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A source close to the Mission Impossible star, 63, said he left his £35million pad because he felt the star-studded location had 'declined' recently. A terrifying robbery of the Rolex store near Cruise's building last week saw attackers on motorbikes ram into the shop and swing machetes at brave security guards who tried to stop them. The thugs entered the Bucherer with a large sledge hammer, two small claw hammers and a centre point tool used for smashing thick glass. Around 20 watches were robbed in the broad daylight raid last week which went on for three terrifying minutes before...

Authorities target group in Texas and across U.S. PHARR, Texas – Shortly after midnight in late September, a Texas National Guard soldier with night-vision equipment spied four figures slipping through the brush and alerted Border Patrol agents. The men were arrested, and one in particular stood out for the extensive tattoos across his face, body and arms. Wilmer Matamoros, 23, a Mara Salvatrucha gang leader, was imprisoned earlier this year in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A fingerprint check showed Santos Chileno-Gomez, a 23-year-old Salvadoran, had been deported for an assault on a Long Island, N.Y., police officer. His lengthy criminal record –...

Three Texas men whose bodies were found floating in the Kentucky River near Lexington, Ky., in April were murdered because of a drug deal gone bad, a Kentucky State Police detective testified Monday in Fayette County District Court. Detective James Devasher said Juan Manuel Moreno, 29, of Fabens; Cruz Rincon Alarcon, 37, of San Elizario; and Manuel Armendariz, 49, of El Paso, were killed April 27 in a house in north Lexington before their bodies were thrown into the Kentucky River. Devasher testified at a preliminary hearing for two of the suspects, 37-year-old Audencio Alkabala-Sanchez and 22-year-old Luis Alberto Alkabala-Sanchez....