Shades of Fast-N-Furious Stupidity, albeit at a local level
In a state seized by a dramatic surge in drug dealing, Bal Harbour police were about to take their controversial sting operation far outside Florida.
After weeks of delivering drug money to Miami storefront businesses, a new deal unfolded thousands of miles away in a country where the war on drugs had shifted: Venezuela.
Instead of enlisting the help of federal agents, the officers from the small community embarked on a series of laundering arrangements that were never revealed to the federal government.
For two years starting in 2010, they funneled millions in drug money into the bank accounts of Venezuelans, including William Amaro Sanchez, now special assistant to President NicolĂĄs Maduro. The stated goal: to disrupt criminal groups.
They sent drug money to a well-known trafficker, a cash smuggler and a money launderer ‐ more than $4 million in all.
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Sumfin happening here, what it is ain't exactal clear.
Pure cop corruption, would like to know how many Bolivarian condos. I bet, a bunch.
[Breitbart] Next week, three young possibly Amish women will stand before a Philadelphia judge for savagely beating a homeless white man to death with a hammer and a chair leg last April, all because the 10-year-old son of one of the women lied and said the homeless man struck him.
Not only did the women participate in the murder; they brought three children age 12, 13, and 14, to aid them in their savagery.
After Aleathea Gillard's ten-year-old son, who pumped gas for tips at a Sunoco station, came home late one day, having fallen off his bicycle, he lied to his mother and told her the injury was caused by a blow from Robert Barnes, 51, the homeless man who also pumped gas for tips at the station. On April 7, Gillard, Shareena Joachim, and Kaisha Duggins, accompanied by the young teenagers, returned to the gas station to take their revenge.
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Resume killing names, many won't even bother reading the address after seeing that let alone the rest of the resume. Why do they do this to their children? It is not cute. It is not African. It is just ghetto.
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In June, the three teenagers pled guilty to charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy, in exchange for the DA’s dismissing attempted murder charges. But the DA has stated that homicide charges are now also probable for the teens.
[NOLA] New Orleans police responded to four separate shootings across the city on Christmas (Dec. 25), officials said. Police said the shootings left a total of five victims, including one who was killed.
Three of the shootings, including the homicide and a double shooting, happened within less than an hour of each other, between 9 a.m. and 9:50 p.m.
Additionally, two people were stabbed Friday in separate reports of aggravated batteries, a preliminary New Orleans Police Department report says. Police have named a suspect in one of the stabbings.
No suspects have been named in any of the shootings.
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Check Super Bowl Plaza at dawn on January 1st, you can usually find several spent bullet from the previous nights gun-foreplay.
[NBCNEWS] Investigators in Houston have determined that a fire at a mosque that broke out Friday was intentionally set, the fire department said Saturday.
The fire at the Savoy Mosque was reported at around 2:45 p.m. local time (3:45 p.m. ET) on Christmas and swelled to two alarms, causing "significant" damage, the Houston Fire Department said.
No one was hurt, but there were about 200 people inside the mosque in southwest Houston about an hour before the fire began, NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston reported.
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So.
At a quarter till three, in the afternoon, a mere hour after having a 200 capacity crowd, at a strip mall, on Christmas/Big Friday prayers...
Nobody hung around afterwards, bitching about having to share Friday with Christmas, bet at least a couple for thirty minutes. Fifteen minutes for the fire to develop to the point of passerbys noticing.
A North Korean diplomat has been expelled from South Africa for alleged illegal trading in rhino horns, a South African foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"We can confirm that this diplomat has been expelled. He left the country on the 11th of December," Nelson Kgwete told AFP.
Kgwete said the diplomat was arrested in neighbouring Mozambique in May on charges related to rhino horn smuggling. At the time of arrest, he was driving a vehicle with a South African diplomatic registration.
South Africa's News24 said the diplomat was arrested after 4.5 kilogrammes (10 pounds) of rhino horn and $99,300 (91,000 euros) in cash were found in his car. The news website added that Mozambican police released the man on $30,000 bail.
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...They should be grateful he didn't try to smuggle out the whole rhino. Do you know how many Norks that could have fed?
Mike
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Do you know how many Norks that could have fed?
Make stone soup, and it would feed multitudes. For Pudgy it would be no more than a small appetizer before lunch -- but he does exert himself on behalf of his people.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Thousands of supporters of Burundi's president Saturday protested against the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... 's plan to deploy 5,000 peacekeepers to quell the country's escalating unrest.
Burundi has been rocked by turmoil since April when it was announced that Kinglet President Pierre Nkurunziza would run for a third term. Nkurunziza was re-elected in July but the violence has since escalated.
The demonstration in Bujumbura, the capital, was led by Vice President Gaston Sindimwo who insisted that Burundi's army is capable of halting violence and protecting all Burundians. Other protests were in Ngonzi province, Nkurunziza's hometown and a stronghold of the ruling party.
Burundi will never accept the African Union's forces, Sindimwo said.
"Burundi is a member of the African Union and has not accepted those forces. How can they say the AU has decided, yet Burundi has not accepted?" he asked.
"We would like to warn AU troops that the majority of Burundians don't want them and they should not impose themselves on the people of Burundi," Alice Nakuto, a member of the ruling party's militia known as Imbonerakure and who took part in demonstrations in Ngonzi province, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by phone.
Earlier this month 87 people died when three military installations were attacked by rebels who said this week they are fighting to topple Nkurunziza.
At least 400 people have died in Burundi's violence since April and some 220,000 have fled to neighboring countries, according to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Burundi's government has rejected the A.U.'s plans to deploy peacekeepers, describing it as an invasion force.
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[NEWS.AU] AFTER a year of big Apple releases, analysts are predicting a flat 2016 where the world's biggest tech company refines product lines rather than produces the next big thing.
Apple's share price has taken a battering in the past six months, with more than $220 billion slashed from the company's value as analysts look towards an era of smartphone saturation.
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently predicted that 2016 would be first time that iPhone sales would shrink, dropping by up to three per cent.
Given the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus sold 13 million in their opening weekend, a jump from the 10 million sales for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus the previous year, a decline of that scale would be a massive turnaround. However the Morgan Stanley grim forecast was matched by other analysts, including Pacific Crest and KGI Securities.
Snicker. Guffaw. Oh, it is to laugh, and I do. Chuckle. Snort.
In April Apple will release Watch2. In September Apple will release iPhone7. In November it will release iPadPro2. If Apple does nothing else -- absolutely nothing else -- those three events alone will drive sales higher in 2016.
In the last 15 years Apple has had four new major hardware ideas that opened up new computer worlds: iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Watch. That's three more original ideas than Microsoft, Samsung, Sony and Google combined have had. Apple might hit another home run in 2016, but even if it doesn't, it will be just fine. And that's just counting hardware. Care to talk about software?
There's a segment of the press out there that hates Apple. It has similarities to the segment of the press that hates conservatives and American culture. Once you understand that you understand articles like this one.
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[REUTERS] Japanese tire maker Bridgestone Corp (5108.T) raised its offer for Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack (PBY.N) to about $947 million, trumping activist investor Carl Icahn's current $900 million bid.
The latest Bridgestone offer of $17 per share was $1.50 above of its earlier bid.
Icahn's latest offer for Pep Boys was $16.50 per share. Good luck widdat. I only had to be ignored one time to walk out of all Pap Boys forever.
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...The one I dealt with here could not have been more helpful, alert, and cooperative.
On the other hand, given the prices they were charging, I think it was the least they could have done.
Mike
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has cancelled his planned talks with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) officials, the premier's office announced Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported.
"Contrary to the public opinion created by HDP, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu never planned to discuss the country’s resolve to fight terrorism with HDP. The counterterrorism process is not a matter of bargain," the office said in a written statement.
Accusing HDP officials of "not having political maturity to use politics to solve problems" and "making polarizing statements", the premier's office said that party officials had left no room for dialogue.
Davutoglu was scheduled to meet HDP officials on Dec. 30 as part of negotiations with opposition party officials on the country’s new proposed constitution as well as budget-related issues.
The premier is scheduled to meet Republican People's Party (CHP) on Dec. 30 and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Jan. 4.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Police claimed on Saturday to have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a gang of six fake doctors involved in theft and sale of kidneys.
Addressing a presser at the Sarwar Road cop shoppe, Cantonment Division Superintendent of Police (SP) Investigation Ismail Kharak said the suspects would bring people for free treatment to a private hospital where their kidneys were removed.
The kidneys were smuggled to different areas of the country, he added.
The SP said a special police team was constituted to nab the suspects who were arrested from the Factory Area.
The arrested suspects were identified as Ramzan, Aamir Bashir, Sarfaraz, Shakeel, Dr Awais Gohar and Dr Kaleemullah.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... Factory Area police claimed to have arrested a five-member robbers' gang involved in house robberies and recovered cash, jewellery and valuables worth Rs1.3 million from them.
According to news release, the suspects, in the disguise of home-based workers, used to enter houses and carry out robberies. The arrested suspects were identified as Naveed, Mohsin, Asif, Shabbir and Mumtaz Ahmed.
Police also recovered 15 mobile phones, laptops and two pistols from them.
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[DAWN] A teenage girl was gang-raped by a group of men after being drugged in a guest house in the Mall Road area here on Saturday, police said.
The 15-year-old victim was brought to Services Hospital where reports of initial medical tests revealed that the girl had been subjected to rape.
The teenager, who is a resident of Multan Road, was first kidnapped by faceless myrmidons before she was taken to a guest house in the Mall Road area, said Station House Officer (SHO) Ahmad Usman.
"The girl was drugged and later six to eight men gang-raped her," added SHO Usman.
The victim was also tortured physically, stated the SHO.
After raping her, the perpetrators messaged her family to come and pick her up from a spot.
Such lovely people.
Police has tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! six suspects in connection with the gang-rape while two to three main suspects have managed to flee, stated the SHO.
The main accused, PML-N Additional Secretary General Youth Wing Mian Adnan Sanaullah, is absconding in the case.
"Raids are being conducted to arrest all the accused in the case," said DIG Operations Haider Ashraf.
The victim, an 8th grade student, is receiving treatment in a hospital.
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[DAWN] PPP Chairman Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... on Saturday met the family of Bisma -- an infant who died at the door of Civil Hospital earlier this week -- and condoled the child's death with her father.
The 10-month-old girl died on Wednesday apparently because she did not receive timely medical treatment due to a security cordon which was established for Bilawal's visit to inaugurate a state of the art trauma centre.
During the meeting with Bisma's father, Faisal, at their residence in Lyari's Gabol Park, Bilawal expressed sorrow over the child's demise saying "the people of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... are close to my heart."
This time however, Bilawal arrived with "minimal protocol", DawnNews reported.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NEWS.AU] AFTER a year of big Apple releases, analysts are predicting a flat 2016 where the world's biggest tech company refines product lines rather than produces the next big thing.
