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The nine people believed injured by stray police gunfire outside the Empire State Building were not the first to learn how dangerous a crowded street can be in a gunfight.
Saturday, 25 August 2012
READ MORE - The nine people believed injured by stray police gunfire outside the Empire State Building were not the first to learn how dangerous a crowded street can be in a gunfight.
Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection
Thursday, 23 August 2012
A Trail of Ink: Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related InfectionAn uncommon skin infection led to a doctor's investigation into tainted tattoo ink. (Monroe County Health Department)The reddish-purple rash, seemingly woven into the tattoo on a 20-year-old...
Armed gang fight breaks out in Venezuelan prison
Twenty-five people were killed and 43 others hurt in a prison battle in Venezuela as two armed gangs vied for control of a penitentiary near Caracas, authorities said on Mond...
High Court Judges to lose Their bodyguards
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
"This can not be right. They can not just do this from one day to the next," said one judge High Court on Monday after learning the bodyguards That Were Being Assigned To him taken away. The Interior Ministry HAS BEGUN ITS plan to massively reduce the...
Bloods gang member from Paterson gets 89 months in prison
Sunday, 24 June 2012
federal judge Wednesday sentenced Michael McCloud, of Paterson, to 89 months in prison for his role with the Fruit Town Brims, a set of the Bloods that authorities said terrorized a section of Paterson for years through violent activities connected to...
Leaders of El Salvador’s Mara street gangs said they are ready to start negotiations with the government toward a permanent peace pact
Leaders of El Salvador’s Mara street gangs said they are ready to start negotiations with the government toward a permanent peace pact following the success of a three-month-old temporary truce that has lowered the Central American country’s murder rate...
Indicted gang member arrested
last of 27 alleged gang members indicted in April was arrested Tuesday afternoon by the U.S. Marshals Service. Darius Smith was taken into custody around 3 p.m. after authorities found him on James Street, officials of the service said. The indictment,...
Malvern Crew gang member ordered deported
An accused member of the notorious Malvern Crew street gang has lost a last-ditch bid to stay in Canada and is being deported to his native Jamaica for criminality. Raoul Andre Burton, 28, of Toronto, was one of 65 suspected members of the east-end...
Secret Service scandal sheds light on sex tourism in Latin America
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Type in "sex tourism" and "Brazil" in Google, and the first site that comes up is not a news report or academic study, but advice on going rates and how to hire prostitutes. But ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, officials are starting to...
Sex Robots Will Revolutionize Sex Tourism,
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
They don't spread disease and they can't be sold into sex slavery. Those are just two of the advantages of robot prostitutes, which will be edging out their human competition in the sex tourism market by the year 2050, according to an article...
Kansas man struck by lightning hours after buying lottery tickets
Saturday, 31 March 2012
A Kansas man was struck by lightning hours after buying three Mega Millions lottery tickets on Thursday, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot. Bill Isles, 48, bought three...
Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll murder trial
PHOTOGRAPHS of the spot where gangland figure Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll was shot dead were shown to a murder trial jury yesterday. The pictures – shown on day one of the trial – included an image of an Audi with smashed windows. The court was told the car...
popular Caribbean dancing style used by adults, known as 'daggering', is sexualising the dance floors of a much younger generation.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Teenagers as young as 11 are modelling sex acts and rape, in the form of daggering, on the dance floor with their peers. Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said: "there's not a lot separating that kind of behaviour from actual...
Allen Stanford faces decades behind bars after being convicted of a $7 billion fraud that snared investors in 113 countries
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
A MONTH after Sir Fred Goodwin was stripped of his title for leaving Royal Bank of Scotland shredded, another erstwhile knight of the financial-services realm has been put in his place—this time a jail cell. Allen Stanford faces decades behind...
Gang murdered drug dealer then blew up his house
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Drugs gang executed one of their dealer's and then blew up his house to cover-up the murder, a court heard this afternoon. Colliston Edwards, 38, of no fixed address and Andre Johnson, 25, also of no fixed address are accused of shooting Leroy...
Cruise Ship Cocaine Bust
Friday, 17 February 2012
An "altercation" brought a New Zealand couple to the attention of US law enforcement officials investigating the discovery of cocaine on a cruise ship docked in San Francisco. New Zealanders Tony Earl Wilkinson, 42, and Kirsty Harris, 25, were...
Investigators found shotguns and machine guns, inch-wide metal bars guarding doors and windows, the secret room under the floor, and a hidden elevator that led to an underground bunker and an unfinished tunnel.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Eugene Paull heard the beep.In his three-story home east of Brooksville, Paull was lying on his bed that morning last March when the security system sounded. He rolled over and glanced at two nearby TVs wired to a dozen videocameras. Law enforcement...
Former Royal Marine Carl Davies was raped before being stabbed and his body hurled into a roadside ravine
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Brutal: Ex-Marine Carl Davies was raped before being killed and dumped in a ravine, a new post mortem has revealedFormer Royal Marine Carl Davies was raped before being stabbed and his body hurled into a roadside ravine close to a military barracks on...
Boy, 17, shot in back in Poplar, east London
Sunday, 30 October 2011
teenager has been shot in the back in east London. The 17-year-old boy was wounded in East India Dock Road, Poplar, in the early hours of the morning. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 17-year-old male had a gunshot wound to the back and is...
Boy, 17, shot in back in Poplar, east London
teenager has been shot in the back in east London. The 17-year-old boy was wounded in East India Dock Road, Poplar, in the early hours of the morning. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 17-year-old male had a gunshot wound to the back and is...
Armed guards are to be deployed on British civilian ships for the first time to protect them from pirates,
Armed guards are to be deployed on British civilian ships for the first time to protect them from pirates, David Cameron announced today.A legal ban on weapon-toting protection staff will be relaxed so that firms can apply for a licence to have them...
Armed guards are to be deployed on British civilian ships for the first time to protect them from pirates,
Armed guards are to be deployed on British civilian ships for the first time to protect them from pirates, David Cameron announced today.A legal ban on weapon-toting protection staff will be relaxed so that firms can apply for a licence to have them...
Brussels is stifling City of London, Cameron claims
Saturday, 29 October 2011
David Cameron signalled new European battles ahead as he pledged to resist alleged attempts by Brussels to shackle the City of London in red tape. The Prime Minister echoed claims that the emergence of a two-tier Europe following the financial...
Qantas grounds all flights
Australia’s Qantas Airways grounded its entire fleet on Saturday over a bitter labour dispute in an unprecedented move that prompted the government to warn it feared for the airline’s future and would seek action to end the dispute. EDITOR’S...
Drug-dealing killer: Chicago cop stopped DEA investigation of me
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
high-level drug trafficker admits he was involved in three killings after a Chicago Police officer scuttled a federal investigation into his illegal activities in the mid-1990s, according to a recent court filing. Saul Rodriguez, who pleaded guilty...
Feds indict 23 Texas Syndicate gang members
Federal authorities Tuesday announced the indictment of 23 reputed Texas Syndicate gang members and associates on charges including four murders, drug trafficking and extortion. Those charged are primarily in the Uvalde and Hondo areas, but the...
Dancehall star Vybz Kartel has been charged with the murder of Jamaican promoter Barrington Burton
. Photograph: Scott Gries/Getty ImagesJamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel has been charged with murder. A police statement issued in Kingston on Monday said that the 35-year-old artist was charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal...
Banker link to Panda murder
Sunday, 18 September 2011
FORMER bank worker holds the key to the murder of one of the country’s most feared drugs barons, ‘the Panda’. Michael ‘Micka’ Kelly died in a hail of bullets in broad daylight as he was targeted by two ruthless brothers who control the Real IRA...
Trinidad reports mass arrests in crackdown on crime
Authorities rounded up nearly 120 people in Trinidad and Tobago after imposing emergency rule on the oil-rich Caribbean nation this week to halt a spike in violent crime. Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs said 117 criminal suspects were detained...
19 years at hard labor for stabbing to death an American teenager on the southern Caribbean island of Tobago.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
A judge on Monday sentenced a man to 19 years at hard labor for stabbing to death an American teenager on the southern Caribbean island of Tobago.Sean Antoine, 28, was convicted in April of killing 14-year-old Kitty Pepe of Keene, New York. They had...
two female British nationals were reportedly ambushed and raped by six masked men while on an isolated beach on the island’s north east coast.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Two men were assisting police in their investigations after two female British nationals were reportedly ambushed and raped by six masked men while on an isolated beach on the island’s north east coast.Police said that the women, whose names were not...
Last Thursday afternoon, I became exasperated while watching the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Last Thursday afternoon, I became exasperated while watching the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry. I had run out of superlatives to describe K.D. Knight's cross-examination of Prime Minister Bruce Golding and felt I would be unforgivably remiss and...
story of a Jamaican woman who was allegedly finger-raped by an immigration officer before being thrown out of Barbados
story of a Jamaican woman who was allegedly finger-raped by an immigration officer before being thrown out of Barbados on March 14, 2011, has sparked the fury of readers, perhaps betraying deep-seated animosity among Caribbean islanders. Here are some...
Are Drugs on Cruise Ships on the Rise?
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Are Drugs on Cruise Ships on the Rise? - AOL Travel News: "A cruise passenger was arrested in St. Thomas last week after federal agents found a load of party drugs he was allegedly dealing from his cabin on a gay charter cruise on the 5,400-passenger...
Caribbean News Now!: Alleged Jamaican drug kingpin to return to US federal court on April 4
Caribbean News Now!: Alleged Jamaican drug kingpin to return to US federal court on April 4: "Prosecutors and defence attorneys in the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition case are to return to court on April 4, for another in the series of pre-trial...
seized over $13 million worth of drugs — $8.4 million in pure cocaine and $4.85 million in marijuana — in the Arima and Barataria areas.
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :: "POLICE made a major dent in the illegal narco trade when in two unrelated drug busts yesterday, they seized over $13 million worth of drugs — $8.4 million in pure cocaine and $4.85 million in marijuana...
T&T police seize cocaine destined for Jamaica - News - Go-Jamaica
T&T police seize cocaine destined for Jamaica - News - Go-Jamaica: "The Trinidad and Tobago police are investigating the seizure of 21 kilogrammes of cocaine destined for Jamaica.
On Friday, the police say they arrested four persons including a...
The big society will struggle in Moss Side,Moss Side gained the title of "Baby Beirut" and Manchester was soon dubbed "Gunchester" by the mainstream media.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Moss Side gained the title of "Baby Beirut" and Manchester was soon dubbed "Gunchester" by the mainstream media.The big society will struggle in Moss Side | Belinda Webb | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "With councils up and down the country being...
Barbados More time for ruthless tourist killer
More time for ruthless tourist killer - Crime - Canoe.ca: "The man who killed Ottawa tourist Terry Schwarzfeld with a plank of wood in Barbados two years ago has been given an extra five years behind bars by an appeals court in the Caribbean island.
The...
Crime in the Caribbean: In the shadow of the gallows
Crime in the Caribbean: In the shadow of the gallows | The Economist: "“WE NEED the death penalty…that is the word of God,” said Benjamin Agard, a Pentecostal pastor, in his funeral sermon last month for Cecil Carrington, a retired police officer shot...
Retrial for reggae star Buju Banton set to begin
Retrial for reggae star Buju Banton set to begin: "Fresh off a Grammy win, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is set to stand trial again in federal court in Florida.
Jury selection will begin Monday in Tampa. Banton is accused of conspiring to buy...
DEA agent said Buju set up drug deal - JamaicaObserver.com
DEA agent said Buju set up drug deal - JamaicaObserver.com: "Entertainer Buju Banton's trial started this afternoon with DEA agent Dan McCaffrey on the stand. He testified to Banton's connection to the drug deal which resulted in the artiste's arrest...
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