The US Coast Guard says it has intercepted almost 3,000 Cuban migrants off the Florida coast this year, the highest figure for more than a decade.
Witness recalls MS13 gang's vow
Holding a revolver in his gloved hand, Jose Santos Portillo-Chicas told his accomplices "this animal spits fire" after killing a young woman thought to belong to a rival gang, an accomplice testified yesterday. As Portillo-Chicas and other MS-13 gang members fled the wooded Stafford County scene, they swore to say nothing about the crime, knowing anyone who did would be "greenlighted," or targeted for death, Edward A. "Spunky" Perez told jurors in Portillo-Chicas' death-penalty trial.
Edgefield County, GA gang awareness
Another local county is fighting a gang problem. Last month, Richmond County investigators made headlines when they arrested 71 people in one of the largest gang sweeps in state history.
Parcel bomb kills secretary at Paris law firm
A legal secretary was killed and a lawyer seriously wounded yesterday when a parcel bomb exploded in an office building that houses a Holocaust memorial group and French President Nicolas Sarkozy's former law office.
Tanker driver charged with once making bomb threat
Federal court records indicate the driver in the Everett gas tanker explosion was once charged with making a bomb threat. Thirty-year-old Chad LaFrance of Dover, New Hampshire was cited for speeding after the tanker truck he was driving yesterday overturned in a traffic circle and exploded.
A wall of flame ignited two multifamily houses and as many as 40 cars.
According to court documents from 1996, LaFrance admitted he wrote in red marker on the outside of a package, "Tick Tick Tick. The time is running out. UPS Sucks. Danger. Explosive illegal bombs enclosed. Watch handling."
Thank you for the links! Now, I have enough homework to keep me busy all day. (smile)
Parcel bomb.
Duly noted and thank you MamaDearest.
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“Youths who torched woman on French bus jailed”
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “AIX EN PROVENCE, France (AFP) — A French court on Friday jailed five teenagers for up to nine years, for seriously burning a young woman in a bus they had set alight in the port city of Marseille last year.
The court in Aix, near Marseille, sentenced a young man who had thrown a flaming handkerchief into the bus on October 28, 2006 to nine years in prison.
The woman’s life had been in danger after she suffered burns to 62 percent of her body.
Two defendants were jailed for seven years and two others got five years of which two and one respectively were suspended. A sixth youth was acquitted.
One of their lawyers, Thierry Ospital, said he found the sentences “fair”.
“The jury took into account the neighbourhood, the personality of the accused and the role each of them played,” he added.”