Category: True Crime

Diary Of Dudus Coke Gang Leader Read In Court: “This Is A Wasted Life”

  
The Tivoli Commission of Enquiry yesterday heard compelling testimony of how a notorious gangster who, amid his confessed acts of criminality, appeared remorseful about his criminal lifestyle and who was missing the affection of his family.

The testimony by Superintendent Beau Rigabie was based on the contents of a diary he said was penned by slain Stone Crusher gang leader ‘Doggie’ – given name Cedric Murray – who was killed in a shoot-out with the police in Clarendon on August 12, 2010.

Reverence For Coke

Several entries in the diary show the reverence Murray had for drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and the Coke clan and how he boasted about being among heavily armed thugs who waged fierce gun battles with members of the security forces during the May 2010 police-military operation in Tivoli Gardens.

In one entry dated May 24, 2010 – the day the operation was launched – Murray described how “gunshot rang out from every corner of west Kingston” and suggested that Coke and his cronies might have underestimated the firepower of the security forces.

All hell broke loose, more than we expected. I fired my AK [47 rifle] until my finger numb. I eat gun powder until my throat sore,” Rigabie said as he read one of the gangster’s boasts.

“It was a raging gun battle, a day I won’t forget and such tragedy for Jamaica. They came in and slaughter all those people to catch one man and still didn’t,” he continued.

“I escaped … one of the last from where I was … under crazy gunfire, but God, grace [and] mercy brought me out untouched and my don is free. I will always say ‘Jim Brown’ [Coke’s late father Lester Lloyd Coke] … I am loyal to the Coke family and my guns will always be ready,” Murray also wrote.

Despite this, the reputed gang leader showed his softer side in an entry he made in June 2010. Murray wrote that his heart was in pain because he was about to “lose his baby”, a reference to his female companion.

“This is just too much, she lives in constant fear. Every sound frightens her so the time has come for me to, once again, to feel the pain of being heartbroken,” he wrote.

Murray also wrote of his daughter’s fourth birthday when she reported waking up to a curfew. “I called her and she said ‘daddy soldiers’ and she was afraid. My life is filled with ups and downs,” he noted.

He also indicated that the dismantling of Coke’s west Kingston stronghold forced him “back in the streets” and that he was “very unhappy and lonely”.

Murray recounted one instance when a false alarm caused him to flee his place of hiding.

“So many of those, this is a wasted life. I don’t even have a roof over my head, I’m all over [the place]. I miss my kids,” he wrote.

Source | Jamaica Gleaner 

Cops Called Repeatedly Over “Dead Body” In Detroit Halloween Display

If you saw this in your neighbors yard, would you be concerned enough to call the cops? 
  


Via Fox News reports: 

Larethia Haddon said police showed up to her home Tuesday, the first day she placed a dummy face down in her front yard. Officer Jennifer Moreno told The Detroit News that officers came back to her house on Wednesday and Thursday.

“We received one call each about the dummy on the sixth, seventh and eighth,” Moreno said. “But as of Friday, the only call we received to Mendota was to check on the welfare of a 99-year-old woman.”

Haddon said she puts the dummy face down in a different location of her yard every morning and watches the reactions from passers-by as she drinks her coffee. She says some have attempted CPR and “once they find out it’s a dummy, it’s so hilarious.”

Haddon told the newspaper she used to live in Redford Township and would have emergency personnel show up almost every day.

Haddon said the tradition started because her husband’s birthday is on Halloween. Haddon said she didn’t mean to offend anyone.

“I’m trying to bring laughter to Detroit,” she said. “We really need it.”

Source | Bossip 

Female Cartel Trafficker Arrested In Mexico 

 

Ana Marie Hernandez, known as “La Muneca,” or the doll, was arrested in Chihuahua after being a United States fugitive.

 

LMTonline — A high-level drug trafficking fugitive known for her luxurious lifestyle and extensive ties to senior Mexican cartel leaders was recently captured by Mexican authorities and is expected to be extradited to the United States.

Ana Marie Hernandez, known as “La Muñeca,” or the doll, was arrested in Chihuahua after on the run from American and El Paso authorities for about two years, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office announced this week.

Hernandez, 38, fled Texas after pleading guilty to drug smuggling and bribery charges in 2013 in El Paso. According to a federal criminal complaint, Hernandez and her ex-husband Daniel Ledezma smuggled thousands of kilograms of cocaine through an El Paso border crossing where he worked.

The drugs, which were transported through lanes being inspected by Ledezma, were distributed to several cities throughout the U.S. including Chicago, St. Louis and Panama City, Florida, the complaint said.

Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA, said Hernandez, who operated in Texas and Mexican border cities, used her good looks and wit to smuggle drugs and gain access to senior cartel members in the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.

“Beautiful women are highly coveted by the cartel leaders, they bring them into the fold and a lot of times have relationships with them,” Vigil said in an interview with mySA.com. “(The cartels) use them because they have the ability to infiltrate the United States and develop ties and distribution tentacles here.”

“La Muñeca” began working with the Juarez Cartel, but became a large-scale trafficker for the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, after the Juarez Cartel’s demise, said Vigil, who worked in Mexico tracking drug cartel activity for 13 years.

Vigil said he believes Hernandez has some sort of relationship with “El Chapo,” based on her affiliation with the Sinaloa Cartel and the drug lord’s affinity for attractive women.
“One thing we know about Chapo Guzman is his love of beautiful women,” he said.

However, “La Muñeca’s” capture could be an indirect result of Guzmán escape.

Vigil said Mexico has opened the “flood gates” on extraditions to the U.S. as a way to compensate following Guzman’s escape from a maximum security prison earlier this year.

“The Mexican government is using these extraditions to keep pressure of their back until they are able to capture ‘El Chapo’,” he said. “(His escape) was a significant embarrassment.”

Earlier this month, 13 mid-to-high ranking cartel members were extradited to the U.S., including Laredo native Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La Barbie.”

Vigil said several other leaders will be extradited soon, including Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the Zetas Cartel.

“La Muñeca” is known for her lavish lifestyle, according to the federal complaint.

“Hernandez does not have a job, however, (she) is regularly observed … spending large amounts of money,” the complaint said.

Hernandez spent thousands of dollars on clothing and shoes during a 2008 four-day trip to Las Vegas. She paid $30,000 cash for a pool at her home in El Paso, the documents said.

“Her capture by Mexican authorities shows that not even a beautiful drug trafficker like ‘La Muñeca’ is above the rule of law,” Vigil said.