Mohammad Anwar was shot five times by his own sub machine gun

A policeman was found dead insides a police post within the jurisdiction of Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) Police Station (PS) Monday. Thirty-eight-year old Mohammad Anwar was shot five times by his own sub machine gun (SMG) while he was on duty at police post Ameer Shaheed at Bhains Colony. On-duty policeman, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ahmed Khan Niazi thinks that the post in-charge Nasur Hayat and another colleague Mohammad could be involved in the killing as they were both absent from duty Sunday night, the time of the murder. Niazi said that Hayat had recently arrested some criminals along...

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Saul Avalos ,Javier Avalos ,Samuel Perez, Elezar Morales arrested

.On Sunday morning, police arrested Saul Avalos 23, of Nuevo, for murder.Investigators learned that Avalos and Javier Avalos 22, had argued with Richardson about money. Saul Avalos allegedly produced a gun and shot Richardson several times. The suspects apparently fled, met with Samuel Perez 21, of Nuevo, and drove to Shadybend Drive in Moreno Valley.Searches in Nuevo and Moreno Valley uncovered evidence linking Saul Avalos to Richardson’s death; they also turned up four pounds of marijuana and...

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Sean R. Rex tried to rob the business and struck a woman in the head with a gun

Sean R. Rex, 32, who has no permanent address, was arrested at 2:06 a.m. Wednesday at Margie's T-Bird Lounge at 1425 15th St. SW. Rex was in the Stark County Jail where he was held without bond Thursday. Police reports show Rex tried to rob the business and struck a woman in the head with a gun, said Lt. James Cole. Rex was charged with aggravated robbery, illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor establishment, having weapons under disability, carrying concealed weapons, cocaine trafficking, cocaine possession, felony drug tampering and resisting arrest. Jail records said he was wanted on an...

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William D. Johnson,Xavier Baker Both sold stolen weapons at the undercover shop

William D. Johnson, 18, and Xavier Baker, 18, pleaded guilty in separate federal cases that could mean as much as 10 years in prison without parole.Both men were arrested through the undercover operation, Augusta Ink. Both sold stolen weapons at the undercover shop, Colur Tyme Tattooz & Things on Tobacco Road, Richmond County Sheriff Sgt. Blaise Dresser testified Monday.Mr. Johnson pleaded guilty to two charges involving the theft of 40 weapons from Waldens Outdoor World and the sale of several of those guns to undercover agents.Mr. Johnson boasted that he and his friends burglarized the sports...

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Vaughn Rico Wright, Michael William Long,Garnett Lee Long-Parham"The guns were all loaded ... and ready for use,"

A search turned up a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun in the waistband of Long-Parham's pants, police said. Two more weapons were found near front-seat passenger Long and rear-seat passenger Wright, authorities said. "The guns were all loaded ... and ready for use," Seranko said. Greensburg police said they stopped a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street and arrested three Allegheny County men on drug distribution charges. Authorities reported four pounds of marijuana, with a street value of about $6,000, nearly $1,400 in cash and three stolen handguns were seized during the traffic...

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On trial are Detectives Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora for manslaughter and Detective Marc Cooper for reckless endangerment.

The trial of three New York City police officers is scheduled to begin today in the death of Sean Bell, who was killed outside a strip club where his bachelor party was held the day before his wedding. Thinking that Bell was going for a gun, Police fired more than 50 bullets at Bell and his friends and no weapon was ever found in Bell's vehicle. On trial are Detectives Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora for manslaughter and Detective Marc Cooper for reckless endangerment.Undercover police had the Kalua Cabaret strip club under surveillance on Nov. 25, 2006 when two groups of men had an altercation...

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Metro Vancouver had the highest rate of gun crime

Metro Vancouver had the highest rate of gun crime in the country in 2006, part of a trend of relatively high violent crime and weapon use in western provinces, according to a new Statistics Canada report. Calculated by population, Metro Vancouver's gun crime rate was ahead of second-place Winnipeg and third-place Toronto. B.C.'s largest metropolitan area recorded 45.3 violent offences involving guns for every 100,000 people, compared to 43.9 in the Winnipeg region and 40.4 in metropolitan Toronto. The national average for gun-related crime of all types was 27.5, illustrating the modern trend of...

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Twenty-one associates of jailed don Mukhtar Ansari were arrested

Twenty-one associates of jailed don Mukhtar Ansari were arrested from the state capital on Sunday evening. hey were on way to execute crimes involving extortion and land grabbing in different parts of the state capital. Five revolvers, four rifles, one double barrel gun, 118 cartridges and 32 cellphones were recovered from the accused travelling in five SUVs. Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Akhil Kumar said that the arrests were made following a tip-off. “The group was undertaking criminal activities in the name of Mukhtar Ansari for quite sometime now. Investigations revealed that they...

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Police arrest 143 in Operation Eagle

143 people have been arrested in a three-day police crackdown on burglars and drug dealers.Operation Eagle was carried out in Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea and the arrests were for offences including violence, drug possession, burglary, theft and criminal damage.There were 119 arrests in Swansea and 24 in Neath Port Talbot in the operation which ended at the weekend.Firearms, goods worth more than £100,000 and class A drugs including heroin were recovered.Det Ch Insp Huw Lewis said, “This was an extremely successful operation which sent a clear message out to criminals in the area.”The haul of...

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Jacob Lee Sperl Wisconsin man with gun killed by deputies

Wisconsin man with gun killed by deputies A man from rural Hammond, Wis., was shot dead late Saturday by St. Croix County sheriff's deputies, who said he pointed a shotgun at them.Authorities were called at 11 p.m. to the home of Jacob Lee Sperl, 22, who had a shotgun and reportedly was making suicidal threats. Sperl had told the callers that he had shells for the shotgun, was going to take his own life, and "that if the cops come up the driveway, it will be too late." Sperl's parents were in the home.The first two deputies to arrive watched two acquaintances of Sperl pull up to the house and...

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One in seven people charged with murder and awaiting trial was released

The first survey of its kind by the Courts Service has revealed that at least 60 of the 455 people accused of murder were on the streets on January 31, while 35 out of 41 of those awaiting trial for manslaughter were bailed. Nearly one in seven people charged with murder and awaiting trial was released on bail last month, the Ministry of Justice has admitted.The revelation comes weeks after Gary Weddell murdered Traute Maxfield, his mother-in-law, before killing himself. At the time he was on bail charged with the murder of his wife. Opposition parties have called for a rethink of the bail laws...

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Oscar Pena, Jr,Sotero Sotelo,firearms were likely going into Mexico and sold he says for one purpose, "Just to kill."

Authorities in Cameron County say a La Cueva Drive Thru in Brownsville was used as a front for illegal firearms and cocaine sales. Undercover sheriff investigators say they purchased both at the business on Central Boulevard. Police said one home on Linda lane in Brownsville is where the suspects stored their drugs and weapons. "It's a big deal here in Cameron County because we in law enforcement are concerned about people having these types of weapons," said Sheriff Omar Lucio.Two people were arrested...

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Two people are hurt after a drive-by shooting in North Omaha

Two people are hurt after a drive-by shooting in North Omaha. The victims tell police they were near 27th and Fort around 12:30 Saturday morning, when a dark car pulled up and the people inside started shooting at them.Someone drove 19-year-old Kyle Viktora and 23-year-old Terrell Griffin to the hospital, where police came to investigate. They're both expected to survive.No arrests have been ma...

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Los Angeles police fatally shot an armed suspect and wounded another

Los Angeles police fatally shot an armed suspect and wounded another Thursday in the wake of a fatal gang-related drive-by shooting, authorities said. The drive-by killed a man holding a 2-year-old girl, who emerged from the incident unscathed. The victims and suspects were not immediately identified. The officer-involved shooting occurred shortly after noon at Estara Avenue and Drew Street, but no officers were injured, said Los Angeles police Officer Kate Lopez. "What we do know is that three suspects exited that car - all three with firearms," Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz said. "At least two of...

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Drive-by shooting on Queensland's Sunshine Coast

Two men have been injured, one seriously, in a drive-by shooting on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.The shooting happened around 8:00pm outside the Royal George Hotel in Nambour.One man received the full force of the shotgun blast to his chest and arm, while a bystander received minor injuries.Both have been taken to Nambour Hospital.Police Sergeant Jeff Coote says it appears the incident was sparked by an altercation inside the hotel moments earlier."Two men and a woman have left the hotel," he said."The man who was also involved in the altercation has gone outside, and whilst he was outside, the...

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Gerardo Reyes,German Reyes Real, Jose Javier Laris the three faces six counts of attempted aggravated murder and an unlawful use of a weapon

Jackson County grand jury has indicted three men for their suspected roles in a gang-related drive-by shooting Monday night near South Medford High School.In addition to two Talent men arrested Tuesday — Gerardo Reyes, 20, and German Reyes Real, 18 — the grand jury indicted Jose Javier Laris, 18, of Rogue Valley Mobile Village, 3761 S. Pacific Highway, Medford. Each of the three faces six counts of attempted aggravated murder and an unlawful use of a weapon charge, officials said.Investigators suspect...

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John R. Chambers, 54, was arrested for aggravated robbery and felonious assault on an officer.

Columbus police officer fired his weapon at an armed man after a robbery at a University District pharmacy Thursday evening. The shot missed, but the officer quickly captured the man, police said.John R. Chambers, 54, was arrested for aggravated robbery and felonious assault on an officer. Police listed his address as “streets of Columbus.”The officer, whose name was not released, responded to a report of an armed robbery at Crosby’s Drugs, 2609 N. High St., at 6:55 p.m. Police said the officer spotted a man fitting the description of the robber nearby on W. Hudson Street and ordered the man to...

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Armed robbery of the Florida Telco Credit Union

About 11 p.m. Wednesday, a 38-year-old man as arrested in connection to an armed robbery of the Florida Telco Credit Union in the 8100 block of Normandy Boulevard back in August. Witnesses said that on on Aug. 22 the man demanded cash and then fled into the woods. Surveillance footage was released to the media. A week later, a man said he believed the robber was one of his employees. Investigators spoke with the bank manager and a family member and identified 38-year-old Alan Dewayne Holston as the suspect. He was arrested Wednesday.Police are looking for a well-dressed suspect in an armed robbery...

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Patrick Haliburton aka Killy Killy and another man were found suffering from gunshot wounds

One of two men who the police claimed was wanted for murder, was shot and killed, his crony injured and two guns seized. The dead man was identified as Patrick Haliburton, 18, also known as 'Killy Killy' or 'Frost' of Walkers Avenue, Gregory Park, St Catherine. Deputy Superintendent Clive Blair of the St Catherine South Division said the lawmen went to an address along Walkers Avenue when they were greeted by a barrage of gunfire. He says that the police fired at the men and shortly after, Killy Killy and another man were found suffering from gunshot wounds. Both men were found clutching 9mm pistols....

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Joe Gun Store arrests

Police have made six arrests and recovered about 150 of the more than 200 guns stolen from a Midland County gun dealer earlier this month.WJRT-TV in Flint reports police arrested a 33-year-old Chesaning man and another person about 1 a.m. Wednesday near St. Charles. The Midland Daily News reports two more suspects were picked up in Midland County on Tuesday in Jerome and Greendale townships.The Saginaw News reports local law enforcement and federal agents acting on a tip also raided a Saginaw home Monday and a Chesaning apartment Tuesday. WSGW-AM reports a man and a woman were arrested.Authorities...

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England banned all guns in November 1997, gun crime has gone up

England banned all guns in November 1997, gun crime has gone up. As recently as 2006, Scotland Yard noted that more people than ever are carrying firearms as fashion accessories. These are not the law-biding citizens. They are not allowed to carry. A report in January 2006 showed offense involving guns soared by as much as 50 percent in some parts of the country. Kings College in London found that the use of handguns in crime rose by 40 percent in the two years after the weapons were banned. "Hot" burglary rates, defined as burglaries committed while people are in the building, is 13 percent in...

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Ammunition used in a Mafia-style hit was traced by cops back to the barracks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Ammunition used in a Mafia-style hit was traced by cops back to the barracks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.Bullet stolen from a Scots Army unit was used in a brutal gangland killing, the Record can reveal.Cops ordered a raid on the battalion HQ after tracing the origin of a bullet taken from a murder victim's body.The Record revealed yesterday how cops smashed a major weapons-dealing ring in a joint raid with Kent Police at Howe Barracks in Canterbury, Kent, which led to soldiers being arrested for allegedly selling bullets and grenades.An Army insider said: "This thing's massive and...

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Mustafa Ali, Handgun allegedly used to kill two armored car guards

Two men connected to the handgun allegedly used to kill two armored car guards last year were among the latest round of arrests in a wide-ranging effort to crack down on straw purchases, authorities said Tuesday.A dozen people were arrested on illegal gun trafficking charges in Philadelphia from Nov. 13 to Jan. 18.The warrants were issued through the efforts of a gun-violence task force formed in 2006 to round up straw purchasers, state Attorney General Tom Corbett and Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham said at a news conference announcing the arrests."We're going to push for very hard...

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Melvin Bridges, unlawful use of a weapon Terrence T. Miller arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of a weapon

Terrence T. Miller, 33, of Centreville, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon when police allegedly found him in possession of a loaded 9 mm handgun early Sunday outside the Blue Top nightclub, 817 S. 46th St., Centreville.Centreville Police Officer Corey Allen said the club's security guards called police to the club at 2 a.m., when a shot was fired inside the building.Miller fled investigating officers and was arrested shortly afterward.Allen said no one was hurt in the shooting and police are still investigating whether Miller fired the shot.If convicted, Miller...

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"riot" erupted outside a birthday party in the Center Point area

Fairfield police arrested five people on fighting and disorderly conduct charges at a skating rink, according to Police Chief Pat Mardis. Police were called to investigate a report of gunfire in the area, but no one was injured, Mardis said. Saturday-night fights landed six people in Jefferson County jails. Also on Saturday, a "riot" erupted outside a birthday party in the Center Point area, according to Sgt. Randy Christian of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. Teenagers began to gather outside a banquet hall in the 2300 block of First Street Northeast that was filled to capacity when a 14-year-old...

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Driver was Jerome Lamar Joe of Holiday Florida. passenger is Isaac Flowers of Clearwater

Tampa Police Officers responded to a "shots being fired" call in the area of Ybor City this evening at 12:50AM. The suspect vehicle was a purple car. Sergeant James Harris of the District III Street Anti-Crimes Squad observed a 1998 Plymouth Breeze, 4door, bearing Fl Tag 627-JJM near N. Nebraska Ave & E. Floribraska Ave. As it matched the description of one of the vehicles involved in the shooting incident, he ran the tag. The registration check showed that the vehicle was reported as stolen through the Pasco County Sheriffs Office on February 11, 2008.Sgt Harris continued to follow the vehicle...

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Andrew Wright pulling a gun on someone during a football game

Tavares police took down a man for pulling a gun on someone during a football game.Police searched for the suspect, Andrew Wright, for 30 minutes and finally found him at a home on Sinclair Avenue in Tavares. Police said Wright was playing football when he got into an argument with another player and threatened to shoot him."They showed up at the house, wanting to get in the back door and everything saying that they was after him," said Tony Steward who lives at the house police thought Wright was hiding inside.police were also investigating a stolen car they found parked behind the same home...

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'mosquito' devices

Retailers are entitled to use 'mosquito' devices to disperse unwanted gangs of disruptive teenagers from hanging around their shops, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The sonic gadget emits a high-pitched noise that only those aged under 25 can hear. The trade association said that violent crime against retail staff had gone up by 50% last year, and threats of violence had more than doubled. "Staff constantly feel threatened by teenage gangs and it should be within their right to use the device," said a BRC spokesm...

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Firm that transports prisoners the real CONAIR in court.

The arrest of Eric Scott Kindley, 39, was part of an FBI airport security initiative that has led to the filing of four criminal cases in the last few months, prosecutors said. Kindley surrendered to federal law enforcement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. He is president of Court Services Inc., a Riverside-based company that transports prisoners. Kindley and an employee, Gary Douglas Garratt, 54, of Mountain View, were named in a federal grand jury indictment last Friday. The indictment alleges Kindley instructed Garratt to transport a prisoner from Phoenix to Honolulu. When the airline...

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Dennis Robert White must spend 16 years behind bars without parole for the fatal shooting of aspiring artist Lee Matasi.

"pitilessness and randomness" of his crime, a judge ruled Friday that Dennis Robert White must spend 16 years behind bars without parole for the fatal shooting of aspiring artist Lee Matasi.White, 30, was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder and received the mandatory life sentence, with a minimum of 10 years in jail with no parole.Because the jury made no recommendation on a possible increase in parole ineligibility up to a maximum of 25 years, a hearing was then held for submissions on that issue.The Crown asked that White be held in prison for between 15 and 18 years without parole,...

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Plot to overthrow Australia’s first woman Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon.

In the centre of the police scandal are claims of backroom deals and a plot to overthrow Australia’s first woman Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon. These are the damning disclosures from the report of the Office of Police Integrity (OPI), which was tabled in the Victorian Parliament last week. The report caused shockwaves throughout the nation as Assistant Police Commissioner Noel Ashby resigned, preceded by the police media chief Stephen Linnell, whose alleged lies were exposed by the secret recordings of his series of telephone conversations with Ashby. The report also lists numerous...

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Therapist Kathryn Faughey murdered Dr. Kent Shinbach, went to Faughey's aid and was badly injured

David Tarloff, 39, was taken into custody in the morning after investigators matched him with three palm prints found at the bloody crime scene, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.Tarloff made statements incriminating himself during a 25-minute interrogation, Kelly said. The questioning stopped when he asked for a lawyer, and it wasn't clear later Saturday whether he had an attorney. Murder and attempted murder charges are pending, Kelly said.Therapist Kathryn Faughey was slashed 15 times with the cleaver and a 9-inch knife in her Manhattan office Tuesday evening. A psychiatrist who worked...

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Victoria Police identification badges, surveillance and radio gear, body armour and uniforms for sale

Breathalysers, bullet-proof vests and handcuffs are also among the 700 items reported by police as having been lost or stolen over the past five years, documents reveal.crime gangs could be in possession of Victoria Police identification badges, surveillance and radio gear, body armour and uniforms following the disappearance of hundreds of items of police equipment.However, there were no reports of lost or stolen guns in the 17 pages released through freedom of information. The missing items included:■317 police badges.■7 bullet-proof vests.■62 pairs of handcuffs.■16 batons.■64 breathalysers.Police...

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Mithun Ghosh, Chandan Basu, Lakshmi Chakra-barty and Phulmani

A probe revealed that Gupta had reportedly developed homosexual tendencies recently and depended on a criminal ring to supply him with the means to satisfy his carnal desires.Rakesh Gupta murder case after arresting four people on Saturday. After one such porn show on February 10, the gang demanded a huge sum from him. He refused to pay up and an argument broke out. When Rakesh started screaming, the criminals tied a handkerchief to his throat and throttled him. They later dumped the body by a pond in Muragachha, North 24-Parganas. This is what the gang of four - Mithun Ghosh, Chandan Basu, Lakshmi...

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South African Passports are worthless

South African Passports are worthless, now we know why. As a result, British immigration experts said, the South African passport was “no longer worth the paper it’s written on”. South Africa leapt to the top of the British government’s visa “hit list” last month following a British trial that heard that at least 6 000 illegal Asian immigrants had been smuggled into Britain on South African passports.Last week Sir Stephen Lander, chairman of Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, told Britain’s...

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Stephen Kazmierczak "outstanding" student and a "disturbed individual."

Authorities are describing the gunman who killed five students at Northern Illinois University yesterday as both an "outstanding" student and a "disturbed individual."Police say Stephen Kazmierczak carried a shotgun hidden in a guitar case and three handguns onto the campus. They say he bought the weapons legally and had a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card required of all Illinois residents who own guns.Campus police say Kazmierczak "had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks." But they declined to provide details.In Lakeland, Florida, the gunman's...

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Carlos Leon,Christopher Ault,Jordan Cole

"Two of these thugs are 17-year-old Crips members who were trying to make their bones and they figured by doing a robbery, a carjacking, it would carry some weight in their little criminal enterprise," Chief Mike Chitwood with the Daytona Beach Police Department said.Police believe that if Gibson had not saved herself by jumping out of her trunk she possibly would have been killed as part of the gang behavior. Charity Gibson, 26, said she was forced into the trunk of her car at gunpoint during Tuesday's incident."I'm glad personally, and maybe this sounds a little bit crazy but I’m glad it happened...

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Kenrick Rowe,Juno Daniel was banned by a court from having a firearm for 10 years for a previous incident involving a firearm.

Kenrick Rowe, 31, and Juno Daniel, 25, both of Toronto, are charged with robbery while armed, possessing an unregistered restricted firearm, possessing a restricted firearm with ammunition, possessing a restricted knowing it's unauthorized, and wearing a disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence. Daniel is also charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possessing a firearm with prohibited. banned from having a firearm for a decade by a court was arrested with a loaded handgun following a store robbery in Etobicoke. Toronto holdup Det.-Sgt. John Brown said uniformed officers recovered...

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Gun tracker

Criminals don't sit still. They move from place to place, Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray s Cooperative police work among cities on the Route 222 corridor in recent years has helped track individual criminals and gangs, Gray said.And the guns they use, Gray said, also often don't stay in one place. New technology and cooperative efforts discussed at a conference this week in Baltimore can be used to track those guns on an even larger scale.Gray and mayors from 11 cities from New York to Annapolis met Wednesday and agreed to share ballistics information that could link guns to crimes used in different...

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90 percent of the 500-euro notes in circulation outside Europe are being smuggled into Colombia.

Federal agents last year used their dogs Frankie and Sox to detect cocaine residue on euro shipments seized at the Miami airport. One seizure alone involved seven bags. One of the shipments contained 12,224 of the telltale 500-euro notes. The money is shipped in sealed, tamper-resistant plastic bags the size of duffel bags.Those seizures are now the subject of the U.S. forfeiture action, a civil action that requires the government only show that it's more likely than not that the money is ill-gotten.The...

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My job as attorney general is to continually look for ways of improving our system of justice

The Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Association urged the province to abandon an appeal of a judge's ruling that stayed corruption charges against six former members of the Toronto police drug squad on the grounds the case was taking too long to come to trial. A group representing criminal lawyers in Ontario added its voice Tuesday to a chorus of demands for a public inquiry into how the provincial government bungled one of the largest cases of police corruption in Canadian history.Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer stayed the charges last month, blaming the prosecution's "glacial pace" for violating...

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Lindstrom witness protection

Lindstrom has pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of two witnesses who were due to give evidence against her boyfriend on serious drug charges.In return for a lighter sentence, she has vowed to testify against him and others, but as a result is kept in protective custody as "serious" threats on her life have been made. Speaking publicly for the first time since being locked up last May, Lindstrom made a heartfelt apology to the Supreme Court, saying she wished she could have her time over. During her short stint in the witness box, she also confessed to suffering anorexia from the age of 13...

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SOFAST and the Blood and Honour gang

Jason Gregg was arrested in Newark, and John Carr was taken into custody in Gahanna. Both suspects have been charged with felonious assault and abduction.Two alleged white supremacists believed to have fired gunshots at an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent and another individual in August 2006 in Thornville were arrested Thursday by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension and Strike Team (SOFAST).According to the U. S. Marshals Service, the suspects are known members of the threat group known as the Blood and Honour gang. The Blood and Honour gang is a white supremacist group that promotes...

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Investigation into the private security industry

THE Australian Crime Commission has launched a special investigation into the private security industry amid fears organised crime rings are using it to infiltrate businesses, sell drugs and launder money.Criminals no longer just use private security jobs to sell drugs and steal guns; they are now using it as a cover to get access to lucrative sectors such as insurance, finance and telecommunications, it warns."We're seeing criminal infiltration across a broad range of areas," commission chief executive Alastair Milroy said."The potential is (for) quite a broad range of criminal activity — access...

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Never would hold back information if they believed doing so would put the public at risk.

It happens in an instant: A quiet suburb that most people living even just a few miles away couldn't find without a map becomes synonymous with the most grisly of crimes.It happened in Tinley Park, where a gunman went into a women's clothing store on a Saturday morning earlier this month and shot six women, killing five.Now authorities hunting for the man who executed the women during an attempted robbery Feb. 2 are under an unrelenting spotlight unlike anything the Chicago suburb has dealt with...

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