`A Taiwanese citizen has been indicted as an agent of the People’s Republic of China in a lengthy indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Florida, federal officials announced in Washington Friday. [..]
Moo and Serge Voros of Paris have been indicted in Miami, Florida with attempting to export an F-16 aircraft engine, Black Hawk helicopter engines, cruise missiles, and air-to-air missiles to China, according to a statement released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities.’
`A former strip club waitress mailed condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture to a television station, strip clubs and other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men, according to court documents.
In FBI documents unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston, Kimberly Lynn Dasilva, 40, said she “couldn’t take it anymore.”
None of the condoms exploded. They each contained a mixture of drain-cleaning detergent and gasoline, which could explode when combined, authorities said. Dasilva told investigators she did not think they would explode.’
`A hacker who stopped more than three million Spanish computer users from using the internet has been sentenced to two years in jail. Twenty-six-year-old Santiago Garrido used a computer worm to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after he was expelled from the popular “Hispano” IRC chat room for disobeying its rules.
The attacks disrupted an estimated three million users of the Wanadoo, ONO, Lleida Net and other internet service providers – amounting to one third of all of Spain’s web users at the time of the 2003 offense. [..]
“Many times hackers use DDoS techniques to try and blackmail the website under attack. On this occasion, it seems the hacker was so furious about being thrown out of a chat room that he resorted to a criminal act to wreak his revenge, affecting millions of internet users in the process,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.’
`The man who caused outrage by dressing as a suicide bomber during London protests over the Mohammed cartoons was arrested and taken to prison today, police have revealed.
Omar Khayam, 22, was pictured outside Denmark’s embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bombing outfit to denounce the cartoons, first published in a Danish paper, satirising the prophet Mohammed.
The student was given six years in prison in 2002 for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply and is still on licence after being released last year halfway through his sentence. [..]
Khayam’s arrest in Bedford was carried out at the instigation of the Home Office for breaching the terms of his licence.’
`A crime victim has criticised a police e-fit of a suspect saying although the thief had an unusual appearance he “didn’t look that odd”. [..]
“The man was a pretty odd-looking character and we didn’t get a good look at his face, but he didn’t look that odd,” Mrs Rule said.
“The man in the picture has half an ear – he didn’t have half an ear. And his moustache wasn’t like that.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone who looks like that in Stalham or anywhere else in my life.”
She added: “Apparently the problem with the moustache was that the police only had long moustaches on their computer so they had to sort of chop it off at the ends.”‘
`A New Zealand thief was nabbed after being lured back to the scene of her crime to claim a “lucky shopper” prize. [..]
Police in the North Island city of Palmerston North couldn’t identify Adams.
So shop owner Wayne Garrand put up her picture in the store window with the words “This Week’s Lucky Shopper” – such competitions are common in New Zealand.
“I just thought, ‘Bugger it, let’s give this a try’,” Mr Gerrand told the Dominion Post newspaper.
Adams and a friend came into the store wanting to claim her prize and gave her name and address to Mr Gerrand, who passed it on to police.’
`Authorities were seeking Thursday a burglar who allegedly took the time to make coffee, cook and eat meals, take showers, pick out a change of clothes, watch television and check his e-mail while inside three rural Washington County homes this month. [..]
Lori Menzel of the town of Kewaskum said the burglar left his Yahoo account open after checking his personal e-mail on the computer at her home.
“He never logged out,” she said, adding: “He made himself at home here. He spent some time in our bedroom trying on my husband’s clothes. I could tell he went through some of my clothes.”‘
`The alcohol that got Julia Zukerman into trouble with the law wasn’t in her hand or in the front seat of her car. In fact, she wasn’t drinking or driving — just walking — when a police officer told her to “blow a kiss in my face” and smelled her breath for booze.
“I thought I was fine, because I didn’t have anything on me,” said Zukerman, 19, waiting for her case to be called one recent morning in the courthouse of this college town. “Apparently not.”‘
`A male teacher who performed naked cartwheels in front of young female students during a school camp has been jailed for five months.
Warren David Schneider, 37 of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Queensland District Court to seven counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 years under care.
He was sentenced today to 15 months’ jail suspended after five months.
The court was told Schneider was an art teacher at a private school in Brisbane’s south when he committed a series of sexual offences during 2002 against three girls, all of whom were then in Year 7 and aged 12.’
`Welcome to Gang Stories. The site was originally launched in Summer 2003 as a fiction blog. After it got attention (see here), and a couple hundred emails I killed the site to rethink the project.
After some consideration, Gang Stories was relaunched in April 2004. This time without the fictional disclaimer.
For better or worse, these are my stories, along with a generation of urban kids who grew up like me. Through a series of lucky breaks I made it to college and started a new life in a new city. With these stories, I try to reconcile a past of west-coast ghetto culture with a new life as an east-coast professional.
Poor kids can get out of the ghetto. But something’s lost also. You abandon an old life for something better, but never really fit in the new one. We’re stuck somewhere between. The goal of Gang Stories is to show that.’
`The monthlong search for a Washington state woman accused of systematically abusing her teenage foster child — including blinding the girl in one eye with a syringe — finally ended Saturday with her arrest at an apartment in northwest Harris County.
Police in Federal Way, Wash., said the level of abuse Chornice Kabbelliyaa inflicted in the past several years on the girl, 14, could only be described as “horrific.”
“She used several methods of punishment,” Federal Way police spokeswoman Stacy Flores said. “She would drop 10 pound dumbbells on her feet (and) burn her hands on top of the stove.” [..]
Investigators said Kabbelliyaa once jammed an insulin needle into the teenager’s eye after she forgot to pack some items when the family was moving to the city near Tacoma.’
`An 18-year-old male ASU student was arrested Sunday night at Hayden Library and charged with indecent exposure and public sexual indecency. The suspect allegedly pulled his pants and underwear to his mid-thighs to masturbate while watching pornography on his laptop. When asked why he had gone to the library to view pornography and masturbate, the suspect allegedly told police, “To be honest, the Internet connection at my dorm isn’t good enough.”‘
`A man from Sheridan is facing explosives charges after he accidentally blew up his own car with a gas-filled balloon he was taking to a Super Bowl party.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office found a suspicious-looking car Sunday afternoon behind the old Duggan’s gas station in the 4500 block of South Santa Fe Drive frontage road. Passersby had called in to report some type of explosion or car accident.
When a deputy arrived to check it out, he found a white car that showed obvious signs of an explosion. All the windows were blown out, the vehicle doors were bent towards the outside and the roof was pushed about a foot higher than normal.’
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`Seeds of an illegal plant were inadvertently sown after a police officer stopped a car with no license plate light early Friday morning and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. When the officer returned to his car and called for backup, the driver drove away, Milford Police Chief Carlos Phoenix said.
As several law enforcement agencies joined the chase, the fleeing driver tore open and threw 17 to 19 bags out of his window.
“There was marijuana flying everywhere,” Phoenix told the Waxahachie Daily Light.
After driving over a second set of spikes set out by authorities, the suspect finally stopped and was taken into custody, and he was “literally covered in marijuana,” Phoenix said.’
`A man running a counterfeit piracy operation, selling games, CDs and DVDs from his ice cream van has been convicted.
William Agnew from South Lanarkshire was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court after admitting to the offences. 4,000 DVDs, CDs and games (PlayStation, Xbox and PC) were seized during a raid on the man’s business premises. The goods, if sold new, are estimated to be worth in the region of £100,000.’
`Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address.
According to a blog post on Michael Moore’s Web site attributed to Sheehan, the T-shirt said, “2,245 Dead. How many more?” — a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.’
`A Catawba Island Township man has been convicted of attacking his girlfriend with a sack of potatoes.
Jeffrey B. Goehring, 27, has pleaded guilty in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court to aggravated assault and aggravated menacing. Charges of kidnapping and abduction were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Authorities accused Goehring of detaining the 22-year-old woman at his home during an argument Nov. 1. He choked her with a belt, and hit her with the sack of potatoes.’
`Modesto police said Kelli Pratt wanted her feeble 65-year-old husband to have sex with her the night of Oct. 7.
When Arthur Pratt refused, police said, his 45-year-old wife held him down and bit him repeatedly during a savage attack that ultimately killed him.
Arthur, whose skin was riddled with more than 20 deep tooth marks, died Sunday at Doctors Memorial Center in Modesto — six days after the attack.’
`Six people have been stabbed in an altercation between two groups of men in Sydney’s eastern beachside suburb of Bondi overnight.
One group of men, described as being of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean appearance, left after an argument at about midnight and later returned armed with knives and bottles, police said today. They then attacked members of the other group.’
`Minnesota high school student David Riehm submitted graphic essays in his creative writing class, prompting his teacher, Ann Mershon, to alert authorities. Not only was Riehm suspended from school, but authorities took him into custody and committed him to a psychiatric ward. A physician later determined David was neither mentally ill nor dangerous, and he was released. He and his mother filed a civil suit against school and county officials.’
`A British traffic officer caught driving at 256km/h but cleared by a court of speeding and dangerous driving faces a legal move at the High Court in London to convict him.
The Attorney General will appeal against the acquittal of constable Mark Milton and seek a High Court order that the advanced police driver should be convicted over his high speed blast in the early hours of December 5, 2003. Mr Milton, a qualified advanced driver, was recorded by an onboard camera in his upgraded unmarked Vauxhall Vectra police car traveling at 91 mph (146km/h) in a 30 mph (48km/h) zone and hitting 159 mph (256km/h) on the M54 motorway. The legal limit in Britain is 70 mph (112km/h).’
`A school bus driver faces child endangerment charges for masterminding a bullying system among middle school students that included a pecking order of abuse, authorities said.
Michael Cianci allegedly encouraged students in his “Death Cheese Club” — named for the yellow school bus — to use headlocks on other students and push them around.
“It was ’Lord of the Flies’ with adult supervision,” said William Smith, a spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.’
`Two police officers are minus their patrol car after it was hit by a coal train following a pursuit near Newcastle early today.
Police say the incident happened at 2.45am (AEDT) when they chased a Holden Commodore with stolen registration plates in Metford, an outer suburb of Maitland. [..]
The police car became stuck on railway tracks before one officer followed the two offenders.
The other got out of the patrol car when he saw the train approaching.’
`If you can’t beat ’em … joint ’em? The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced “no toking” signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collector’s items, a spokesman said Friday.
The signs were created as part of an experimental ban on smoking marijuana on the street in “De Baarsjes,” one of the city’s poorer neighborhoods. The measure, which went into effect Feb. 1, was intended to reduce loitering and petty crime.
“On Wednesday we placed the first sign, and it was gone the next morning,” said Wim de Graaf. “We put up a new one Thursday, and it was taken the same night as well. That’s when the idea came to us to just sell them.”‘
`Six people who seven years ago hacked off the limbs of four people have been ordered by the additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Badardin at Kasur to undergo the same punishment along with a 54-year collective imprisonment, besides paying a fine of 100000 rupees. [..]
Taking up the appeal, the additional district and sessions judge ordered the accused, Ali Akbar’s hands to be amputated, besides handing out a 14-year imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 rupees.
Three others, namely Ali Sher, Ahmaddin and Fateh Muhammad, were handed out punishments involving chopping off the hands, a seven-year jail and a fine of 10,000 rupees each, reports the Dawn.’
`A seventh-grader who wrote an essay saying his perfect day would involve doing violence to President George W. Bush is being investigated by the Secret Service.
The unidentified boy from West Warwick turned in the essay on Tuesday, and his teacher alerted school officials. The assignment was to write about what he would do on a perfect day.
Thomas M. Powers, Secret Service resident agent in charge in Providence, said the investigation is ongoing but the essay may have been a “cry for help.” Threatening the president is a felony, he said.’
`A Martha’s Vineyard man is charged with taking morphine from his mother’s intravenous drip minutes after she died.
Robert S. Peatie, 37, was arrested last week after a nurse at Cape Cod Hospital caught him pouring the morphine into a water bottle, the Cape Cod Times reported Friday.
His 62-year-old mother, Linda Peatie, had just died from an undisclosed illness.’
`Female students were being paid for sex at the high school where two boys assaulted a developmentally disabled classmate in the auditorium, a social worker claims in a police report. [..]
A week before the developmentally disabled girl was assaulted March 9, the social worker told an assistant principal about the student’s claims, which included girls prostituting themselves for $10 in the auditorium and allowing sex acts to be videotaped, the report says.
The assistant principal, Vincent Clarno, “smirked and said he hears crazy stories all the time,” the report says.’
`Aric Jackson didn’t know a thing about the man who’d just called him a “nigger.” Didn’t know he was a Cleveland cop. Didn’t know he’d been accused of handing out white-supremacist literature in this very bar. All Jackson knew was that he was in for the fight of his life, because his girlfriend was white.’
`Police are staggered by the amount of money gullible Australians are losing to Nigerian investment scammers.
The long-running internet-based rort has netted more than $7 million from Queenslanders alone, and the loss Australia-wide is likely to be far higher, police say.
Among those being duped are financial advisers, lawyers and university professors, and one person had put $2.2 million into the hands of scammers over the past two years.’
