A New Zealand-born bikie gang boss alleged to be masterminding a global drug empire from Turkey has become the new “Supreme Commander” of the now worldwide Comanchero motorcycle club. Duax “Dax” Hohepa Ngakuru was born in Rotorua but grew up in Sydney where he rose through the ranks of the Comancheros during violent turf wars…
In just a few years since founding the crypto exchange FTX in 2019, Sam Bankman-Fried built a reverent audience among the US political and financial establishment. Then it all came crashing down. Often dressed like he’d just come from a pick-up squash game, the 30-year-old onetime crypto billionaire had appeared with the likes of Bill…
The government in The Bahamas has seized $3.5 billion in FTX digital assets, as its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces a trial in the US. The country’s Securities Commission took control of the assets soon after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy in the US in November, reports revealed late on Friday. The Securities Commission…
A Romanian court has agreed to a police request to hold the controversial influencer Andrew Tate in detention for 30 days. Tate was arrested alongside his brother Tristan on Thursday as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape. Authorities suspect the pair, along with two Romanian men, of running an “an…
An FDNY lieutenant who was allegedly “highly intoxicated” is accused of taking a swing at Amtrak officers after passing out on the floor in Penn Station, transit cops said. Lt. Michael Peirano was found in full uniform by a station worker just before 11 p.m. Thursday lying on the floor in front of the GNC…
The man arrested over the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students has been named as Bryan Kohberger. A SWAT team entered the location in Pennsylvania where Kohberger, 28, was staying and took him into custody around 3 a.m. Friday, WPVI reported. Police also seized a white Hyundai Elantra matching the description of the car…
A 28-year-old suspect is in custody in connection with the slayings of four University of Idaho students, NBC News reported Friday. Bryan Christopher Kohberger was taken into custody by police and the FBI around 3 a.m. Friday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to reports. Kohberger appeared in court Friday morning. He is reportedly a college student…
GUAYAQUIL – Insecurity in Ecuador is hurting the Andean country’s exports of products like bananas and shrimp, an exporters association said, amid assaults on shipping containers and contamination of shipments with drugs. At least 63 people linked to exports of bananas, shrimp and cacao – the raw material used to make chocolate – were murdered…
Talk about a heated environment. Climate activist Greta Thunberg is giving incendiary influencer Andrew Tate a taste of his own medicine following his recent arrest. “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes,” Thunberg tweeted. Tate and his brother Tristan were detained on kidnapping and rape charges Thursday after the controversial social…
The Dubai Court of Appeal has issued a ruling to extradite Sanjay Shah, a British citizen, to Denmark. Danish authorities want the suspect for alleged fraud and money laundering. The ruling follows the hearing of an appeal by Chancellor Essam Issa Al Humaidan, Attorney General of Dubai, to the Dubai Court of Cassation against a…