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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Bulgaria's Mafia War: Resolve versus Results: Bulgaria's Mafia War: Resolve versus Results - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency

Bulgaria's Mafia War: Resolve versus Results: Bulgaria's Mafia War: Resolve versus Results - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency: "'The Bulgarian government has demonstrated political will to combat major organized crime rings and has begun prosecuting numerous cases where the defendants are high-level organized crime figures,' the report reads.

Here is culprit – the four letter word 'will' – for the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party and for Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, this is certain and unprecedented praise; the opposition sees it as criticism."

Thursday, 3 March 2011

125,000 people have purchased illegal ‘top-ups’ for their meters from gangs offering electricity at half the price.

An estimated 125,000 people have purchased illegal ‘top-ups’ for their meters from gangs offering electricity at half the price.
Prepay electricity meters work like pay-as-you-go phones. You purchase energy at newsagents and garages by topping-up a plastic 'key'.
The key is then plugged into your meter and the amount is added to your account.
But last year hackers cracked the technology used to create engineer’s keys that come with £50 credit.
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Sunday, 27 February 2011

Libya rescue: William Hague says Gaddafi 'must go'

Tony Blair had kept the government informed about telephone conversations he had had with the Libyan leader over recent days.

The foreign secretary said the UK was 'working intensively' to establish how many Britons remained in Libya and said the Foreign Office 'continued to urge British nationals to leave' the country."

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Thursday, 24 February 2011

Abbotsford police drive home message about gangs in Hummer

HummerAbbotsford police drive home message about gangs in Hummer: "What was once used for drug trafficking has become the latest beacon of the Abbotsford Police's battle against gangs in the city.

At a press conference Wednesday the APD unveiled its new cruiser - an H2 Hummer - that will make its rounds, spreading the message that gangs are not welcomed in Abbotsford as part of Operation Reclamation.

A man who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons possession once used the vehicle, however it was surrendered under BC's Civil Forfeiture Act and given to the APD to use as a motorized billboard for fighting organized crime.

The hummer won't be used as a regular police cruiser, but it will be driven to schools and put on display at Abbotsford Heat games for students and the general public to view."

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Gangs threaten paramedics in Mexican border city

PARAMEDIC NAVY BLUE HAT CAP LAW ENFORCEMENT HATSGangs threaten paramedics in Mexican border city  " Private paramedics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital, are being threatened with death by drug traffickers, who have prohibited them from taking people with gunshot wounds to neighboring El Paso, Texas, hospital officials told Efe.

An average of five people a day sustain gunshot wounds in the border city and the majority of them ask to be taken to El Paso, which is just across the Rio Grande, for security reasons.

Gunmen have sometimes chased ambulances or entered hospitals in Juarez to finish off people who survived shootings.

The paramedics, many of whom are volunteers, began receiving death threats last year via the Life 1 radio frequency used by first responders and the threatening messages have been 'constant' since then, emergency services coordinator Juan Arras told Efe."

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List names 'Costa del Crime' wanted

List names 'Costa del Crime' wanted: "Anthony Fraser, grandson of former violent East End gangland enforcer 'mad' Frankie Fraser, and son of a convicted drug smuggler. The 39-year-old Londoner is wanted over the importation of two tonnes of cannabis - worth £5 million - hidden in a lorry load of frozen chicken from Holland in 2009.
Others included Glaswegian William Paterson, 31, wanted over the murder of gangster Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll in January last year. Criminal Carroll, dubbed Scotland's 'public enemy number one', was blasted 10 times by masked gunmen outside an Asda superstore in Robroyston, near Glasgow.
Darren O'Flaherty, 36, of Liverpool, is wanted after a lorry driver was held at knifepoint while his load of electronics was stolen in North Yorkshire in 2006. The fugitive is also the prime suspect for the murder of Irishman John O'Neill, who was shot dead in a crowded bar in the Spanish resort of Benalmadena last summer.
Details of all 10 men will be posted by Crimestoppers on a 'most wanted' website targeting the region. Several Spanish coastal resorts have been dubbed the 'Costa del Crime' since the 1970s because hundreds of wanted British criminals are thought to have fled there."

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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Bruno Mars gets probation in Vegas cocaine case

Nothin' On You [Feat. Bruno Mars] (Album Version)Bruno Mars gets probation in Vegas cocaine case - Yahoo! News: "Bruno Mars had two firsts this week. One was winning a Grammy. The other came Wednesday when the 25-year-old singer-songwriter pleaded guilty to cocaine possession.
Unlike the award for his hit, 'Just The Way You Are,' his brush with the law in Las Vegas may not last forever.
Mars will avoid prison and will have no conviction on his record if he stays out of trouble for a year and meets other conditions of his plea deal.
Clark County District Judge Jessie Walsh made sure Mars understood that he could face up to four years in state prison if he violates the terms of the agreement.
'You understand the penalty range?' she asked.
'Four years,' Mars replied, standing in a dark suit with his hands at his sides.
The judge gave Mars, whose real name is Peter Gene Hernandez, probation, a $2,000 fine, 200 hours of community service at a nonprofit organization and eight hours with a drug counselor in Los Angeles."

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Police warn Katie Price about hostage plot | Unreality TV

Jordan: Pushed to the LimitPolice warn Katie Price about hostage plot | Unreality TV: "Police have reportedly warned Katie Price that she may be targeted by a violent gang.

The officials are said to have received information that the criminals are planning a raid on Jordan’s home, in which they hold her hostage while they ransack and rob her property. The gang have already acted upon Steven Gerrard’s wife Alex Curran and the fiancee of Manchester United ace Darren Fletcher.

A source close to police told The Sun:

“Police got specific intelligence information that they were going to target her.



“That is one of the reasons she has had to ramp up her security."

Infinity Chilli- 'Record-breaking' chilli is hot news

BBC News - 'Record-breaking' chilli is hot news: "Tests have revealed the 'Infinity Chilli' to have a Scoville Scale Rating of 1,176,182 - hotter than chilli reportedly used in hand grenades by the Indian military. But what is the attraction of this insanely hot ingredient?

The story of the world's hottest chilli begins not in Mexico or Bangladesh, but next to the barbed wire at RAF Cottesmore in Leicestershire.

Nick Woods, working shifts as an RAF security guard and considering his growing family, decided he had to do something more entrepreneurial with his life.

That was five years ago. What was Nick's hobby - cooking up hot sauces in his kitchen - developed into his Fire Foods sauce business, and now the 38-year-old Grantham man finds himself literally in possession of hot property.

Like many great discoveries Nick says he developed the Infinity Chilli accidentally."

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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Biba reminds brokers of new motor law

Biba reminds brokers of new motor law - Postonline: "The DVLA in conjunction with the Motor Insurers' Bureau and the British Insurance Brokers’ Association is reminding drivers that a new law to be rolled out in late spring will mean that they must keep their vehicle insured unless they have notified the DVLA that is it is being kept off the road.
Information about the new law is being distributed with all V11 tax renewal forms from March in addition to the guidance and video available now on Direct.gov.
David Evans, DVLA’s corporate affairs director, said: “We know that uninsured drivers are a menace on our roads and add around £30 to honest motorists’ premiums."

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Joanna Lumley joins legal aid campaign

JOANNA LUMLEY 8X10 PHOTOJoanna Lumley joins legal aid campaign - Telegraph: "The actress, who famously won better rights for Gurkhas to settle in the UK, has joined lawyers across the country to attack proposals to slash funds for those fighting civil court cases.
Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, has proposed civil legal aid should only be routinely available to those who face losing their life, liberty or home under the biggest shake-up of the system in its 50-year history.
People fighting a wide range of legal battles — from warring families and school disputes to clinical negligence and personal injury — will be denied access to public funds under the plans.
The reforms are designed to cut the £2.1 billion legal aid bill by £350 million within four years and by more than £400 million within a decade.
But the Law Society warns the move is 'ill-conceived and unfair' and will leave half a million people a year with the prospect of fighting battles without legal representation."

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Scotland’s biggest force has sacked three officers and a civilian member of staff for sharing sensitive information with criminals.

Verbal and Numerical Reasoning Exercises for the Police Recruit Assessment ProcessCLOSER vetting of potential police recruits is being demanded after it was revealed Scotland’s biggest force has sacked three officers and a civilian member of staff for sharing sensitive information with criminals.

Strathclyde’s Deputy Chief Constable, Neil Richardson, has revealed 27 of the region’s 199 known criminal gangs have invested time and money trying to infiltrate the police force.

The revelation has brought calls for the reintroduction of visits to the homes of new recruits. They used to help filter out unsuitable candidates but were axed before an SNP-led recruitment drive which resulted in 1000 new officers being taken on across Scotland in 2008/09.

Threats, sex, money, drugs and blackmail are among tactics used by criminals to either “turn” officers, forcing them to becoome informers for gangsters, or to coerce them into passing on sensitive information from the Scottish Intelligence Database and other sources."

Thursday, 3 February 2011

Smartphones to run operators into the red

 Smartphones to run operators into the red: "Rocketing smartphone use could drive mobile operators into losses in three years unless they rapidly adopt technology to capture more revenue from data services, according to a US network company.
Rising investment costs to handle exploding data traffic combined with lower revenue per unit of data could begin to drive some operators into the red in as soon as two years, Tellabs said it calculated based on independent analyst data.
'Carriers can spend themselves bankrupt well before users run out of hunger for capacity,' said Tellabs chief executive Rob Pullen.
'Our study shows that simply adding dumb capacity is unsustainable. To avoid the 'end of profit', carriers must bring intelligence to their networks -- it is critical to carrier survival,' he was quoted as saying in a statement.
A number of industry players expect mobile data traffic, driven mostly by smartphones, to nearly double each year for the next several years."

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A COMPUTER hacker from Paignton has admitted stealing $12million worth of poker chips from an American gaming company.

A COMPUTER hacker from Paignton has admitted stealing $12million worth of poker chips from an American gaming company.: "COMPUTER hacker from Paignton has admitted stealing $12million worth of poker chips from an American gaming company.

Ashley Mitchell, 29, of Little Park Road, Paignton, admitted accessing the system belonging to the Zynga Corporation and stealing 400 billion chips.

He then sold some of the virtual chips on the black market for £53,000.

The IT businessman appeared at Exeter Crown Court yesterday and admitted five counts relating to the hacking together with 41 other offences which he asked to be taken into consideration."

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Thursday, 27 January 2011

Russian cop ‘in London gang rape’ | The Sun |News

Russian cop ‘in London gang rape’ | The Sun |News: "18-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and then filmed while being assaulted by seven Russian men, including intelligence officer Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov, 23.

The attack is said to have happened early on Sunday during a party among English language students at prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South London.

Police retrieved iPhones with harrowing footage of the Malaysian victim being raped by a succession of men. Ivanov is one of four Russians charged with rape. He appeared at Woolwich Magistrates' Court yesterday with Gregory Andreev Melnikov, 22, who was also charged with attempted rape.

On Tuesday Norayr Davtyan, 25, and Arnen Simonay, 26, appeared at the same court charged with rape. All four were remanded in custody to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on February 1.

They all claim to be students, but well-informed sources say Ivanov worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police."

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Saturday, 22 January 2011

One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartments, opens its doors for the first time - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance

One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartments, opens its doors for the first time - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance: "A total of 86 flats at One Hyde Park, thought to be the most expensive residential development in the world, have been officially unveiled by the property duo, the Candy brothers. Prices at the highly anticipated Knightsbridge project start at £6.5m for a simple one-bedroom flat and soar to £140m for one of the penthouses. Averaging about £6,000 a square foot, the prices are higher than any other residential space, according to property experts.
City grandees including Lord Fink, the hedge fund guru, Ken Costa of Lazards, and Bernie Ecclestone of F1 joined international investors and celebrities including Gary Lineker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Theo Fennell at the launch."

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Friday, 21 January 2011

Hong Kong seizes $33 mn cocaine haul

Hong Kong seizes $33 mn cocaine haul - Yahoo! News: "Hong Kong customs officers have made the territory's second largest ever drugs haul, seizing cocaine worth HK$260 million ($33.4 million) hidden in planks bound for mainland China.
The seizure of 290 kilogrammes (639 pounds) of the drug was the largest yet made by the city's Customs and Excise Department and is believed to be the second biggest the city has seen, a customs spokesman told AFP Thursday."

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Friday, 14 January 2011

Drugs courier awaits fate after decade on run - Local News - News - Gazette Live

Drugs courier awaits fate after decade on run - Local News - News - Gazette Live: "ONE-TIME fugitive’s future hangs in the balance today after he spent a decade on the run following a major drugs raid.
Former gym manager Zaffer Majid, 48, faced the music for a large narcotics seizure after fleeing UK justice to Pakistan more than 10 years ago.
He was caught delivering a sports bag packed with 684g of heroin to his Middlesbrough workplace back in April 1999, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
The high-purity drugs, split into 25- ounce packages, were worth £25,000 in bulk, £37,600 broken down into deals, at the time.
Prosecutor Jolyon Perks said Majid brought the bag of drugs to the Cleveland Health Spa on Bright Street, which he ran.
Police found the sizeable stash behind the reception desk.
Officers in the former National Crime Squad, targeting the supply of large amounts of heroin in the town under Operation Paisley, were watching Majid and his gym."

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Sunday, 2 January 2011

South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists - Telegraph

South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists - Telegraph: "Islamic rebels familiar with the barren terrain of the Sahara have struck deals under which they provide armed security escorts for drug traffickers in return for a slice of their profits.
Counter-terrorism experts said that the terrorists belong to the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group, which has kidnapped a series of Westerners and killed a British tourist last year.
They warned that the money they receive from drugs gangs could be used to attract new recruits and plan terrorist attacks on European cities.
Olivier Guitta, a counter-terrorism and foreign affairs consultant, said that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Marxist rebel group, was the 'force behind the agreement with AQIM'.
In the past drugs were flown or shipped from South America straight to Spain or Portugal but the introduction of more rigorous controls in those countries led FARC to change its way of operating."

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The cartel of the Beltran Leyva brothers

The cartel of the Beltran Leyva brothers was so powerful and violent as ephemeral. Began to set in the administration of Ernesto Zedillo, after the death of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and consolidated in the administration of Vicente Fox Quesada, when he got relations that led to Los Pinos. Then came the abrupt end after he declared war against the Sinaloa cartel and allied with the Zetas. Now only Hector, H, and so far there is only a shadow on the mystery.

The death of the Beltran Leyva criminal organization began as the January 21, 2008 with the sudden arrest of Alfred, the youngest of six sons of Don Carlos Beltran Araujo and Dona Ramona Leyva. It was this fact that caused the explosion of the Sinaloa cartel and the war broke out in a mob family that was currently fighting for control of drug trafficking throughout the country.

There was no organization more powerful. The formed Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, Ismael "El Mayo Zambada, Ignacio Nacho Coronel, Juan José Esparragoza, Blu, the Beltran Leyva brothers, led by Arthur, Barbas, and Cázarez Salazar brothers, led by Victor Emilio.

President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa had declared war on drug traffickers since he took power and the beating of cartels and agreements with some of them, kept pressure on criminal organizations.

2007 was a year dominated by clashes in several parts of the country, especially in Tijuana, Baja California and Michoacan, and drug seizures and destruction of crops. In an unprecedented event occurred Sinaloa, as it recorded the destruction of at least a thousand hectares of marijuana in place that was being grown on irrigated land, most located in the center of Sinaloa.

Not since Operation Condor, carried out by the government of former President Jose Lopez Portillo in several Mexican states, Sinaloa drug traffickers had felt such pressure. Still, the great barons were still in the trafficking of drugs into the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. And together, through the expansion of its legal business worldwide, through which clean silver, hard to destroy a monster.

But it was the Government itself paved the way for negotiations with the bosses of Sinaloa. At least since May 2007 it was discovered in Culiacan of the first contacts between senior military commanders and leaders of the cartel. Never say whether these meetings were endorsed by the Presidency of the Republic, but the contacts were of the highest level.

Still, the fight against drug trafficking did not stop. Continued seizures and destruction of orchards in the valleys and the mountains. But understanding the mechanisms of drug lords and government were the same. A year had passed and the war had not borne fruit Calderon regarding apprehension of major drug traffickers.

And this is where it is estimated that the arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva cartel was a delivery, a fee to be paid to operate and in which, he said, his brother (Mark) Arturo had agreed.

Mocha's arrest, which occurred the morning of January 21, 2008, was seen as the first blow to the Sinaloa cartel, but then the signs indicate that the federal government had reached agreements with the bosses to let them operate Sinaloa status to reduce their levels of public exposure: to reduce abuses, killings, murders of policemen, military attacks ...

This was the turning point, marked a before and after the most powerful cartel in America today. And anticipate their fate. Arturo Beltrán emplazaría their partners soon to rescue his brother from prison. He would put money, men and weapons, as necessary. But the request was denied. And then came the break, the explosion. From the last week of April, killing two machines were declared a war that eventually blood would bathe the entire country.

The end of Barbas

At the time of the break, the Chapo Guzman and the Beltran Leyva brothers shared territories in various parts of the country. Together they had conquered Guerrero, the last phase with the support of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, The Barbie, Barbas assassin's primary. As the cartel had decided to take Tamaulipas to the Gulf Cartel and its armed wing, the Zetas and that is why dozens of gunmen from Chapo and Arturo Beltrán had been transferred to that entity. They also began to fight Nuevo León. When war broke out, fighting between them began throwing casualties on both sides. Guerrero was bloodied and the drug war, police and military all denominations brought their share of executed. These balances are inscribed the feds killed in Culiacán in two events that occurred three days apart in June 2008 and the eight soldiers beheaded in Guerrero in December of that year. Like the assassination of the commander of the Federal Police, Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, in May 2008, just the war began, crime was attributed to Arturo Beltrán.

After the break, Arturo Beltran was harassed by the government. Coincidence or not, but in December 2008 when, under President George W. Bush, the United States formally joined Marcos Arturo Beltran Leyva cartel boss, under a U.S. narcotics.

The boss began to rise as a drug boss in the administration of Ernesto Zedillo after the death of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and became important during the administration of Vicente Fox, after they went public with their relationship with Los Pinos through the tour coordinator presidential, Nahum Acosta Lugo.

But it was not until he broke with his former associates and friends of Sinaloa that the United States was put in the spotlight. A year later, on December 3, 2009, the Treasury Department froze U.S. assets of cartel Beltran Leyva brothers on U.S. soil. The restrictions included a 22 people and ten companies linked to the organization.

The provision of the Treasury did not disclose the identity of individuals and companies allegedly linked to the Beltran Leyva, but said that the organization controls related to air transport companies and land, sale of electronic trade in health products, consulting service businesses and even hospitals.

In Mexico, the companies were located in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Chiapas, Sonora, Jalisco, Estado de Mexico, Baja California and the Federal District.

U.S. authorities accused the Beltrán Leyva cartel to smuggle cocaine from Central and South America and heroin from Mexico into the United States. They further claimed that he was responsible for countless murders of elements (police and soldiers) in the fight against drug trafficking.

The siege against the Beltran Leyva was closed. Thirteen days after the measure gringa, Dec. 16, the boss of bosses was killed and displayed by the Navy as a war trophy in Cuernavaca.:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder

Friday, 31 December 2010

Chinese Investigative Journalist Sun Hongjie Dies After Gang Beating

Chinese Investigative Journalist Sun Hongjie Dies After Gang Beating: "Media rights groups are calling for an inquiry into the fatal beating of Chinese journalist Sun Hongjie, who had investigated politically sensitive issues such as government-enforced housing demolitions.

Sun, a senior reporter at the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post in western China, died at a hospital in Kuitun on Tuesday, 10 days after he was beaten by six men at a construction site, The Associated Press reported.

The government-controlled state media reported what police said: that Sun had been involved in a personal dispute with another man who arranged the beating.

The official Xinhua news agency said six suspects have been arrested and police are investigating, Agence France-Presse reported."

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Criminal ordered to pay back thousands - Local - Leigh Reporter

Criminal ordered to pay back thousands - Local - Leigh Reporter: "Carl Wrend, of Chapel Street, Leigh, was arrested and jailed along with 10 other men as part of Operation Dunlin - a drug-busting investigation to catch an organised crime ring based in East Lancashire.

The 29-year-old has been forced to hand over £1,110, before eventually paying back a total of £4,010.

The gang were involved in the wide scale distribution of class A, class B and class C drugs in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and across the country in 2008 and 2009.

During a hearing at Preston Crown Court this week, the judge decided that the men had gained more than £1 million as a result of their crimes and that this should be surrendered.

Under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), police can deprive criminals of anything that represents profit from crime, whether it is money, cars or houses.

Confiscation orders of differing amounts were attributed to each person."

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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010: "joint operation involving Austrian, German and Macedonian police this week broke up a major drug ring in Central and Eastern Europe, resulting in dozens of arrests.

Authorities in Vienna on Thursday said police in Austria and Macedonia had conducted coordinated raids on Wednesday and arrested 29 people suspected of being gang ring-leaders. They said that since their coordinated effort began in 2007, police have made more than 300 arrests in Germany and 69 in Austria.

Officials said the gang is based in Macedonia and quickly took over the heroin trade in Frankfurt and Vienna by violently forcing out rival gangs. The ring has been dubbed the Frankfurt Mafia and is especially active in the German banking center and in the Austrian capital.

The cities are at the end of what the United Nations has called the 'Balkan Route,' along which heroin from Afghanistan is smuggled into Western Europe via Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and other Balkan countries before ending up on the streets of Western Europe's major cities."

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Echo Park Shooting: 1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Christmas Day Shooting in Echo Park - ktla.com

Echo Park Shooting: 1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Christmas Day Shooting in Echo Park - ktla.com: "shooting happened about 11:45 a.m. Saturday on West Sunset Boulevard at Innes Avenue.

The car involved, a white Honda Civic, apparently pulled up in front of a house where there were some rival gang members. Authorities say a running gun battle ensued.

The car was driven to another spot about ten blocks away, near Baxter Street and Echo Park Avenue.

Officers found the car abandoned with the body of 18-year-old Cesar Frank Guerrero, of Paramount. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

The victim's father, Cesar Guerrero, told KTLA he had been involved in gangs"

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Fujian gang leader Liu Xiaohua gets death for fatal gunfight in Shanghai - What's On Xiamen

Fujian gang leader Liu Xiaohua gets death for fatal gunfight in Shanghai - What's On Xiamen: "THREE gang members were sentenced to death Friday for their roles in a fatal Shanghai gunfight stirred up by a female drug dealer in May 2009.

Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced a total of 11 members from two gangs.

Two gang members were killed and two others were injured in the gunfight in Putuo District.

Liu Xiaohua, boss of the Fujian Province gang, was sentenced to death for leading the criminal gang and a series of other crimes. Two gangsters who shot two people dead were also sentenced to death.

Dong Shuang, the 21-year-old female drug dealer who caused the fight, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for dealing drugs.

Other gang members were sentenced from two years to life imprisonment, according to the court."

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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Indo-Canadian Gangster Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In 1997 Abbotsford Murder | Link Newspaper

Indo-Canadian Gangster Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In 1997 Abbotsford Murder | Link Newspaper: "Ravinder (Robbie) Soomel, 31, was sentenced to five years in prison for his part in the killing of 20-year-old Jason Herle, who was gunned down by two men hiding in the bushes as he was leaving his parents’ King Road home with his girlfriend in November 1997, reported the Surrey Leader newspaper.
Soomel and co-accused Tajinder (T.J.) Bains were each charged in August 2007 with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder. Bains, 36, entered his plea in December 2008 and was sentenced to three years."

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Alleged Australian drug lord arrested in Cyprus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Alleged Australian drug lord arrested in Cyprus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Hakan Ayik appeared in court in the port of Kyrenia, where he was ordered to be held for another six days while Turkish Cypriot police continue their investigation.

Ayik, who evaded capture in Cyprus a month ago, is on the most wanted list of the Australian Crime Commission.

He fled Australia in August when New South Wales police issued a warrant for his arrest.

Ayik, who was raised in Sydney and has a Turkish background, is closely connected to a Sydney bikie gang. He is known as a fitness fanatic and is a bar and brothel owner.

Turkish Cypriot police say they seized a laptop computer and equipment used to process drugs and eight mobile phones."

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Tuesday, 14 December 2010

'Serial killer' deaths eyed by police in New York

'Serial killer' deaths eyed by police in New York: "Police are investigating the possibility a serial killer may have left four bodies alongside a short stretch of road in New York state.
The bodies were discovered on Saturday and Monday in Long Island as police were looking for a 24-year-old woman reported missing on nearby Fire Island.
Shannon Gilbert, who worked as a prostitute, had arranged through a website to meet a client on the island, just east of New York City.
Ms Gilbert was last seen on 1 May 2010.
Investigators found the four badly decomposed bodies near Cedar Beach along a quarter-mile (0.5km) stretch of road, while searching for Ms Gilbert."

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Thursday, 9 December 2010

BBC News - Paul Gascoigne sentenced for drink-driving

Gazza: My StoryBBC News - Paul Gascoigne sentenced for drink-driving: "Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne has been given a suspended prison sentence after he admitted a drink-driving charge.
The 43-year-old Tyneside-born former England midfielder was stopped by police in Newcastle on 8 October.
Newcastle Magistrates' Court was told that Gascoigne was found to be driving while more than four times the legal alcohol limit.
He was given an eight-week sentence, suspended for a year, and banned from driving for three years.
He was also given an alcohol treatment order."

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Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'in a coma' | World news | guardian.co.uk

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'in a coma' World news guardian.co.uk: "Lockerbie bomber has slipped into a coma, is on life-support and is not expected to recover, it was reported today. 'Everyday is expected to be his last,' a source close to his family is said to have told Sky News.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has prostate cancer was controversially released from a Scottish prison in August 2009, supposedly because he was on the brink of death. Secret US embassy cables sent to WikiLeaks and published by the Guardian revealed UK government fears that Libya would take 'harsh and immediate action' against British interests if Megrahi died in prison."

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