Feds: Doctor’s Father an Arms Dealer (Arkansas)
A federal agent says a Russellville doctor accused of stockpiling fully automatic machine guns and grenades has a father who is an International Arms Dealer.
David Oliver, a special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified at a bond hearing Tuesday in Federal Court at Little Rock for Dr. Randeep Mann. The doctor, who lives in the small town of London west of Russellville, is charged in Federal Court with possessing unregistered machine guns and illegally possessing military grenades that can be fired from a rifle-mounted launcher....
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Narcotics traffickers threaten Mexico and U.S.
Largely invisible to most Americans, just to the south, the security situation is worsening as a result of an intense conflict between the Mexican government and domestic drug cartels — and even among the narco-gangs themselves.
Some observers have characterized the fighting in Mexico as a low-grade civil war. Worse yet, by many estimates, the violence is escalating — and getting increasingly grisly. For instance, in January, Mexican authorities arrested a man accused of dissolving as many as 300 bodies in bubbling vats of acid for a Tijuana-based drug lord, earning him the nightmarish nickname “El Pozolero,” after a local stew.
The same week, Mexican prosecutors reported three severed heads found in an ice box. A headless body was also discovered in a canal in Ciudad Juarez, a town known as Mexico’s deadliest — just over the border from El Paso, Texas. Last year, the drug war in Mexico consumed nearly 6,000 lives — double the number in 2007.....
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