TUCSON Az ( Man faces 2 yrs in Prison- For looking up womans dress) Peeping tom

A Pima County Superior Court jury convicted a 43-year-old Vail man of the felony crime of voyeurism Thursday for looking up a woman’s dress at an East Broadway HomeGoods store.
Agustin Gonzales Gongora could be placed on probation or receive up to 2 1/2 years in prison when sentenced next month by Judge Howard Hantman.

Deputy Pima County Attorney Jared Kreamer Hope showed jurors a store security tape showing Gongora dropping to all fours while walking behind the victim on Sept. 8, 2011, and looking up her dress.
He also played Gongora’s recorded interview with police during which he said he had been shopping for a wedding anniversary present and had been overcome with romantic feelings.
Defense attorney Steven Sherick argued the woman had no reasonable expectation that she would not be viewed, but the prosecutor Kreamer Hope disagreed.
Kreamer Hope told jurors Gongora was guilty of voyeurism because he invaded the woman’s privacy. The underside of the woman’s skirt was not visible to the public, she didn’t know she was being observed by Gongora and he did it for sexual stimulation.
The victim had no idea what had happened until loss prevention officers told her, Kreamer Hope said. He also argued that looking up one’s dress while on one’s hands and knees is “inherently sexual.”

North Korea ( Satellite " tumbling out of control " ) Space flop

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The satellite launched by North Korea on Wednesday (Dec. 12) is "tumbling out of control," according to U.S. officials, NBC News reported.

The vehicle is in an uncontrolled orbit around Earth, and officials aren't sure what the spacecraft's purpose and capabilities are, NBC News reported.

North Korea lofted the spacecraft on its long-range Unha-3 rocket Wednesday at 9:49 a.m. local time (7:49 p.m. EST on Tuesday) from Sohae Satellite Launch Station on the nation's northwest coast. The liftoff sparked widespread international objections.

The White House National Security Council called the launch "a highly provocative act that threatens regional security, directly violates United Nations Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874, contravenes North Korea’s international obligations, and undermines the global non-proliferation regime," in a statement from NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor.

The United States shares concerns with South Korea and other nations that North Korea's forays into space are thinly veiled attempts to develop and test nuclear missile delivery technology.

The launch was detected by U.S. missile warning systems, and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said the Unha-3 rocket's first stage fell into the Yellow Sea, while the second stage fell into the Philippine Sea.

"Initial indications are that the missile deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit. At no time was the missile or the resultant debris a threat to North America," NORAD officials said in a statement.

The launch was not the first for North Korea, but it may have been the most successful, despite the satellite's apparent loss of control. When North Korea attempted to loft a spacecraft to orbit this past April, the rocket failed shortly after liftoff, and similar attempts in 1998 and 2009 also went awry.

TUCSON Az ( Man gets 1 year in prison-For killing puppy during fight with wife)

A Tucson man who killed a pit bull puppy during an argument with his wife was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison and three years intensive probation Wednesday.
Kevin Michael Davis, 46, was indicted in July on one count of cruel mistreatment of an animal and aggravated domestic violence.
Davis and his wife got into an argument over whether he should stop drinking and he twice took her puppy by its hind legs and slammed its head into concrete, killing it, according to court documents.
Davis pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals resulting in serious physical injury and aggravated domestic violence. Under the terms of his plea agreement, he could have been placed on probation on both charges or he could have received up to 2 years in prison on the cruelty charge and up to 2 1/2 years in prison on the domestic violence charge.

Assistant Pima County Public Defender Vladimir Novokshchenov asked Pima County Superior Court Judge Paul Tang to place his client on probation, noting he was just recently diagnosed as seriously mentally ill and would be able to receive treatment if released from custody.
Deputy Pima County Attorney Danielle Constant asked for a prison sentence because Davis has an extensive violent criminal history.
Davis’ wife did not speak at the hearing, but Constant said she did not want him to go to prison.
Tang opted for the prison sentence, saying he had a hard time imagining what Davis did to the puppy, all in an effort to emotionally torture his wife. “It’s beyond disturbing and deplorable,” Tang said.
Davis has seven prior felony convictions and 21 misdemeanor convictions, Tang said. The crime was committed four months after Davis was released from prison.

YUMA AZ ( Cannon used to Shoot DRUGS over border ) 30 cans-42,500 dollars worth

US Customs and Border Protection

Over 30 cans of marijuana were shot into Yuma via cannon, Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday.

By Lauren Steussy, NBCSanDiego.com

Over 30 cans of marijuana were shot into Yuma, Ariz., using a cannon, Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday.

The suspicious cans were discovered near the Colorado River in Yuma on Friday.
Border Patrol agents said the discovery was "another unique but unsuccessful attempt" to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
An investigation of the area determined that the cans were fired from about 500 feet away with a pneumatic-powered cannon. A carbon-dioxide tank was found nearby.
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Mexican authorities were also looking into the incident.
The marijuana weighed 85 pounds and was valued at $42,500. It will be destroyed, according to a statement from the agency.

JAPAN ( North Korea fires Rocket - Missile passed over Okinawa )

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top government spokesman voiced protest over North Korea's rocket launch on Wednesday, saying it was "extremely regrettable."

 

 

"Japan cannot tolerate this action," Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told a news conference.

North Korea launched a rocket on Wednesday and the missile appears to have passed over Okinawa, Japan's government said.

(Reporting by Leika Kihara, Editing by Mayumi Negishi)

El Paso County ( Wandering PONY - Deputies looking for the owner ) See war pony photo

El Paso County deputies looking for owner of wandering pony

By Adriana M. Chávez / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com

Posted: 12/11/2012 12:57:12 PM MST

El Paso County Sheriff s deputies are looking for the owner of a pony found wandering in Montana Vista on Monday morning. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office)

El Paso County Sheriff's deputies are looking for the owner of a pony found wandering in Montana Vista on Monday. Deputies found the pony walking on the road near Krag and Big John streets about 9:45 a.m. Monday. Fearing the pony was creating a traffic hazard, deputies detained the pony for Animal Control officers. Deputies said the pony is female and doesn't appear to be ill or injured. Anyone with information on the pony's owner is asked to call sheriff's dispatch at 546-2280.

MEXICO Juarez ( Two Police Officers Killed- 3 Injured Ambushed ) Cartel wars

2 Juarez Police Officers Dead, 3 Injured in Weekend Attack

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By Lourdes Cárdenas
El Paso Times

Two Juarez police officers were shot to death and three more survived an attack during a violent weekend in Juarez that targeted peace officers.

As a result of those attacks, the municipal police force will be sequestered "as long as it will be necessary," authorities said Monday. "We are going to sequester the officers as we did it before," said Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía. "They will be sequestered at the federal police headquarters."

The string of violence against city police officers started Friday morning when a police convoy was ambushed by an armed command at the intersection of Montes Urales Avenue and the Oscar Flores Boulevard. Three officers were injured during the attack.

One of them remains in serious condition in a local hospital. The other two were released from the hospital the same day with no threatening life injuries. A second attack on police officers occurred Saturday morning when an officer was killed while still in his pajamas outside of his house at La Chaveña neighborhood in downtown.

That same day in the evening, another officer was shot while watching over a convenience store at the Anahuac neighborhood.

Murguía said the attacks against the officers was a result of the actions taken by the municipal police to fight organized crime and he refused the idea that the violence is resurging in the city.

"The police corporations are working together to reduce the number of crimes in the city", he said in a press release. "We have a strong and qualified police force."

This is the second time that the police force gets sequestered. In January this year, the officers were confined to hotels after a string of violence left more than eight officers killed in just that month.

Adrián Sánchez Contreras, spokeman of the municipal police, said the sequestration process will start today.

He said the officers will continue patrolling the streets, but they won't go to home after their shift. "They will work like normal," he said. "But they can't go home. This is for their safety".

The sequestration process will last as long as necessary, he said.

Picture courtesy of "La Polaka."