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Irish drug kingpin’s whereabouts revealed through Google reviews

April 26, 2024

The longtime head of an Irish drug and weapons cartel has been posting Google restaurant reviews and travel tidbits from luxury locations overseas while evading justice, according to recent reports. Under the alias “Christopher Vincent,” the posts, numbering in the hundreds, are from Christopher Kinahan Sr., according to the Sunday Times, a London-based newspaper, and the Dutch online investigative journalism site Bellingcat. According to Bellingcat, some of the cartel kingpin’s posts disclose the identity of people he has met with, while others reveal less significant details such as his status as a Platinum Ambassador in “an international hotel group’s reward program.” The 67-year-old Kinahan, ...

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Twenty-five years ago, ‘Analyze This’ offered a comedic take on a Mafia boss under psychiatric care

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Artifact Spotlight: Hollywood prop guns

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Dead men walking: Murder Inc. trio electrocuted at Sing Sing prison eighty years ago

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Netflix crime drama ‘Griselda’ highlights story of ‘Godmother of Cocaine’

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The Top 5 Mob myths: Hollywood’s creative license drives misinformation

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The 1863 draft riots and the birth of the New York City Police

On July 13, 1863, during the Civil War, New York City burst into flames when the federal government started a…

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