Mexico ( Citizens cut a deal - release 12 cops un -hurt ) Citizens Run Town not police

Vigilantes Make Show of Force Before Leaving Mexican Town

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – The vigilante group that occupied Tierra Colorada made a show of force before pulling out of the town in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

Officials agreed to remove the police chief of the town of 20,000 in response to demands from the self-defense group.

Hundreds of armed men pulled out of the town on Wednesday about 24 hours after taking control of Tierra Colorada and detaining 12 police officers and six civilians.

Guerrero Attorney General Martha Elva Garzon agreed to investigate the killing of Guadalupe Quiñonez, the vigilante group’s leader, and find those responsible.

Quiñonez’s murder is “a challenge from organized crime against us,” Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG, leader Bruno Placido said.

The vigilante group in Tierra Colorada, which belongs to UPOEG, on Tuesday night released 12 officers and six civilians it had taken hostage in the town after cutting a deal with prosecutors.

Early Tuesday, hundreds of armed members of the self-defense group took control of Tierra Colorada, a town of 20,000 located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Pacific resort of Acapulco.

UPOEG, whose members are armed and wear hoods, was created in January in the towns of Ayutla de los Libres, Teconoapa and San Marcos to protect residents.

The self-defense group controls access to the communities and polices them to fight crime. EFE

Tucson Az ( Navy SEAL died - Seal Team 6 - parachute training accident )

Navy SEAL dies in parachuting accident in Marana

By Tucson News Now Staff - email

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
A Navy SEAL from the elite SEAL TEAM 6 was killed and another SEAL injured Thursday night during a parachute training accident in Marana, the military said.
Details of the accident are not immediately available.

 
One SEAL was pronounced dead on arrival at the University of Arizona Medical Center. The second remains hospitalized in stable condition.

Members of SEAL TEAM 6 carried out the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. All SEAL teams receive extensive parachute training, which is often required for hostage rescue or anti-terrorist operations.

The names of the two SEALS involved in the fatal training mishap have not been released pending notification of next of kin.

Command spokesman Kenneth McGraw says the SEALs were practicing "routine military free-fall training" when the accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

Pinal County Sheriff's officials say the injured men collided in mid-air and landed in separate areas. The incident was turned over to military investigators Thursday afternoon.

Whiskey thief ( Man accused of drinking Rare whiskey ) DNA samples taken lol

Man accused of drinking over $100K in vintage whiskey says it didn’t happen

Bottles of Old Farm whiskey at South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast. (Sean Stipp/Tribune-Review)

A man accused of drinking $102,000 worth of vintage whiskey says he's innocent.
TribLIVE.com reports that nine cases of the rare booze were discovered when the historic J.P. Brennan mansion in Scottdale, Pa., was renovated and turned into South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast. The owner of the B&B, Patricia Hill, hired John W. Saunders as caretaker. She later discovered that bottles in four of the nine cases had been emptied and is accusing Saunders of drinking them and putting the bottles back.
Saunders called the charges "totally false" outside the courtroom where he was set to face a preliminary hearing. "Yuck! That stuff had floaters in it and all kind of stuff inside the bottles. ... I don't think it would even be safe to drink."
John W. Saunders (Sean Stipp/Tribune-Review)
Saunders sought, and was granted by Judge Chuck Moore, a delay of the preliminary hearing so that he might apply to work with a public defender. The next hearing will take place May 15.
TribLIVE.com explains that the Old Farm whiskey was distilled in 1912, bottled five years later and then forgotten. And it reports that "based on an appraisal of four full bottles by Bonhams, a renowned auction house in New York City, police estimated the value of the 52 bottles at $102,400."
While Saunders is adamant about his innocence, Scottdale police Chief Barry Pritts said the thief left a DNA sample on the lips of the empty bottles that matched a previous sample taken from Saunders, according to TribLIVE.com.
Saunders told police the whiskey evaporated. He believes the mansion owners are "looking for money." He estimated the whiskey's actual value is "about $10 a bottle" rather than more than $1,900 each.

Mexico ( Citizens " Arrest police" and take over town patrol )

Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterHavana Pura

Borderland Beat
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

Members of the area's self-described "community police" say more than 1,500 members of the force were stopping traffic Wednesday at improvised checkpoints in the town of Tierra Colorado, which sits the highway connecting Mexico City to Acapulco. They arrested 12 police and the former director of public security in the town after a leader of the state's vigilante movement was slain on Monday.

A tourist heading to the beach with relatives was slightly wounded Tuesday after they refused to stop at a roadblock and vigilantes fired shots at the car, officials said.

The vigilantes accuse the ex-security director of participating in the killing of vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal, 28, on behalf of local organized crime groups and dumping his body in a nearby town on Monday. They reported seizing several high-powered rifles from his car, and vigilantes were seen toting a number of sophisticated assault rifles on Wednesday, although it was not clear if all had been taken from the ex-security director's car.

"We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in the view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with this criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

Placido said vigilantes had searched a number of homes in the town and seized drugs from some. They turned over the ex-security director and police officers to state prosecutors, who agreed to investigate their alleged ties to organized crime.

The growing movement of "self-defense" vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of "suspects" wanted for crimes like theft and extortion.

The vigilantes have opened fire before on motorists who refused to stop, slightly wounding a pair of tourists from Mexico City visiting a local beach in early February.

The groups say they are fighting violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels, but concerns have surfaced that the vigilantes may be violating the law, the human rights of people they detain, or even cooperating with criminals in some cases.

Sensitive over their lack of ability to enforce public safety in rural areas, official have largely tolerated vigilante groups.

Iran News ( Teachers soon to be Executed " Act against God" ) Amnesty International

Iran: Amnesty demands no death penalties for five tortured political prisoners

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NCRI – Iranian regime must lift the death penalty on five hunger-striking political prisoners, Amnesty International has demanded.
The Iranian Arabs men were arrested in early 2011 on obscure charges including 'enmity against God and corruption on earth', 'gathering and colluding against state security' and 'spreading propaganda against the system', Amnesty said.
After being sentenced to death on July 7, 2012, they have been subjected to torture in Karoun prison and refused access to medical treatment, family visits and phone calls.
After the Supreme Court upheld the sentences on January 9 this year, the five – named as Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka, his brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka, and teachers Hashem Sha’bani Amouri and Hadi Rashidi or Rashedi) – began a hunger strike in protest at the abuses.
They initially went on a 'dry' hunger strike, refusing water and food, before accepting fluids from 2 March.
In an urgent statement to the world's media, Amnesty has now issued a list of demands to the Iranian regime including stopping their execution.

Florida ( Golfers hear gunfire and find 2 slain women )

Golfers find 2 bodies behind Fla. apartment complex

Florida golfers were interrupted Tuesday afternoon by gunfire, leading to the discovery of the bodies of two women behind a nearby apartment block.

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Golf carts on the green at Hilaman are cordoned off by police crime scene tape. (WCTV screengrab)

Published: March. 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM

By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com

Golfers enjoying a late afternoon on the links Tuesday found their game interrupted by gunfire, leading to the discovery of two slain women.
Leon County Sheriffs responded to a call of shots fired near Hilaman Golf Course and found the bodies of two women behind an apartment complex that borders the course.
Lt. James McQuaig of the Leon County Sheriffs confirmed the deaths of the two women at the Tallahassee apartment, but declined to release their ages or identities.
Police "are canvassing the neighborhood, conducting witness interviews and crime scene detectives are on scene and they are collecting forensic evidence," McQuaig said.
Neighbors said the incident was out of character for the southeast Tallahassee neighborhood.
"I was in shock because it's so quiet out here," said Randria Walker, a Whispering Woods resident of four months who said she might consider moving because of the shooting, told WCTV.
Autopsies will take place Wednesday.

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TUCSON Az ( Abandoned puppies left in Tucson desert )

Abandoned puppies left in Tucson desert

Posted: Mar 26, 2013 3:11 PM by Brian White

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TUCSON - Six, 7-week-old puppies were abandoned in the Tucson desert with no food or water in a cardboard box, Humane Society officials said.
A person found the puppies while geocaching in the area, a release stated.
One of the puppies was dead, while the rest were dehydrated and lethargic. The geocaching man brought all six pups to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, but another died shortly after arrival.
The remaining 4 dogs are recovering and will be ready for adoption after their health is restored.