1989, his mother moved to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, where he grew up. In 2019, he told the National Parole Board: "I started selling weed when I was a kid at my mother's house...I wanted to go back to Montreal and my mom wasn't having it, so I was trying to be difficult". Maloney described his mother as a heavy drinker who was verbally abusive. When he was 15, his mother grew tired him of selling marijuana out of her house, and called the police, leading to his first criminal conviction. At the age of 16, he was expelled from high school and he returned to his hometown of Montreal. In 1997, he was crippled in an accident and has been confided to a wheelchair. His nickname of "Wheels" relates to his status as a man who lives in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Niagara Peninsula at the point where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario, across the river from New York (state), New York, United States. Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Region of Ontario and is the only town in Canada that has a lord mayor."Oh, Lordy!; Niagara-on-the-Lake's mayor is the only one in Canada referred to as 'lord,' but as reporter Monique Beech discovered, the title's official status isn't clear" . ''St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison. Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and raised in a poor farming family. He endured much physical abuse at the hands of his father, through whom he also entered the drug trade, helping him grow marijuana for local dealers during his early adulthood. Guzmán began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s, one of the nation's rising drug lords. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States. He later supervised logistics for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the nation's leading kingpins in the mid 1980s, but Guzmán founded his own cartel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996. Most millennials are the children of Baby Boomers. In turn, millennials are often the parents of Generation Alpha. As the first generation to grow up with the Internet, millennials have been described as the first global generation. The generation is generally marked by elevated usage of and familiarity with the Internet, mobile devices, social media, and technology in general. The term " digital natives", which is now also applied to successive generations, was originally coined to describe this generation. Between the 1990s and 2010s, people from developing countries became increasingly well-educated, a factor that boosted economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational organized crime, transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, terrorist groups, rebel groups, and Separatism, separatists, are politically motivated. Many criminal organizations rely on fear or terror to achieve their goals or aims as well as to maintain control within the organization and may adopt tactics commonly used by authoritarianism, authoritarian regimes to maintain power. Some forms of organized crime simply exist to cater towards demand of illegal goods in a state or to facilitate trade of goods and services that may have been banned by a state (such as illegal drugs or firearms). Sometimes, criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts protection racket, protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Michael Wiwchar
Dean Michael Wiwchar (born 1986) is a Canadian hitman currently serving a life sentence for murdering Johnny Raposo in 2012. Entry into crime Wiwchar was born in Stouffville into a middle-class family. As a teenager, he was a troublesome student in his high school and a leader of a gang. Wiwchar was often suspended from high school for his violence. In the fall of 2004, Wiwchar went on a series of violent robberies in York Region, robbing and beating people in fast food restaurants, in their homes and in their automobiles. While robbing first a McDonald's and then a Harvey's restaurants, Wiwchar wore a mask and engaged in gratuitous sadism as he beat the restaurant employees with a baseball bat even after he was handled the money in the cash registers. The next day, Wiwchar broke into a house and attacked the homeowner with a knife, and mutilated his face by cutting a giant gash from his ear to his lips. In another incident in a pool hall in Markham, Wiwchar used his knife to stab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Raposo
João "Johnny" Raposo (1977 – 18 June 2012) was a Canadian gangster and one of the leaders of the Wolfpack Alliance. The McCormick Boys Raposo was born in Toronto, the son of Portuguese immigrants. Raposo's father abandoned him when he was young and he was raised by his single mother, whom he was very close to. Raposo grew up in the Little Portugal neighborhood on College Street. Raposo had the reputation as a pugnacious character as one who knew him recalled: "Johnny was nuts. He could fight. He was like a boxer fighter. He was a tough guy. He could drop a six two, 250-pound man, no problem. Johnny had heart, a big heart. He was treacherous and fearless". As a teenager, Raposo was the leader of the McCormick Boys street gang who sold drugs for the Mafia. The McCormick Boys gang were so-called because their favourite meeting spot was McCormick Park in downtown Toronto. A police officer recalled: "Raposo was the head dude, he was the moneyman. You could talk with him but he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
