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Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 1967, Tamaulipas), Gulf Cartel boss of Matamoros and founder of the Zetas; captured 2003, extradited 2007, sentenced to 25 US years in 2010, released and deported to Mexico in December 2024.
Pam the Bird
Pam the Bird is a cartoon bird graffiti tag that appeared across Melbourne from 2023. Police allege creator Jack Gibson-Burrell faced 209 charges and about $700,000 damage, plus a 2026 Bolte Bridge tower standoff.
Pandora Gate
Pandora Gate is the 2023 Polish influencer scandal revealed by Sylwester Wardęga over alleged abuse of minors, leading to the 2026 UK extradition of YouTuber Stuu; also a fictional wormhole device in Eclipse Phase.
Parker–Hulme murder case
The Parker–Hulme murder case: 1954 Christchurch matricide in which Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, killed Honora Parker with a brick in a stocking; insanity plea rejected, five years' detention, later Anne Perry and Heavenly Creatures.
Parricide
Parricide is the killing of a parent by their child, also covering murder of close relatives. About 2-5 percent of homicides; sons kill fathers, daughters mothers; mental illness common; Roman poena cullei; Japan abolished its statute in 1995.
Pascha (brothel)
Pascha, at Hornstraße 2, Cologne, Germany, is a 12-storey Laufhaus brothel opened in 1972 as the Eros-Center; with over 120 rooms it is Europe's largest brothel, renamed Pascha in 1995, insolvent in 2020 and later tied to an immigration investigation.
Patriarca crime family
The Patriarca crime family is the New England La Cosa Nostra organization, named for boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca and based on Federal Hill, Providence; it ran gambling, extortion, and loansharking before federal RICO prosecutions in 1989-1991 dismantled its leadership.
Patricide
Patricide is the killing of one's father, a form of parricide (also matricide). Rare, about 4-5% of homicides; offenders mostly adult sons, often with psychosis, personality disorder, or abuse histories.
Paula Vennells
Paula Vennells, British businesswoman and ordained priest, was Post Office Limited chief executive 2012-2019 during the Horizon IT scandal; she returned her CBE in 2024 and gave evidence at the Horizon IT Inquiry.
Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders: BBC crime drama (2013–2022, six series) by Steven Knight about the Shelby gangster family in post-WWI Birmingham, named for a real 1890s gang, continuing via The Immortal Man film and sequel series.
Pelicot rape case
Pelicot rape case (Mazan case): 2024 Avignon trial in which Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-defendants were convicted of drugging and raping Gisèle Pelicot; it prompted France's 2025 consent-based rape law.
Penn State child sex abuse scandal
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal centers on Jerry Sandusky, convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of abusing boys via The Second Mile charity, triggering the Freeh Report, NCAA sanctions, $109M settlements, and ongoing appeals.
People Nation
People Nation: Chicago-based street gang alliance, rival of Folk Nation, founded in Illinois prisons in the late 1970s and formalized in 1981 by Black P Stones, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, and Mickey Cobras; five-point star, number 5, left-side representation; now largely defunct on the streets.
People v. Turner
People v. Turner (Santa Clara County, 2016) is the Brock Allen Turner sexual assault prosecution: jury conviction on three felony counts, Judge Persky's six-month sentence, recalled judge, changed California law, appeal affirmed 2018.
Perjury
Perjury: the crime of knowingly making a false statement under oath about a material issue in a proceeding. Also called false swearing; related to subornation of perjury. Key elements: oath, falsity, materiality, intent; US federal maximum five years under 18 U.S.C. 1621.
Peter Scully
Peter Gerard Scully is an Australian sex offender serving life imprisonment in the Philippines for trafficking and raping children, with a further 129 years added in 2022.
Philadelphia crime family
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Philadelphia Mafia or Philly mob, is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Philadelphia and active since the early 1900s.
Philip Markoff
Philip Markoff (1986-2010), called the Craigslist Killer, was a Boston University medical student charged with murdering Julissa Brisman and robbing women met via Craigslist in 2009; he died by suicide in 2010 before trial, and charges were dismissed.
Phishing
Phishing is social engineering in which attackers impersonate trusted parties by email, text, or phone to steal credentials or access. Coined in 1995 via AOL's AOHell tool; now AI-driven, with smishing, vishing, and phishing-as-a-service variants.
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, taken 10 March 2001 at Maxwell's London home by Jeffrey Epstein, published 2011; central evidence in Giuffre's allegations, disputed, later apparently confirmed by a Maxwell email.
Pig butchering scam
Pig butchering scam (sha zhu pan, 杀猪盘), also called cryptocurrency investment fraud or romance baiting: a confidence scam using fake crypto platforms, run from Southeast Asian scam centers with trafficked labor, causing billions in losses.
Pink Panthers
Pink Panthers: international Balkan jewel-theft network named after the 2003 Graff London face-cream diamond find; hundreds of audacious heists worth hundreds of millions, countered by INTERPOL's Project Pink Panthers since 2007.
Pittsburgh crime family
The Pittsburgh crime family, also called the LaRocca or LaRocca/Genovese family, is the Pittsburgh-based La Cosa Nostra organization of western Pennsylvania, shaped by Prohibition, the Youngstown war with the Cleveland Mafia, and a 1990 federal racketeering conviction of nine defendants.
Playpen (website)
Playpen was a Tor hidden-service child abuse material site run by Steven Chase from August 2014, seized by the FBI in January 2015 and covertly operated under Operation Pacifier with an NIT warrant, leading to hundreds of arrests and major Rule 41 litigation.
Primeiro Comando da Capital
Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC, First Command of the Capital), Brazilian criminal organization founded in 1993 in Taubaté prison, São Paulo; 20,000–30,000 members, horizontal factional command, cocaine trafficking via Santos, South American expansion, US terrorist designation.
Prison rape
Prison rape is sexual violence against incarcerated people by inmates or staff. Key facts: U.S. PREA of 2003, NIS-4 2023-24 rate 4.1%, pooled meta-analytic prevalence 12.4%, 5% grant penalty.
Procuring (prostitution)
Procuring (prostitution) is the offense of recruiting or facilitating another person's prostitution, historically targeting third parties. Covers England's 1885 CLAA origins, France's 1946 Marthe Richard law, US 18 USC 2422, and regime comparisons.
Properties of Jeffrey Epstein
Properties of Jeffrey Epstein: his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach mansion, Zorro Ranch, Little St. James and Great St. James islands, and Paris apartment; all sold by his estate after 2019, funding victim compensation and the $105 million USVI settlement.
Prostitution in Australia
Prostitution (sex work) in Australia is regulated state by state: NSW, NT, Victoria, and Queensland have decriminalised it, the ACT licenses it, and SA and WA criminalise it, with street soliciting illegal nearly everywhere.
Prostitution in Canada
Prostitution in Canada is governed by the 2014 PCEPA, a Nordic-model law criminalizing buying sex while sparing sellers. It followed the Bedford ruling and was upheld by the Supreme Court in R. v. Kloubakov (2025).