Authorities Arrested 16 in Asian Organized Crime

WNBC reports that 16 people with ties to "Asian organized crime were arrested overnight by a task force of FBI, NYPD, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigators for allegedly extorting bus companies." Fifteen of the suspects were arrested in the NYC area, while the 16th was in Florida, and they are charged with "various acts of violence and extortion targeting operators of bus companies which do business between New York and east coast cities." More details will be released later, but we are guessing this is related to the Chinatown bus routes--back in 2003, one bus operator was murdered.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 22, 2008 10:14 AM

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SINNER

damn John Woo films

Legalist

my ex gf lives in ctown, and from what she's told me, apparently one of these gangs had a bus driver's head decapitated in the 90's. sick.

whitecastlerock

babyhitler-the Asian gangs were thriving all along-too bad they got busted before they could mete out some street justice on the thugs around Columbia University

barryap

With boltbus and megabus, there's no point in using the CTown buses anymore. Seriously, where Fung Wah leaves from may be the hardest point to get to in Manhattan.

GOP

I heart the Chinatown Buses.

GOP

15 m'f'in dollars! Remember when Greyhound was $50 to Boston?! I

Apples and Peaches

What are you people talking about? Luckystar and FungWah are awesome! They are way cleaner than most of the buses I have been on...albeit, I have heard horror stories of them breaking down and getting in accidents.

Kojak

Both the Megabus and Bolt suck depending on whos driving, and they pretty much hire the same dumbass drivers as the Chinatown bus operators.

infomofo

Just take the Bolt, the Chinatown bus scares the bejesus out of me.

thefacts

Besides the 'Racist' re-zoning of Chinatown, they now use these Racist measures against Chinese gangsters.

Keep your Racist hands off Chinese gangsters!

NannyState

Meanwhile, the real asian gangsters are busily infiltrating Harvard and Princeton and learning to play the violin.

matty

This could be the setting for "Dead or Alive 4: Showdown on the Greyhound"

Also I have an option on that title so no one try to steal it!

JacqueMehoff

way to ruin a good thing.

at least they're not terrorists.

MisterTissue

edEx: If you've ever ridden them, they're no more or less disgusting that Greyhound. Organized crime, shmorganized crime: if I were worried about that I'd stop watching professional sports, electing people to congress, and buying cannoli on Mulberry.