KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A mob in southern Pakistan stormed a police station to seize a mentally unstable Muslim man accused of burning a copy of Islam's holy book, beat him to death, and then set his body afire, police said Saturday.
The case is likely to raise further concerns about the country's harsh blasphemy laws, which can result in a death sentence or life in prison to anyone found guilty. Critics say an accusation or investigation alone can lead to deaths, as people take the law into their own hands and kill those accused of violating it. Police stations and even courts have been attacked by mobs.
Local police official Bihar-ud-Din said police arrested the man on Friday after being informed by residents that he had burned a Quran inside a mosque where he had been staying for a night.
An angry mob of more than 200 people then broke into the police station in the southern town of Dadu and took the accused man, who they say was under questioning. Din said police tried their best to save the man's life but were unable to stop the furious crowd.
He said that police had arrested 30 people for suspected involvement in the attack, while the head of the local police station and seven officers had been suspended.
Past attempts by governments in predominantly Muslim Pakistan to review these laws have met with violent opposition from hardline Islamist parties.
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Tucson Police are revealing more about a S.W.A.T. stand-off in midtown.
Police have been near Glenn and Park throughout Thursday evening. Several streets are still closed.
Police say it was a six-year-old who brought a loaded handgun to school that led to the stand-off.
A teacher at Keeling Elementary found the gun in the child's backpack, though, police say there was no threat or lockdown at the school.
Now, investigators are trying to figure out how the gun got into the boy's possession.
The incident led officers to a home in the area of Park and Glenn.
Police say the boy's father has a felony warrant for parole violation.
Police tell us they have learned there are weapons in the home, and worked for several hours to try to get him to come out.
Police were able to send in a K-9, and take the man into custody, after the dog bit him.
Officers say they may charge the father with child abuse for the gun incident.
Stay with Tucson News Now on-air, online, and on your mobile device for updates on this Late Breaking story
Reuters) - Four people died on a Pennsylvania highway on Friday when a gunman shot dead three people and later was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said.
Three state troopers were injured in the incident in Frankstown Township, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Investigators suspect the shooter might have been driving when he opened fire, shooting people for unknown reasons, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported, citing an official with the Blair County Emergency Management Agency.
"The Pennsylvania State Police have neutralized the active shooter in Frankstown Township, Blair County. There is no longer a threat to residents and visitors to this area from this individual," the Blair County Emergency Management Agency said on its Facebook page.
The shooting took place with much of the United States still highly sensitive to gun violence one week after a gunman killed 20 school children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Pennsylvania state trooper Adam Reed said the shooting was believed to take place between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
At 9:30, Newtown held a moment of silence on Friday in remembrance of the children and teachers killed exactly one week ago in Connecticut. The National Rifle Association pro-gun lobby later issued a statement in response to the Newtown shooting, urging armed guards at the nation's schools.
Asked if the Pennsylvania shooting might have had any connection with the Newtown events, Reed said, "I don't believe it did, but that's all still being looked into."
The unidentified highway shooter killed two other men and a woman, the Altoona Mirror reported, citing the prosecutor, Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio.
One trooper was hit in his bulletproof vest and another was hit by flying glass when the shooter fired on his car, the Mirror said. The third trooper was injured in a crash involving the suspect, the newspaper reported, citing Consiglio.
Police said they would hold a news conference soon to release details.
(Reporting by Drew Singer and Daniel Trotta; Editing by Sandra Maler, Alden Bentley, Gary Hill)
A Burger King franchise in Pennsylvania settled a lawsuit out of court with a black Ohio truck driver who claimed that his Whooper Jr. was served with spit.
Glenn Goodwin settled the civil rights lawsuit with Fast Food Enterprises #3, which operates the Burger King franchise on Interstate 90 in Fairview, Penn.
Goodwin’s suit claimed that the spitting was racially motivated. He said he was the only black customer in the Burger King on Nov. 11, 2008 when he ordered a burger.
According to GoErie.com, “Goodwin said he saw the male employee retrieve Goodwin's wrapped burger from a chute, then turn his back and unwrap the sandwich.
A restaurant manager, Goodwin said, stood by the employee as if he were trying to shield the employee from Goodwin's view. The manager said, "nice," as the worker handled Goodwin's food, Goodwin said.
Goodwin said he took the food to his truck. He said when he bit into the hamburger, he realized it had been tampered with….He said he went into the restaurant and asked who spit on his sandwich and someone named "Greg" was identified.
Goodwin complained to state police, whose tests showed the presence of saliva on the outside and inside of the sandwich, according to court records. The burger was thrown out by police before further DNA testing could be performed to determine whose saliva was on the sandwich, according to court records."
Attorney’s for the Burger King franchise argued that there was no evidence of the spitting, that there was no evidence that even if there was spitting, that it was racially motivated, and that the franchise was not liable for the employee’s actions.
US District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin disagreed: "There is evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that Caucasian customers at the Burger King restaurant received satisfactory food service while the plaintiff, the only minority person in the restaurant, did not," he wrote in a July 2011 opinion.
Attorneys for both sides were ordered not to disclose the details of the settlement agreement.
There have been other incidents of racially motivated spitting. In September, Brandi Worley, had been contracted to do post-Hurricane Isaac clean up work in Grand Isle, Louisiana.
She was spit on by Josh Jambon, who also swore at her and called the “N-word,” according to WBRZ.com. He was apparently upset over the pace of the cleanup efforts.
"It was humiliating," Ms. Worley told WBRZ-TV News 2. "It was just so hurtful."
Worley captured the incident on her cellphone video camera. Jambon was arrested by Grand Isle police and charged with battery.
WASHINGTON - Government officials are crediting the media for aiding in the quick identification and arrest of a female child porn producer and rescuing her 4 to 6-year-old victim.
On Wednesday, federal Crimes Against Children agents broadcast their nationwide search for a "Jane Doe" suspected child pornographer. Hours later, Corine Danielle Motley, 25, was arrested in Pensacola, Florida.
Motley is believed to have produced at least one long-form child pornography video featuring herself engaging in explicit sexual conduct with a 4 to 6-year-old victim.
Police in Denmark first downloaded the video in November, then notified American authorities based on indications that it was produced in the United States.
"The quick identification of the victim and suspect in this case demonstrates the power of the press, social media and the general public in helping solve these cases," said Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, John Morton. "Literally hours after we asked the public for their assistance in identifying Jane Doe, a tip came in that led to her identification and arrest. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing that, due to these efforts, a child is now safe and her tormentor now in custody."
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of smuggling marijuana earlier this month while on duty in southwestern Arizona will remain in jail while he awaits trial.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns ruled Thursday that 25-year-old Aaron Anaya was at serious risk to flee from authorities and granted prosecutors’ request to keep him in jail.
Authorities say agents conducting aerial surveillance saw Anaya loading marijuana bundles that had been dropped over the border fence from Mexico into his patrol vehicle on Dec. 2 in between Yuma and Wellton, about 185 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Investigators say agents tracked Anaya for several hours as he appeared to return to normal duties and found nearly 147 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle.
Anaya pleaded not guilty to marijuana importation and other charges
Human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.
The practice of deforming skulls of children as they grew was common in Central America, and these findings suggest the tradition spread farther north than had been thought, scientists added.
The cemetery was discovered by residents of the small Mexican village of Onavas in 1999 as they were building an irrigation canal. It is the first pre-Hispanic cemetery found in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
The site, referred to as El Cementerio, contained the remains of 25 human burials. Thirteen of them had deformed skulls, which were elongate and pointy at the back, and five had mutilated teeth. [ See Photos of the 'Alien' Skulls ]
Dental mutilation involves filing or grinding teeth into odd shapes, while cranial deformation involves distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying force — for example, by using cloths to bind wooden boards against their heads.
"Cranial deformation has been used by different societies in the world as a ritual practice, or for distinction of status within a group or to distinguish between social groups," said researcher Cristina García Moreno, an archaeologist at Arizona State University. "The reason why these individuals at El Cementerio deformed their skulls is still unknown."
"The most common comment I've read from people that see the pictures of cranial deformation has been that they think that those people were 'aliens,'" García added. "I could say that some say that as a joke, but the interesting thing is that some do think so. Obviously we are talking about human beings, not of aliens."
Of the 25 burials, 17 were children between 5 months and 16 years of age. The high number of children seen at the site could suggest inept cranial deformation killed them due to excessive force against the skull. The children had no signs of disease that caused their deaths.
Although cranial deformation and dental mutilation were common features among the pre-Hispanic populations of Mesoamerica and western Mexico, scientists had not seen either practice in Sonora or the American Southwest, which share a common pre-Hispanic culture. The researchers suggest the peo
"The most important implication would be to extend the northern boundary of the Mesoamerican influence," García told LiveScience.
A number of skeletons also were found with earrings, nose rings, bracelets, pendants and necklaces made from seashells and snails from the Gulf of California. One person was buried with a turtle shell on the chest. It remains uncertain why some of these people were buried with ornaments while others were not, or — another mystery — why only one of the 25 skeletons was female.
During the next field season, the researchers aim to determine the cemetery's total size and hope to find more burials to get a clearer idea of the society's burial customs. "With new information, we also hope to determine whether there was any interaction between these and Mesoamerican societies — how it was and when it happened," they said.
García and her colleagues completed their analysis of the skeletal remains in November. They plan to submit their research to either the journal American Antiquity or the journal Latin American Antiquity. ple at El Cementerio had been influenced by recent migrants from the south.
(12-21) 09:02 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A suspected hit-and-run driver crashed her car into a group of pedestrians at Twin Peaks Vista Point Thursday night, killing one woman and injuring two others, San Francisco police said.
Investigators said three of the pedestrians were knocked down a hillside and rescue crews had to use ropes and backboards to pull them up. All three were rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, where one, Yuee Yao, later died.
Yao, 56, and her colleagues were walking along Christmas Tree Point Road around 8:50 p.m. when a sedan hit three of them, sending them tumbling down a hill. A fourth pedestrian was able to jump out of the way and was not hit, said police spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
A 23-year-old San Francisco woman, whose name was not released, was found in her car a short distance away and arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run driving and felony drunken driving, said police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy. Her car had three passengers, including a 17-year-old female who was taken to San Francisco General with minor injuries from the collision.
The other two passengers, two San Francisco men ages 22 and 25, were arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, Shyy said.
The two injured pedestrians, whose names were not released, are expected to recover.
Some parents are raising religious objections to yoga classes being taught at a grade school in a San Diego suburb.
The parents fear the yoga program at the Paul Ecke Central Elementary School in Encinitas will promote Hindu religious beliefs, the New York Times reports. They claim a First Amendment violation.
Among those raising objections is Mary Eady, the parent of a first grader. “They’re teaching children how to meditate and how to look within for peace and for comfort,” she told the Times. “They’re using this as a tool for many things beyond just stretching.”
The yoga program is supported with funds from the nonprofit Jois Foundation, founded in memory of the so-called father of Ashtanga yoga. Some foundation leaders have equated the physical act of yoga to part of a broader spiritual question, according to Dean Broyles, president and chief counsel of the National Center for Law and Policy. And he sees that as the problem. “There is a transparent promotion of Hindu religious beliefs and practices in the public schools through this Ashtanga yoga program,” he said.
A foundation representative, however, disagreed with Broyles’ assessment. “We’re good Christians that just like to do yoga because it helps us to be better people,” Russell Case told the Times.
Schools superintendent Tim Baird told the Times that children don’t have to attend the classes. “If your faith is such that you believe that simply by doing the gorilla pose, you’re invoking the Hindu gods, then by all means your child can be doing something else,” he said.
Police in the Indian capital Delhi
have used water cannon to disperse protesters angry at Sunday night's gang rape
of a 23-year-old student.
The protesters were hosed as they tried to bring down metal barricades
outside Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's home.
Meanwhile, the government has announced a series of measures to make the
capital safer for women.
There has been outrage in India after the student and her male friend were
attacked on a bus.
The woman remains in a critical condition, doctors say.
Four people, including the bus driver, have been arrested. Police say they
are looking for two more people.
Three of the arrested appeared in court on Wednesday and were remanded in
custody. The driver was produced in court on Tuesday and also remanded in
custody.
Some reports said a fifth man detained in the eastern state of Bihar was
being brought to Delhi.
Mrs Gandhi later said that the "strictest possible measures" should be taken
to prevent such incidents.
Dozens of protesters, mostly college students, gathered outside the chief
minister's home on Wednesday morning, demanding that the government ensure
safety of women in the capital city.
Many of the protesters were carrying banners and chanting: "We want equal
rights for women."
The government has come under tremendous pressure from opposition MPs,
students and women's rights activists, with many accusing the authorities of not
doing enough to stop crimes against women.
On Wednesday, women MPs from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held
a demonstration outside parliament while hundreds of activists and students
shouted slogans outside the Delhi police headquarters.
The warrants were requested by San Diego County Sheriff Department homicide investigators. One was served on the Coronado mansion July 13, the day Rebecca Zahau was found hanging. Two more were served to obtain cell phone records from AT&T and Verizon.
The list of 45 items taken from the mansion consisted of the following: ( THIS IS A RAPE KIT) Duh? 1. Knife ~>No.1
2. Pair black gloves~~~~~~~~~~~> What the hell? ( Rebecca does not want to leave her prints) 3. Paper towel w/red stains~~~~>What ? 4. Box w/paint supplies 5. Dr. Pepper bottle ~~~> DNA TEST ? 6. Clothing 7. Flip camera ? 8. Basket w/cameras ? 9. Stain kit ???? 10. Clump of hair ~~~~~~~~~~> ( Come on ) 11. Document addressed to Jonah ( Well ) ? 12. Tissue w/red stain ? 13. Clothing 14. Hair 15. Receipt for paint supplies 16. Candle 17. Water bottle ~~~> DNA ? 18. Bedding 19. 2 red plastic cups 20. Underwear 21. Black latex glove ~~~~> OH COME ON (your killing me) ? 22. Table 23. Greeting card
24. Paper w/writing ? 25. Bedding 26. Butcher Knife No.2 ( for threatening) 27. Steak knife No. 3 ( knife dull cutting rope) 28. White plastic bag 29. Rope ~~~> for hanging 30. Samsung cell phone 31. Paint brush ~~~> found in guest room ? 32. Stain kit ? 33. Small paint brush ? 34. Green & white striped towel 35. Bedroom door 36. Tube of black paint ~~~~message on wall 37. Laptop computer 38. Mac computer 39. Olympus camera (whats up with all the camera's) ? 40. Lumix camera 41. Swab kit 42. Swab kit 43. Swab kit 44. DNA swab 45. Print card
Construction workers discover body of young man near I-10 and Drexel
Posted: Dec 19, 2012 10:02 AM Updated: Dec 19, 2012 10:21 AM
TUCSON - A second body in two days has been found off Interstate 10, according to Pima County Sheriff's Officials.
Officials confirmed this body was found by construction workers near I-10 and Drexel at about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday
According to deputies at the scene, the body was found lying in some dirt, and appears to be a young man that is fully clothed. The body has obvious signs of trauma, officials tells News 4 Tucson.
On Tuesday, an inmate work crew discovered a shallow grave under a tree off I-10 near Craycroft Road, officials confirmed with News 4 Tucson.
"There was a DOC crew doing trash pickup when they discovered at the base of the tree a shallow grave within that grave there appeared to be human remains," said Bureau Chief Rick Kastigar.
A forensic pathologist with the Medical Examiner's Office responded to the scene and says the remains belong to an adult. He didn't elaborate on the gender or a possible cause of death.
News 4 Tucson has a crew at the scene of the second found body found - stay tuned for more information.
SAN DIEGO — A defendant in a San Diego criminal trial used a razor blade Thursday to slash his defense lawyer in the face in front of jurors and more than a dozen Grossmont High School students who were there on a field trip.
Defense attorney William Burgener was cut on the cheek around 10:20 a.m. in Superior Court with a blade that the defendant had reportedly hidden in his mouth. Burgener represented one of three men on trial in an attempted murder case.
The defendants are alleged to be members of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
Burgener was taken out of Courtroom 25 on a gurney with a bandage wrapped around his head. He was sitting up and talking as the gurney was rolled away.
Jurors were taken to an adjacent courtroom and interviewed, while the students were questioned in another part of the downtown courthouse.
When speaking to the jurors later, Judge Peter Deddeh — who is presiding over the trial — said he has been handling criminal cases for 30 years as a lawyer and judge, and had never witnessed such an incident.
“Most of us have not experienced something like this,” Deddeh said.
It was not immediately clear how a jail inmate could have smuggled a razor blade past the sheriff’s deputies who handle courthouse security.
Sheriff’s Department officials declined to discuss the incident specifically, noting that an investigation is ongoing, but said all inmates are searched before being transported to court.
“If something like this happens, we certainly want to take every precaution we can,” said Capt. Dave Moss of the sheriff’s Court Services Bureau.
After the slashing, Burgener called the courtroom and spoke to defense attorney Stephen Cline, who is expected to take over the case for him. Cline said Burgener was stable, and doctors were evaluating his wound to determine the best treatment.
The attack occurred as the last witness was testifying at the trial, said court spokeswoman Karen Dalton. Deputies subdued the defendant and cleared the courtroom.
The defendants — Eduardo Macias, 32; Geronimo Polina, 35; and Lionel Quinteros, 26 — are accused in a prison attack at Donovan state prison in Otay Mesa. They face charges including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon by a prisoner and conspiracy, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Burgener, a veteran defense lawyer who has been practicing since 1979, represented Macias.
The judge ordered the attorneys to return to court Friday morning, when he will decide whether the trial will continue.
One of the defense lawyers said his client wants to go forward with closing arguments. Another asked for a mistrial. The prosecutor asked for time to conduct research and figure out how to proceed.
About 100 Grossmont High School seniors were on a field trip to the courthouse Thursday, according to Grossmont Union High School District Superintendent Ralph Swenson. About 10 to 15 students were in the courtroom where the slashing occurred, but all of the students on the trip were safe and no one was injured, Swenson said.
Federal agents are searching
for this woman, identified only as "Jane Doe," who is suspected of producing a
porn video featuring a 4- to 5-year-old child. (Immigration and Customs
Enforcement)
Homeland Security Investigations
agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement are asking for help in
identifying a woman suspected of producing child pornography.
The woman is identified only as "Jane Doe" in a criminal complaint and arrest
warrant signed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
She is described as 23 to 29 years old with a medium build, brown hair with
blond highlights and hazel or green eyes. She has a mole on her left thigh and
her tongue is pierced with a white round stud with a pink dot.
Agents believe the woman is responsible for producing at least one video
featuring herself engaging in sexual conduct with a child, believed to be 4 or 5
years old.
Agents said officials with the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children have determined the child victim has not yet been identified or
rescued.
The woman's information and photo are being distributed nationwide in hopes
someone will come forward and identify her, and help rescue the victim, agents
said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the ICE Tip Line at (866) 347-2423,
or complete an online tip form at www.ice.gov/tips. Those who provide
information will remain anonymous.
Police in Cartagena have seized 1.5 tons of cocaine in a container that was to be shipped to Honduras, en route to the US, local media sources reported Monday.
El Universal reported the driver of the truck, Alexander Valencia Enrique Navas, was arrested in the process of delivering the container to the city's maritime terminal, and is to be charged for drug trafficking and possession of narcotics.
The cocaine has an estimated value of $5 million, and has come on the heels of an announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos that 2012 has already witnessed the largest amount of drugs seized by police in the nation's history.
The 1.5 tons of cocaine seized by Colombian police on Monday in Cartagena was allegedly intended for the notorious Mexican drug cartel, "Los Zetas", reported local media on Tuesday.
"The initial investigation reveals that the cargo belonged to Los Urabeños and was being shipped to Los Zetas," said Colombia's Police Director General Jose Roberto Leon Riano.
The drugs were supposedly going to be shipped to Puerto Cortes in Honduras before arriving in Mexico.
A sixth-grader at West Kearns Elementary School near Salt Lake City, Utah, brought a gun to school on Monday, saying he wanted to protect himself and his friends after Friday's shooting in Newtown, Conn.
He "continues to assert that he brought the weapon to protect himself and his friends from a 'Connecticut-style [shooting],'" Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said.
Two of the 11-year-old's classmates told their teacher on Monday afternoon that the student had a gun. The teacher immediately "apprehended" the student and contacted the authorities, Horsley said. The boy is being charged with one count of possession of a firearm on school property and three counts of aggravated assault, for allegedly threatening some of his classmates.
He will be charged in the juvenile system and eventually will be transferred to another school.
Welcome to the inherent looniness of the drug war. It has actually been a good year for Mexico, in at least one respect: the murder rate dropped precipitously along some stretches of the border. (Though whether this can be attributed to the kill-or-capture campaign of outgoing President Felipe Calderón is not at all clear. The largest cartel, the Sinaloa, vanquished a number of challengers during this period, and black-market monopolies are often more peaceful than the alternative.) But it was a colorful year as well, due to the systematic, try-anything-once eclecticism of the smugglers, and the antic game of Tom-and-Jerry escalation that they tend to play with law enforcement on both sides of the border.
1. On the Fence
“Show me a fifty-foot fence and I’ll show you a fifty-one-foot ladder,” a drug warrior once told me, and the cartels have long excelled at so-rudimentary-they’re-obvious methods of pushing product across the border. In this instance, a group of smugglers near Yuma, Arizona, tried to drive a Jeep right over the fence. “Ramps!” you can almost hear them saying beforehand. “We could use ramps!” If you could inscribe the Quixotic essence of the drug war in a single image, the photograph above might very well be it.
Monday, December 17, 2012 | Borderland Beat Reporterbadanov
A total of five armed suspects were killed in an encounter with a Mexican Army unit in Tamaulipas state Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.
A wire dispatch originating from El Universal news daily reported that the gunfight took place at around 1310 hrs in Ciudad Victoria near the intersection of calles José Sulaiman Chagnon and Pamoran.
Ciudad Victoria is the state capital of Tamaulipas.
The incident involved two civilian vehicles one of them a 2012 Nissan Rogue SUV. Presumably, suspects in the second vehicle escaped the encounter. All five of the dead were inside the SUV. Soldiers also found five AR-15 rifles.
Two of the suspects were identified as Amado Gustavo Teran de la Fuente, 33, and Esau Shealtiel Cepeda Espinoza, 22. The other three were unidentified men in their 20s.
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Nearly two dozen fraternity members at Northern Illinois University were charged Monday with hazing-related counts after a freshman was found dead at their fraternity house following a night of drinking.
DeKalb police and prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 22 members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity in DeKalb. Five members are charged with felony hazing, while the other 17 members are facing misdemeanor hazing charges.
Phone messages and emails sent to local and national fraternity officials were not immediately returned.
The warrants were filed after David Bogenberger, 19, was found unresponsive at the fraternity house early on Nov. 2. The DeKalb County Coroner's Office said toxicology results found his blood alcohol content was about five times the legal limit for driving.
The coroner ruled Bogenberger's cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, with alcohol intoxication as a contributing cause.
The DeKalb Police Department said its investigation found the fraternity hosted an unsanctioned event on Nov. 1 that wasn't registered with the university or the fraternity's national chapter.
"The event that night involved the pledges rotating between several rooms in the fraternity house, being asked a series of questions, and then being provided cups of vodka and other liquor to drink," police said in a statement. "This resulted in the pledges drinking a large quantity of alcohol in about a two-hour time period."
Police said several other pledges reported getting sick and passing out due to excessive alcohol consumption.
In addition to the charges, NIU said 31 students are accused of violating the school's code of conduct. Those students could face penalties ranging from reprimand to expulsion.
Bogenberger's family said in a statement that they appreciate law enforcement professionals who investigated his death and "seek accountability for a horrible event."
"We have no desire for revenge," the family said. "Rather, we hope that some significant change will come from David's death. Alcohol poisoning claims far too many young, healthy lives.
"We must realize that young people can and do die in hazing rituals. Alcohol-involved hazing and initiation must end."
JUAREZ - Police Chief Julian Leyzaola - a career law-enforcement officer
especially picked to reduce the once uncontrolled violence that tarnished the
image of this city - is prepared to leave the country once his dangerous
assignment ends in October.
"There is no safe place in Mexico for me," said Leyzaola, who has worked in
law enforcement in the military for 37 years. "Mexico is prohibited for me."
During a lengthy interview with the El Paso Times, Leyzaola, who came to
Juárez from Tijuana, talked about his job in a city once considered one of the
world's most dangerous cities.
After 20 months on the job, he feels satisfied because the number of
homicides is declining: from March 2011, when he arrived, to November of this
year, the number of homicides has declined every month. And 2012 is projected to
close with fewer than 800 homicides compared with 1,956 homicides in 2011.
Leyzaola, 54, and a lieutenant colonel of the Mexican Army, is credited with
a remarkable reduction in crimes such as extortion, carjacking and kidnappings.
The reduction was accomplished with a strategic plan that included the cleansing
of the police department - 800 officers have been dismissed in his term - and
regaining the neighborhoods that once were under control of criminal groups such
as the Juárez and the Sinaloa drug cartels.
Even though the city is making a slow turnaround, Leyzaola is not without
critics.
In the past 20 months, he has been the target of two assassination attempts and accused of human-rights abuses.
"They (human rights organizations) have never given me the right to respond,"
he said.
He said his job is to fight crime and in doing so, he has become "the bad guy
of the movie."
Leyzaola's job will end Oct. 10 - something he is looking forward to.
"You don't know how big the responsibility of sitting here is," he said. "I
don't know how many people would like to be here, but when the time to give my
resignation comes, it will be a very happy day for me."
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