Jamaica to Extradite Drug Suspect Wanted by U.S.
Prime Minister’s Reversal Ends Strained Relations with Washington over Christopher “Dudus” Coke
Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. Chomsky, who aligns himself with the radical left, had been scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, and visit Bil'in and Hebron, as well as meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and various Palestinian activists.
American linguist Noam Chomsky.
In a telephone conversation last night from Amman, Chomsky told Haaretz that he concluded from the questions of the Israeli official that the fact that he came to lecture at a Palestinian and not an Israeli university led to the decision to deny him entry.
"I find it hard to think of a similar case, in which entry to a person is denied because he is not lecturing in Tel Aviv. Perhaps only in Stalinist regimes," Chomsky told Haaretz.
Eastside Crip Gang Member Indicted On Firearms Charges - Bakersfield News Story - KERO Bakersfield: "complaint also alleges the defendant is a member of the Bakersfield Eastside Crips criminal street gang as well.
“This case should leave no doubt about our collective resolve to attack and dismantle the street gangs that are terrorizing our neighborhoods,” said Michael Toms, resident agent in charge of ICE's Office of Investigations in Bakersfield. “ICE is committed to using every tool at its disposal to combat gang-related crime and violence here and in communities across the country.”
The maximum statutory penalty for the charge is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables"
Sacto 9-1-1: Sacramento gang member convicted in fatal shooting at party: "verdict against Billy Chan Saechao, 18. He was accused in the 1 a.m., March 21, 2008, shooting death of Koua Lee, 20.
According to a prosecution trial brief, Saechao, a member of the Mien Pride Gangsters, went to a party in the 7600 block of Millroy Way in south Sacramento to pick up his girlfriend.
When he and three friends got there, they saw another group of young men that included Lee, whom the prosecution brief identified as a member of the True Blue Crips.
After the two groups exchanged words, gunfire rang out, and investigators later recovered the 40 casings from several different handguns, the brief said."
Top cop’s PC son Craig Flowers is cocaine dealer | The Sun |Home Scotland|Scottish News: "Off-duty PC Craig Flowers was finally caught with £120 of the deadly drug after being put under surveillance by his own force.
son of former Scottish Police Federation boss Norrie FloweFlowers - the rs - told officers: 'I've got a habit but it's under control, there's no problem.'
But yesterday he appeared in the dock to admit supplying coke to high-flying pals at his home in Motherwell and across Glasgow between January 2007 and September 2008.
The Scottish Sun told how Strathclyde Police anti-corruption cops pounced in an 'intelligence-led' bust. Yesterday defence lawyer Mark Moir told Glasgow Sheriff Court his client was only concerned in the 'social supply' of coke.
But suspended Flowers' career lay in tatters last night as Strathclyde Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson said: 'He abused his position.'"
A former U.S. Army interrogator known to captives at a lockup in Afghanistan as ``The Monster'' testified Wednesday that he felt sorry for a gravely wounded, recently captured Omar Khadr because ``he was probably in one of the worst places on Earth.''
``He was in the wrong place for a 15-year-old child to be,'' former Army Spc. Damien Corsetti testified as Khadr's first defense witness in the seventh day of a hearing seeking to persuade a military judge to exclude all of the Toronto-born teenager's confessions from his summertime trial on grounds of abuse.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/05/1614742/ex-army-interrogator-testifies.html#ixzz0n9toU8X5
Suspected white supremacist charged after Hemet police booby trap raids - San Jose Mercury News: "suspected white supremacist has pleaded not guilty to possessing the same kind of homemade gun used in a booby trap intended to kill a police officer in Riverside County.
Patrick Nugent Jr. entered pleas on April 23 to having a zip gun and being in a criminal gang.
He remained jailed today. A call to his attorney, Justin Greenlee, wasn't immediateley returned.
Hemet police say a zip gun was attached to the gate of a gang task force building and fired a bullet that missed an officer in February.
Police say they found the gun on April 20 while arresting 23 people during a probe into a string of failed booby trap attacks.
Seven people have been charged with crimes — although none have been directly linked to the booby traps."
San Luis Police officers guilty of drug smuggling | Cal Coast News: "two San Luis Obispo police officers have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of bringing misbranded Mexican prescription drugs into the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry south of San Diego.
The officers, Dan McDow and Armando Limon, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanors in exchange for no jail time and a year of unsupervised probation, according to court documents obtained by CalCoastNews."
The Associated Press: 5 killed while playing soccer in southern Mexico: "Gunmen drove up to a soccer field and shot five men to death as they played early Monday near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, police in southern Mexico said.
It was unclear why the five men were playing so late, but the region of Guerrero state is often so hot and humid by day by day that athletes wait until night to compete. Many people also work unusual hours in the local tourist industry.
The men were playing in the hamlet of Xaltianguis, on the northern outskirts of Acapulco, when gunmen in three vehicles pulled up beside the field and opened fire.
Two of the dead were identified as local men aged 25 and 34; the other three victims had not been identified because relatives quickly took the bodies away."
FBI: Former Lee County sheriff dealt drugs from police SUV | GoUpstate.com: "Federal authorities say a South Carolina sheriff dealt drugs from his police SUV and extorted money from drug dealers to try to keep them out of trouble.In a sworn statement released on Monday, an FBI agent said investigators have a witness who saw former Lee County Sheriff E.J. Melvin dealing drugs in November 2006.
Authorities tapped Melvin's phone and say he offered money to drug dealers to try to get state and federal agents to stop investigating them."
11 suspected gang members arrested in, around Loveland following 5-day operation | LovelandConnection.com | Loveland Connection: "Turned over to the Loveland Police Department was:
• Eduardo Cortez-Hernandez, 34, of Mexico on 2 outstanding arrest warrants for domestic violence. He will face local charges before being returned to ICE custody for removal proceedings. Cortez-Hernandez has previous arrests for disorderly conduct, driving on a suspended/revoked license, assault, domestic violence, harassment, failure to appear, and contempt of court for failing to comply.
Loveland Police Chief Luke Hecker said “We are very thankful for the joint effort between our agency and ICE. This was a successful operation clearly demonstrating our resolve in reducing the number of gang members in our community.”
The arrests were made as part of Operation Community Shield, a national initiative where ICE partners with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to target the significant public safety threat posed by transnational criminal street gangs.
Operation Community Shield has produced 16,700 arrests of suspected gang members nationwide since 2005, with 200 of those classified as gang leaders. ICE uses its broad immigration authorities (both criminal and administrative) against gang members, as well as its customs authorities in targeting gang-related narcotics smuggling, gun smuggling, money laundering, and in seeking the forfeiture of illegally derived assets."
Prosecutor says judge erred in lenient sentencing of Hells Angels Punko: "prosecutor argued Monday that a judge made a number of “serious” errors in the sentencing of a Hells Angel for conspiracy to traffic in methamphetamines and trafficking in cocaine.
In March B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask sentenced John Virgil Punko, 43, to four years in jail each for the meth and cocaine offences, to be served concurrently. He reduced the sentence to 14 months after credit for pre-sentence custody.
Federal prosecutor Martha Devlin had sought a sentence of 16 years in jail for Punko, a full-patch member of the notorious motorcycle club’s East End chapter."
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