Six young men raped Dalit teen, filmed MMS

Mandla:  Six months after she was raped repeatedly by six young men, the victim has been identified because of an MMS that details her attack.

The victim, who is a Dalit and was 13 when she was raped, lives near Mandla in Madhya Pradesh.

Her rapists allegedly include the sons of a policeman and a government official.  Three of them, including the policeman's son, have been arrested. One, whose father is the Deputy Collector of Mandla, is missing.

The victim's parents say that they were scared about filing a police case because of the powerful connections of the men who attacked their daughter.

The police is now investigating the case on the basis of the MMS.

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Policeman stages fake arrest of boy for having sex with his daughter

A police officer has been suspended for staging a fake arrest of a 15-year-old boy after discovering the teenager was having sex with his stepdaughter.

The motorcycle officer, who was in uniform and armed, went to the boy's home in San Jose, California where he handcuffed him and lectured him for more than five minutes.

He told the boy, who had been seeing the 14-year-old girl for some time, that he was going to face criminal charges of having sex with a minor.

The officer said: "It does not bode well for you. Do you know what that means? No? Not a good thing that the person you had sex with is a cop's daughter. The district attorney will probably file charges.

"A cop's daughter is not somebody you mess around with. You're stupid."

One of the boy's parents videoed the incident and complained to police.

The case sparked a national debate in the US about whether the officer had abused his position, or was simply acting as a concerned father.

Tony Boskovich, a lawyer for the boy's family, said: "Applying force, applying handcuffs, threatening the young man with things such as rape in prison, he acted like a cowboy. He lost it, he came in and he abused his authority."

However, the officer's lawyer Terry Bowman said the boy's parents had not objected at the time.

Mr Bowman said: "Everything was done in the spirit of reaching a troubled young man who is heading down the wrong path."

The officer has been placed on leave and prosecutors are considering criminal charges of false imprisonment.

The boy later told the San Jose Mercury News he had been "terrified" and the officer should be punished.

He said: "I think he should go to jail and feel how I felt. I thought he would be a good dad by just showing up and talking to my parents, rather than taking advantage of his position."

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Ascensión vigilantes take on kidnap gang

By Adriana Gómez Licón

After the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl, residents of Ascension, a farming town 120 miles southwest of Juarez, beat to death two teenage boys who allegedly participated in the abduction. The mob also blocked emergency personnel from the area.


ASCENSION, MEXICO -- In a small rural town of Chihuahua, the rule of law is a vague concept, and angry residents felt justified in killing two presumed kidnappers Tuesday.

The two 17-year-olds, Raymundo Rascón Ortega and Andres Ramírez González, were part of a group of eight who had abducted 16-year-old Thelma Díaz Salazar from a seafood restaurant, state police said.

Ascensión is a farming town 120 miles southwest of Juárez and close to the U.S. border with New Mexico.

The town had been the scene of a rash of kidnappings in the past few months. In the past, Ascensión residents had banded together to raise ransom money. On Tuesday, they banded together to get revenge.

The kidnapped girl's aunt, Maricruz Salazar, said the group had been carrying out at least three kidnappings a week for months. People of Ascensión knew the kidnappers because they were members of the small community.

"We are a town in so much distress," Salazar said. "We are sick of the kidnappings."

What occurred Tuesday was bound to happen, many residents say.

State police said eight gunmen arrived about 8 a.m. at Mariscos Lolo, a restaurant owned by Noel Dolores Loya. He is a town alderman and the uncle of the kidnapped girl.

The eight kidnappers appeared to have confused the girl with Dolores' wife. They grabbed the girl and escaped in three vehicles northbound toward Buena Vista, a ranch of Mennonites, officials said.

Meanwhile, the father of the girl and the owner of the restaurant
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called the Mexican army and federal police.

They also called friends and relatives in town to organize a mob.

"I don't understand how they could gather everyone so quickly," Salazar said.

On their way to Buena Vista, the kidnappers were already being followed by at least 20 people on horseback and in vehicles.

One of the kidnappers' vehicles, a Ford Explorer, rolled over on the highway. The second vehicle, a truck, turned over and fell into an irrigation channel to avoid crashing with
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the Explorer.

A gunfight then erupted between the Mexican army and the kidnappers. The army captured the three men traveling in the first car.

The passengers of the second vehicle tried to flee by hiding in the cotton fields. The passengers of the third vehicle are at large.

By then, dozens of residents had already joined the search for the kidnappers, forming a group of about 200 people.

Thirty minutes after the crash, about 9:30 a.m., people found two alleged kidnappers a mile from the crash scene. The people attacked them.

Ignacio Ramírez said he paused to observe what was going on.

"Everywhere I looked, I saw people whose family members had been kidnapped in the past," he said. "The hate had been accumulating from months before."

Finally, he said, the military and the federal police separated the alleged kidnappers from the mob.

But the crowd would not drop the matter so easily.

The crowd made federal police take the alleged kidnappers in a civilian truck supervised by residents.

Many more followed the truck carrying the two boys back to the military barracks.

At the barracks, one of the boys told the mob, "See you here in 15 days," witnesses said.

The crowd, now grown to nearly 2,000 people, exploded again. Crowd members broke into the barracks with trucks, took the two boys outside and beat them, witnesses said.

Federal police agents tried to separate the disorderly crowd from the alleged kidnappers by putting the boys inside a police vehicle for several hours. The windows were closed.

People obstructed police from helping the two boys inside the vehicle and also blocked the area where a federal police helicopter was trying to land.

About 3 p.m., a man informed the crowds that the boys were dead.

It is unknown whether the boys died of the beating or were asphyxiated. The Chihuahua state attorney general's office had not determined the cause of death Wednesday.

The alleged kidnappers the Mexican army detained were Obed Alberto Flores Arellanos, Jesús Manuel Rascón Ortega and Arturo Matancillas Lozoya.

Officials did not release their ages.

The suspects were taken to Juárez and are detained on suspicion of kidnapping. State police were expected to present the
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suspects before a judge today, said Jorge Leyva, of the Chihuahua state attorney general in Ascensión.

Leyva said the state attorney general opened an investigation into the kidnappings and also into the killings of the two boys.

On Wednesday, the mayor of Ascensión, Rafael Camarillo, said it was clear the power of the residents on Tuesday was greater than that of the authorities.

Although he opposes the way residents acted, Camarillo does not want the people of Ascensión to face homicide charges.

"It would make them even angrier," he said.

Camarillo on Wednesday fired his 14 municipal police officers. He said people demanded the firings, and he did not want any more conflicts.

Soldiers meanwhile patrol Ascensión, a town that has seen devastating effects because of organized crime.

Ascensión is a rural town where residents grow cotton, onions and red chile. Some work in the factories or own small businesses.

Camarillo said crime is worse in his town than in Juárez, a city known worldwide because of its drug-cartel violence.

"It has been a difficult administration," Camarillo said. He will leave office the second week of October.

More than drug-trafficking, Camarillo said, the economic crisis has caused gang crime in the rustic town.

"This has never happened before in the history of the state of Chihuahua or Mexico," he said.

Ascensión used to be a safe town, people say, until recently.

For several months, multiple kidnappings have taken place in town. Residents organize to donate money for ransoms of up to tens of thousands of dollars.

Ignacio Ramírez will become the second-in-command in Ascensión in October.

Ramírez said Tuesday's events prompted residents to form a civil police, or vigilante group, that will respond to future kidnappings. He said he did not know whether the residents would be armed.

He has contacted the LeBarón community, which is also under siege because of kidnappings.

This religious community, also of northwest Chihuahua, became known last year when Eric LeBarón was kidnapped. The community protested against the governor until Eric LeBarón returned home.

But later, his brother and a community leader, Benjamín LeBarón, turned up dead. Now, vigilante groups in LeBarón and other communities in Chihuahua patrol towns with hunting weapons, the only ones allowed by the government.

"We can't go on living a life that is like hell," Ramírez said.

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India’s most wanted car lifter in police custody

Shillong, Sept 28 (PTI): The country's 'most wanted' car lifter Anil Chauhan, in Meghalaya police custody for about a month, has been grilled extensively some breakthroughs are expected.

East Khasi Hills superintendent of police A R Mawthoh told a press conference that besides Chauhan, who was arrested from Silchar in Assam on August 30, four others who were part of the racket have also been arrested during the last one month.

They have been identified as Tiaumzuk Longkumer of Mokokchung (Nagaland), Munir Ali Lashkar of Dimapur (Nagaland), Robert Khojol of Shillong and David Lalthawmmawia of Aizawl.

The car lifters are skilled in tampering with the chasis and engine numbers of the stolen vehicles, which they usually sold to clients at Mizoram. David was the key financier of the group and the police have recovered four stolen MUVs from his possession.

“Interrogation of Tiaumzuk led to the seizure of number plates, flat keys and other tools and implements from a locality in Shillong,” Mawthoh said last evening. Chauhan is a declared proclaimed offender by many courts in Delhi and carries a Delhi police reward of Rs 25,000 on his head. He has over 3,000 cases of car lifting from remote corners in Ladakh to the Northeast in his name.

Some major car lifting gangs busted in Delhi and other north Indian states had revealed during interrogation that Chauhan was their 'godfather'. Chauhan owns a two storey bungalow in Guwahati along with some other property. His bank accounts have been frozen, the SP said.

A Class 12 dropout, the 42-year-old used to drive an auto-rickshaw at Khanpur in south Delhi before metamorphosing into the country’s most wanted car lifter.

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Raped in school, girl dies in Kanpur

A 12-year-old girl died on Tuesday after she was allegedly raped at her school in Kanpur.

According to police, the mother of the girl received a call from Bharatiya Gyan Sthali School that her daughter had been sent to home as she was not well.

After getting the call, the mother, who works in a mall, rushed to her house at Roshan Nagar and found that her daughter, a class 6 student, was bleeding profusely.
The girl was rushed to a hospital where she died.

Acting on the mother's complaint, police rushed to the school, however, it was locked and all employees had left by then, DIG Prem Prakash said.

Some persons were detained for questioning, he said, adding that the body of the girl has been sent for post mortem.

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Woman executed for killing husband & son for insurance money

The state of Virginia in the US executed its first woman in nearly a century for the murder of her husband and step-son in a plot concocted to reap their life insurance money. The file also includes the case of police on the lookout for Maharashtra Revenue Minister's for an alleged attempt to murder. Read on.

Woman executed for killing husband & son for insurance money
Washington: The state of Virginia in the US Thursday executed its first woman in nearly a century for the murder of her husband and step-son in a plot concocted to reap their life insurance money, state officials said.
The execution of Teresa Lewis, 41, drew protests in particular because of her low IQ of 72, just two points above the level of mental disability that would have protected her from execution in the state of Virgnia.
Larry Traylor, director of communications for Virginia's Department of Corrections, said death - by lethal injection - was pronounced at 9.13 p.m. and "there were no complications".
Her final statement was directed at her stepdaughter, Kathy, whose father Julian Lewis, 51, and brother, CJ Lewis, 25, were shot dead in bed in 2002 by Teresa Lewis' two accomplices.
Kathy Clifton was the only surviving member of her family, and under Virginia procedures was likely the last person Lewis saw before her execution.
"I just want Kathy to know I love her and I'm very sorry," Lewis said, according to Traylor.
The US Supreme Coiurt and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell denied her appeals for clemency.
The European Union's human rights representative Markus Loening said Thursday on German radio that the EU sent another appeal to McDonnell for clemency.
High profile individuals like Bianca Jagger and novelist John Grisham added their protests against the execution, the Washington Post reported.
Lewis' attorneys argued that her limited intelligence meant she would not have been able to think out the crime. She also suffered from a personality disorder that made her susceptible to manipulation by other people.
Lewis admitted to hiring two accomplices in 2002 to have the two men murdered. Both had to die for her to collect the insurance money. She sat in her kitchen as the shots were fired and did nothing while her husband slowly bled to death.
The two men who fired the shots received life sentences. One of them, Matthew Shallenberger, later indicated in a letter to a girlfriend that he manipulated Lewis like a puppet, and he had sexual contact with her as "just part of what had to be done to get the money".
Shallenberger later committed suicide in prison.
Lewis was the 12th woman to be put to death out of more than 1,200 executions that have taken place since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. Out of 3,261 people on death row in the US, only 61 are women.
The execution took place at Virginia's Greensville Correctional Centre. Lewis' last meal request was for fried chicken, sweet peas with butter, and a desert called "German cake", Traylor said in an e-mailed statement.

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Another online sex racket busted in textile city

COIMBATORE: Barely a week after cracking an online sex racket, police in the textile city picked up two pimps operating another thriving online racket, this one calling itself the Coimbatore Escort Service'.

The website provides the phone numbers of key operators who promise "to supply call girls" round-the-clock. The customer-friendly' website invites the needy' to login and register their contact details. After checking online requests, website operators provide sex workers from different parts of the country to customers in Coimbatore for a hefty service charge.'

This thriving online racket was busted on Thurday by a special police team, constituted recently to deal with sex related crimes. Police personnel posed as prospective customers and supplied their contact details on the website in order to nab the racketeers.

As directed by them, two pimps reached a spot near Lakshmipuram accompanied by two sex workers on Thursday morning. Police immediately arrested the pimps, Manikandan, 35, and Anpukumar, 34, operating the racket. Manikandan hails from Palakkad while Anpukumar belongs to Salem. The sex workers, found in the car were rescued and sent to a governement home at Sanganur in Coimbatore suburbs. Apart from the computer equipment used for the racket, police seized two cars, two two-wheelers and seven cell phones from the two arrested pimps.

In an earlier incident, a 32-year-old pimp, Sasi alias Pramod Kumar, was arrested from Viswasapuram on the outskirts of Coimbatore. The police had rescued six sex workers in this case and sent them to a governement home.

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Woman shot dead by her lover in Assam

Guwahati, Sept 23 : A female government employee was shot dead by her lover, who later attempted suicide by shooting himself, in Assam's Lakhimpur district on Thursday, police said.

"The incident took place at Bihpuria town in the district, where a woman, who used to work at the office of the Bihpuria Town Committee, was shot dead by a man, claiming to be her lover named as Mridul Baruah (37)," said a senior police official.

After the woman died, the man attempted suicide by shooting himself. But he was arrested by the police.

A critically- injured Mridul was admitted at the Lakhimpur Civil Hospital.

The woman's body has been sent for post-mortem examination, the official said.

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HIV-positive airman facing 53 years behind bars after he's charged with assault for 'having unprotected sex with 11 people'

• Sgt David Gutierrez 'bragged to his wife that he never told partners he was HIV-positive'
• She claimed he became infected in 2007 in Italy
• He met most of his alleged victims at swingers' parties

Charged: David Gutierrez could face more than 50 years in jail if convicted of his crimes

An HIV-positive American airman has been charged with assault after allegedly having unprotected sex with at least 11 people without telling them of his condition.
Sergeant David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by breaking a squadron commander's order to notify partners about his HIV status before having sex and to use condoms.
He has been accused of endangering at least 10 women and one man by failing to share his medical status with them.
Gutierrez's wife Gina told investigators her husband became infected with HIV in 2007 while stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy.
The wife claimed Gutierrez began having unprotected sex with numerous people after being assigned to McConnell in December 2008.
He allegedly bragged to her that he never told them he was HIV-positive.
Gutierrez, who is based at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, faces 24 charges in relation to his crime and faces more than 53 years in prison if convicted.
A hearing has been set for October 5 to determine whether to refer the case to a court martial.
Other penalties include a dishonourable discharge, forfeiture of pay and reduction in rank.
Eleven of the charges are for aggravated assault, which is defined as an assault which may produce death or grievous bodily harm., while ten are for adultery
One is in relation to committing indecent acts while others were present or in close proximity.
He also faces an obstruction of justice charge with potential for more should more victims come forward.

Gutierrez, a member of the U.S.A.F. for 20 years, has been under arrest at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, since August 9

The obstruction charge relates to allegations Gutierrez deleted emails and other files from his mobile phone and computer.
These included online profiles for sexual websites, alongside digital photos and videos of him allegedly engaging in sexual acts.
It is understood that many of Gutierrez’s alleged victims were met through adult websites and at ‘swingers’ parties, with a police search warrant suggesting he attended 21 such events in 18 months.
Two women listed within court documents claimed to have chatted with him on swinging websites.
Both allege he did not inform them of his HIV before engaging in both oral sex and sexual intercourse.

 

One alleged victim said she first met Gutierrez at a swingers party before performing a sex act on him. She also claimed that he took photos and videos of every sexual encounter.
The other complainant claimed she engaged in sexual activity at Gutierrez's home during last November's Thanksgiving holiday.
Court records also claim that a large collection of pornographic videos were seized from his home as well as sex toys and other items.
He was also reported to have posted a survey on a swingers website in 2007 asking whether respondents were willing to 'play' with partners infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) or HIV.
And in a follow-up post, he allegedly asked: 'Why are people scared of the HIV virus, don’t you wear condoms to protect yourself from HSV?'
Gutierrez, a member of the air force for 20 years, has been under arrest at the base since August 9. The American military have 120 days from that date to complete the case.

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After failed robbery bid at bank, burglars 'steal' CCTV footage

They came to rob a bank, but failed. So, to make sure they don't go down for "nothing", the "smart" robbers made away with the CCTV footage of their bungled attempt.
The incident came to light Sunday morning when residents of Sanjauli in Shimla found the locks on the local branch of Punjab National Bank's main gate had been forced, police said.
Investigating officer Madan Lal said the robbers hammered the CCTV cameras and made away with the disc after they failed to steal cash and other valuables from the bank. "The thieves managed to trace the hidden recording device and decamped with the compact disc on which CCTV footage is stored," he said.
Interestingly, earlier this year, following a similar failed attempt to rob Punjab National Bank's Ghora Chowki branch, CCTV footage had helped police arrest the accused.
Manager Shyal Lal has filed a complaint with the police. An FIR has been registered under Section 457 and 511 for burglary attempt, police said.

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Driver rapes girl, sodomises her brothers for 18 months

New Delhi, Sep 19 (PTI) A driver allegedly raped a young girl and sodomised her two younger brothers for the past one-and-a-half years in the national capital, police said today.

The 12-year-old girl, a class VII student, was also raped allegedly by the driver''s three friends, who are minors. Her brothers who were sodomised were studying in Class III and Class V.

The victims were to be ferried from their residence in central Delhi''s Prasad Nagar to two prominent schools in a private cab but the driver Lalit (22) allegedly used to take them to a house of another student in Bapa Nagar.
The student''s parents were not there when the sexual exploitations took place.

Lalit allegedly used to drug them and then sexually assault them. He was arrested this afternoon following the registration of a case, a senior police official said.

"He threatened to kill their mother if they disclosed the harassment. The children were so scared that they did not inform anyone. But around 25 days ago, the girl told her mother about it," the official said.

The mother also did not muster courage to approach police. "She did not send her children to school after she came to know about the incident," the official said.

It is also believed that the driver had allegedly made some MMS clips. However, police did not confirm this.

The incident came to light when one of her tenants came to know about the matter and informed a local politician who is his friend.

The politician took the children to the police after which a medical examination was conducted which confirmed the sexual assault. Following this, police nabbed Lalit but the minors were yet to be apprehended.

The victims'' father had died sometime ago and the family''s only income was the money they receive from five-six rooms they have rented out. The children got admission to two prominent schools as they were from economically backward quota.

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Sex blackmail goes unreported in offices

Los Angeles: About one in 17 women have faced sexual blackmail at work in Italy, but the coercion is largely unreported due to fear, embarrassment, or a lack of faith in authorities, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Demands for sexual favours in return for gaining or retaining a job in Italy are experienced most frequently by female office workers, but also by women in a range of professions from doctors to archaeologists, according to a report by Italian official statistics institute ISTAT.

"Almost none of the victims reported the episode to authorities," ISTAT said in the survey of about 24,000 women.

Some of the most common reasons for not reporting the blackmail included a lack of faith that authorities would be able to act upon the complaint or because the victim turned to family members for help.

Other reasons were fear of being judged or treated badly, embarrassment or guilt, fear of the consequences for oneself or one`s family or a sense that it only happened once so was not so serious.

Almost 60 percent of the women who said they experienced sexual blackmail at work said they changed jobs or gave up their career as a result, the survey showed.

The ISTAT report also found that overall, every second woman in Italy has faced some sort of sexual harassment or sexual blackmail in her life, including verbal or physical abuse and stalking.

A joint Reuters/Ipsos global poll last month found that one in 10 workers have been pestered for sex by a senior employer, as experts warned that sexual harassment seemed to be on the rise in the workplace with some high profile cases reported recently.

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The Biggest Unpaid Strip Club Bills Ever

Whether it's the $14 beers or the way the bartender has to duck whenever a dancer spins around the pole, there's just something about strip clubs.

Of course, some people enjoy them more than others. Take, for instance, James Clooney, who ended up with a nearly $47,000 tab after a fun night out at the Penthouse Executive Club in Manhattan.

Clooney charged steaks, liquor and lap dances to rack up a bill big enough to buy a 3-bedroom house in Kansas. According to the club, he's since made some small payments, but nothing big enough to put a dent in his debt. So, they've filed a lawsuit against him, seeking $46,698.18.

This got us thinking: surely James Clooney isn't the first guy who's gotten a little heavy-handed with the free champagne and ended up slinking away from a massive strip club tab. Turns out, we were right. A lot of people want to party like rock stars, then wake up the next day, covered in credit card receipts and shame.

Keep reading for the biggest strip club debts to date.

5. $28,021
In 2004, Mitchell Blaser filed a lawsuit against a Manhattan Scores for overcharging him -- to the tune of $28,021. He says they ripped him off. They say: You can't buy five magnums of champagne and hundreds of lap dances and not expect to pay a pretty penny. Not helping Blaser's case is the fact that he signed receipts for every purchase.

4. $29, 512
James Hackett of Andover, Massachusetts, filed a dispute against a $29,512 charge to his AmEx made at Club Paradise in Las Vegas while he was in town for a convention. His defense? Somebody took his wallet and then returned it to him while he was sitting in his hotel bar. He doesn't know what happened after that because he drank so many martinis while watching a Red Sox game that he blacked out in the lobby. Riiight. Because nobody ever gets blackout drunk and goes to a strip club.

3. $53,000
At Club 10 gentleman's parlor in Okaloosa, Florida, a young Tommy Slater decided to celebrate his college graduation. He told employees he had about $600 to spend, but his bill came out to $53,000. Whoops. Later the club agreed to drop $39,000 of the charges, because they were made illegally after hours, leaving the total amount owed at $14,000. If he didn't have post-college debt to pay off before, he does now.

2. $130,000
A Bangladeshi diplomat's husband landed himself in hot water and lost his wife her job, when he managed to spend nearly $130,000 in just seven hours at Scores in New York. The bill was spread out over four credit cards, with no expenses itemized. Tauhidul Chaudhury disputed the charges, saying he was intoxicated (ya think?), and that Scores kept plying him with alcohol. Scores responded by saying that Chaudhury "partied like a potentate" -- which we personally think is kind of a weird thing for a strip club representative to say.

1. $241,000
The granddaddy of all enormously out-of-control, unpaid strip club bills? The $241,000 tab that Robert McCormack, an executive from Missouri, managed to rack up at Scores. McCormack refused to pay, admitting only that he had probably spent only $20,000, which is still quite a few clams to throw down on lap dances and cocktails. A lawsuit involving McCormack, his (former) employer Savvis Communications Corp., Scores and American Express was eventually settled confidentially out of court. A hat's off and slow clap to you, sir.

Looking back, we guess if there's one thing to be learned from all of these tales, it's to operate on a strict cash-only basis at strip clubs. And also, never, ever go to Scores, because that place is crazy expensive.

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Man attempting to rob bank gets convinced to take out a loan instead

A man walking into a bank demanding $2,000 didn’t get the deal he expected when he was arrested by police after being talked into applying for a loan.

Mark Smith, a 59-year-old California man, went into a local bank in the Santa Cruz area with the intent to steal $2,000. Smith approached a teller saying that he had a bomb in his backpack and would set it off unless he got the money.
But after hearing his demands, the bank’s manager suggested that Smith should just take out a loan instead. The manager told Smith that she’d go to get the paperwork for him to fill out.
Only instead, she dialed 911.
Police arrested Smith, charging him with attempted robbery, making criminal threats, and making a false bomb report since Smith didn’t actually have a bomb.
I kind of feel bad for Smith because he’s so obviously in over his head. I get not actually carrying a bomb but making a bomb threat to try to get money. But you can’t not carry a bomb AND get talked into taking out a loan. What did he think, they’d go, “Hmm, let’s check the credit of this gentleman. He seems like an upstanding fellow.” I don’t think his penchant for stupid fake bomb-related decisions would show up on his credit score, but I’d like to believe it’d be a factor in his loan approval. It’s hard to make loan payments when you’re busy wrapping a ticking clock in a towel and playing Bomberman to strategize for your criminal enterprise.
Man claiming to have a bomb in Watsonville bank gets talked into filling out loan paperwork, then arrested [Santa Cruz Sentinel]

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UK gang selling virginity busted

LONDON: Scotland Yard has in an undercover operation foiled the plans of a sex trafficking gang to sell the virginity of underage girls to wealthy businessmen for up to £150,000 each.

Three women and a man were caught and arrested for offering girls as young as 13 after staff at a luxury hotel tipped off the police.

The incident came to light when one of the women arrived at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel in Knightsbridge, central London, to offer the gang's services in a handwritten letter to the owner in August last year. "I have 12 girls ready from the age 14-20 years, who are living all over the UK, I have spent money on the preparation of this event such as a rented house for the girls and also all expenses needed," the Daily Mail quoted the letter as reading.

Staff immediately alerted police, who traced the car the woman came in and the telephone number given in the letter to an address in Wigan, where Fatima Hagnegat, 24, and her husband, Rassoul Gholampour lived.

Detectives then exchanged messages with the gang under the guise of potential clients. An officer, named Cameron, spoke to Hagnegat's aunt, Marohkh Jamali, 41, and she told him that she could arrange a party for four to five people that night if required.

She also stated that she could provide girls from Iran, England and Eastern Europe aged 14 and 20. The officer arranged to meet Jamali who told him some of her girls were virgins and could be "broken" by his client.

She emailed him photographs of a number of girls and said she would bring up to five girls to London, including two 13-year-olds, and would expect £50,000 to 150,000 for each. Jamali and Hagnegat were arrested from the hotel and the victims, who had all been brought to London were taken to a victims' centre.

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Drug 'kingpin' arrested in Mexico as government hails capture as major victory over cartels

• Capture comes two weeks after arrest of turf war rival, Edgar Valdez, known as 'La Barbie'

Mexican marines have arrested one of the country's most wanted drugs traffickers.
Sergio Villarreal, dubbed 'El Grande', is suspected of being a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel and did not resist capture when dozens of marines using armoured vehicles cornered him at a safe house in the central Mexican city of Puebla.
The raid yesterday afternoon involved 30 Navy marines, five vehicles and a helicopter. Villarreal has appeared on the attorney general's list of Mexico's most wanted and had a bounty of more than $2million on his head.
He is listed as one of the top remaining leaders of the Beltran Leyva cartel following the death of Arturo, who was known as the 'Boss of Bosses', and the arrest of bitter rival 'La Barbie', a former Beltran Leyva hitman a few weeks ago.

Marines arrest alleged drug kingpin Sergio Villarreal Barragan, alias 'El Grande', in Puebla, Mexico.. His capture comes soon after the arrest two weeks ago of bitter rival 'La Barbie', or Edgar Valdez, believed to be one of Mexico's most ruthless drug traffickers

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Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias 'the Barbie' because of his fair complexion, is presented to the press in Mexico City shortly after his arrest. He faces charges in three U.S. states for allegedly trucking in tons of cocaine and is blamed in Mexico for a brutal turf war for control of the divided Beltran Leyva cartel

Villarreal offered no resistance when he was arrested, along with two suspected accomplices. He faces at least seven investigations for alleged drug trafficking and organised crime.
'The capture of Sergio Villarreal ... is another of the federal government's continuing strikes against a highly dangerous criminal organization which is today badly weakened,' said Alejandro Poire, the government's national security spokesman.

 

Mr Poire said the Beltran Leyvas 'had constituted one of the groups with the largest presence in the country', conducting operations in 32 Mexican states, including the capital.

Shoot-outs, beheadings: The desperate battle for power

The Beltran Leyva cartel was founded by four brothers Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor. Trouble for the organisation began when Alfredo Beltran Leyva was arrested in 2008.
Then the death of his brother Arturo the following year splintered the cartel, launching a brutal war for control of the gang, involving mass executions and beheadings in once-peaceful parts of central Mexico. Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested a few days after Arturo's death.


One of four men killed several days ago in Acapulco. The sign reads: 'This happened to you because you were working for Hector Beltran Leyva'
The fight for the remains of the cartel pitted Hector Beltran Leyva and Villarreal against a faction led by "La Barbie."
In July the decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge in Cuernavaca, a favourite weekend retreat for the capital's wealthy. Alongside was hung a message threatening allies of "La Barbie" and signed by the gang led by Hector Beltran Leyva. Hector is the last Beltran Leyva brother at large.
The Beltran Leyva brothers once formed a part of the Sinaloa cartel, but broke away following a dispute.
An indication of the problems they face is that three of the four main blows dealt to drug gangs in the past year involve Beltran Leyva leaders or operatives.

Villarreal offered no resistance when he was arrested mid-afternoon, along with two suspected accomplices.
Mr Poire said the Beltran Leyvas 'had constituted one of the groups with the largest presence in the country', conducting operations in 32 Mexican states, including the capital.
The capture will strengthen the position of President Felipe Calderon who has faced growing unease that his campaign against the cartels is having little effect.
More than 28,000 people have died since he launched his crackdown on drug cartels in 2006.
Villarreal's capture is the fourth major blow delivered to drug cartels by the government in the past year.
First came the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, the top leader of Beltran Leyva cartel, in a raid outside Mexico City on Dec. 16, 2009. Then soldiers killed the Sinaloa cartel's No. 3 capo, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, on July 29.

And on Aug. 30 federal police announced the capture of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie." The two men are not related.
While the security forces can boast of these recent successes several other drug cartels are firmly rooted around the country and use violence to control their smuggling routes.
Suspected drug hitmen killed 25 people late last week in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez in what was the bloodiest day in almost three years for a major manufacturing hub gripped by an escalating drug war.
In the central state of Morelos, police discovered nine bodies in clandestine graves Saturday in the same area where four more were recently found.

The Public Safety Department said in a statement that all 13 victims were believed to have been killed on the orders of 'La Barbie' in his battle for control of the cartel.
On Sunday, the military announced that it filed charges against four troops for the killings last week of a man and his 15-year-old son along the highway linking the northern city of Monterrey to Laredo, Texas.
Authorities have said soldiers opened fire on the family vehicle when it failed to stop at a checkpoint, though relatives who were also in the car say they were shot at after they passed a military convoy.
The mother and wife of the two victims was also wounded in the shooting.
A captain, a corporal and two infantrymen are in custody in military prison and have been charged with homicide, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Mexico's military was already under scrutiny for this year's killings of two brothers, ages five and nine, on a highway in Tamaulipas, a state bordering Nuevo Leon.

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Roadblock: Mexican marines check a vehicle as another stands guard on a street on the outskirts of Puebla where Villareal was arrested along with two others

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Bewildered residents watch the drama unfold yesterday afternoon. Marines stood guard on several streets searching cars and questioning people in the surrounding area following the arrests

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This graphic shows the areas controlled by drug cartels in Mexico. The Beltran Leyva organisation operates along the Pacific coast close to the U.S. border. The fringes of these regions are in a constant state of flux as rivals try to muscle in on each other's territory

The National Human Rights Commission has accused soldiers of shooting the children and altering the scene to try to pin the deaths on drug cartel gunmen.
The army denies the allegations and says the boys were killed in the crossfire of a shootout between soldiers and suspected traffickers.
The scandal renewed demands from activists that civilian authorities, not the army, investigate human rights cases involving the military.
More recently, soldiers killed a U.S. citizen Aug. 22 outside the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco.
In a statement to police, an army lieutenant claimed that Joseph Proctor, who had lived Mexico for several years, shot first at the military convoy on a highway between Acapulco and Zihuatanejo.
The Defense Department says it is investigating the claim, which Proctor's father, William Proctor, says he found hard to believe.

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More than 28,000 people have died since the Mexican government launched its crackdown on drug cartels in 2006. Forensic police recover bodies from a grave found in Puente de Ixtla a few days ago. The grave was found after the arrest of Mauricio Gonzalez 'El Coyote', one of the men that allegedly worked for 'La Barbie' who was captured by police last month. Forty bodies have been recovered from this grave

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The raid yesterday afternoon involved 30 Navy marines, five vehicles and a helicopter

Navy marines guard a roadblock at the entrance to the residential compound where Villareal was arrested

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Delhi cops held for attempt to murder

Today's crime file has two policemen been arrested for trying to crush a truck driver under their PCR van after he refused to give in to their extortion demands. The Supreme Court refused to award death penalty to a Delhi-based murder accused, who was released from prison after serving 20 years behind bars. Read on.

New Delhi cops held for attempt to murder
New Delhi: Two policemen have been arrested for trying to crush a truck driver under their PCR van after he refused to give in to their extortion demands. A third lawman is still at large, a police source said, adding that all the three accused persons have been suspended from service.
According to sources, Siddhu Yadav and his brother Ramnath Yadav were travelling in their truck from Banaras to Kavi Nagar industrial area. When the truck reached near Green Valley, Block C, the policemen and a home guard at PCR-11 demanded Rs 100 from Ramnath. "Though all our papers were valid, they said they would let us pass only if we gave them a bribe," he said.
When Siddhu refused to give in, the accused rammed into him with their PCR van -- fracturing his hands and legs. Siddhu was rushed to Shivam hospital, sources said. Policemen Parvinder and Armaan have been arrested. Vinod, a home guard, is still absconding, they added.
"Any incident of extortion by the police is an act of crime. Not only did the policemen ask for money, they even tried to injure the victim. They will be dealt with like criminals," the SSP said. An attempt to murder case has been registered with the Vijay Nagar police.

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Girl rescued after being raped for a month in Muzaffarnagar

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A couple has been charged for allegedly abducting and raping a 10th class student for over a period of one month at Kookra village in the district, police said on Thursday.

Ranbir, with the help of his wife Punam, allegedly abducted the teenaged girl when she was on her way to school and repeatedly raped her for more than one and a half month, they said.

The victim was rescued on September 5 and was sent for medical examination immediately, police added.

A case has been registered under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and the manhunt for the accused is on.

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Lover kills woman for taking another man's name during sex

LONDON: A woman in Britain was stabbed and then throttled to death by her lover after she cried out another man's name while they were having sex.

Gary Higgs, who was the live-in lover of Joanne Kitchen, stabbed her to death.

Higgs was enraged after Kitchen suddenly cried out: "Chris!" when they were having sex, Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

He went downstairs, picked up a knife and twice stabbed Kitchen. He then throttled her to death with the electrical flex of their alarm clock.

Higgs told police: "I asked her why she said 'Chris', but she said she must have been thinking about her daughter's boyfriend Chris."

Manchester Crown Court was told that Chris had been at the house the day before. The incident took place early one morning in April this year at the house in Radcliffe, near Bury.

Higgs added: "It didn't make any sense to me and I was getting more angry. Why was she thinking about her daughter's boyfriend when we were having sex?"

"I couldn't get things out of my mind. I didn't know exactly what I was thinking. I picked the knife up and carried it upstairs to the bedroom. I don't remember thinking I wanted to harm Jo at this time. I was just so mad."

He told investigators that when he stabbed Kitchen, she told him: "You've killed me."

Higgs was Monday jailed for life and told he must serve a minimum of 15 years.

The couple had moved in together after talking on Facebook.

Judge Andrew Gilbart said that their relationship had been overcome by financial tensions.

"Those tensions can lead to mistrust and sexual jealousy. It seems you were overcome by your view that she could still be interested sexually in others and be as readily welcoming to conduct an affair with others as she had been with you," the judge said.

"There is no evidence of that whatsoever, but even if there were, it cannot justify what you did. In my judgment, this is a case of an unreasonably possessive man killing his lover in a rage."

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Toy guns will have to be licensed in Queensland under new firearms laws

By Robyn Ironside

Josh Behrendt from Tobacco Station, Lutwyche holding a replica gun cigarette lighter / Mark Cranitch Source: The Courier-Mail

• Changes to Weapons Act
• Items that look like a gun to be licensed
• Toy guns included

ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.

Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could "reasonably be taken to be a weapon".

The draft act says an imitation is a "reasonable copy" of a weapon that is not capable of causing death or injury.

"If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed," said a government source.

"We just want to know where they are."

It is unclear how the draft affects toy guns.

Failure to license an imitation weapon will carry a maximum $4500 fine under the proposals and incorrect storage carries a penalty of $750.


The proposed changes will also impose restrictions on the ownership of laser pointers, tougher penalties for selling items such as crossbows, bullet proof vests and knuckledusters without the appropriate licence, and stricter rules on firearm storage. In certain circumstances, religion will be a lawful excuse for carrying a knife and police who take their service-issue firearms home will be exempted.

A discussion draft of the Act will be available on the Queensland Police website today and Police Minister Neil Roberts encouraged responses.

But firearm owners' groups have condemned the measures as cumbersome and misguided.

Christopher Ray from the Law Abiding Firearms Owners said legitimate owners were being "regulated out of existence".

"We just wanted some of the burden, some of the bureaucracy and some of the paperwork taken off our backs," Mr Ray said. "Instead, they're complicating it further for law-abiding people. If we make a single minor mistake we can lose our (gun) licence for five years."

He said LAFO was also opposed to police being given "free rein" to take their guns home and leave them on the bedside table.

Geoff Jones, state president of the Sporting Shooters Association, said the crackdown on imitation weapons risked making "otherwise law-abiding people into criminals".

Mr Roberts said a requirement for permanently deactivated public monuments such as weapons on display in RSL buildings to be registered or licensed had been removed from the draft act.

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BPO girl from Bangalore rescued from brothel

NEW DELHI: Two women, including a call-centre employee from Bangalore, were rescued by Delhi Police from GB Road in central Delhi late on Tuesday night. A visitor to the brothel had informed police about the plight of the two girls who were forced into prostitution two months ago. The victims, aged 20 and 25, have been sent to Nari Niketan after their statements were recorded.

Police also arrested the brothel owner, Sharda (28). According to police, the 20-year-old call centre employee met an auto driver, Babu Lal, in Bangalore. He lured her to come to Delhi on the pretext of a better call centre job two months ago. Lal then sold her off to Sharda.

The other victim, a mother of two, was also brought by Lal on the pretext of getting a job and sold off at the same brothel one month ago. The two women recently told one of their clients about their plight and asked him to inform the cops.

"A raid was conducted and the two women were rescued,'' said a senior police officer. A case of kidnapping, rape, wrongful confinement and immoral trafficking was registered against the brothel owner. A hunt has been launched to nab Lal.

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Mexican drug gangs now rule part of Arizona, says Sheriff

Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers

Drivers advised to travel northASSOCIATED PRESS Federal police stand guard by Texas-born kingpin Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez during his presentation to the press in Mexico City on Tuesday. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug-trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.

By Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.
The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.
They warn travelers that they are entering an "active drug and human smuggling area" and they may encounter "armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed." Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to "use public lands north of Interstate 8" and to call 911 if they "see suspicious activity."
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.
"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.
"This is going on here in Arizona," he said. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer condemned what she called the federal government's "continued failure to secure our international border," saying the lack of security has resulted in important natural recreational areas in her state being declared too dangerous to visit.
In a recent campaign video posted to YouTube, Mrs. Brewer - standing in front of one of the BLM signs - attacked the administration over the signs, calling them "an outrage" and telling President Obama to "Do your job. Secure our borders."
BLM spokesman Dennis Godfrey in Arizona said agency officials were surprised by the reaction the signs generated when they were put up this summer.
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Lawyer pressurised client to have sex with his judge wife to satisfy her kinky lust for black men

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US hostage crisis ends as gunman shot dead

Washington: An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead Wednesday afternoon, police said.

All three hostages are safe, J. Thomas Manger, police chief of Maryland's Montgomery County, was quoted as saying by The Washington Post.
Law enforcement officials fired at the suspect, James J. Lee, because police "believed the hostages' lives were in danger," he said.Police had been negotiating with Lee for several hours. Manger said Lee displayed "a wide range of emotions" during the talks.
One of the explosive devices the gunman had in his possession appeared to go off, Manger said.

The standoff began at 1 p.m. Wednesday after the man walked into the large office building in the heart of downtown Silver Spring waving a handgun and wearing what appeared to be metallic canisters on his chest and back.
Manger said that most of the 1,900 people who work at the Discovery building were safely evacuated, including all of the children at the day-care centre located there.
Police said they have no reports of injuries.

The suspect was said to have a device on his body and was holding another device, both with blinking lights, police said.
A manifesto posted on a website registered to a person named James Lee, who gave a post office box in Canada as his address, lists several demands to the Discovery Channel, saying the station "must broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet", the daily said.
It lists 11 demands about airing shows that would promote curbing the planet's population growth, finding solutions for global warming and dismantling "the dangerous US world economy".

"All programmes on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions," the manifesto reads. The manifesto was published on http://SavethePlanetProtest.com.
Law enforcement sources said they believe the site was operated by the same person who was inside the building.

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Spain breaks up male-prostitute trafficking gang

Spanish police say that for the first time they have broken up a human-trafficking gang that brought men to the country to work as prostitutes.

Police say they arrested 14 people on suspicion of running the organization and another 17 alleged prostitutes for being in Spain illegally.

A police statement today says the men were recruited in Brazil and saddled with debts of up to €4,000 ($5,000) as the cost of bringing them to Spain.

The gang provided the men with cocaine, Viagra and the club scene drug known as "poppers" so they could be available for sex 24 hours a day.

The police statement said the arrests were made in recent weeks and the alleged ringleader was based in Palma on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.

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