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Zelaya threatened to kick the board if not immediately restored Micheletti's supporters are in no hurry to convene Congress to rule on the restitution of the deposed president 9 votes 147 reviews Decrease font fuenteAumentar Will print email JOAQUIM IBARZ | MEXICO (CORRESPONDENT) | 01/11/2009 | Updated at 19:15 pm | International We are where we were. As feared the most skeptical, the agreement just last Friday, is far from solving the crisis in Honduras. Whatever their commitments, each of the parties interpreted the agreement at its convenience. The de facto government supporters are in no hurry to convene Congress...

DORRIS, Calif. -- Agents from the Siskiyou County-Wide Narcotic Task Force were assisted by the California Department of Justice, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol in the service of a search warrant at the Elm Motel in Dorris, California. Drug agents learned that a shipment of opium had been intercepted by U.S. Customs en route from Thailand on its way to the Elm Motel in Dorris on Highway 97, just south of the California Oregon border. The opium had been hidden in the hollow handles of broomsticks that were mixed in with baskets and bamboo items. Drug agents...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim. Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking. "The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get...

Five members of the “Rainbow Family” — a loose-knit band of hippies that preaches love, tolerance and peace and is best known for its large gatherings every July — were arrested Tuesday night by Boulder County sheriff’s deputies after a violent brawl broke out at the group’s campsite near Ward. at a fight had broken out among a group of a dozen people camping out in the area of Ruby Gulch, located on state Forest Service property ... When deputies arrived, witnesses reported that one man, a Nederland resident aged 34 or 35, was hit in the back of the...

Authorities have recorded more than 370 incidents, including 120 violation notices, in the past week as people flock to the Santa Fe National Forest ... between 10,000 and 12,000 people are expected to attend the gathering from July 1-7. Forest Service spokesman Lawrence Lujan says most of the violation notices handed out since June 14 are related to alcohol, and drug and traffic violations. Some of the people who were issued notices were required to appear Monday in federal court in Albuquerque.

Between 5,000 and 10,000 people are expected to attend July 1-7. The gathering will be 22 road miles northeast of Cuba and southeast of the San Pedro Parks Wilderness.

U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses. "They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident. "People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children,'" Parker said during an interview on the network's "Rule of Law Show." About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event...

BACKSTORY 11-08-2002 Dateline: PARIS American billionaire investor George Soros, on trial in a 14-year-old insider trading case, told a court Friday that he didn't have privileged information when he bought shares in French bank Societe Generale. Soros and two other businessmen are on trial at the Paris Criminal Court, accused of benefiting from insider knowledge when they bought the bank's stock in 1988 before a failed takeover that pushed up the price. "I have been in business all my life and I think I know what is insider trading and what isn't," said the president of Soros Fund Management, in...

TACOMA, Wash. - Immigration protestors marched through downtown Tacoma, stopping traffic and halting downtown bus service Friday. They're protesting federal immigration policy and the treatment of people at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center, which holds as many as 1,000 people. Protestors vowed to shut down the city of Tacoma Friday. They fell short but did get their message across. Many wore bandanas over their faces to hide their identities. The protest had been planned for weeks. "When the ICE – Immigration Customs Enforcement - can come into our community, rip families apart, put people in jail. Whether or not they have...

One of the suspected “middlemen” and 18 people who obtained fraudulent Rhode Island licenses are still wanted by the police in a scheme that allegedly involved two clerks at the state Department of Motor Vehicles. Nelson Hernandez, 26, of Providence, is suspected of working as a middleman arranging to help people obtain valid Rhode Island licenses from DMV clerks Dolores Rodriguez-LaFlamme and Soraya Santiago. A second alleged “middleman” was arrested last week. The authorities are also seeking people who illegally obtained licenses from LaFlamme and Santiago: • Yhasil Larracuente, 26, obtained a license on Dec. 8. The Tiverton police arrested...

The first sign of trouble for Cudahy City Council candidate Tony Mendoza was a pair of thong panties mailed to his wife, with a note telling her to watch her husband’s back. Then came the phone calls — and the death threats. A political novice in a tiny city of Mexican immigrants that hasn’t had an election since 1999, Mendoza had expected dirty tricks. But to his dismay, the caller, who spoke poor English and called every day for three days, said Mendoza would be killed if he did not leave Cudahy, a 1.2-square-mile city 10 miles southeast of downtown...

NEW YORK - Thousands of protesters, counting in unison from one to 50 to mark the number of shots fired by police in the death of an unarmed Queens man last month, clogged Fifth Avenue on Saturday in a “Shopping for Justice” protest three weeks after the slaying and one week before the Christmas weekend. Trent Benefield, 23, one of the survivors of the Nov. 25 shooting that killed Sean Bell, led the marchers from his wheelchair as they headed south through midtown Manhattan. He was encircled by bodyguards, and followed by a group of clergy and elected officials on...

(AP) NEW YORK -- In a city where you can get just about anything delivered to your door -- groceries, dry cleaning, Chinese food -- pot smokers are increasingly ordering takeout marijuana from drug rings that operate with remarkable corporate-style attention to customer satisfaction. An untold number of otherwise law-abiding professionals in New York are having their pot delivered to their homes instead of visiting drug dens or hanging out on street corners. Among the legions of home delivery customers is Chris, a 37-year-old salesman in Manhattan. He dials a pager number and gets a return call from a cheery...

William Clinton did not leave the White House. He oozed out of it, leaving a trail of reeking corruption that left even his most faithful defenders gagging in revulsion. First, to escape prosecution for perjury in the Monica Lewinsky case, Clinton admitted lying under oath, had his law license suspended, and paid a US$25,000 fine. Next, the Clintons made off with $180,000 of White House furnishings, and a truckload of gifts from influence-seekers, including expensive tables from a certain Mrs. Denise Rich. Then, at midnight on his last day in office, Clinton pardoned 140 criminals. Drug dealers formed the largest...

SHOCK and confusion greeted the decision by an Indonesian appeals court to sentence four more members of the Bali Nine to death. Prosecutors were only seeking life sentences, but Indonesia's Supreme Court said Scott Rush, 20, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, 23, Si Yi Chen, 21, and the youngest of the group, 19-year-old Matthew Norman, should face the firing squad. They will join Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan, 22, and Myuran Sukumaran, 25, on death row for their role in trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin to Australia last April. The Supreme Court, Indonesia's highest judicial authority, confirmed the death sentences...

Amsterdam Airport Fire Kills 11 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A fire roared through a prison complex at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Thursday, killing 11 illegal immigrants awaiting deportation and injuring 15 other people, authorities said. The nationalities of the dead were not immediately known. "They were illegal aliens waiting to be extradited to their countries of origin," said Immigration Service spokesman Martin Bruinsma. "We are still busy trying to confirm their identities." The prison block on the east side of Europe's fourth largest airport is surrounded by a 10-foot fence and barbed wire. Set up in 2002, it is used to...

CLARK — The Rainbow Family peace gathering turned hostile Tuesday when a group of attendees began hurling rocks and sticks at law enforcement officers, U.S. Forest Service officials said. The incident forced the officers to abandon a checkpoint they had established near the entrance to the Rainbow gathering campsite in North Routt County, Forest Service spokeswoman Diann Ritschard said. Officers had not returned to the checkpoint as of Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened at about 11 a.m. and involved Forest Service officers who were manning the checkpoint set up to issue citations to anyone attempting to enter the gathering. Citations...

Tijuana, Mexico, Jun 21 (EFE).- The decapitated bodies of four people, including three police officers, were found Wednesday in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, authorities said. The four individuals went missing Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning their bodies were found wrapped in blankets in the Pacific coast city of Rosarito and their heads in bags in Tijuana, said Rosarito police chief Valente Montijo. He identified the dead as police officers Ismael Arellano Torres, Jesus Hernandez and Adrian Ventura, and civilian Fernando Aguilar, a Mexican-American resident of Arizona. According to Montijo, the cops and the other man - who...

Fans of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy have long argued that he has fought the good fight ... But today, he is defending the indefensible: special interest legislation, tucked into a Coast Guard authorization bill, that would give Gov. Mitt Romney the power to veto the proposed Cape Wind energy project, even though it would be in federal waters. The project... more than five miles offshore of Cape Cod. The equivalent of burning 113 million barrels of oil per year. Proponents of Cape Wind say it is an important source of alternative, renewable energy, and it has the backing of such...

Opponents of a plan to build the first offshore U.S. wind farm in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts were a step closer on Friday to blocking the $900 million project. Negotiators in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate agreed late on Thursday to give Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney the power to block a plan by Cape Wind Associates LLC to put 130 giant wind turbines near the resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Backers say the project could generate enough electricity for most of Cape Cod and nearby islands. Opponents include wealthy residents with yachts and shorefront property near...

THE North Korean freighter used to smuggle 150kg of heroin into Australia three years ago now rests on the ocean's bottom, after being destroyed by a pair of laser-guided bombs. Four F-111 strike bombers flying from RAAF Amberley in Queensland proved dead on target as the 3500-tonne freighter drifted 140km off Jervis Bay this morning. Two 800kg precision guided bombs struck the Pong Su's hull with massive blasts, showering debris over a wide area. The vessel sank quickly into deep water. The Pong Su was seized off the New South Wales coast in April 2003 after a four-day chase involving...

The Clintons pass in the night Written in conjunction with Eileen McGann Bill and Hillary Clinton are the first couple to appear simultaneously and independently on the national political stage. They are using their special circumstances as a convenient shield for one another, fulfilling, at once, Hillary’s dream of no accountability and Bill’s of being able to take both sides of an issue. Did Hillary know that Bill was pardoning the FALN terrorists to help her win Puerto Rican votes in New York? Oh, she was opposed to the pardon. Did Hillary find out that Bill was granting pardons to...

BOULDER — A man who ran for a Boulder County commissioner post in 2004 was arrested Jan. 3 as part of a three-month Boulder County Drug Task Force investigation, according to a news release issued Thursday. Jeffrey Christen-Mitchell, 55, was arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, conspiracy to distribute marijuana and distribution of marijuana. Nine others were also arrested in the sting, and two others have warrants issued for their arrests, according to the news release. The investigation included three search warrants and yielded $7,000 in drug proceeds, 50 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms, various...

Contact: Jeff Lungren or Terry Shawn, 202-225-2492, both of the House Judiciary Committee Staff WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) released the following statement regarding the status of the House-Senate PATRIOT Act conference agreement: "Two days ago, House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement on a conference report that provides those entrusted with protecting the American people with the tools and resources necessary to do their jobs. The agreement was reached after an extensive and bipartisan legislative and oversight process. The House Judiciary Committee, which I chair, takes its oversight responsibilities...

New Orleans Gangs, Drug Dealers May Re-Emerge ElsewherePOSTED: 2:43 pm EDT September 27, 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. -- Hurricane Katrina did what authorities couldn't: put a stop to illegal drug operations in New Orleans and pushed its ruthlessly violent gangs from the streets of the city's poorest neighborhoods. The exact landing point of gang members isn't known for sure, though federal authorities suspect popular evacuation sites like Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Houston. But no matter where they land, the thugs from the Big Easy have been put at a distinct disadvantage, authorities say. "They are crippled," said U.S. Attorney Jim...

NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - When Esteban Perez sold $35 bags of heroin on the streets of this violent border city, he said he felt three things: fear, dread and terror. He feared not having enough money to bribe the local police to look the other way. He dreaded not having enough heroin left to feed his addiction. And he was terrified of not having enough cash for the drug smugglers who had sold him the narcotics and demanded a share of his profits. "I was scared of them, most of all," Perez, 24, said of the traffickers. "They ask you...

DRAPER - An aspiring veterinarian, Lindsey Fawson often lugged home cats and dogs, birds, rabbits and fish - creatures she fancied. The 22-year-old mother of two was studying for her GED and hoped to land a job as a veterinarian's assistant. Fawson's life was cut short Monday when her ex-boyfriend of four months, Juan Carlos Diaz-Arevalo, allegedly shot her once in the head in front of her older sister and 3-year-old son. (snip) Police said Diaz-Arevalo was a known methamphetamine dealer. Diaz-Arevalo - who has been deported to Mexico at least twice - was wanted for a first-degree felony count...

AUSTIN -- Cold remedies such as Sudafed would be placed in secure counters in Texas drug stores, and records would be kept on who purchases it under legislation designed to combat the manufacture of methamphetamine that won unanimous Senate approval on Wednesday. "By requiring placement behind the pharmacy counter the ingredient that meth cooks must have, we will drastically reduce the ability of drug abusers to cook this highly volatile drug in our fields, neighborhoods, apartment complexes, hotels and even vehicles," said state Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, the legislation's author. Estes backed off from his earlier proposal in Senate...

OAKLAND — A 41-year-old Hayward software engineer who has worked to improve West Oakland rentals to earn extra income for his family was beaten last week by a gang of local drug dealers who refuse to stay off his property, police said Friday. Convicted drug dealer Marcus Smith, 23, the accused ringleader in the attack, was charged Friday with violating probation and making terrorist threats, police said. Investigators said Smith threatened the owner with a gun and forced him to the pavement at the Mead Avenue fourplex where he and at least three other drug dealers beat and kicked him....

The residential block where a man who has crusaded against drug dealers shot and wounded a 16-year-old neighbor embodies many of the contradictions and conflicts of change in North Oakland. When Patrick McCullough, 49, shot Melvin McHenry in the arm and torso on Feb. 18, it was the culmination of a 10-year battle to chase drug dealers away from the 500 block of 59th Street. Prosecutors have not decided whether to charge McCullough or the teenager. Each maintains he acted in self-defense: McCullough said he opened fire after a group of young men punched him outside his home and he...

Bogotá. The supposed assistance given by Colombian guerrillas to the kidnappers of the daughter of the Paraguayan ex-president is further proof of the international tentacles of the rebels who finance themselves through criminal activities, said Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Jorge Alberto Uribe. "This only confirms the fact that Colombian narcoterrorist groups are not merely Colombians, they have roots and presence in every country", warned Uribe, who was visiting Holland, according to AP. "I was just with the people at Europol – the European police- and I saw four or five cases which involved people from these groups, especially" from the...

ATHENS The Greek Orthodox Church, stung by reports linking clergymen to allegations ranging from drug dealing to lewd conduct, suspended its leading cleric in Athens for six months on Friday amid accusations that he had embezzled $2.9 million in parish funds and tried to influence judges in a court case involving his parish. The church's Holy Synod decided at an emergency meeting on Friday to suspend Metropolitan Panteleimon of Attica, which includes Athens, from his duties. . A second prelate, Metropolitan Theokliitos of Thessaly, was given a week's notice to counter allegations made by his predecessor that he had been...

Story last updated at 5:39 a.m. Saturday, June 19, 2004 Confessed child pornographer sentenced to prison Two drug dealers and a man who possessed child pornography were sentenced Friday in Lubbock federal court. Charles Neel Alexander, 52, of Galveston previously pleaded guilty to interstate transport of child pornography. Prosecutors dismissed 15 additional charges. U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings sentenced Alexander to seven years and three months in prison, and imposed a $2,000 fine. A Department of Public Safety trooper stopped Alexander on Dec. 21 in Yoakum County. When the trooper searched Alexander's truck, he found a small amount of marijuana,...

CONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES Doctors' group blasts administration Claims White House punishing physicians for misdeeds of patients Posted: October 2, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A physicians' advocacy group is blasting the Bush administration for its pledge to prosecute physicians even if their patients are responsible for the abuse of pain medications they've been prescribed. "Physicians are being threatened, impoverished, delicensed and imprisoned for prescribing in good faith with the intention of relieving pain," said Kathryn Serkes, a spokeswoman for the Tucson, Arizona-based American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. In a Monday press conference at the...

A former Army sergeant who used a machete to attack a drug dealer who was having a relationship with his 15-year-old daughter escaped being jailed yesterday after a sympathetic judge said the situation was every parent's nightmare. Lloyd Sargeant, 44, who served in the Parachute Regiment for 19 years, told Paul Ryan, "this is what squaddies do" before knocking him unconscious with the handle of the machete. Judge Peter Bowers offered Sargeant sympathy, saying the situation was "a nightmare" for any parent, and gave him a suspended sentence for unlawful wounding. Teesside Crown Court heard that Sargeant and his wife...

LAW OF THE LAND 'Race bias' could free alleged drug dealer Judge tosses evidence because police routinely search more minorities Posted: September 18, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A Massachusetts judge might let a Latino man caught with 2 pounds of cocaine in his car go free today because the state police troopers who arrested him had routinely searched more cars driven by minorities than by whites. Worcester, Mass., Superior Court Judge John S. McCann threw out the evidence of the cocaine and the man's admission he planned to sell it, the Boston Globe reported. Excluding evidence because...

“Yediot Ahronot”: Income Tax to go after drug dealers, fortune-tellers, prostitutes Income Tax Commission: It is inconceivable that dentists pay tax, while drug dealers do not. Globes’ correspondent 25 Feb 03 14:17Hebrew daily “Yediot Ahronot” reports that fortune-tellers, unlicensed healers, black-market money-changers, massage parlors, traffickers in women and illegal gambling den owners will be some of the key targets of the Income Tax Commission investigations branch in 2003. Deputy Income Tax Commissioner Jackie Matza decided that investigator will stress discovering tax evasion by sectors that evade tens or even hundreds of millions of shekels in taxes in the 2003 working...

On a day when hundreds remembered six people killed in a fire many believe was set in retaliation for a mother's stand against drug dealers, politicians scrambled for ways to address Baltimore's crime problems and the failures of the state's criminal justice system. At an afternoon news conference, Mayor Martin O'Malley outlined a plan calling for enlisting 100 state troopers to help city police, increasing jail and prison capacity by sending some inmates out of state, and finding more volunteers to mentor city children. Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend asked Gov. Parris N. Glendening to lift a hiring freeze on...

LAFAYETTE - U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington on Thursday gave a $15,790 check to the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office for its participation in a narcotics investigation. The money was seized from alleged drug dealers and was given to the sheriff's office as part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture Equitable Sharing Program. In March 2001, a sheriff's deputy stopped a car operated by Jeffery Walker and Shon Hamilton for a traffic violation. After the traffic stop, the deputy conducted a consensual search of the car. During the search, the deputy found several plastic bags containing $20,000 in cash...