2011 in organized crime

none May 20252011 organized crime In 2011, a number of events took place in organized crime. On January 20, 127 mafia members from various crime families in the northeast of the United States.2011-01-20 FBI charges 127 alleged mobsters in north-east US https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12243086 2025-05-03 BBC News en-GB The Mexican drug war continued to be a focus throughout the year.2013-04-19 Asesinan a Vicente Castillo, sobrino del capo mexicano Amado Carrillo - Nacional - CNNMéxico.com http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/09/23/asesinan-a-vicente-castillo-sobrino-del-capo-mexicano-amado-carrillo 2025-05-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20130419234509/http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/09/23/asesinan-a-vicente-castillo-sobrino-del-capo-mexicano-amado-carrillo 19 April 2013 Events January January 6 – A U.S. plan to force gun dealers in states which border Mexico to report cases where individuals bought multiple high-powered rifles in under 5 days, is stalled due to opposition from gun lobbies. Approximately 90% of crime guns seized in Mexico originate in the U.S., and over 30,000 people have died in Mexico due to drug cartel violence since 2006.Gaynor Tim White House tightening of Mexico border gun rules delayed https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7055XA20110106 https://web.archive.org/web/20220707024517/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7055XA20110106 2022-07-07 2025-05-03 U.S. en-US January 20 – Agents of the United States charge 127 alleged mafia members, across all five of the New York crime families: Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno, as well as the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante family and the Patriarca family in the northeast of the country.Apoyan Jackie 2021-01-20 The biggest Mafia sweep in American history https://themobmuseum.org/blog/the-biggest-mafia-sweep-in-american-history/ 2025-05-03 The Mob Museum en-US February February 6 – Reputed Mexican drug cartel leader Sandra Ávila Beltrán is sentenced to a year in jail for weapons possession charges.Reputed drug cartel 'queen' sentenced for arms possession http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17311293 https://web.archive.org/web/20150910084716/http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17311293 2015-09-10 2025-05-03 El Paso Times.com February 24 – United States authorities arrest more than 60 suspected members of Mexican drug cartels following the execution of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Mexico last week.2011-02-24 More Than 60 Arrested in Nationwide Mexican Drug Gang Sweep http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/24/60-arrested-nationwide-mexican-drug-gang-sweep/# https://web.archive.org/web/20150926181549/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/24/60-arrested-nationwide-mexican-drug-gang-sweep/ 2015-09-26 2025-05-03 Fox News en-US February 26 – A Mexican judge authorises 40 days of detention for an alleged member of the Los Zetas drug cartel suspected in the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.2011-02-27 Suspect in US agent slaying ordered held for probe The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/26/AR2011022603601.html 2025-05-03 en-US 0190-8286 March March 15 – Former US mafia leader Joey Merlino of the Scarfo crime family is released from prison in Indiana and is sent to a halfway house in Florida. 2011-03-15 "Skinny Joey" Merlino's Out of the Joint https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/skinny-joey-merlino-halfway-house/1923190/ 2025-05-03 NBC10 Philadelphia en-US April April 16 – Mexican authorities announce the arrest of Los Zetas Cartel leader Martin Omar Estrada "El Kilo" Luna. Government: Drug cartel leader 'El Kilo' caught in Mexico http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/17/mexico.drug.arrest/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240911223843/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/17/mexico.drug.arrest/ 2024-09-11 2025-05-03 en May May 5 – Italian police seize assets worth around $1.38 billion from the Polverino mafia clan in the Naples region, and arrest 39 alleged clan members, including two who were local elections candidates from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party.2011-05-05 Police seize one billion euros in mafia assets https://www.france24.com/en/20110505-italian-police-swoop-mafia-assets-polverino-naples 2025-05-03 France 24 en May 15 – 29 people are decapitated in a massacre in Caserio La Bomba, Petén, Guatemala, in an atrocity possibly linked to the Los Zetas Cartel.2011-06-08 Massacre In Northern Guatemala Leaves Dozens Dead : NPR NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/05/16/136340063/massacre-in-northern-guatemala-leaves-27-dead 2025-05-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20110608050448/http://www.npr.org/2011/05/16/136340063/massacre-in-northern-guatemala-leaves-27-dead 8 June 2011 May 16 – American mafia boss Vincent Basciano is convicted of murder in New York.Mob boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano found guilty of murder, gangster faces death penalty http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/05/16/2011-05-16_mob_boss_vincent_vinny_gorgeous_basciano_found_guilty_of_murder.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110520142605/http://www.nydailynews.com:80/news/ny_crime/2011/05/16/2011-05-16_mob_boss_vincent_vinny_gorgeous_basciano_found_guilty_of_murder.html? 2011-05-20 2025-05-03 New York Daily News en May 17 – A "state of siege" is declared in northern Guatemala after a massacre is committed by The Los Zetas Drug Cartel.Pachico Elyssa 2011-05-17 Guatemala Massacre Points to Zetas' Influence in Central America https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/guatemala-massacre-points-to-zetas-influence-in-ca/ 2025-05-03 InSight Crime en-US May 18 – The President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, claims that Hugo Alvaro Gomez Vasquez, who has been arrested in relation to the killing of 27 cattle ranch workers, is a leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel in the country.Corcoran Patrick 2011-05-18 Guatemala Arrests Man Accused of Massacre https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/guatemala-arrests-man-accused-of-massacre/ 2025-05-03 InSight Crime en-US June June 6 – The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation announces that it has arrested 13 members of the Mafia in the city of Philadelphia in relation to an illegal gambling operation.Araiza • • Karen 2011-05-23 Philly Mob's Gambling Ring Busted: Feds https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philly-mobs-gambling-ring-busted-feds/1902555/ 2025-05-03 NBC10 Philadelphia en-US June 30 – Head of Naples police intervention brigade Vittorio Pisani is investigated in Italy after coming under suspicion of leaking information to the mafia.Head of Naples police intervention brigade Vittorio Pisani is investigated in Italy after coming under suspicion of leak https://offstream.news/feed/2011/06/30/head-of-naples-police-intervention-brigade-vittorio-pisani-is-investigated-in-italy-after-coming-under-suspicion-of-leak.html 2025-05-03 offstream.news en July July 1 – Italian police arrest the Mafia boss of Corleone in Sicily.2011-07-04 Italian police arrest Corleone mafia boss - FRANCE 24 http://www.france24.com/en/20110701-italian-police-arrest-corleone-mafia-boss 2025-05-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20110704204117/http://www.france24.com/en/20110701-italian-police-arrest-corleone-mafia-boss 4 July 2011 July 11 – Twenty-three people allegedly linked to the Mexican Los Zetas Cartel are indicted in the US state of Colorado for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana in the United States.23 indicted in $36 million Mexican drug cartel smuggling https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/us-drugs-smuggling-mexico-idUSTRE76B02U20110712 https://web.archive.org/web/20111214072820/http://www.reuters.com:80/article/2011/07/12/us-drugs-smuggling-mexico-idUSTRE76B02U20110712 2011-12-14 2025-05-03 Reuters July 12 – 1,400 guns involved in Operation Fast and Furious aimed at tracing the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. 2013-08-27 Operation Fast and Furious Fast Facts https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts 2025-05-03 CNN en July 13 – Mexico's federal police capture a man who was allegedly the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug cartel.2011-07-13 Alleged drug cartel hitman captured https://www.denverpost.com/2011/07/13/alleged-drug-cartel-hitman-captured/ 2025-05-03 The Denver Post en-US Twenty-one people are killed in the town of Ciudad Juarez in an ongoing war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.Deadly record as 21 slain in northern Mexican city https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-record-21-slain-northern-mexican-city-215846033.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110714095933/http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-record-21-slain-northern-mexican-city-215846033.html 2011-07-14 2025-05-03 Yahoo! News en-US July 31 – Mexican Federal Police say suspected cartel leader José Antonio Acosta Hernández, who was arrested on Friday, has confessed to ordering the murder of 1,500 people in the country's northern state of Chihuahua.2011-07-31 Mexico drug cartel suspect Acosta 'admits killings' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14360288 2025-05-03 BBC News en-GB August August 25 – More than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.2011-08-26 Mexico casino arson attack kills dozens in Monterrey https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14674706 2025-05-03 BBC News en-GB September September 20 – Mexican gunmen dump 35 bodies in the city of Boca del Rio, with at least some of the victims having links to organized crime.2011-09-26 Horror in Mexico: Gunmen dump 35 bodies on street National & World News Bakersfield Now - News, Weather and Sports http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/130242818.html 2025-05-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20110926123715/http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/130242818.html 26 September 2011 Arts and literature January – Kill the Irishman (2011)2009-05-22 Slew of actors join 'The Irishman' The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i07c80a70350aca72ada4bdb1c08c9612 2025-05-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20090522093933/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i07c80a70350aca72ada4bdb1c08c9612 22 May 2009 See also Timeline of the Mexican drug war Timeline of organized crime Bibliography Notes 2 References Kelly, Robert J. Schatzberg, Rufus Chin, Ko-lin Handbook of organized crime in the United States 1994 Greenwood Publishing Group 0-313-28366-4 refKellySchatzbergChin1994 1994 C. Vilalta Monthly patterns, trends, and trajectories in the count of deaths related to organized crime, 2006-2010 2011 Conference at UAEM (in Spanish), April 26, 2011 http://geocrimen.cide.edu/resources/Ponencias-y-Medios/Vilalta---Crimen-organizado-v24Abril2011.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110817033947/http://geocrimen.cide.edu/resources/Ponencias-y-Medios/Vilalta---Crimen-organizado-v24Abril2011.pdf August 17, 2011 Category:Years in organized crime Organized crime