Leon Johnson.'Young Gooch Crew'

Johnson was a known member of Manchester's 'Young Gooch Crew' who became a resident on Preston's Callon Estate. described by a judge as "a leading light in a gang of armed thugs" has today been jailed for firearms offences.The judge at Manchester Crown Court directed that the custodial period for Leon Johnson, of Annis Street, Preston, should be nine years and eight months.It comes after Lancashire police carried out a covert investigation into gun crime across Preston.Operation Decathlon was set...

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Joshua Rocco ,Thomas Raywood :Possession of a handgun and a rifle

Two men were arrested last week after they were allegedly caught in possession of a handgun and a rifle, Mercer County Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin announced on Wednesday.Larkin said members of Shooting Response Team 2 - a group of detectives from the sheriff's office, Trenton police, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, and the state police - spotted Thomas Raywood of Hopewell Township and Joshua Rocco of Falls, Pa., allegedly carrying out some kind of "transaction" with a third man at the corner of West Ingham Avenue and Roosevelt Street on Friday.The third man ran off as the detectives approached,...

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Armed robbery in Ballarat

Police have arrested a woman accused of being a getaway driver in an armed robbery in Ballarat last night.Two women were approached by a man who allegedly produced a gun and stole their handbags in Doveton Street North about 12.20am.Police spotted the getaway car, described as a red Ford sedan, 10 minutes later and arrested the female driver.An imitation gun was found on the floor of the car.The woman is assisting police and detectives hope to speak with her male counterpart short...

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Austin M. Powell,Ronald T. Fowler

Austin M. Powell, 19, of Melbourne, and Ronald T. Fowler, 20, of Satellite Beach, were being held at the Indialantic Police Deparment, awaiting booking and transfer to the county jail, Det. Mike Connor told Local 6 News partner Florida Today.Both are being charged with possession of methamphetamine, Connor said. Fowler also is being charged with possession of a firearm by a person who, under the Brady Law, can't possess a firearm because he has a domestic violence injunction, Connor said. Fowler...

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Kevin Morgan,James H. Thomas,Travis Woods, Willis J. Simmons

armed robbery investigation led to the arrests of five men Wednesday after police discovered drugs and guns in their vehicle.Just after midnight, police were dispatched to the 7900 block of Devoe Street about a robbery at Flash Foods, according to arrest reports. Police began searching for a gold sport utility vehicle seen leaving the store.Officers pulled over a Pontiac SUV matching the description and ordered the men outside of the vehicle. Kevin Morgan, 23, of Fort Wayne, Ind., exited wearing a gun in a holster and was ordered to the ground, the report said.Police searched the vehicle and found...

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Shootout in Othello Drive

frightening shootout in Othello Drive on Tuesday night, which left two men hospitalised with gun shot injuries, has been confirmed as a gang-related dispute. Counties Manukau Police say officers were alerted by nearby residents to a shooting at properties near the Dawson Rd intersection of the Otara street at 8pm.Police say an unconfirmed number of persons arrived in vehicles and approached people at an Othello Dr house.The two warring groups exchanged a number of firearm shots, where two men, one from each of the opposing gangs, sustained the gunshot injuries.Yesterday, as both males were charged...

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Randy Lake,Steven Murray

Steven Murray, 37, was taken to Sebasticook Valley Hospital where he was treated and released Wednesday morning.Randy Lake, 22, who shared a Raymond Avenue home with Murray, was arrested by Pittsfield police officer Greg Sides. Lake has been charged with aggravated assault, reckless conduct, and violation of the conditions of release.Several BB's were removed from Steven Murray's gums, cheeks and neck. None of the injuries is believed to have caused permanent damage, police say."The doctors said if his neck hadn't been so thick it would have been life-threatening," said Officer Jeff Vanadestine...

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Jeffrey Bass,Jeremiah Bass

Jeffrey Bass, 31, and Jeremiah Bass, 30, both of 198 Roy El Court, Wapello, have been charged with disorderly conduct in relation to the fight that occurred Friday, Jan. 18, in an apartment building in the 300 block of North Second Street.A man with a gun was reported at the scene of a fight involving eight people. Four people were initially arrested. Officials recovered a handgun at the scene.Crump said more charges are expected to be filed in the ca...

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Latin Kings shooting death of a Miller Brewing executive

Two Latin Kings are under arrest in the shooting death of a Miller Brewing executive.“The Latin Kings are out there right now throwing their weight around a little bit, and we’re going to make sure they feel our attention in a very special way in the next several weeks,” said Chief Edward Flynn, adding that the effort will not be a sweep of Latino men, but arrests of specific gang members.Flynn’s remarks came during a 5 p.m. news conference announcing the arrests earlier in the day of two suspects, ages 17 and 21, both of whom he said had prior records. The 17-year-old was on probation for a robbery,...

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High School student charged with bringing an unloaded handgun

Jackson Central-Merry High School student charged with bringing an unloaded handgun to school Monday has been placed on house arrest until he returns to court.According to court records, Madison County Juvenile Court Judge Christy Little released the 15-year-old male student into the custody of his mother today after a detention hearing. The student's next court date has not been set. His name has not released because he is a minor.Jackson-Madison County Schools Superintendent Nancy Zambito said today that the student will not attend JCM for the remainder of the school year and that he will...

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Ugo Mendoza,Cesar Martinez, Jose Trinidad Martinez,Gilberto Cuevas

Ugo Mendoza, 16, and an unidentified 14-year old male were charged with burglary. Cesar Martinez, 17, is charged with being an accessory to a felony.The residents of the two homes where the guns were found are Armando Avila, 21, Jose Trinidad Martinez, 20, and Gilberto Cuevas, 28, show face charges for possession of stolen firearms.Investigators said it appears the suspects intended to sell the guns.Police are still looking for three missing weapons. Bellevue homeowner reported 13 stolen firearms. officers said they recovered nine handguns and an SKS assault rifle at two different homes in Om...

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Shooting near the well-known Race Street Fish Market

San Jose police and Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies have closed West San Carlos Street near Race Street and are searching the area for suspects who fled on foot after an alleged drive-by shooting. A police helicopter is hovering overheard, aiding the search.No one was injured in the shooting near the well-known Race Street Fish Market, but bullets fired struck the window of a nearby business, according to Sheriff's Sgt. Don Morrissey. The incident began when two groups of neighborhood youths faced off and the argument escalated into a fight, Morrissey said. One group jumped in a car and...

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Jesus Flores

Jesus Flores, 25, was found by a corrections officer about 4 a.m. Tuesday at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department Crimnal Justice, home to the state's male death row.Agency spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said Flores was pronounced dead about an hour later."He had lacerations on his throat and forehead," she said.Flores apparently tried to use his own blood to scribble a message on the wall."It was illegible," Lyons said.Flores was convicted of capital murder for the May 2001 death of Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Joseph Dennis, 35, who was shot in the head during a struggle. Flores was 19 at...

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Malcolm Chalmers

Malcolm Chalmers was already in custody in Durham Region on unrelated charges and was appearing in court when Toronto Police came calling. He's now been charged with attempted murder and will be in court on the new count February 11th. Police had displayed the gun used in the crime last Thursday, and admitted they had a suspect in mind. But it turns out it wasn't the weapon that led them to Chalmers. "We were seeking the community's help in trying to put the clues together to this, and we were...

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Marcus Lequin Payne

Marcus Lequin Payne, 23, of 101-313 S. Seventh St. was arrested Monday and charged with one count each of aggravated assault and felony theft by receiving stolen property.The arrest came as the result of an investigation in the Friday night assault of a 28-year-old man who originally told police that he was beaten unconscious while he walked home through the alley near Second Street. Investigation by Col. Lewis Green revealed, however, that the assault took place inside the suspect’s apartment. Payne is accused of physically assaulting the victim by striking him in the head with a loaded .357...

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Ronald Petersen

Ronald Petersen of Bigfork was arrested last night at the Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina.He was arrested in connection with the death of 24-year-old Clyde Wilson, who was found dead in his home on New Year's Eve from multiple gun shot wounds.Petersen is currently awaiting extradition to Montana.Police also arrested 19-year-old Zachary Forkin. He's in the Lake County Jail.The Lake County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate the shooting dea...

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Keith J. Truesdale.

The Woodbridge man was shot during an attempted robbery at a Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits restaurant at 13860 Smoketown Road in Woodbridge, shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday.According to police, two men entered the restaurant through an unlocked back door.One of the robbers demanded money, but police said Truesdale, a manager for a Popeyes in Dale City who was filling in that night, was unable to "comply with this demand."A gunshot was fired, striking Truesdale.He was transported to Potomac Hospital, where he died less than an hour lat...

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Anthony D. Burgess

Anthony D. Burgess, 25, was listed in serious condition Friday night at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center.Sgt. Clinton Kellett said a man entered the MiniT Stop. As he was entering, another man was coming out.“Words were exchanged, and the man who was coming out was shot in the doorway,” Kellett said.A witness said the bleeding victim went inside the Happy Wok, and the gunman fled in a light blue mid-1980s Buick traveling west on East State Street. The vehicle was later located by police.The witness also said his wife, a certified nurse, applied pressure on the victim’s wound until an ambulance...

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Fast Food, Fast Armed Robbery

Jan. 20, 8:20 p.m. at Subway, 121 Sherron Road – A man entered the business, implied he had a gun and demanded money. The robber wore a white hooded sweatshirt and a blue bandanna over his face. He was described as a black man, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall and 185 to 200 pounds.Jan. 20, 11:22 p.m. at McDonald’s, 102 W. Morgan St. – Two men armed with guns entered the restaurant and robbed the business and employees. They forced workers into the freezer and fled on foot. The armed men wore dark clothing and bandannas over their faces.Jan. 21, 9:56 p.m. at Burger King, 4829 Hope Valley...

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Kadeem Fox

Kadeem Fox, of Albany, .Police say when the officer approached him in the area of First and Quail Fox took off, throwing a .22 caliber pistol into a yard along First Street. The gun was later found to be stolen. Fox has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon and was being held in the Albany County Ja...

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Charlie McDonald

Charlie McDonald, 17, of the 9600 block of South Hoxie Avenue, Chicago, turned himself in to police Thursday and was charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors said.On Sunday, he appeared in Cook County Bond Court, where he was ordered held without bail.Tommy Brewer, McDonald's lawyer and a Democratic candidate for Cook County state's attorney, said no one knew where McDonald had been since Nov. 19, but that he called his mother last week, wanting to turn himself in."He decided it would be better just to face the charges," Brewer said.Isaac Pink and a group of five people were walking in the...

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Massacre by gunmen of a dozen people

The head of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore GaryBest, is treating as acts of "urban warfare" from a criminalnetwork, the slaughter of the 12 occurred two days after anarmy patrol was ambushed in the village of Buxton and asoldier killed during a fierce 20-minute firefight.Guyana Gunmen stormed into a coastal village Saturday and killed 11 people, including five children, in violence blamed on a gang leader who has threatened widespread attacks. The assault sparked angry protests over rising...

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Two people are under arrest

Two people are under arrest and one person is recovering following a shooting early Sunday morning in Orlando.The incident happened around 2 a.m. in the east part of the city at San Juan Boulevard near Semoran.Orlando police said witnesses were able to give them a description of the car, which was later spotted on Goldenrod Road near Pershing Avenue.Officers tried to pull that car over, but the two people inside jumped out of the car and took off.Police were able to track the suspects down and said they had to taser one in order to subdue him.Officers found a gun next to the car. There was not...

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Christopher A. Ridley

Christopher A. Ridley, 23, was off duty and not in uniform when he witnessed a “violent, aggravated assault” shortly before 5 p.m. near Court Street and Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains, outside the district offices of the Westchester County Department of Social Services, said Frank G. Straub, the commissioner of public safety in White Plains.Commissioner Straub and other officials provided few new details about the shooting in a news conference on Saturday. But two witnesses, a homeless...

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Man hit in a drive-by shooting Saturday night has died

Man hit in a drive-by shooting Saturday night has died. Grand Rapids Police are now looking for the suspect responsible. It happened around 5:30pm outside of a house on Grandville Avenue and “A” Street.Right now police don't have a description of the suspect, but they say the car used in the drive-by was a dark colored Pontiac Grand Am or Grand Prix. The car was last seen going northbound on Grandville at a fast spe...

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Vincent L. McGrath Jr

Vincent L. McGrath Jr., 37, was arrested in Schenectady and charged with second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, second-degree unlawful imprisonment, fourth-degree criminal weapon possession and petit larceny. In a media release, Cobleskill police said they received a complaint from a North Grand Street resident on Jan. 18 who said two men had forcibly entered his apartment. The suspects allegedly restrained him with duct tape, struck him in the head and face, threatened him with a stun gun and took personal property. The victim said he owed the subjects money from services received from...

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John O'Keefe,Edward Paredes,Awet Zekarias

Toronto residents Edward Paredes, 22, and Awet Zekarias, 23, are each charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. They were to appear via video link to set a date for a bail hearing. A group of John O'Keefe's friends made the plea outside the Old City Hall courthouse where the victim's accused killers were appearing on Friday. "We need to wake up here in Canada. He was shot in the heart of our city, in the heart of our country. It is unacceptable, it is ridiculous," Jennifer Allen told...

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Basil Oates,Quandre McGhee

Basil Oates, 20, of Dorchester and Quandre McGhee, 17, also of Dorchester and charged both with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. Suspect McGhee was additionally charged with Possession of Class D, and Possession of Class D with Intent to Distribute.Officers were on patrol in the area of Codman Square in Dorchester when they observed a motor vehicle fail to stop for a stop sign at Wheatland Ave. and Washington Street. Officers followed the car and conducted a traffic stop on Melville Ave. There, as officers approached the car and they noticed that the rear passengers...

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Darryl D. McClure

Darryl D. McClure, 38, of Boston and charged him with Armed Robbery in relation to a robbery incident that had taken place on 1/23/08 around 9:20pm. (Refer to Daily Incidents from 1/24/08.)Officers responded to 705 Huntington Avenue yesterday around 9:45am pursuant to ongoing investigation when they learned that the other suspect from the robbery that had taken place the day before was back at 705 Huntington Avenue in Boston. During the course of their investigation, officers not only discovered the name of the other suspect involved in the robbery but the facts and circumstances leading to the...

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Dany Velez

Dany Velez, 41, whose last known address was 282 Main St., Auburn, was arrested on a warrant for robbery and additionally was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (a felon), Waterville Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey said Friday.Velez' brother, Juan Serrano Velez, 22, of Winslow, was arrested Jan. 4 by Waterville police for his role in the armed robbery, which occurred in February 2005.During that robbery, a male was assaulted and more than $2,000 cash, prescription pills and a small amount of marijuana allegedly were taken at gun point.Juan Velez was taken to Kennebec County...

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Matthew Lambeth

Matthew Lambeth told one of his friends he had shot up a trailer that resulted in the death of 16-year-old James Holderness.Lambeth is facing murder charges as well as four other counts of attempted murder after he drove a green Dodge Durango through the 6300 block of 14th Street West and shot at a trailer in Wilhelm Mobile Home Park around 11:30 p.m. Jan 15, according to authorities.Inside near a window sat Holderness, facing the road where he was playing a video game at a friend's home.One of Lambeth's shots hit Holderness in the right side of the head. He was airlifted to Bayfront Medical Center...

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Gustavo Fausto Tellez Jr.

A convicted felon who killed his girlfriend Monday and then turned the gun on himself had been deported to Mexico three times since 2004. Gustavo Fausto Tellez Jr., whose record includes felony assault and spousal abuse, appealed his first deportation order in 2001. He lost the appeal and was deported to Mexico in 2004, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Tuesday. In February 2005, ICE agents found Tellez in the Ventura County jail serving time for drug possession and resisting arrest, according to officials and court records. He was deported, for the second time,...

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Brenden Brown

Brenden Brown, is on probation for selling a handgun to Trolley Square gunman Sulejman Talovic. Brown was to be sentenced Friday on three drug-related misdemeanor charges in an unrelated case, but the 21-year-old failed to show up in court. Judge Judith Atherton issued a $10,000 cash-only warrant for Brown's arrest. Brown had pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor charges of attempted possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and attempted illegal possession/use of a controlled substance, and a class B misdemeanor charge of illegal possession/use of a controlled substance....

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Christopher Blank

Blank, 29, is charged with shooting two Egg Harbor Township officers and shooting at a third. But, according to Blank, he was blinded by pepper spray, gasping for breath, handcuffed to a fence and being beaten when he felt Officer Clear Costantino's gun on the ground and, "I just fired."Christopher Blank thought it was a routine traffic stop. Then he saw the spotlight - and the officer with his gun drawn."I'm thinking, obviously they've got the wrong person," Blank testified at his attempted-murder trial Wednesday."Why did you fire?" defense attorney Mark Roddy asked."I was (expletive) dying,...

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Anuchit Lamlert

Anuchit Lamlert, 24, an unemployed man who has been arrested many times for robbing foreign tourists, The Nation reported. The suspect has confessed to the killing. However, he would not give the reason. After committing the crime, he escaped from the scene by his motorcycle and threw the gun to the bushes. Thai Police are now searching for the murder weapon. Police tracked down Lamlert after spreading a photo robot of the gunman and set award of $15,000 for information about his whereabouts. The...

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Tatyana Tsimfer,Lyubov Svirkova

Tatyana Tsimfer, born 1977, and Lyubov Svirkova, born 1982, who had come from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, fell victims of the crime. Their bodies were found on a beach on Saturday morning. In the opinion of experts, the killings took place on February 24 at around four of five o’ clock in the morning.Investigators of the case on the murder of Russian tourists at the Thai resort city of Pattaya have a video clip which can help in exposing the crime, Russian Consul to Thailand Vladimir Pronin told...

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Mrs Aparna Bose

72-year-old woman, Mrs Aparna Bose, was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in the wee hours this morning at her AH-325 residence in Salt Lake. The burglars decamped with cash and ransacked her two-storeyed house. No arrests have been made till reports last came in. The incident took place around 2.00 a.m. when the septuagenarian lady found that four people had entered into the ground floor of her house. “Their faces were covered and they had a gun. They threatened to kill me if I raised an alarm,” she said. “I remained quiet and prayed that they would not harm me. I was too afraid even to reply to...

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Chet Powell

Chet Powell have missed the deadline to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that said Powell did not use excessive force when he shot and killed their son on Dec. 1, 2005.Devin Orland, attorney with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, said the 11th Circuit Court has dismissed the matter for “failure to prosecute.”“While I am hopeful that they will let this go, they can file a motion with the court to reopen the appeal. Such motions usually are granted ... but for right now, the case stands dismissed,” said Orland of the plantiffs.It’s been just over two years since Chet Powell, a state park ranger...

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Lil Wayne,Dwayne Carter, Jr,Harold Johnson, Jr, Curtis Stewart

Rapper Lil Wayne and two others are still in custody at this hour, after appearing in court and being initialed on pending felony charges.Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, Jr., along with 23-year-old Harold Johnson, Jr and 24-year-old Curtis Stewart, were arrested at approximately 11:20 pm MT, at a Border Patrol Checkpoint along Interstate 8 near Dateland, AZ, about one hour east of Yuma.According to the Drug Enforcement Administration in Arizona, Lil Wayne was traveling with 11 others aboard a tour bus along I-8, the most common route between San Diego, CA and Tucson, AZ where Wayne performed on...

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Gregory Scott Hinkle,14 guns were discovered at checkpoints around the country last week. On average, screeners find two guns a day

Gregory Scott Hinkle, 53, of Davis, West Virginia, went through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, an airport spokeswoman said.After the traveler evidently recalled having the gun, he returned to the checkpoint and disclosed the weapon, authorities said. The TSA contacted airport police, who charged the man with possessing or transporting a firearm into an air carrier terminal where prohibited, a misdemeanor, and released him. He is scheduled to appear April 2 in Arlington County, Virginia, General District Court.A...

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Mustafa Ali,Jason Lighty

Mustafa Ali, 36, is charged with killing armored car guards William Widmaier, 65, and Joseph Alullo, 54, on Oct. 4 as they were servicing an ATM outside a Wachovia bank in Northeast Philadelphia.Police found the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol where Ali told them he had buried it, investigators said.Authorities arrested Jason Lighty, 26, who they said legally bought the pistol in a gun shop in 2003. He later illegally sold it to his co-worker Eric Benson, 25, who also was arrested, Abraham said.Lighty's attorney, James A. Funt, said his client is a churchgoing, law-abiding husband and father of two...

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Lawrence Brinley Wilson ,Scarpino Killing Hells Angels, the Independent Soldiers and the United Nations gang connection

47-year old Lawrence Brinley Wilson of Vancouver, was charged Monday with three weapons offences and possession of cocaine after police arrested him at Gotham's.Vancouver investigators continue to pore over surveillance tapes of the shooting scene in the 600 block of Seymour, trying to find clear images of the two shooters, who fled on foot after killing Scarpino and a friend sitting behind him in his car. Police have not released the name of the second victim, but said he was not known to them.Scarpino had been renting a house in West Vancouver. He owned no property, according to land title records.Property...

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Edward Garcia

Edward Garcia, of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia, 41, faces a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge McBryde on May 2, 2008The government presented evidence at trial that on April 15, 2007, Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) officers responded to a report of a shooting on West Hammond Street in Fort Wort Worth. When officers arrived at the scene, they were met by Lucia Garcia, Edward Garcia’s wife. She told officers that Garcia had shot himself in the leg. Officers observed Edward Garcia lying in the living room floor with...

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William Widmaier, Mustafa Ali

Mustafa Ali, 36, is charged with killing armored car guards William Widmaier, 65, and Joseph Alullo, 54, on Oct. 4 as they were servicing an ATM outside a Wachovia bank in Northeast Philadelphia. Police found the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol where Ali told them he had buried it, investigators said.Authorities arrested Jason Lighty, 26, who they said legally bought the pistol in a gun shop in 2003. He later illegally sold it to his co-worker Eric Benson, 25, who also was arrested, Abraham said.Lighty's attorney, James A. Funt, said his client is a churchgoing, law-abiding husband and father of two...

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Bank, Nakhon Kwaenkhetgun, Mongkol Yatra,

Police denied killing the three and suspect their deaths resulted from "silence killing" among criminals.The discovery of three dead bodies on Ban HipUthai Road in Ayutthaya's Uthai district at 4.20am yesterday brought an end to the police manhunt for Akkharapol "Bank" Sampaoyoung, accused of killing three policemen on duty in Ayutthaya on New Year's EveBank, 22, was found dead with multiple bulletwounds in his back along with Nakhon Kwaenkhetgun, 18, and Mongkol Yatra, 20. Bank carried a loaded 11mm pistol while Mongkol carried a loaded .22 pistol. Their two motorbikes were found nearby.Provincial...

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John 'Leo' Del Pinto,Carly Reisig

Autopsy shows both shots would have been fatalAn autopsy carried out in Canada on the body of John 'Leo' Del Pinto, who was gunned down by a policeman in Pai earlier this month has revealed both shots would have been fatal. The Medical Examiner's office in Calgary, Alberta, has completed a report which says he was killed instantly by the bullet to his head. But the second shot pierced both his liver and kidney and would also have been fatal.Ross Fortune, a spokesman for the Del Pinto family said last night personal belongings that which 'Leo' was carrying at the time of death had not been returned."This...

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Hou Chang Mao

Hou Chang Mao, 47, was working at Fu Yao Supermarket, at 643 Gerrard St. East, near Broadview Avenue, when he was hit in the chest by a stray bullet shortly after 6 p.m. He was taken to hospital but could not be revived. Homicide investigators said Hou, who has a 23-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter, was an innocent bystander. "He didn't walk in the way. He was working," Det. Sgt. Pauline Grey said at a press conference. "He wasn't walking in the path of gunfire. He was going about his everyday business." Grey said at least two people were involved in the gun battle and two handguns were used...

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Michael Clatts

Michael Clatts, an AIDS researcher at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and the National Development and Research Institutes. arsenal of weapons and explosive devices was found in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of a Columbia University professor yesterday morning after the professor's roommate accidentally shot himself, police said.The arsenal was discovered after a man who also lived in the one-bedroom attic apartment, identified by sources as Ivaylo Ivanov, 31, shot himself in the hand.After...

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Tony T. Hill

Tony T. Hill of Bartlett was arrested for having an unregistered 9 mm fully automatic grease gun.In addition to the fully automatic, Hill had a Colt .45 handgun which was stolen from a Hocking County home in April 2006.Hill allegedly purchased the weapons from Martin Welch of Hocking County who officers said confessed to the burglary."We consider this as a dangerous ordinance. It is classified in the statutes as that because it is fully automatic. It's a weapon that all you have to do is pull the...

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Richard Lee Beall

Richard Lee Beall, 42, of 425 Oak Ridge Drive was charged with assault by pointing a gun, resisting arrest and three counts of assault on a law-enforcement officer with a gun.Surry County sheriff’s dispatchers got a call at 8:11 p.m. reporting a domestic assault at Beall’s home.The caller said that everyone but Beall was out of the house.When officers got to the house about 9:20 p.m. to serve arrest warrants, they saw him looking out a window pointing a pistol.A few minutes later, Beall fired the gun at them. Nearby houses were evacuated, and neighbors were not allowed in the area.Beall finally...

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Ricardo Francis Scarpino

Bodies lie on the pavement beside a Range Rover outside a popular restaurant on Seymour Street in Vancouver early Sunday.The victims had been on their way to a private party at the Gotham Steakhouse and Cocktail Bar when two assailants gunned them down before horrified pedestrians thronging Seymour Street in the heart of downtown Vancouver, an area packed with bars, coffee shops and late-night grocery stores. The private party, booked into a secluded downstairs room at the restaurant, was to have...

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