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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Hummer discovered stolen when driver applies for welfare in Lee County
“It doesn’t pay to apply for welfare while driving a Hummer,” declared Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons after his officers charged a Tennessee man with possession of stolen property after he drove the expensive vehicle to the local department of social services.
Parsons said William K. Anderson, 51, 501 Forrestal Drive, Knoxville, is being held without bond at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail and may be charged with other crimes in another jurisdiction in relation to the stolen vehicle.
According to the sheriff, an observant person noticed the man arrive at the Lee County Department of Social Services on Friday in the 2004 H2 Hummer, bearing Michigan license plates, and attempt to obtain welfare benefits. Thinking something just wasn’t quite right, the person took down the license number of the vehicle and reported the information to the sheriff’s office.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh And Monet Paintings Stolen In Zurich
Paintings by some of the world’s most famous artists have been stolen by an armed gang from a museum in Zurich.
Four oil paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were among those taken in the weekend robbery from the E.G. Buehrle museum.
Police are hunting three masked men who entered the building armed with a handgun.
The stolen works of art are thought to have a combined worth of more than £80m.
Among the paintings taken in what officials described it as a “spectacular art robbery” is Cezanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Man beaten with baseball bat, shot after accused of rape
A man accused of raping a woman at knifepoint in a Dallas apartment was beaten by an angry mob and shot at least twice, authorities said.
The 26-year-old man, who was not identified, underwent surgery Friday after being hit with a baseball bat and shot, apparently once in the head, according to a report in Saturday editions of The Dallas Morning News. Authorities did not immediately know the suspect’s condition Saturday.
Dallas police Lt. Sally Lannom said for a vigilante mob to attack a man accused of rape is unusual.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
UGA professor accused of beating student
University of Georgia officials said they have removed a pharmacy professor from contact with students as they investigate whether he repeatedly punched a doctoral candidate during a drunken rage at an off-campus party. But some students claim the professor is still teaching and are outraged he hasn’t been fired.
Last semester, Shawn Holaway, a clinical assistant professor in the university’s College of Pharmacy, was accused of an unprovoked attack on graduate student Philip Almeter at a private Homecoming party in Athens. Although the alleged incident occurred Nov. 2 and Almeter said he reported it to college administrators the next day, university officials still are investigating.
“[Holaway] is contesting the allegations and being uncooperative in the university’s attempts to investigate, so it is taking longer than we would like,” university spokesman Tom Jackson wrote in an e-mail Monday to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “But appropriate measures have been taken to remove him from contact with students and to set in motion the steps necessary to reach an appropriate resolution, which could include dismissal.”
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Dwarves hidden in sports bags target Swedish coaches
Swedish police are quizzing “people of limited stature” with criminal records following a spate of robberies from the cargo holds of coaches – possibly carried out by dwarves smuggled onboard in sports bags.
According to the Sun, the gang responsible pack their vertically-challenged accomplices into bags and stick them in with other passengers’ luggage. The undercover operatives then rifle the hold for valuables before resealing themselves in their hiding place, to be extracted later by another gang member at the coach’s final destination.
National coach operator Swebus confirmed it’d been hit by the audacious crims, who have over the last few months has lifted “thousands of pounds” in cash, jewellery and other valuables.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Doctor held in Indian organ scam
A doctor alleged to be the mastermind of an organ trading racket in India has been arrested in Nepal, according to Nepalese officials.
Amit Kumar was reportedly discovered in a jungle resort in southern Nepal.
Indian police had been wanting to question Dr Kumar after they raided a house in Delhi which had been used to carry out illegal kidney transplants.
Officers say hundreds of poor labourers were lured from across northern India and bribed into selling their kidneys.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Woman attacked by man in Carnival garb, police say
A Covington woman was attacked Monday morning by a New Orleans man dressed in
Carnival garb that she met through the Internet, Covington police said Tuesday.
Lawrence Goldstein, 40, 1020 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, was booked Monday with attempted rape, false imprisonment and possession of nitrous
oxide, which is classified a dangerous substance, police said. Sometimes known as laughing gas, the chemical was used
by Goldstein in an attempt to lower the victims defenses, authorities said. Goldstein called the 24-year-old Covington resident
early Monday morning and told her that he had too many guests at his residence and asked if he
could sleep at her place, Covington police spokesman Lt. Jack West said.
The woman, who was house-sitting and had a six-month-old baby with her, told him he
could come over but only to sleep, West said.
Goldstein arrived at the apartment in a purple top hat, a large purple cape and a purple satin shirt, West said. His upper
body was covered in pink body paint and glitter, West said.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
6 Dead After Gunfire at Mo. Meeting
A gunman with a history of acrimony against civic leaders stormed City Hall during a council meeting Thursday night, killing two police officers and three city officials before law enforcers fatally shot him, authorities said. The mayor was critically injured in the rampage.
The victims at the meeting in suburban St. Louis were killed after the gunman rushed the council chambers and began firing as he yelled “Shoot the mayor!” according to St. Louis County Police spokeswoman Tracy Panus. Two people were wounded before Kirkwood police fatally shot him, she said.
Panus said the names of the victims would not be released until a news conference Friday morning. But the wounded included Mayor Mike Swoboda, who was in critical condition late Thursday in the intensive- care unit of St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur, hospital spokesman Bill McShane said, declining to discuss the nature of the injuries. McShane said another victim, Suburban Journals newspaper reporter Todd Smith, was in satisfactory condition.
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes — anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
Last year, 13 of the vessels were seized on dry land or stopped at sea by Colombian or U.S. patrol boats — more than in the previous 14 years combined, according to the Pacific fleet of the Colombian navy, which is responsible for interdiction efforts across 130,000 square miles.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Man ‘had sex with victim’s body’
A man accused of murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman confessed to having sex with her after she was killed, a court has been told.
Miss Bowman, 18, was repeatedly stabbed and bitten outside her home in Croydon, south London, in September 2005.
Chef Mark Dixie, 35, of no fixed address, denies murdering Miss Bowman.
Prosecutor Brian Altman said: “The defendant confesses that he had sex with Sally Anne and that he had sex with her after her death.”
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks
Police searching a downtown home found a man hiding 15 plastic bags of crack cocaine in his buttocks.
Pierre Lynch, 20, of Washington, D.C., was searched after he went to a home on Charles Street Thursday night.
Police had gone to the home after officers saw suspected drug dealing in the area, Sgt. Jim Robison said.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
DCF to review personnel records
The head of the Department of Children and Families, “horrified and shocked” by the arrest of his agency spokesman on child-pornography charges, Monday ordered a review of personnel records for all DCF employees.
DCF Secretary Bob Butterworth and Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey briefed reporters at DCF headquarters about the arrest of Al Zimmerman on eight counts of soliciting two boys for sexual purposes.
Butterworth, who fired Zimmerman last Friday, said he sent a message to all department employees — urging them to “work with your heads held high” — and said the incident does not reflect on DCF’s work in protecting children in foster care, the elderly and other needy Floridians.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Another undersea Internet cable damaged in Mideast: Indian firm
Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday.
The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Dubai, between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, according to its owner FLAG Telecom, part of India’s Reliance Communications.
The company said on its website that a repair ship had been notified and was expected to arrive at the site in the next few days.
The cause of the latest cable damage was not immediately known.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Man Says Exorcism Led to Wife’s Death
A man accused of killing his wife says he was trying to exorcise a demon from her when the devil entered his body and caused her to die, according to a police probable cause statement.
Jan David Clark, 60, was arrested Friday after authorities went to his home and found Susan Kay Clark’s body wrapped in a bed sheet with a cross and sword on top of it.
Officers had gone to the home after being told that Clark had called a friend and said his 59-year-old wife was dead, said Sgt. Gary Duesler said the Ector County Sheriff’s Office.
Clark told investigators he had his wife pinned face down on a carpeted floor when she died.
Clark was charged with murder and remained in the Ector County jail on Sunday in lieu of $300,000 bail.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Monkey Boiled Alive At Research Lab
A monkey, slotted to be used in a drug-product research experiment, was instead boiled alive inside an Everett laboratory, a KIRO Team 7 Investigation found.
It’s a deadly error, but not the first one KIRO Team 7 Investigators uncovered at SNBL USA.
That company is near the Boeing Plant off Merrill Creek Parkway in Everett. It houses around 2,000 primates and represents clients like Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Seattle Genetics.
Using hidden camera footage, Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne shows you inside a facility that’s no stranger to federal animal care violations.
When it comes to scientific experiments, often the Cynomolgus Macaque monkey is the primate of choice. They weigh anywhere from about 3 to 25 pounds and make lots of barking noises. It’s hard to image how anyone could miss one sitting inside a small cage.
In early November, SNBL employees set out to clean pens full of monkeys and, at times, their babies.
Our hidden camera footage, taken inside SNBL headquarters, shows just how obvious it is to see and hear these animals jumping around in their enclosures.
Despite that, KIRO Team 7 Investigators confirmed someone placed a wire kennel, with a healthy female macaque monkey still inside, into a giant rack-washer.
The 180-degree water, caustic foam and detergent killed the primate at some point during the 20-minute cycle.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Retired Green Beret shoots intruder, gets court martial
Retired Army Green Beret Smokey Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling good about it.
Taylor, at age 80 the oldest member of Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association, was on trial by his peers under the charge of “failing to use a weapon of sufficient caliber” in the shooting of an intruder at his home in Knoxville, TN, in December.
The entire affair, of course, was very much tongue in cheek. Taylor had been awakened in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 2007, when an intruder broke into his home. He investigated the noises with one of his many weapons in hand.
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“Charges were brought against him under the premise that he should have saved the county and taxpayers the expense of a trial,” said Chapter XXXIII President Bill Long of Asheville. “He could have used a .45 or .38. The .22 just wasn’t big enough to get the job done.”
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Nurse Admits Plucking Body Parts From 244 Corpses For Resale
A nurse admitted Wednesday he plucked body parts from 244 corpses in Philadelphia and helped forge paperwork so the parts, some of them diseased, could be used in unsuspecting patients.
Lee Cruceta, 35, of Monroe, N.Y., was the lead cutter in a group that trafficked in more than 1,000 stolen body parts for the lucrative transplant market, authorities say.
Cruceta pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, taking part in a corrupt organization, abuse of a corpse and 244 counts each of theft and forgery.
Prosecutors also expect accused ringleader Michael Mastromarino, 44, of New York, to plead guilty, Assistant Philadelphia District Attorney Bruce Sagel told a judge.
Mastromarino, a former oral surgeon, paid funeral directors $1,000 per corpse, then sold the parts to tissue banks, Sagel said. The body parts fetched up to $10,000 apiece, though the tissue banks resold them to hospitals for many times that amount, he said.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Pirates More Active and Violent
Piracy was up ten percent last year, to 269 attacks. That’s actually miniscule, when you consider that there are over 33,000 large (over 1,000 GRT tons) transport ships at sea every day. Even though these ships are close enough to the coast to be attacked less than a third of the time, that still means that a pirate attack is much less likely than running into a bad storm and suffering some damage.
But most of the attacks occur in three hot spots (off Somalia, the Niger river delta in Nigeria and western Indonesia). Most of these are the work of about a dozen gangs, who consider robbing merchant ships as just one illegal form of income among many.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Police: Walton County Woman Married To 5 Men
A woman with a long list of aliases and husbands remains in the Walton County Jail.
Officials arrested Shauna Keith last week. They said the 27-year-old woman married five men, all members of the military.
She is also accused of having five social security numbers.
According to authorities, Keith married a man in the army in Kentucky in 2006. She then allegedly married a marine on the front porch of a home outside Walnut Grove on Christmas Eve 2007. Officials also said Keith told the marine’s family she was the daughter of 82nd Airborne Division Commander Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Half million Brazilians seen killed in decade
Nearly half a million Brazilians were murdered in the past decade but the homicide rate is gradually falling due to better social welfare, more policing and fewer firearms, a study said on Tuesday.
In the 10 years from 1996 to 2006, around 465,000 people were murdered, according to a study published by two aid groups and the federal government. The vast majority were shot.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Arrest in KOOP fire
A 24-year-old volunteer at community radio station 91.7 FM KOOP took his music so seriously that he set fire to the station when it didn’t play the songs on his playlist, Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Greg Nye said.
Paul Webster Feinstein has been charged with second-degree felony arson and was being held Monday in the Travis County Central Booking Facility. If convicted, he could be sentenced to two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
The fire Jan. 5 at 3823 Airport Blvd., Suite B, caused $300,000 in damage. The radio station was off the air for 19 days before broadcasting resumed Friday from studio space donated by Entercom Communications, which owns several other local stations.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Mom goes on trial in baby’s microwave death
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a woman accused of killing her 1-month-old daughter by burning the child in a microwave oven.
If convicted of aggravated murder, China Arnold, 27, could face the death penalty.
Investigators believe Arnold killed 1-month-old Paris Talley by putting her in a microwave at her home. Arnold’s attorneys argue she had nothing to do with the baby’s death in 2005.
Coroner’s officials have said the baby suffered high-heat internal injuries and had no external burns. They have ruled out scalding water, open flame or other possible causes of death that could have damaged the skin.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Weekly Piracy Report
15.01.2008: 2245 LT 01:11.03N – 064:39.0W, Bahia De Robledal, Isla De Margarita, Venezuela.
Five pirates armed with guns boarded a yacht. They assaulted the crew and demanded from the crew all their property. One crew was shot and injured. Incident reported to local authorities who undertook an investigation.
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09.01.2008: Bonny River, Nigeria.
Gunmen suspected to be militants in a speedboat attacked a supply ship underway. They fired upon the vessel indiscriminately wounding three crewmembers. The injured crew was taken to hospital for treatment.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Remains of Argentine friar’s heart stolen from monastery
The heart of a revered 19th-century Argentine friar and patriot has been stolen from the Franciscan monastery where it was kept for years as a religious relic, a church official said.
The thief removed Mamerto Esquiú’s heart yesterday, leaving behind the urn in which it was stored, said Jorge Martinez, head of the San Francisco monastery in the north-western province of Catamarca.
“The theft was carried out because of the heart – nothing else was stolen,” he told local reporters. “It’s very sad.”
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
French bank finds $7.14 billion fraud
French bank Societe Generale has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud that, combined with a write-down from its subprime exposure, will force it to seek $8.02 billion in new capital, the bank said.
France’s second-largest bank by market value after BNP Paribas SA said it detected the fraud at its French markets division the weekend of Jan. 19. A trader at the futures desk had taken “massive fraudulent directional positions in 2007 and 2008 beyond his limited authority,” SocGen said.
The trader, who was not named, used his knowledge of the group’s security systems to conceal his positions through a series of elaborate fictitious transactions, a SocGen statement said.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets.
The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the agency’s investigation of the network.
Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Chainsaw attack at Homeless Shelter
A Callaway County Christian television station played backdrop today for a scene straight out of a horror movie.
A man with a chainsaw attacked four people at KNLJ Channel 25 Saturday, leaving two critically injured.
Police say twenty-eight year old Matthew Watkins is originally from the St. Louis area and authorities say he’s been staying at the homeless shelter that sits grounds of the T.V. station for the past couple weeks.
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Authorities say two of the victims sustained injuries from a chainsaw to the arm and abdomen, and two others sustained injuries from a knife to the neck.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
CIA says hackers pulled plug on power grid
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong.
Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said.
“We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands,” he said in a statement posted to the Web on Friday by the conference’s organizers, the SANS Institute. “In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet.”
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Bylines of Brutality
A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt.
Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America’s newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
British Muslim computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as al Qaeda’s top cyber terrorist
A computer nerd from Shepherd’s Bush, West London, became al Qaeda’s top internet agent, it can be revealed today.
Younes Tsouli, 23, an IT student at a London college, used his top-floor flat in W12 to help Islamist extremists wage a propaganda war against the West.
Under the name Irhabi 007 — combining the James Bond reference with the Arabic for terrorist — he worked with al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and came up with a way to convert often gruesome videos into a form that could be put onto the Web.
Videos he posted included messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq such as American Nick Berg.
His capture led to the arrest of several Islamic terrorists around the world, including 17 men in Canada and two in the US.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Man gets 5 years in tree massacre
Residents of an upscale retirement community near here knew Douglas Hoffman was upset that trees were blocking his backyard view of the Strip.
But at a hearing Monday, where Hoffman was sentenced to up to five years in prison for killing more than 500 trees, a prosecutor said the retired construction worker had threatened to unleash “chemical, biological, nuclear mass destruction” because of it.
Dressed in jail garb and handcuffed to his wheelchair, Hoffman, 61, slumped and lowered his eyes when Judge Donald M. Mosley announced his sentence.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wisconsin man convicted of sexually assaulting dead deer gets more jail time
A Wisconsin man convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer has been sentenced to nine more months in jail.
Bryan James Hathaway, 21, of Superior had his probation revoked last month for using alcohol and marijuana, lying to his probation agent, and having unapproved contact with a minor child and sexual relations with another adult.
A judge sentenced Hathaway to nine more months in jail during a hearing on Friday.
Hathaway was sentenced to probation in March. It was to be served at the same time as a nine-month jail sentence he received in February for violating his extended supervision.
He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision on that charge as well as six years of probation for taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Officials: Suspect killed, tried to eat girlfriend
A man held on a capital murder charge in the death of his 21-year-old girlfriend tried to cook and eat her body before police arrived, authorities said today.
The woman’s death and mutilation were apparently the beginning of a crime spree that included the murder suspect stabbing the boyfriend of his estranged wife and breaking into a business. The stabbing victim is in critical condition at an area hospital, officials said.
Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, of Tyler, is in the Smith County Jail on a $2 million bond today and did not have an attorney, officials said.
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Mob Torches Kenyan Church; 270 Killed in Election Riots
A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence Tuesday, killing up to 50 people as four days of rioting and ethnic clashes marked some of the darkest times in this country’s history.
President Mwai Kibaki — sworn in Sunday in a vote that opponents say was rigged — said political parties should meet immediately and publicly call for calm. The opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, refused the offer.
“If he announces that he was not elected, then I will talk to him,” Odinga told The Associated Press. He accused the government of stoking the chaos, saying Kibaki’s administration “is guilty, directly, of genocide.”
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Man convicted in jail beating death over snack
Bennie Rochelle has been convicted in the murder of Jose Estrada, who was beaten to death because Rochelle believed the 46-year-old fellow Kent County Jail inmate stole his Honey Bun snack cake.
The jury spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict late this morning that the 19-year-old is guilty of second-degree murder.
Witnesses testified over the last two weeks that Rochelle — in a fit of anger over his missing snack — pulled the slight Mexico native from a top bunk bed sending him crashing head-first to the concrete floor. Testimony also states that Rochelle then beat the man with his fists, slammed his head against a metal door and threw a plastic cot on him.
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Biochemist Kills Husband By Stuffing Him, Alive, in Vat of Acid
A Los Angeles jury found a biochemist guilty Wednesday of killing her estranged husband by stuffing him in a vat of acid.
Forty-seven-year-old Larissa Schuster of Clovis was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2003 killing. She could face the death penalty.
Schuster’s former lab assistant got life in an earlier trial.
Authorities say the two knocked out Timothy Schuster with a stun gun and chloroform and dumped him head-first — and still breathing — into a barrel before adding hydrochloric acid.
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Subpoenas for Al Sharpton’s aides
Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, demanding the flamboyant clergyman’s financial records since 2001.
Sharpton’s former chief of staff said he was roused at his Harlem home about 6:30 a.m. by two FBI agents who handed him a subpoena to bring the records to a federal grand jury the day after Christmas.
Several employees of Sharpton’s National Action Network also got wakeup subpoenas to testify before the Brooklyn panel, the rabble-rousing reverend’s lawyer said.
The FBI and IRS are investigating whether Sharpton improperly misstated the amount of money he raised during his 2004 White House run to illegally obtain federal matching funds, a source familiar with the probe said.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
‘Serial Killer’ Pig Farmer Robert Pickton Guilty Of Murder
A 58-year-old Canadian pig farmer is facing life in prison after being convicted of murdering six women – a fraction of the total number he is thought to have killed.
Robert “Willie” Pickton was given an automatic life sentence when a jury in British Columbia found him guilty of murder.
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During his trial, a prosecution witness, Andrew Bellwood, said Pickton told him how he strangled his victims and fed their remains to his pigs.
Health officials once issued a tainted meat warning to neighbours who might have bought pork from Pickton’s farm, concerned the meat might have contained human remains.
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Portugal gets harsh blast from the past
The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped on jungles where guerrillas sheltered, and grass-hut villages torched with cigarette lighters.
These gruesome acts were carried out in Portugal’s name two generations ago during its colonial wars in Africa. But for most Portuguese, the events aren’t history — they’re news.
A groundbreaking series aired by public broadcaster Radiotelevisao Portuguesa is confronting Portugal with unsettling aspects of its recent history that for decades have been shrouded in silence. The series has become a top-rated prime-time program and the most-watched documentary in years, regularly drawing more than a million viewers in a country of 10.6 million.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Cremator dumps half-burned bodies to save fuel
China’s worst fuel crunch in years has led a crematorium to dump half-burnt corpses to try saving on diesel costs, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday.
Villagers in Hengyang county, in the southern province of Hunan, discovered the practice when an “unbearable stench” started coming from the site, and tried to block a road on Wednesday to stop funeral vehicles from delivering more bodies.
The village sent people to investigate the smell and the South China Morning Post said they saw “crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
NYC Mailman Accused of Filching Cards
Call it a special delivery. A postal carrier pocketed dozens of greeting cards he was supposed to deliver to get at the cash inside, postal inspectors said.
He was found with more than 130 pieces of other people’s mail in his car, according to a court complaint.
Michael Olivio was released on his own recognizance Thursday following his arrest the previous day, court records show. The exact charges against him were not listed in court records available early Saturday, and a spokesman for prosecutors did not immediately return a telephone call.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
State says food stamp boss looted $1.5M
A state food stamps supervisor in Plantation was arrested Friday afternoon on charges she diverted about $1.5 million in state welfare dollars — some of which was spent on a Lexus sport utility vehicle and a Lexus sedan or was spent gambling at local casinos, police say.
Violet Jones, 41, of Miramar, was charged Friday by agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with first-degree grand theft of more than $100,000, participating in an organized scheme to defraud, identity theft, official misconduct, unlawful compensation and money laundering, according to an FDLE statement.
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Radio Host Bernie Ward Indicted on Child Porn Charges
A San Francisco radio talk show host pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges after surrendering to authorities Thursday.
The specifics of the allegations against Bernie Ward, 56, remain under seal. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco did not immediately return a call.
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Ward’s criminal attorney, Doron Weinberg, insists that his client was merely doing journalistic research when he accessed the child pornography.
“Bernie was in the process of writing a book about hypocrisy in America,” Weinberg told The AP. “As part of it, for a few days in December of 2004, he accessed child pornography.”
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Wis. Man Pleads No Contest to Hitting Pedestrian, Driving Home With Victim Lodged in Windshield
A motorist accused of hitting two pedestrians and driving home with one of them lodged in his windshield pleaded no contest Wednesday to four felonies, including homicide.
Authorities said Steven Warrichaiet hit the pedestrians after he left a friend’s house late July 8. He continued to drive nearly a mile to his home with the body of Tyrone Ware, 50, in his windshield, officials said. Joann Carroll-Hildahl, 42, was found in the street with serious injuries but survived.
Warrichaiet called police about six hours later to report he had been in an accident and thought he hit someone, authorities said. Ware was pronounced dead after officers arrived.
Officials have said Warrichaiet’s blood alcohol level was 0.18 percent about six hours after the crash, or more than twice the legal limit for driving. He had been drinking heavily at a friend’s home before trying to drive home.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
String of drug gang killings of Mexican singers spreads fear
A wave of organized crime violence terrorizing many parts of Mexico is driving fear into the heart of the entertainment business with the murders of several popular musicians, suggesting no one is immune to the rampant brutality.
Most disquieting were the weekend slayings of two singers who had crooned only about love and loss, not drugs and guns like some “narcocorrido” celebrities killed in the past.
The murders of Sergio Gomez, lead performer for the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, and Zayda Pena of the group Zayda and the Guilty Ones has mainstream singers worrying they may become targets by becoming identified with one or another of Mexico’s warring drug gangs.
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Some fear that singers, whether they have any links to drug cartels or not, are routinely “adopted” by drug gangs, which post Internet videos showing their members torturing and executing rivals to soundtracks of popular tunes.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
US, Germans corner pirates
US and German navy ships have cornered Somali pirates who seized a Japanese-owned chemical tanker more than a month ago and are demanding a ransom, an official said on Tuesday.
The Panama-registered Golden Nori was carrying benzene from Singapore to Israel when it was hijacked on October 28, just off Somalia, one of the world’s most dangerous shipping lanes.
At the time, US Navy said coalition naval forces had pursued the pirates, opening fire and destroying speedboats the hijacked vessel had in tow.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Man charged in inmate death
A fight between cousins over a cheese sandwich at the Manitowoc County Jail left one inmate dead and another charged with murder, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
Juan P. Jaimes, 19, died Nov. 18 as a result of injuries sustained in a Nov. 16 fight with his cousin, Miguel C. Gamez, 22, according to authorities.
Gamez was charged this week in Manitowoc County Circuit Court with felony murder, and faces up to 27 years in prison if convicted.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Former Fed Fakes Cancer For Free Days Off, Deception Prompted 30 Fellow Employees To Donate Almost 1,000 Hours Of Vacation Time
A former federal worker who persuaded employees nationwide to donate nearly 1,000 hours of their own paid leave so he could take time off for fictitious cancer treatments pleaded guilty to fraud Friday.
Robert Joseph Thom, 45, of Oceanside, admitted guilt for 10 counts of wire fraud that carry a combined sentence of up to 20 years in prison. He is to be sentenced Feb. 8 in U.S. District Court.
Thom was an information technology specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Southern California when he signed up nearly a year ago for a national donor list. He falsely claimed that he had undergone “multiple urgent surgeries for the removal of malignant tumors,” according to court records.
He forged four letters from a doctor, all attesting to his ongoing medical problems, according to a September indictment.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Max Speed on Lamborghini Sets New Record
Authorities have confirmed they are investigating a viral Internet video that shows a driver in a Lamborghini who claims to be driving at 219 mph on an Arizona highway.
“This is still an ongoing investigation,” Lt. James W. Warriner, a spokesman for the Airzona Department of Public Safety, told ABC News. “We will not be commenting until the investigation is complete.”
The video, originally posted on YouTube, runs more than four minutes long and appears to be professionally produced.
In the nighttime footage, an unidentified thrill seeker in a gold Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 appears to be pushing the vehicle to within 1 mph of the its 220 mph maximum. At the tail end of the clip, an unseen man is heard claiming the achievement as a new record.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Mafia boss arrested while watching Mafia TV show
Italian police burst into the room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss, investigators said Friday.
Police said Michele Catalano was watching the concluding chapter late Thursday of the TV mini-series “The Boss of Bosses,” recounting the arrest in 1993 of real-life Cosa Nostra leader Salvatore “Toto” Riina, when he was detained.
They Catalano, 48, was suspected of being a senior commander serving under the latest “boss of bosses” Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who was arrested this month after nearly 25 years on the run.
Catalano faces charges of drug trafficking and extortion.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Arrests made in botnet crackdown
Police in New Zealand have questioned a teenager believed to be the ringleader of an international cyber-crime group.
The group is alleged to have infiltrated more than one million computers and skimmed millions of dollars from people’s bank accounts.
The teenager, who is 18, cannot be named for legal reasons but was known by an alias as “Akill”.
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The FBI estimates that 1.3 million computers were under the control of “Akill” and more than US$25m (£12.1m) was illegally embezzled.
“Akill” was still at school when his hacking allegedly began, and he is said to be very bright and very skilled.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Police: Former Doctor Had Child Porn Stash
West Hartford police Wednesday announced that in May a homeowner on Griswold Drive renovating the basement found a large quantity – 50,000 35-mm slides and more than 100 8-mm video reels – of child pornography hidden in a secret storage area in the home, which was previously owned by Dr. George Reardon, a former chief of endocrinology at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford with a troubled history.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Mugabe hides inflation behind bare shelves
Zimbabwe can no longer calculate the rate of inflation because there are not enough goods left in the shops to allow price comparisons, the Central Statistical Office claimed yesterday.
Moffat Nyoni, the Director of the CSO, said that it had been impossible to compile reliable data for the past month because of “the unavailability of required information such as prices of goods, due to their shortage on the formal market”.
According to leaked figures, the annual inflation rate in October stood at 14,840 per cent — almost double the 8,000 per cent in the previous month. The CSO usually publishes its statistics in the middle of the month, and its failure to do so this month led to allegations that they had been deliberately suppressed. Each passing month’s figures openly contradict the Government’s constantly trumpeted claim that it is beating inflation.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
‘Pizza Connection’ suspect set free
The U.S. government had waited 20 years for a chance to prosecute Enrico Frigerio for his ties to the “Pizza Connection,” a $1.5-billion drug enterprise that authorities said was run out of pizza parlors across the country in the mid-1980s.
But months after FBI agents delivered Frigerio to prosecutors, the government has had to drop the case because of a lack of evidence.
The key evidence – audio and video tapes – had been destroyed and because of that Frigerio was unable to receive a fair trial, according to motions filed Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the case Wednesday.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Dozens injured in Paris rampage
Nearly 80 French police officers have been injured, six seriously, during a second night of riots by youths in the suburbs of Paris, police unions say.
The police say some officers suffered bullet wounds, while others were hurt by stones, fireworks and petrol bombs thrown at them in Villiers-le-Bel.
The youths said they were avenging the two teenagers killed when their motorcycle hit a police car on Sunday.
Scorecard To-Date:
Sunday: 30 buildings burnt, including 1 police station. 26 police and firefighters wounded. 9 Arrests, 2 teenagers killed (trigger for riots).
Monday: 70 buildings burnt, including 1 library, 2 schools. 77 officers wounded.
2005 High Score: 10,000 cars, 300 buildings burnt
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
NKorea increases public executions; aid group says 1 man killed before 150,000 spectators
North Korea has resumed frequent public executions, among them a factory chief accused of making international phone calls who was shot at a stadium before thousands of spectators, a South Korean aid group said Monday.
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In October, the North executed the head of a factory in South Pyongan province for making international calls on 13 phones he installed in a factory basement, the aid group said. He was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before a crowd of 150,000 people.
Six people were also crushed to death and 34 others injured in an apparent stampede as they left after the execution, said the aid group.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Boys’ moped deaths ignite riot in Paris suburb
Rioting broke in one of Paris’s tinder box suburban housing estates last night after two young boys were killed when their moped collided with a police car.
Firefighters extinguish a vehicle left in flames after riots in a suburb of Paris
The scenes are reminiscent of the disturbances in 2005 which led to two months of serious rioting across much of France
Molotov cocktails were thrown, and cars and plastic bins set on fire following the tragedy in Tolinette, a notoriously crime-ridden district of Villiers-le-Bel, some 20 miles north of the centre of the French capital.
One police station was set alight and another, in a neighbouring suburb, was ransacked after youths threw cocktails, and set bins alight and upturned cars.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Beauty Pageant Officials Probe Mystery of Pepper Spray on Contestant’s Gowns
Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant’s evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.
Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Rural New London man accused of shooting pet goat after wife didn’t buy beer
A rural New London man who was upset with his wife for not buying beer shot one of the family’s two pet goats, prosecutors say.
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According to the criminal complaint, Mischler came home Saturday from hunting and became angry with his 22-year-old daughter for letting the goats out and making a mess.
While she was talking on the phone to her mother, he told her to tell his wife to bring home some beer. His wife refused.
He then threatened to shoot the goats, the complaint says.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Tanzania surgery mix-up man dies
The Tanzanian man who had a knee operation when he had a tumour in his brain, has died after finally having the operation he required.
Emmanuel Mgaya, 19, died hours after the surgery, performed two weeks late.
Meanwhile, Emmanuel Didas, 20, who had brain surgery although his complaint was in the knee, is slowly recovering but he remains partially paralysed.
The government has apologised for the mix-up, which has been blamed on both men having the same first name.
Mr Didas cannot move his right side following the unnecessary operation.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Pro Wrestler ‘Hardbody Harrison’ Convicted of Holding 8 Women as Sex Slaves
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former pro wrestler known as “Hardbody Harrison” of charges that he kept eight women as sex slaves in his two north Georgia homes.
Harrison Norris Jr. was convicted of charges including aggravated sexual abuse, forced labor, sex trafficking, conspiracy and witness tampering. He was acquitted of all charges involving a ninth woman, but still could get life in prison at sentencing, set for Feb. 28.
Norris, 41, wrestled for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling organization in the 1990s.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Thousands protest over ant aphrodisiac scheme
Thousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic.
Hundreds of anti-riot troops and police in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, were deployed to stop protesters reaching the provincial government and Communist Party headquarters, residents said on Wednesday.
The irate investors from across Liaoning, a rustbelt province striving to attract investment, have demonstrated in Shenyang since Monday and sporadic clashes with police have broken out, they said.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Cocaine-smuggling submarine seized
COLOMBIAN marines have seized a makeshift submarine capable of smuggling up to 12 tonnes of cocaine through the Pacific to Central America, making it one of the largest such craft found.
The nearly completed fibreglass submarine, found in a rural area in south Narino province, had space for four crew members, the Navy said.
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Cat-napping outcry after fur traders admit buying animals killed in Britain
The disappearance of hundreds of household cats has sparked calls for an official inquiry amid fears that they could have been killed, skinned and turned into blankets.
Concern has been fuelled by the existence of a legal Swiss trade in cat fur, which is reputed to be good for rheumatism. But cat blanket retailers have denounced allegations of widespread cat-napping across the border in France as absurd. They insist that they buy skins from wild felines killed in Switzerland and Britain.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Pet Massacres Carried Out in Puerto Rico
Back roads, gorges and garbage dumps on this tropical island are littered with the decaying carcasses of dogs and cats. An Associated Press investigation reveals why: possibly thousands of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive and otherwise inhumanely disposed of by taxpayer-financed animal control programs.
Witnesses who spoke with the AP said that, despite pledges to deliver adoptable strays to shelters and humanely euthanize the rest, the island’s leading private animal control companies generally did neither.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Bank manager gives woman loans for sex
A German bank manager gave loans to a woman for sex and then embezzled thousands of euros to buy the silence of her relatives, authorities said on Thursday.
When the man realized he could not offer the jobless woman a loan because of her poor credit history, he offered to lend her the money personally in return for sexual favors, said a spokesman for a court in the southern town of Tuebingen.
The 31-year-old then stole the money from the bank. The pair continued their arrangement for the next three years.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Boy George charged with false imprisonment
Police charged pop singer Boy George with false imprisonment on Tuesday after he allegedly chained a man to a wall at his London home.
Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, was released on police bail and is scheduled to appear in court on November 22.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Rival football fans clash in Italy
A football fan was killed during clashes between supporters of rival clubs in Italy on Sunday, police said.
The clashes erupted at a motorway restaurant near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.
A police source said the victim appeared to have been inside a car of Lazio fans and that Juventus supporters were also involved in the clashes.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
British ‘cannibal’ jailed for killing girlfriend
A British man who claimed to have chopped up and eaten his girlfriend is facing 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to her manslaughter.
Paul Durant, 47, was arrested in February 2004 on suspicion of murdering Karen Durrell, 41, a divorced mother of two from Ilford, Essex.
She disappeared shortly after meeting Durant just days after she moved to the Costa Blanca on Spain’s southeastern coast in January 2004.
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Police searched her flat in the resort of Calpe, 15 miles east of Benidorm, and found her blood in the bath, bloodstained knives and a saw with traces of flesh on it, but her body has never been found.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Police discover Mafia’s ‘Ten Commandments’ after arresting Godfather
…The 10 ‘Mafiosi’ commandments are:
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don’t go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife’s about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can’t be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn’t hold to moral values.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Bodega owner slashes gun-toting thug who tried to rob him
A Queens bodega owner served up some instant justice when he slashed a gun-toting thug who tried to rob him Wednesday, cops said.
The 28-year-old bandit squeezed off two rounds but was still no match for the deli man, who dodged the bullets and chopped off the robber’s ear and finger with a machete, police said.
The incident unfolded at Erick Grocery on 77th St. in Woodhaven about 5 p.m., police said.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Pilfering Pocket Money: German Bank Worker Raided Kids’ Piggy Banks
A bank cashier has been caught stealing from children aged between one and nine. They handed her their piggy banks full of pocket money and she credited their savings accounts with less than was in them. The case has shattered the children’s faith in banking.
A female German bank cashier has been convicted of stealing money from children’s piggy banks and ordered to pay €1,800 to a charity.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Servant Forced to Eat 100 Chili Peppers, Vomit at Long Island Mansion
A servant who worked for a millionaire couple charged with modern-day slavery testified Monday in excruciating detail about the punishment she says she endured for minor transgressions such as sleeping late.
Samirah, an immigrant from Indonesia, said she was forced to walk naked from the servants’ room to the kitchen and to eat 100 chili peppers, followed by six spoons of chili powder mixed with salt water. She said she vomited after eating the peppers and was told to eat the vomit.
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Facing jail, banker leaps to death
Former BestBank owner Edward Mattar, facing 14 years in prison and the forfeiture of millions of dollars at his fraud sentencing Friday, chose instead to leap from a 27th-story window.
The Denver coroner’s office identified Mattar’s body through fingerprints and ruled the death a suicide late Friday.
At 3:40 a.m, Mattar, 68, smashed a window with a hammer at his home at the Apartments at Denver Place, 1880 Arapahoe St. He then jumped, landing in the courtyard in front of the building.
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Norfolk-based ship sinks two pirate skiffs
Sunday, the Porter responded to a distress call from a merchant vessel carrying benzene. The warship fired on and sank two skiffs used by pirates to hijack the vessel in international water.
An official said that when the Porter fired on the skiffs tied up to the merchant vessel, it was not known that the ship was filled with highly flammable benzene.
At the request of Somalia’s government, a second U.S. ship, the Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke, is now shadowing the merchant ship inside Somali waters.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Weekly Piracy Report
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17.10.2007: 1830 LT: 10-20 NM off Mogadishu port, Somalia.
A general cargo ship was proceeding to Mombassa, Kenya after discharging UN WFP chartered cargo at Mogadishu when pirates in a boat chased her, opened fire with automatic weapons, boarded her and hijacked her. They sailed the vessel into coastal waters and anchored closer to shore. To date, owners have lost all contact with the vessel. Fate of the crewmembers and ship is not known.
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16.10.2007: 0145 LT: 30:06N-048:24.4E: Shatt Al Arab river: Iran.
Five pirates in a speedboat, armed with AK-47 automatic rifles, boarded a container ship underway. They took the master, C/E, 2/O and pilot as hostage. The C/O discovered the incident and raised the alarm. The pirates fired at the C/O. Luckily the C/O escaped. The pirates robbed the crew of cash and property before escaping in their speedboat. Port control and coast guard informed.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
‘Miracle’ fuel that made a mockery of Mugabe
When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure refined diesel out of a rock by striking it with her staff, ministers in Robert Mugabe’s Government believed that they might have found the solution to Zimbabwe’s perennial fuel shortage.
After witnessing her apparently miraculous gift they gave her five billion Zimbabwean dollars in cash (worth £1.7 million at the start of the year but now worth one seven-hundredth of that) in return for the fuel. Ms Tagarira was also given a farm, said to have been seized from its white owner during Mr Mugabe’s lawless land grab, as well as food and services that included a round-the-clock armed guard on the rock in the district of Chinhoyi 60 miles (100km) from Harare, the capital.
More than a year later officials realised they had been duped. Ms Tagarira is now in custody, awaiting trial on charges of fraud or, alternatively, of being “a criminal nuisance”. Details from court papers published this week said that over 15 months, until July this year, Ms Tagarira convinced Cabinet ministers, ruling party heavy-weights and top army and police officers that by striking the rock with her staff she could produce enough fuel to supply the country for 100 years.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Feds: Latino Gang Targeted Blacks
A south Los Angeles Latino street gang targeted African-American gang rivals and other blacks in a campaign of neighborhood “cleansing,” federal prosecutors say. Alleged leaders and foot soldiers in the Hispanic gang Florencia 13, also called F13, are being arraigned this week on charges stemming from a pair of federal indictments that allege that the gang kept a tight grip on its turf by shooting members of a rival gang—and sometimes random black civilians. The “most disturbing aspect” of the federal charges was that “innocent citizens … ended up being shot simply because of the color of their skin,” U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien told reporters in announcing the indictments.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn’t
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Italian Mafia turnover ‘$120bn’
Italy’s retailers have denounced the growth of Mafia extortion rackets which they say now affect big companies as well as smaller ones.
The Mafia has turned into one of Italy’s biggest business enterprises with a turnover of more than $120bn (£60bn) a year, a new report says.
The report, prepared by Italy’s leading retailer’s association, warns of growing Mafia influence in the south.
It estimates that 7% of Italy’s output is filtered off by organised crime.
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Violence flares again in Amsterdam
Disturbances broke out for a sixth successive night in an immigrant quarter of Amsterdam when four cars were set on fire, police said.
The unrest started after police shot dead a man of Moroccan origin last weekend who had stabbed and injured two officers.
The fires brought the total number of burnt cars to 11, a police spokesman said.
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
News: Authorities say a Washington state man hacked into Orange County’s 9-1-1 system, leading to a SWAT response in Lake Forest.
SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the county’s emergency response system, authorities said.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Mexican Experts Say Flesh Was Human
Forensics experts said Monday that chunks of flesh found in the apartment of an aspiring horror novelist were human, and that DNA tests were planned to confirm whether it came from the body of his girlfriend.Dr. Rodolfo Rojo, chief medical examiner for Mexico City’s prosecutor’s office, said flesh found on the plate and frying pan in suspect Jose Luis Calva’s apartment corresponded to parts missing from the corpse of his 32-year-old girlfriend, Alejandra Galeana.
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Police said that a search uncovered an unfinished novel by Calva titled “Cannibalistic Instincts.” One witness, whose name was withheld by officials, said Calva was fascinated by witchcraft and explicit and sadistic literature.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Pets Hurled Off Bridge in Puerto Rico
Animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths, authorities and witnesses said Friday. Mayor Sol Luis Fontanez blamed a contractor hired to take the animals to a shelter.
“This is an irresponsible, inhumane and shameful act,” he told The Associated Press.
Fontanez said the city hired Animal Control Solution to clear three housing projects of pets after warning residents about a no-pet policy. He said the city paid $60 for every animal recovered and another $100 for each trip to a shelter in the San Juan suburb of Carolina.
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
How did the gunman in Wisconsin manage to shoot himself in the head three times?
A sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin killed his ex-girlfriend and five others at a house party on Sunday, then fled. When he was caught hours later, he used his .40-caliber Glock pistol to commit suicide—shooting himself twice from under the chin, and then once through the right side of his head. How’d he manage to shoot himself in the head three times?
He kept missing the brain.
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Mexican man arrested in mutilation killing
On the stove, a frying pan with chunks of flesh. In the refrigerator, a leg and part of an arm, both deboned. The bones were stuffed into a cereal box.
Mexico City police made the grisly discoveries this week as they arrested the man the Mexican press is calling the nation’s first cannibalistic serial killer.
Police said Jose Luis Calva Zepeda, 40, was arrested Monday and being held for “probable” homicide after an investigation into the disappearance of his girlfriend. Investigators found the mutilated body of Alejandra Galeana, 30, in Calva’s closet and believe Calva killed and mutilated at least two other women since 2004
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Smugglers try to use bugs as drug mules
As drug mules, bugs don’t carry much. And they didn’t get by customs in the Netherlands. A customs officer who took a close look at a consignment of more than 100 large, dead bugs sent from Peru to the Netherlands discovered cocaine had been stashed in their backs.
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Danish clash sparks mass arrests
Police in Denmark say they expect to bring charges against many of the 437 people detained overnight following clashes in the capital, Copenhagen.
Police used tear gas against thousands of young demonstrators who were protesting against the closure of a youth centre earlier in the year.
The protesters had tried unsuccessfully to occupy a different building.
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
A meaty tale of sordid murder
Ozgur Dengiz was arrested in the Mamak area of Ankara recently for the murder and consumption of 55-year-old council worker Cafer Er.
Er had been missing for a week when the police discovered his corpse in the public garbage dump in Mamak. On closer examination of the body, it became apparent that Er had been murdered and his body mutilated. Large chunks of flesh had been cut from the soft parts of his body. Further investigation by the homicide squad turned up information that Er had last been seen arguing with a young man in the council park he was responsible for keeping clean.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
34 Bodies Found in 1800s Moscow House
Workers rebuilding a 19th century Moscow house dug up the remains of nearly three dozen people, and investigators were trying to determine their identities, a city police official said Thursday.
Police also found a rusted pistol in the estate where the remains of an estimated 34 people were found, said Moscow city police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev. The property was owned by a famous czarist-era noble family, the Sheremyetevs.
Some of the remains, which were found Wednesday under a basement of a house on the estate, had gunshot wounds to the skull and appeared to date back to the 1930s, and it was possible that more corpses would be found, he said.
The buildings are located in downtown Moscow, about midway between Red Square and Lubyanka, the headquarters of the KGB, where political prisoners were interrogated and executions carried out.
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