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A Somerville man authorities say was a leading member of New York’s Colombo crime family tried for the third time to plead guilty Thursday, but a transformer fire forced postponement of the proceeding. Ralph DeLeo, 69, had just admitted conspiring with others to run a drug ring that sold cocaine and marijuana when the hearing came to an abrupt end. The lights went out briefly and fire alarms sounded, forcing the evacuation of the Moakley Federal Courthouse.

Raul Rojas, a Los Angeles gang member who became a world boxing champion in 1968, has died. He was 70. His daughter, Rebecca, tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/KmsSdd) that Rojas died Sunday of natural causes. Rojas grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. Two of his brothers went to prison. According to a 1968 Sports Illustrated article, Rojas led a street gang and wound up in juvenile hall after a battle during which a fellow gangster was shot to death next to him. Rojas turned to boxing and in 1968 he defeated Enrique Higgins to win the World Boxing Association featherweight belt. He surrendered it six months later. He ended his career in 1970 with a record of 38-7-2 with 24 knockouts. He later worked as a longshoreman.

Dog "The Bounty Hunter" Chapman will have more time on his hands to catch criminals, because his show on A&E is being canceled ... TMZ has learned. Multiple sources connected with the show tell us ... Dog's people and A&E have been negotiating, but the network has now decided to pull the plug and not do season 9. One source connected with Dog tells us the cancellation is based on "creative differences."  But here's the reality ... saying "creative differences" is like breaking up with a girl and saying, "It's not you, it's me."

The US treasury department has put two sons of Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on its drugs kingpin blacklist. The move bars all people in the US from doing business with Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, and freezes any US assets they have. Joaquin Guzman, on the list since 2001, runs the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Mexico has seen an explosion of violence in recent years as gangs fight for control of trafficking routes. The US administration "will aggressively target those individuals who facilitate Chapo Guzman's drug trafficking operations, including family members," said Adam Szubin, director of the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control . "With the Mexican government, we are firm in our resolve to dismantle Chapo Guzman's drug trafficking organisation." Ovidio Guzman plays a significant role in his father's drug-trafficking activities, the treasury department said. Ivan Arch

Eduardo Ravelo, born on October 13, 1968 was added as the 493rd fugitive to the FBI 10 most wanted list on October 20, 2009. He is originally from Mexico, however he holds permanent residency status in the United States which gives him free movement across the border. An FBI informant and former lieutenant in the Barrio Azteca, a prison gang active in the U.S. and Mexico, testified that Ravelo told him to help find fellow gang members who had stolen from the cartel. In March 2008, he became the leader of the gang shortly after betraying his predecessor, stabbing him several times and shooting him in the neck. (Eduardo Ravelo: Wikipedia) Eduardo Ravelo was indicted in Texas in 2008 for his involvement in racketeering activities, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and conspiracy to possess heroin, cocaine and marijuana with the intent to distribute. His alleged criminal activities began in 2003. He is believed to be living in an area of Cuidad Juarez controlled by the Barrio R