Several gunshot wounds to the upper leg

Fresno Police responded to a call. They found a male victim in his late teens or early twenties with several gunshot wounds to the upper leg.A man was shot inside his Fresno home on Sunday, and the suspects are still on the loose.

The victim was transferred to the hospital and is expected to survive his injuries.
Now police are searching for the suspects.
"Based on the information we have so far, it was a brown vehicle occupied by some Asian males. It does not appear to be a random shooting because all of the rounds that were fired, were all fired in the proximity of the cars and the home," said Sgt. Timothy Hahn from the Fresno Police Department.

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Eric Kamahele , Mark Neiafu

Police made two arrests after an armed gunman and two accomplices robbed a parking lot attendant Saturday night.
It happened just after midnight at the Hilton parking garage at 255 south, West Temple. Cops say three men pulled up in a tan Cadillac wearing blue bandanas and pointed a gun at the attendant.
The robbery police found the vehicle and made two arrests. Eric Kamahele and Mark Neiafu, both 19, are facing robbery charges.
Police say the investigation is ongoing and may result in more arrests.

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Richard D. Garrett

Richard D. Garrett, 42, of Denver, Police attempeted to stop a vehicle and a pursuit began.
The pursuit ended a short time later outside the “Taco House” restaurant at 55th and North Federal Boulevard when the suspect's vehicle became immobilized. Garrett exited the vehicle and engaged the deputies in a fight.
Garrett was able to grab a deputy's pistol during the encounter. While struggling for control of the pistol, one round was fired but the fired round did not strike anyone.
Garrett was taken into custody and transported to an area hospital for treatment. The vehicle Garrett was driving had been reported stolen on December 23 out of Windsor.
Garrett was not the wanted person the deputies were initially looking for, however, Garrett is now being held for investigation of aggravated motor vehicle theft, vehicular eluding and resisting arrest.

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Roderick Carter,Darrius Jones

67 arrests on gang- and drug-related charges in a 24-hour period starting late Friday night, police said.
The sweep followed a week of deadly violence in Boston, during which four people were shot to death, bringing the homicide total to eight this year, quadruple the number at this time last year, police said.
"The goal of the operation is to send a clear message to criminals that gun violence will not be tolerated in our community," said Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, reading from a statement during a press conference at police headquarters yesterday. "The roundup is focused on known gang members, many of whom are active gang members."
The sweep, conducted with the State Police, FBI, and US Marshals, also netted four firearms and various illegal drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, police said. The individuals were arrested on outstanding warrants and range in age from 17 to 54.
They were charged with a range of crimes, including smoking in public, failure to attend jury duty, armed robbery, and illegal firearm possession, police said.
The sweep was launched hours after a 23-year-old man was shot to death Friday while eating at a Jamaican restaurant on Harvard Street in Dorchester.
The spree of homicides started late Tuesday when 16-year-old Carlos Sierra of Dorchester was shot to death on Strathcona Road.
The next day, 23-year-old Darrius Jones of Dorchester, was shot and killed in a livery car in Roslindale after leaving the funeral of a recent slaying victim. Two others were wounded in that attack.
Early Thursday, Roderick Carter, 24, of Dorchester, died after being shot in the Franklin Field housing development.
On the same day, a man described as being white and in his 30s was found stabbed to death in a three-family residence on Tuttle Street in Dorchester.
The spate of violence came during a week in which Mayor Thomas M. Menino used his State of the City address to applaud police for helping curb crime. Last year, the city had a marked decline in homicides and shootings.
The sweep was expected to continue into last night, with extra police patrols targeting high-crime areas, Davis said.
He said Boston police are "laser focused" on ridding the city of firearm violence. "We will not allow these cowards to derail our mission to reduce violence," he added.
Elaine Driscoll, a police department spokeswoman, declined to say how many additional officers would be combing Boston neighborhoods.

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Arrested four police officers

Federal agents arrested four police officers just south of the border with Texas on Saturday and were investigating where they got their guns, Mexican police said.
In a joint operation, federal police and soldiers arrested the officers early Saturday morning in the city of Nuevo Laredo across the border from Laredo, Texas, said a spokesman for Mexico's Public Safety Department who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.
"The army has stepped in to investigate the origin of their weapons," he said.
Mexican radio station Formato 21 said the officers had guns that weren't registered with their unit in the border state of Tamaulipas.
It wasn't immediately clear if the four officers were being investigated for corruption, which is widespread in Mexico, particularly in states like Tamaulipas plagued by organized crime.

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Johan Nel

Johan Nel, 18, was escorted into the building amid heavy security, remanded in custody for a week, and then driven back to prison.
The multiple shooting happened at the Skielik shanty town, about two miles from the family's chicken farm at Tweefontein in the rural North West province.
A man reportedly entered the township with a rifle and walked among the houses, shooting as he went. Some have claimed he said "Kaffir, Kaffir, Kaffir" as he fired.
Moses Clifton, 68, lost his daughter and grandchild in the multiple killing, in which several people were also injured.
"The child and the mother ran out of the house and the boy walked down the road and shot them," he said.
"I hid behind the house with my back against the wall and I heard him reloading his gun. I stayed at the corner watching and then I saw the mother and the child dead in the road.
"I was at court this morning to see this man. My heart is breaking. My child and my grandchild died. He must hang."
Corrie Nel, mother of the accused, insisted that her son was not racist.
"If you knew him, you would know that he did not act rationally," she told the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld.
He had told her: "Mom, something snapped inside me," she added.
Five years ago, aged 14, Nel was convicted of shooting and wounding another black man, who was working as a grass-cutter. His family say he was attacked with a sickle, and had been traumatised by their experiences of crime over the years.
According to some reports his defence at the time was that he mistook the man for a baboon.

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Todd Tornstrom

Todd Tornstrom, 35, was arrested Thursday night shortly after the pilot of the flight from Columbus to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., decided to turn around and land at Port Columbus International Airport.
Tornstrom and a female passenger were disruptive and appeared to have been drinking, said airport spokeswoman Angie Tabor.
When asked by a flight attendant to stow a carry-on baggage, Tornstrom claimed he was a Transportation Security Administration agent and that he had a gun, the FBI said in a statement. The pilot decided to return to Columbus after Tornstrom couldn’t produce a TSA identification badge. The plane had 134 passengers.
The FBI also said Tornstrom was overheard by a flight attendant telling passengers that he was carrying “enough bullets for everyone on the plane.”
The plane was searched and no gun was found. All passengers were re-screened by security and the flight took off again just after midnight.
Tornstrom, of Chesterland, Ohio, was charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants. He appeared in federal court Friday and was released on the condition that he not abuse alcohol and not fly on commercial planes, said Fred Alverson, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. No plea was entered. A hearing was scheduled for Feb. 7.
If convicted, Tornstrom could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

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Scott Poirier

The jury heard a taped interview in which the Lewiston man confessed to police that he fatally shot his father as he sat at the head of his dining table during his 65th birthday party.
more stories like thisOn a notepad, Poirier sketched his parents' house in Lewiston and showed how he stood by the pool on Nov. 8, 2006, and aimed his rifle through a window of French doors.
Poirier maintains that Roland Poirier molested him when he was a teenager. The defense is attempting to show that the defendant was not criminally responsible for the shooting by calling into question his state of mind when he pulled the trigger.
The trial resumes Tuesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

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Hrant Dink

Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to be brought to justice, a year after he was gunned down in a murder which shocked Turkey.
An ultra-nationalist gunman shot Dink outside his office in Istanbul on Jan 19, 2007. The subsequent investigation has triggered claims police failed to act on warnings his life was in danger.
Amid tight police security and mournful music, people laid red carnations at the spot in central Istanbul where he was killed. A huge photograph of Dink was hung from the office of his Armenian newspaper Agos for the commemoration ceremony.
"We are at the pavement where they tried to clean his blood with soap," Dink's wife Rakel said in an emotionally-charged speech from the office balcony. "You are here for justice today. A scream for justice rises from your silence."
Ankara has vowed to prosecute all those responsible for Dink's killing. Nineteen suspects are on trial. The next hearing is on Feb. 11.
Amnesty International urged Turkey on Friday to widen the investigation into his death and the media called for the alleged complicity of security officials to be fully probed.
"The killer state will be called to account," many in the crowd of several thousand chanted.
"For Hrant, For Justice," said black-and-white placards, in Turkish, Armenian and other languages, held aloft by the crowd as they marked a minute's silence at the moment he was shot.

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Aitezaz Shah

Aitezaz Shah, was arrested from the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan on Friday while planning a suicide bombing over the Muslim festival of Ashura, they said on condition of anonymity.
Shah told interrogators he had been part of a back-up team of three bombers who were tasked with killing former premier Bhutto if the original December 27 attack by two men had failed, the officials added.
Interior ministry spokesman Iqbal Cheema did not confirm the arrest.
"It is not in my knowledge so far," Cheema told AFP.
Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi. Pakistan's government and the CIA have blamed Al-Qaeda and tribal warlord Baitullah Mehsud for her killing.
Shah, originally from the southern city of Karachi, went for training last year at a camp run by one of Mehsud's commanders in the tribal border region of Waziristan, the security officials quoted him as telling investigators.
He allegedly said the attackers in the team that killed Bhutto were called Bilal and Ikramullah -- the same names mentioned in an alleged telephone conversation between Mehsud and another militant the day after Bhutto's death.
The tape was released the day after her killing by Pakistan's interior ministry.
Shah's whereabouts at the time of the attack were not immediately clear. One security official said he was in Rawalpindi, the city where Bhutto was killed, while another said he was in the tribal area of Waziristan.
"The suspect was not in Rawalpindi at the time of attack on Bhutto. The boy told interrogators that he was in South Waziristan," a top police official quoted him as telling the interrogators.
One of the officials said Shah was arrested during a security check when he arrived in Dera Ismail Khan by taxi from the North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan.
He allegedly told officials that he came to collect a suicide jacket for an attack at the US consulate in Karachi but the programme was changed because of tight security for Ashura, which takes place on Sunday.
Instead he was ordered to launch an attack during an Ashura procession by the minority Shiite sect on Sunday, the officials said.
A spokesman for Taliban militants in Pakistan rejected the allegations, saying that the boy arrested in Dera Ismail Khan had no link with the group.
"We are not involved in the attack and this information is meant to defame us," the spokesman Mohammad Omar said in telephone calls to reporters in Peshawar.
"He is not our man and we know nothing about him" Omar said adding that its purpose was to give credence to a CIA report about involvement of Baitullah Mehsud in Bhutto's assassination.

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Odwa Oros Sithole

Odwa Oros Sithole, is wheeled by doctors to emergency rooms at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha yesterday, while plainclothes police officers keep a close guard. Sithole was wounded during his arrest near Mtatha yesterday. Notorious custody escaper and one of South Africa's most wanted criminals,luck has finally run out after escaping from policeFrom the lace curtain inside the flat we could see that it was him, so we positioned ourselves and got ready to fight...Sergeant Landela Hlalendlini Sithole, 23, was arrested at 8am yesterday at Ntlekiseni Locality near Mthatha, after police staked out his home the whole night, before executing a perfectly planned ambush.Sithole walked into his house unaware that his pursuers were waiting for him inside. When he reached for his firearm, the two cops fired three rounds into his legs and arrested him.
It brought to an end Sitholes life on the run, after he escaped from Mthatha Magistrates Court in September last year.
With a rap sheet stretching back to 2002, Sithole is allegedly responsible for crimes including murder, armed robbery, cash-in-transit heists, car theft, escaping from lawful custody and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
In all he has 23 counts against him.

Before his escape from court, Sithole was flown to Mthatha from Cape Town in a police jet, where he had been arrested following a jail break with six other inmates from Mthathas Wellington Prison.
But Sitholes luck ran out, thanks to the efforts of Sergeant Landela Hlalendlini and Constable Thando Magoxo, who camped in a yard the whole of Wednesday night waiting for their man.
They were initially joined by eight members from the Organised Crime Unit (OCU) and the National Intervention Unit (NIU).
But at 1am yesterday, it started raining and it was decided that Magoxo and Hlalendlini would remain behind.
The two positioned themselves inside Sitholes house, each peering out a window, not making a sound to each other.
Each was armed with R5 rifles and a pistol and for the next six hours waited silently for their quarry.
Hlalendlini said it was at 7.40am when an unsuspecting Sithole walked into the flat.
He walked around the yard and through the gate carrying a blue bag. At this time we knew that action was about to start,? Hlalendlini said.
From the lace curtain inside the flat we could see that it was him, so we positioned ourselves and got ready to fight.
Sithole pushed the door open and immediately the policemen instructed him to raise his arms.
But Sithole reached for his gun and was shot three times in his legs.
He fell on the ground and from there we knew that our patience and anticipation had paid off, Magoxo said.
Sithole was handcuffed and the two cops called for backup, waiting about 3km away.
Police recovered a 9mm pistol with six live rounds of ammunition and a BXP rifle with eight live rounds of ammunition.
The weapons are thought to be linked with the many armed robberies that have taken place in the Transkei.

Sithole was taken to Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital for treatment where he remains under heavy guard.

Investigating officer, Xolile Mdepa, said Sithole was suspected of operating in a syndicate linked to armed
robberies.

Mdepa said Sithole was considered a dangerous criminal who was part of a nine-member gang based in Mthatha.

?I have been on the police force for 19 years, but it was the first time in my life that I had to arrest a criminal and fly him in a plane.

?That has only happened with Odwa Sithole,? Mdepa said.

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Grenade accidentally detonated

An argument between a divorced couple ended tragically Sunday when the man died after a grenade accidentally detonated and tore off his arm in northeast Moscow, law enforcement sources said.
Having consumed a considerable amount of alcohol, the two began arguing shortly after midnight Sunday near a restaurant owned by the woman on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Ulitsa, sources told Moskovsky Komsomolets.

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Driver shoots 3 pedestrians

It's been a perilous week for city pedestrians, even by Moscow's notorious standards.
A driver in central Moscow ended an argument with three pedestrians Monday by shooting them and trying to flee, a city police spokeswoman said.

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Armed Robbers tied up Michael Mamoud 70-year-old and his wife 72-year-old

Police say three men armed with guns and wearing balaclavas broke through the back door of the home in Foveaux Avenue, Lurnea, about 9:00pm (AEDT) yesterday.
They allegedly tied up the elderley couple before stealing jewellery and other items.
The man received a cut to his face and both victims were taken to Liverpool Hospital with minor injuries.
All three men are described as looking Mediterranean or Middle Eastern and in their early 20s. One of the men was wearing a navy-blue shirt and grey-and-white army-style pants.Michael Mamoud says he played dead after he and his wife were tied up and assaulted during a home invasion in Sydney's southwest.
Michael Mamoud, 70, and his wife, aged 72, were tied and bound by a gang of three men who were wearing balaclavas and armed with pistols.
Police said the men ransacked the wealthy couple's Lurnea home looking for gold and jewellery after forcing their way through the back door at about 9pm (AEDT) yesterday.
Mr Mamoud said the robbers bound their feet and hands with cable ties, but he was able to break free.
"I grabbed the gun and said 'Stay back or I'll blow your head off' and they said 'No, no, no, it's not loaded', but I looked in his face and from his eyes he was scared,'' Mr Mamoud told Network Ten.
He said one of the men hit him in the face with another gun, giving him a bloody nose before he played dead.
"They said 'The man has died, we have to go','' he said.
Mr Mamoud suffered minor facial bruising and required three stitches to his nose.
Mr Mamoud's son Sam Bargshoon said the attackers were worse than animals.
"Today it's my father, tomorrow it's going to be your father, or someone else's father, or someone else's mother,'' Mr Bargshoon said.
Mr and Mrs Mamoud were taken to Liverpool Hospital with minor injuries.
Superintendent Mick Plotecki from Liverpool police said the robbery had all the hallmarks of a well-organised attack and that the men may have even known the couple.
"It looks like a very well-organised set of offenders. They came with cable ties, weapons, they were balaclava'd up,'' he said.
"They are reasonably wealthy, elderly people so I think they targeted them specifically.''
Police believe the trio may have used the M5, just behind Foveaux Ave, as a getaway route.
All three robbers were described as Middle Eastern or Mediterranean in appearance and in their early twenties.
One of them wore a navy blue shirt and grey and white army-style pants.

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Roy A. Therrien

Roy A. Therrien, 19, of 1179 Grafton St.
An undercover officer was able to buy the sheriff’s department .40-caliber Glock for $650 from Mr. Therrien in mid-October in the Edgeworth Street area of the city, Sgt. Eric A. Boss said. The undercover officer allegedly bought 10 rounds of .40-caliber ammunition as well.
“Be careful it is a cop’s gun,” Mr. Therrien allegedly told the undercover officer, according to police reports.
Sgt. Boss said the sheriff’s department is investigating the theft of the firearm and he could not comment on how the gun was stolen.
“He knew the firearm he was selling had belonged to law enforcement personnel,” the sergeant said.
During the alleged gun buy, Mr. Therrien said he could get more guns and pills for the undercover officer to purchase, according to the sergeant.
“This individual had access and was willing to sell firearms to anyone that called him. We consider him a very dangerous person,” Sgt. Boss said.
“Anyone that is selling drugs and firearms to someone he had just met is a danger to the community.”
The vice squad then called the Worcester office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the state police for assistance.
The undercover officer called Mr. Therrien in mid-November and set up another buy, Sgt. Boss said.
This time the officer allegedly bought 20 Percocet pills for $180, the sergeant said. Again Mr. Therrien said he could get guns if the undercover wanted to buy them, Sgt. Boss said.
A couple of weeks later, the undercover officer set up another meeting and allegedly bought a .32-caliber revolver from Mr. Therrien for $500.
After that gun buy, Mr. Therrien started to dodge the undercover officer, police said.
Sgt. Boss said an early December meeting was set up with Mr. Therrien for the sale of a .9mm, but Mr. Therrien never showed up. The undercover officer called Mr. Therrien again in mid-December, but the city man avoided his calls, the sergeant said.
“Once it became clear we weren’t going to be able to retrieve any more guns from this individual we arrested him,” Sgt. Boss said.
Police obtained an arrest warrant yesterday and with the assistance of the U.S. marshals office and the sheriff’s department found Mr. Therrien driving on Grove Street around 9:30 p.m. and he was arrested.
Mr. Therrien was charged with distribution of a Class B substance (Percocet), two counts of illegal sale of a firearm, two counts of possession of a firearm without a firearm identification card, illegal sale of ammunition, possession of ammunition without an FID card, possession of a large capacity firearm and receiving stolen property over $250.

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Another innocent man shot down in dinnertime "gun battle"

A man shot to death during a dinnertime "gun battle" in east Chinatown yesterday is believed to have been an innocent bystander, the second to be killed in the city by gunfire in a week.
Police arrived at the Fu Yao Supermarket on Gerrard Street East near Broadview Avenue about 6:10 p.m. after witnesses reported seeing two men shooting at one another nearby.
Staff Sergeant Courtney Chambers said the victim, believed to be in his 40s, was much farther down the street when he was struck. He had collapsed in front of the grocery store and had no vital signs when emergency crews arrived, police said. The man was taken to St. Michael's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"One of the angles we're looking at at this time is that he was an innocent bystander," Staff Sgt. Chambers said.

Shell casings were found strewn across the street and a bullet had gone through the storefront window.
Staff Sgt. Chambers said officers are canvassing the neighbourhood, adding that they expect several witnesses to come forward because it is a busy street, especially at that time of day.
A man who identified himself as Phil told reporters at the scene he heard as many as six shots and saw two men run toward a car. Kristin Carson, who lives across the street, told reporters she saw the man lying in the doorway of the store.
Police said they're looking for at least two people, who fled the scene in a silver car. No arrests had been made as of last night.
Standing in front of the crime scene last night, Police Chief Bill Blair said: "It's happened again tonight."
Chief Blair earlier condemned the brazen shooting on CP24's The Chief. "The loss of another innocent life is senseless and reckless," he said. "Use of guns on our streets is totally unacceptable and frankly, for every man and woman of my service who work so hard to keep our city safe, it's frustrating, it's infuriating and we're absolutely committed to getting those gunmen off the street and doing everything we can to keep our city safe."
The death is the third homicide of this year.
Early Saturday morning, John O'Keefe, a 42-year-old father, was on his way to the subway after a night at a pub on Yonge Street when he walked into the path of a bullet intended for someone else. Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with that incident.
A trust fund has been set up for Mr. O'Keefe's only child, Iain O'Keefe-Kaufmann, 9. Donations go toward Iain's education and can be made at Toronto Scotiabank branches.

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Nino Joseph Garcia Jr.,

Nino Joseph Garcia Jr., 24, of Banning was killed Tuesday in the courtyard of the Spa Resort Casino, 401 E. Amado Road, after five officers - two sheriff's deputies, assisted by two state Department of Justice officers, and one Palm Springs police officer - fired on him when he pointed a handgun at them in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Exactly who killed Garcia remains under investigation, said Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez, a spokesman for the sheriff's department.
Authorities have declined to say exactly what charges Garcia was wanted on, citing an ongoing investigation.
Garcia, who had prior convictions in Riverside County for drug and firearm violations, was sent to prison about 2? years ago, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for sale and carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle or public place and sentenced to 16 months in prison starting Aug. 2, 2005.
He was paroled March 8, 2006 and discharged April 7, 2007.
Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Thursday that Garcia wasn't released because of overcrowding.
"He was a short-termer," Thornton said. "Plus, because of his sentence, he was eligible for credits."
Credits that reduce time served can be earned by inmates who participate in a work program. Inmates can also get credit for time served in county jail before they are transferred to state prison, she added.
"Because he didn't complete his entire year and four months, he must have had some credits," she said.
"But he did complete his parole and therefore he was discharged."
The officers in Tuesday's shooting remain on leave, and each of their departments is conducting internal investigations to ensure proper protocol was followed.
During Tuesday's incident, a casino slot attendant was injured while working inside the casino's Cascade Lounge.
The courtyard where Garcia died is outside the lounge. At least one bullet went astray and went through a window by the patio and struck the worker's leg.
He was treated and released from Desert Regional Medical Center with minor injuries, officials said.
Authorities are also reviewing surveillance video from the casino, which may have captured Garcia and the woman inside the casino and possibly the shooting itself, officials said, adding that the video will not be released due to an ongoing investigation.The woman, whose name has not been released, had been held at the Palm Springs Jail but was herself arrested on a felony warrant and remains part of an ongoing investigation into Tuesday's incident, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
Authorities have declined to discuss specifics of the investigation that led them to seek Garcia, saying only that Garcia was the focal point and that it was being led by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, with assistance from the DOJ and Palm Springs Police.

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Port of Spain Prison

Soldiers stand guard as prison officers patrol around the perimeter of the Port of Spain Prison on Frederick Street.More than five bus loads of prison officers were deployed around the Port of Spain Prison on Frederick Street yesterday following suspicions that a gun had been smuggled into the guarded premises.
The upper part of Frederick Street, where the entrance to the Port of Spain prison is located, was completely blocked off to both vehicular and pedestrian traffic during the four-hour long lockdown. The area was cordoned off by prison officers, police and regiment personnel in the search that began at 11 a.m
The officers were seen carrying metal detectors, flash lights, surgical masks and surgical gloves, while the airship, commonly referred to as the blimp, circled the site.
The other three streets around the prison, New Street, Gordon Street and Pembroke Street, were allowed their regular traffic flow but pedestrians were not allowed to walk along the pavements near the prison walls.
Sources told the Express that a gun was believed to have been smuggled into the prison at around 6 a.m., causing the lockdown.
However, both the Commissioner of Prisons, John Rougier, and president of the Prisons Officers Association, Michael Williams, said nothing was found in the extensive search.
Williams admitted the search was carried out based on a tip-off, he said "the measure adopted was a standard procedure", which included the collaboration with police and regiment personnel during the search.
But nearby business owners, residents and visitors to the prison were up in arms at the operation.
Attorney Jawara Mobota, who had a 1.30 p.m. appointment with his client, Andrew Thomas, said he was "totally inconvenienced" by the search. Thomas was transferred from Carrera to the prison on Wednesday.

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Bryan "The Birdman" Williams, Shahid Muhammad,Brandon Thursten ,Ovide Antoine,Casey Collins

38-year-old Miami-based rapper Birdman, whose real name is Bryan Williams, was charged with possession of more than a half-ounce of marijuana.
His wife Brittany Williams, 18, of Houston and his brother, Ronald Williams, 43, of Aventura, Fla., were also charged along with 13 others, according to a news release from the Kingsport Police Department.
Bryan and Ronald Williams founded Cash Money Records in 1991, according to the record label’s Web site. Hits featuring Birdman include “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” and “Army Gunz.” Some of the label’s top artists include Lil’ Wayne, Teena Marie and Baby.
The label is distributed, marketed and promoted by Universal Records. A phone message left Wednesday at Universal Records was not immediately returned.
Police said they stopped the RV driven by Keith Boswell, 38, of Daytona Beach, Fla., after they saw it force a tractor-trailer into the emergency lane on Interstate 81.
Cpl. Tim Horne said he could smell marijuana from inside the rented RV and found about a pound of marijuana in a trash can in the RV’s kitchenette.
Others arrested include road manager Shahid Muhammad, 40, of New Orleans, Cash Money Records promoter Casey Collins, 42, of New Orleans, and music promoter Ovide Antoine, 32, of Miami.
One of the suspects, 24-year-old Brandon Thursten of Miami, had a 9mm handgun tucked in his waistband, Horne said. Police said they also found a second gun.
No weapons charges have been filed.

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Francisco A. Escalante-Diaz

Francisco A. Escalante-Diaz, 21, of Tucson, Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said. The warrant charges him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and drive-by shooting.
Pacheco said the officer was driving west on Speedway Boulevard about 10:30 a.m. last Friday when he noticed a car in front of him driving erratically.
After both cars turned south on Stone Avenue, the officer pulled up to the right of the car, a gold 1994 Lexus, Pacheco said.
The passenger yelled an obscene comment and pointed a handgun at him, he said.
Then the man pulled the trigger. Pacheco said the officer, who identified himself as a policeman, was not hurt but his car was hit. The officer did not shoot back.
The car continued south on Stone, Pacheco said. The officer remained at the scene.
Escalante-Diaz served almost eight months in prison in the past year, according to the Department of Corrections Web site. He served time for convictions of criminal damage, weapons misconduct, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and violating parole. The Web site said he was released in June.
A Pima County Jail clerk said Escalante-Diaz listed his address for his most recent conviction in the 1300 block of West Simmons Place.
Police have yet to identify the driver of the car, Pacheco said. The driver could face charges in connection with the incident.

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Paredes was a member of a private Gormley gun club called The Grange

Mr. Paredes was a member of a private Gormley gun club called The Grange, according to James Cox, the chairman of the umbrella sporting club.
Mr. Cox said Mr. Paredes, who appears on the club’s registration as a student, had to take two firearm safety courses and eight probationary shootings before he was given a permit.
“You can transport a firearm to the range and back home again, with reasonable stops, but not drinking at the bar,” Mr. Cox said in an interview. He said supervisors keep a close watch on members while inside the club and report anyone who does anything dangerous.
The Chief Firearms Office does issue an “authorization to carry” a restricted gun to someone who proves that he or she needs it for protection, or that it is essential to their job. Police said Mr. Paredes did not have such a permit.
“I would like to believe, and do believe, that people who take the time to take the training course, get their licence lawfully, acquire their firearms lawfully, sign up in a gun club, by and large are the decent people who are really trying to do things right,” said Tony Cooper, Deputy Chief Firearms Officer of Ontario. “And it’s an anomaly when somebody goes left of centre
Mr. Paredes was the registered owner of the handgun allegedly used in the murder, but did not have the authorization to carry it with him to the strip club. The accused allegedly intended to shoot one of the Brass Rail bouncers who had kicked them out minutes earlier.
It was Mr. Paredes who allegedly fired the shot, but Det. Sgt. Nielson said the murder was a “joint venture” between both accused. “In first-degree, it doesn’t have to be a lengthy, complex plan,” he said. Police do not believe the accused were intoxicated.
Both men were remanded into custody after making brief court appearances yesterday in front of family and friends. At one point, Mr. Paredes’ girlfriend burst into tears, and had to be comforted by his father.
Mr. Paredes and Mr. Zekarias do not have a criminal records, said Det. Sgt. Nielson. Mayor David Miller expressed his shock over the city’s second homicide, a few blocks from where Jane Creba was killed on Boxing Day 2005.
“The fact that a fairly young man legally had a gun is shocking. What does a 22-year-old in a city like Toronto need with a handgun?” Mr. Miller said. “That’s just not acceptable.”
The Mayor said he would consider expanding the numbers of closed-circuit television cameras on Yonge Street. “It’s time that together as Torontonians and Canadians we put an end to the ownership of handguns in our society.”

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Cross Hill woman

Cross Hill woman returned home to find an intruder inside, and then shot and killed him. The incident happened about 8pm this evening on Pineland Shores Road. Laurens County Sheriff Ricky Chastain tells News Channel 7 that the woman heard someone in the home, grabbed a weapon, and saw him hiding in one of the rooms. She then shot him. It was not until after she shot him that she realized she knew him. Chastain says robbery appears to be the motive.

Investigators will now present the case to Solicitor Jerry Peace to determine if the woman will be charged. No names were released this evening.

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Tarzara DeShun Wells, Andrew “PeeWee” Lee Massingill.

Tarzara DeShun Wells on a murder charge in the death of Andrew “PeeWee” Lee Massingill.
Wells was arrested Nov. 23 after officers responded to the 300 block of Fisseler Drive and found Massingill shot in the left leg. He later died of his injuries.
Wells told police he and Massingill had fought over money owed to Wells, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Wells told police his handgun slipped from his waistband during the fight, and when he stooped to retrieve it, he saw Massingill pull a box cutter from his pants.
Massingill came toward Wells with the box cutter, and Wells shot him, the affidavit stated.
Wells remained at the McLennan County Jail Wednesday evening in lieu of $500,000 bond, a jail spokeswoman said.

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Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.

Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store on Tuesday.
A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes.
The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.
Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants.
A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.
The clerk wasn't injured.
Kosch was released from the hospital Tuesday and booked into the Howard County jail on a charge of armed robbery, criminal recklessness and battery. He is being held on a $100,000 cash bail. A jail official did not know if he had retained an attorney Wednesday.

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Dennis W. Gwinn

Dennis W. Gwinn was indicted on charges of being a felon in possession of a gun.
Gwinn, age and hometown unknown, allegedly had a Rossi .357 revolver in Cool Ridge on Dec. 17, 2007, according to the indictment.
Gwinn’s previous convictions include multiple attempts to commit a felony, burglary and grand larceny, all in Raleigh County, according to the release

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Terrance Haliburton,Brian Travis Bays,Nehmiah Lujoh Allen-Griggs,Mark Frank Lafleur

Terrance Haliburton, 48, Nehmiah Lujoh Allen-Griggs, 27, and Mark Frank Lafleur, 52, are accused of dealing OxyContin in Mink Shoals on Dec. 17, 2007, according to the indictment. Allen-Griggs is from Detroit; the other two men’s hometowns were unavailable.
If convicted, each faces up to 20 years in prison.
The grand jury also returned an indictment against a Charleston man accused of being a felon in possession of a gun.
Carlos Montez Smith, 34, who was convicted of grand larceny in Kanawha County in 1997 and two counts of bank robbery in Alabama in 1999, had a 9 mm Smith & Wesson pistol in Malden on Dec. 17, 2007, according to the indictment.
If convicted, Smith faces up to 10 years in prison.
Also on Wednesday, the grand jury indicted a South Charleston man on charges of possessing a gun after having been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.
Brian Travis Bays, 27, had a .380 Lorcin model L-380 pistol on May 5, 2005, in South Charleston, the release contends. He was previously convicted of domestic violence in Kanawha County Magistrate Court in 2001, according to the indictment.
If convicted, Bays faces up to 10 years in prison.
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Jesus Antonio Hernandez

Jesus Antonio Hernandez, 28, has been convicted of robbing a total of five banks in El Paso in two separate sprees.
The amount of money stolen in the robberies was not immediately available.
On Jan. 9, Hernandez was sentenced to more than five years for the robbing of three banks plus a year in prison for failure to appear, FBI spokeswoman Special Agent Andrea Simmons said.
Hernandez had been convicted of two bank robberies and was waiting to start a three-year sentence when he robbed three more banks in September 2006.
In December 2006, Hernandez was caught by Customs and Border Protection officers while trying to return to the U.S. on the Paso del Norte Bridge.

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Jeramy J. Freriks,Rodney Lee Drake

Jeramy J. Freriks, 31, and Rodney Lee Drake, 48, both of Fairbanks, were arraigned Wednesday on charges of resisting arrest. Freriks was also charged with burglary, eluding and access to a fraud device, according to police.

Freriks, who has prior convictions for forgery and theft, had about 10 state-issued ID cards on him when police arrested him Tuesday, Lt. Paul Honeman said. The cards were real and issued by the state, but in the names of other people, he said.
"We think they're stealing checks from the mail, creating false IDs, and writing themselves checks," Honeman said. Police are asking people who think they may be victims of possible theft or fraud crimes to contact them, he said.
The men have been in Anchorage for about a month, Honeman said.
Police were tipped off to their location after one of them left a handgun in a Spenard motel after checking out. When officer Jeff Bell responded, he realized the room was registered to a Fairbanks man who had several warrants out for his arrest, Honeman said.
The gun was not stolen, and Bell took it for safekeeping. He called motel employees and asked them to call him if the guest returned, but the staff said the man was there as they were speaking, Honeman said.
Bell returned to the motel and saw the guest and another man get into a red Ford Explorer SUV, which he followed. When the vehicle began speeding recklessly, Bell stopped his pursuit, Honeman said.
Then, within 15 minutes after he had lost sight of it, Bell saw the same SUV return to a dead-end road on the 4800 block of Spenard Road, several blocks away from the motel. Bell blocked the vehicle in while he waited for backup to arrive, police said.
When the men saw Bell, they ran away, but police chased them on foot. They caught Drake in a parking lot a short time later, Honeman said.
Freriks apparently went into a storm cellar at a nearby home to hide, but the homeowner saw him and told police, who found him there, Honeman said.
Freriks is being held at the Anchorage jail in lieu of $50,000 bail for the new charges, with no bail set for his probation violation.
Drake is charged with resisting arrest and was remanded without bail at the Anchorage jail for his outstanding warrants in Fairbanks.
According to court records, Drake has several assault convictions. Freriks was convicted of forgery and second-degree theft in 2006, according to court records, and he was on probation for those violations.

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Walter Morris , Brian Tuckey

On Wednesday afternoon police arrested 22-year-old Walter Morris and 23-year-old Brian Tuckey. They found them in Royalton inside a vehicle.
Morris is charged with murder. Tuckey faces charges of reckless endangerment and simple assault.

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Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson, 49, said in an interview that she didn't know the gun was in the bag.
Due to packing and unpacking for a recent trip, Anderson said someone helping her must have put the .22-caliber handgun in the briefcase.
The weapon was inside a camera case inside the briefcase.
Anderson said Wenatchee police overreacted by arresting her for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit rather than simply citing her.
"I told them 'You've got to be kidding me.' ... They basically humiliated me," said Anderson, who said she has a history of conflict with the Police Department. On several occasions she has criticized police conduct in investigations involving her clients and herself.
She was cited for obstructing a police officer during an on-scene investigation five years ago — an incident she says police trumped up.
Anderson says the arrest was payback "because I am aggressive and I am not connected to the 'good old boy' system in this town." She continued: "I don't play their games. I don't roll over."
Wenatchee police Sgt. Cherie Smith said Anderson was treated the same as anyone else.
"Like anyone who brings a gun to the courthouse, we consider that a serious offense so we arrested her," Smith said.
Anderson said she started carrying a gun in early December after receiving threats

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