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A DRUG smuggling pensioner hid from the law for 15 years – even though he could be found in seconds on the internet. Fugitive John Henry Charles Price went on the run when he absconded from court in 1997. He was standing trial after being stopped at Dover with 10,000 Ecstasy pills worth £150,000. But rather than heading for the Costa Del Sol, or South America like Ronnie Biggs, the Englishman simply moved 200 miles to Powys, where he lived openly under his real name, paid taxes, insured cars and even voted. The elderly crook was finally nabbed...
Duane Eleby, a suspected drug courier, was all set to sneak 10 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport last February with the help of a former Transportation Security Administration employee and a screener. Eleby, however, bungled the plan by going to the wrong terminal and was arrested after another TSA screener found the cocaine, which set in motion a series of undercover operations that led to Wednesday's announcement that two former and current TSA employees had been indicted on federal drug...
They say they want a temporary suspension while the crisis continues. Spain will being introducing border restrictions during the European Central Bank meeting in Barcelona at the start of May.Angela Merkel and Nicolás Sarkozy - The Interior Ministers of France and Germany have written a joint letter in which they call for the reform of, and ‘temporary suspension’ of the Schengen agreement which allows for the free movement between most member states of the EU. They say the change is necessary ‘to control the massive flow of immigrants’. The call...
Unlike the usual method of responding to 911 calls, cops use computers which show them 'red spots' where an incident is most likely to occur.They are then deployed onto the streets in a bid to deter thugs, burglers and gangsters from going on their next crime spree.Technical: LAPD cops study an enormous computer screen showing 'red spots' where the next crime is most likely to committed The 'predictive policing' system pulls together crime statistics...
jailed British terrorist has had his sentence cut by two years in a supergrass deal after giving evidence about an al Qaeda-linked “martyrdom” plot in New York, it was revealed today. Former teacher Saajid Badat was jailed for 13 years in 2005 for plotting with shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a transatlantic airliner in 2001 in what an Old Bailey judge said was a “wicked and inhuman” plot. He has now had his term reduced by two years under the first “supergrass” deal involving a terror convict, after providing intelligence to US prosecutors...
A SCOT has been accused of funding his multi-millionaire lifestyle from the proceeds of an international drugs empire.Ian Donaldson, 32, bought a fleet of Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis and Hummers with cash made from trafficking cocaine and speed from Spain to Scotland, it is claimed.Donaldson also owned luxury villas and powerboats and enjoyed a playboy lifestyle on the Costa del Sol and Tenerife.But last week the Spanish National Court in Madrid...
Gunmen have launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul. Western embassies in the heavily-guarded, central diplomatic area are understood to be among the targets as well as the parliament building in the west. There are reports that up to seven different locations have been hit. The Taliban has admitted responsibility, saying their main targets were the British and German embassies. There is no word at this stage on any casualti...
Hundreds of prisoners are believed to have escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan after it was attacked by anti-government fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Some of those who escaped from the facility in the town of Bannu, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early on Sunday morning were "militants", an intelligence official told the Reuters news agency. "Dozens of militants attacked Bannu's Central Jail in the early hours of the morning, and more 300 prisoners have escaped," Mir Sahib Jan, the...
The victims' bodies were found at their work station inside the Kodiak Island Coast Guard office by a colleague early this morning.Police and FBI are scouring the island for the mystery assassin who they believe struck between 7am and 8am, shortly after the victims arrived for work.Killing: The victims' bodies were found at their work station inside the Kodiak Island Coast Guard office by a colleague early this morningCoast Guard spokewoman Sara...
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Britain is losing billions of pounds in taxes because of its failure to crack down on the black market in drink, cigarettes and fuel, according to a report.
The tax gap would have been more than enough to fund a 1p cut in the basic rate of income tax.
The TaxPayers' Alliance, which compiled the study, warns that David Cameron's plan to set a minimum price for alcohol - in a bid to tackle binge drinking...
Faced with massive public debt, Greece is finding that its fabled antiquity heritage is proving a growing burden - with licensed digs postponed, illegal ones proliferating, museum staff trimmed and valuable pieces stolen.
"Greece's historic remains have become our curse," whispered an archaeologist at a recent media event organized to protest spending cuts imposed on the country for the past two years as a condition for European Union and International Monetary Fund loans.With Greece moving into a fifth year of recession, licensed...
Guatemala has captured a suspected top drug trafficker with close ties to Mexico's brutal Zetas drug gang, which has made bloody incursions into the Central American nation. The Guatemalan government said on Tuesday police and United Nations investigators had arrested Horst Overdick, alias "El Tigre" (the tiger) during a raid on his home in San Lucas Sacatepequez 20 km (12 miles) west of Guatemala City. Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez said Overdick was the most important nexus for the Zetas in the northern half of Guatemala, where drug...
Four hundred and fifty-seven Nigerians convicted or awaiting trial for drug trafficking offences are being held in several Brazilian jails, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said yesterday. The Nigerians include a 72-year-old woman, Fausat Abosede; Lara Salami (62), Theresa Ezezue (60), Vivian Ajibua (57), Ngozi Dike (51), Amina Yusuf (51), Moronranti Afolayan (48), Benedicta Nneka (42), Stella Odilli (37), Ajibola Olajumoke (36), Folake Lawson (35), Vivian Etuwe (31) and Amaka Isilabo...
One of Mexico's biggest alleged drug lords, Jesus Zambada, has been extradited to the United States. Known as "The King", Mr Zambada is charged with running a huge cross-border drug-trafficking operation. An indictment filed in New York accuses him of being one of the ringleaders of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has pledged to arrest the country's top drug traffickers before he leaves office. Jesus Zambada, who was first arrested in Mexico City in 2008, is accused of smuggling some 120 tonnes...
