2021 in organized crime

In 2021, a number of events took place in organized crime.

Events

• April 10 – The Venezuelan Armed Forces announce the arrest of an unspecified number of Sinaloa Cartel members amidst clashes with FARC dissidents in the state of Apure.^[1]
• May 31 – Corleonesi Mafia hitman Giovanni Brusca is released from prison after serving his 25-year sentence. He was convicted for his role in the Capaci bombing, which killed anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone alongside four other people. His release is condemned by the leaders of the ruling Italian Democratic Party and the right-wing Lega Nord.^[2]
• September 14 – A Mexican court sentences Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, a former leader of the Juárez drug cartel, to 28 years in prison on the charges of organized crime and drug trafficking.^[3]
• October 23 – Colombian police arrest Dario Antonio Úsuga (alias "Otoniel"), a leader of the Clan del Golfo drug cartel, in the town of Necoclí. Úsuga had been listed by authorities as one of the country's most-wanted drug traffickers.^[4]
• November 16 – The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense announces that Rosalinda González Valencia, the wife of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho" Cervantes, is re-arrested. González was previously detained in 2018 for allegedly running the finances of the cartel, but was released on bail.^[5]
• December 1 – Armed cartel members break into a prison in Tula, Hidalgo using vehicles, detonating several car bombs. Nine inmates are freed, including a local drug lord. Two law enforcement officers are injured.^[6]

Arts and literature

• The Many Saints of Newark
• Lansky
• Furioza
• Ferry

Deaths

• February 25 – Peter Gotti, 81, American mobster (Gambino crime family).^[7]
• June 27 – Dominick Montiglio, 73, American mob associate (Gambino crime family).^[8]
• July 7 – Giovanni Tegano, 81, Italian mobster, head of De Stefano 'ndrina.^[9]
• August 21 – Anthony Scotto, 87, American mobster (Gambino crime family).^[10]
• September 24 – Jitender Mann Gogi, 38, Indian mobster.^[11]
• October 1 – Frank LoCascio, 89, American mobster (Gambino crime family).^[12]

See also

• Timeline of the Mexican Drug War
• List of years in organized crime